Lords Of The Fallen Trophy Guide

Getting Your Trophies Straight in Lords Of The Fallen

The trophy list for this game runs about 50 achievements with a combined value around 1000G. A full platinum run typically takes between 40 and 60 hours if you're just playing normally. You'll lock a few trophies early on, then hit a stretch where progress stalls until you clear the later regions. I found that the second playthrough is where most people lose their heads, mostly because the game lets you carry over your build and gear while presenting harder enemy variants. Start by picking up the Magic Weapon trophy as soon as you can. It unlocks after you craft your first enchantment, which happens fairly early in the Den of Sin. Don't overthink this one. The trap here is trying to farm souls for upgrades before you actually need them. Most weapons hit a damage ceiling where upgrading further becomes a waste unless you're farming specific trophies later. You'll find the first enchantment recipe from a merchant in the same area, so follow the main path and you won't miss it. The Slain Lord trophy is the one most people complain about, and honestly they have a point. You need to kill every boss in the game, including the ones you can accidentally miss. There are roughly fifteen boss fights total, and two of them are optional depending on how you handle certain story branches. I personally missed the boss behind the hidden door in Caelin's Mirror after rolling past what looked like a regular wall. Took me two retries across different saves to catch it. The workaround is to check every wall in Caelin's Mirror with Vigor until you find the crack in the geometry that marks a secret entrance.

The Completionist Section

For the platinum you need to track down all collectibles. This means every Codex entry, every Sigil Fragment, and every Soul Essence. The codex alone has over 120 entries scattered across three major zones and several smaller areas. I stopped trying to hunt them all on my first run and went back specifically for completion. That second pass took me about eight hours total, mostly because I mapped out which zones had the sparsest entries and which ones were cramped with them. The Sigil Fragment trophies require finding ten fragments per type. There are five types, so that's fifty fragments to locate. They spawn in fixed positions on the overworld map. If you're having trouble finding one, check the corners of large open areas and inside structures that look like they should have a lootable object but don't. Several fragments are placed on high ledges or behind breakable walls that you only discover if you attack at the right angle. The camera in this game locks in a way that makes ledge placement easy to miss.

Soul Essence and Challenge Trophies

Soul Essences drop from defeated bosses and some hidden enemies. You'll get the Collected Soul trophy once you've gathered enough to fully upgrade your soul meter. This takes about twelve to fourteen boss kills depending on how much you grind. The grind is optional for completionists but necessary if you want the silver. I ran a dedicated farming loop in Den of Sin against the first wave of enemies there and collected enough essences in about forty minutes without engaging a single boss. Challenge trophies revolve around difficulty modifiers and specific kill conditions. You need to complete a Dark Pilgrimage run for one, which locks certain mechanics and increases enemy aggression. I failed my first Dark Pilgrimage because I went in too light on healing. The game gives you a warning about the difficulty spike, but it's easy to underestimate. Bring at least one healing item per estimated fight, plus a few extra just in case. You'll also need to master each weapon type for separate trophies, which means getting a certain number of kills with each one.

What the Community Gets Wrong

There's a common misconception that you need to do a New Game Plus to get every trophy. You don't. You can complete everything on a single save file. The catch is that some missable trophies force you to reload an earlier save if you accidentally advance the story past a certain point. The main missable window opens after you defeat the second major story boss, which permanently locks you out of a few side content areas. I learned this the hard way after burning through six hours of optional content and then realizing I couldn't get back to them. Another thing nobody mentions is the Co-op Requirement. One trophy asks you to complete the game with another player, but you don't need to finish every boss together. Just being present in the session when the final boss falls counts. If you're desperate and stuck solo, summoning another player just for the final fight and then staying until the credits roll is the fastest route to that silver. The game doesn't track whether your co-op partner actually dealt damage.

Recommended Order of Operations

Do your main story run first. Don't stop for collectibles until after you've finished the game. This saves you from having to replay large sections of content you already cleared. On the second run, focus entirely on the missable trophies and the collection goals. You can carry over your level and equipment, which makes the second playthrough significantly faster. I beat my initial completion time down from around fifty-five hours to about thirty on the second attempt because I knew exactly where every boss was and which paths led to collectibles. If you're going for the platinum, skip the optional difficulty modifiers until after you've locked the story-related trophies. Dark Pilgrimage mode adds a separate track of challenges that can be done at any point, but mixing it with your main completion run tends to slow you down more than it helps. Do the standard playthrough, then treat challenge content as a separate layer on top.

Where to Find This Lords Of The Fallen Trophy Guide

This guide itself is freely available online and updated regularly as the community spots new edge cases. I keep a local copy bookmarked and cross-reference it when I'm stuck on a specific trophy. The official guides tend to be thin on the kind of situational details that actually matter, like which NPC dialogues trigger hidden bosses or how the RNG for fragment spawns works. The community wikis and forums have the real meat of this information if you know where to look. The game's own trophy list is accurate but sparse. It tells you what to do without telling you how hard it will be or where the tricky parts are. That's fine for casual players but insufficient if you want to minimize backtracking and save reloading. Pair whatever source you use with a fully mapped overworld guide and you'll cut your completion time roughly in half compared to winging it.