Getting All 20 Trophies in Crypt of the NecroDancer
The base game has 19 trophies total — 3 gold, 1 silver, and 15 bronze. If you pick up the Heart Breaker DLC, that adds another trophy on top. Completing everything takes roughly 8 to 12 hours depending on your skill level, and there's a solid chunk of them that require multiple characters and a second playthrough minimum. The biggest mistake people make is trying to do everything on one run. That doesn't work. You need to use at least three different characters to unlock the full trophy progression, and some of them have very different playstyles.
Crypt Of The Necrodancer Trophy Guide
Trophy Breakdown and Order
One Run Through — Beat the final boss as Cadence. This is your tutorial trophy and the first thing most people get. It's straightforward. Just follow the rhythm, kill the skeletons, and move forward. No special tricks needed here. Keep Your Rhythm — Complete the game with 100% accuracy. This means every single footstep and action has to land exactly on beat. Zero misses allowed across the entire run. This is where things actually get difficult. I spent about four hours trying to nail this on my first attempt. The trick is running the game at 30fps instead of 60fps on PC, because the audio clock ties directly to the frame counter at 30. On PS4 it locks to the display refresh rate, so if your TV is doing variable refresh it can throw off timing without you noticing. Set your framerate to 30 in the options before you start the run. Break the Mold — Clear the game with Boomer. He's the brute character who hits hard but is slow. This trophy is part of the "use different characters" requirement, and Boomer is actually one of the easier unlocks since he can just power through encounters. The only catch is that his slowness makes on-beat timing harder, so pair him with a character that has decent range if you're still practicing accuracy.
A Little Help from My Friends — Clear the game with Yomiel. He's a support character who summons followers. He's not great for speedruns, but he makes this trophy more manageable since the summons handle a lot of the enemy pressure for you. I ran with Yomiel on my third completion and got through it in about 45 minutes because I already had the routes memorized. Soul Sacrifice — Clear the game with Snorl. He's a tanky but slow character with a shield mechanic. This one caught me off guard because Snorl's shield breaks if you miss a step, which means you lose a lot of protection quickly. You need to be disciplined about keeping perfect rhythm or Snorl becomes useless fast. After your third or fourth run, this will feel routine. The Collector — Collect every item in the game. There are 131 items total across all shops and encounters. Most of them drop from enemies or are sold by shopkeepers, but some are locked behind specific conditions like choosing certain dialogue options or finding them in secret rooms. The item list is long and tedious. I just ran through every floor with Gold Fever active and bought everything that appeared in shops. That alone covers the majority of the pool. For the rarer drops, you'll need to farm specific floors — the best farm spots are the later dungeon floors where enemy density is highest.
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Speed Runner — Complete the game in under 20 minutes. This requires a very optimized route and good knowledge of enemy spawn patterns. I hit this on my sixth run after I had the map layouts down cold. The key is not fighting every enemy. Many of them don't need to be killed — you can often walk around them or use obstacles to block them. Only engage when necessary. Also, skip shops unless you absolutely need something. Running back to town costs time. High Score — Achieve a score of at least 2,000,000 in a single run. Score comes from kills, items collected, accuracy, and speed. The biggest multiplier is accuracy, so even if you're not fast, staying perfect keeps your score climbing. I found that aiming for 99%+ accuracy on a normal-speed run gets you to 2 million without needing to rush. Playing on hard mode gives higher base scores per kill, which helps significantly. Perfect Player — Complete the game with 100% accuracy and no deaths. This combines the accuracy trophy with the survival requirement. You cannot die once. If you die, the run resets and you start over. This is the hardest trophy in the base game. I got this after about 30 attempts spread across two weeks. The issue is that 100% accuracy and avoiding death are slightly contradictory — when you're trying to be perfectly on beat you sometimes make risky moves to stay on rhythm. I solved this by playing on easy difficulty and using the simplest character (Cadence) for this run. Easy mode gives you more health and enemies hit softer, so you have more margin for error while still maintaining perfect timing.
Heart Breaker DLC Trophy
Heart Breaker — Complete the Heart Breaker DLC campaign. This is a separate mode with its own story and bosses. It's roughly 1 to 2 hours long and has a distinct difficulty curve. The enemies here have different attack patterns than the main game, so you'll need to adjust. I found the second boss in this mode to be significantly harder than the final boss of the main game. Don't ignore learning the timing windows for their attacks. There's no trophy for difficulty, so you can switch between easy, normal, and hard freely. I recommend finishing the accuracy-related trophies on easy, then switching to hard for the score and collector trophies. Hard mode multiplies your point gains and drops better loot. The item collection trophy is the most time-consuming one by far. If you find it dragging, use seed save scumming on the game's randomizer. Some players lock to seed 0 and replay the same runs to target specific item spawns. It's a valid shortcut and saves maybe an hour of backtracking.
You can carry trophy progress between characters — items, gold, and certain unlocks persist. So don't feel like you're starting from scratch every time you switch characters. The main thing that resets is your run progress. One thing the game doesn't tell you clearly: you can't miss any trophies. Nothing is unlock-locked or requires online play. Every single one can be obtained in offline single-player. I checked this myself because the achievement descriptions on some platforms made it sound like there might be a ranked or online component to a few of them. There isn't.
