Resident Evil Village Trophy Guide and Platinum Walkthrough

Nine location and boss trophies unlock automatically through the story. The other 40 non-Platinum trophies are technically missable on a given route because the game has no chapter select and does not return you to free roam after the ending.

Most misses are recoverable through manual saves or New Game Plus. The main exception is a requirement that explicitly tracks one playthrough.

Single-Run Requirements

Area-Specific Trophies to Check Before Moving On

A practical save spread is one file before Castle Dimitrescu, one before leaving the castle, one before House Beneviento, one after Moreau, one before the Stronghold, one at the start of the Factory, and one before the final boss. We recommend keeping additional rotating saves during Knives Out.

Resident Evil Village has 145 tracked items across the categories used by its collectible and equipment trophies.

Goats, files, recipes, weapons, and parts can be completed across New Game Plus cycles. Outhouses and windows reset for trophy purposes, so use a checklist and finish each category before its point of no return.

Delay the most expensive weapon parts until the S.T.A.K.E. infinite-ammo setup is secure. Veteran Gunsmith can consume more than 1.6 million Lei when weapons and purchasable attachments are combined, so it is safer as late cleanup.

Yes. Universe's Best Dad requires Village of Shadows, while World's Best Dad requires Hardcore or higher. Finishing Village of Shadows also unlocks the lower completion trophies.

Infinite ammo, New Game Plus gear, and Extra Content Shop weapons do not disable trophies. Your inventory, money, upgrades, recipes, and permanent Duke meal bonuses carry into New Game Plus.

The 7/10 rating is similar to Bloodborne, but Resident Evil Village gives you far more ways to overpower repeat story runs. Its difficulty comes mainly from Mercenaries routing and a few fixed-loadout encounters.

Best Loadout for Village of Shadows

Use an infinite-ammo S.T.A.K.E. as Ethan. Fully upgrade it once to unlock its Extra Content Shop option, then reload a pre-upgrade save if you need the Lei back for other purchases.

Unlock infinite ammo for the Dragoon before the Chris section. During the Heisenberg vehicle fight, circle the arena, use cannon shots to create distance, and save the cannon whenever his charge is about to connect. Your carried weapons cannot help during that phase.

Complete all Duke meals before this run. The permanent health and guard upgrades provide a useful margin during the sections where infinite ammo does not solve the encounter.

All four challenge-run trophies fit into one Casual New Game Plus clear. The Karambit Knife, permanent meal upgrades, and prior route knowledge make the run forgiving enough to finish well below three hours.

Setup Before Starting

Unlock the Karambit Knife in the Extra Content Shop and place it in your completed save before beginning New Game Plus. Enter with a large inventory, but do not buy unnecessary supplies during the run. The 200 Lei Karambit purchase still leaves ample room under the 10,000 Lei cap if you did not carry it in beforehand.

Keep separate saves after each major boss. Check the Challenges menu after every forced firearm sequence and confirm Knives Out still shows zero invalid hits.

What Knives Out Allows

You may use firearms or explosives on required environmental targets, including the Castle bells, the Armory wall, Moreau's bridge support, the Factory grinder, and the ventilation fan. Chris may use the target locator on the mold-covered house because it is required for progression.

The two direct combat exceptions are the self-propelled artillery during Heisenberg's first phase and the yellow orb during Miranda's scripted final sequence. Switch back to the knife immediately afterward.

Do not use Chris's target locator against Urias Strajer. Kill him with the knife, even though the fight takes longer. Shooting enemies outside the two stated boss exceptions can invalidate the trophy.

Timer, Healing, and Spending Rules

Pausing stops the timer, so route checks do not cost time. Skip cutscenes, ignore unnecessary enemies, and move directly between objectives.

Casual difficulty restores part of your health automatically, and several story transitions heal Ethan. Reserve recovery items for late bosses and never use more than four. Existing inventory and upgrades do not count against Frugal Father, only Lei spent during that playthrough does.

Legendary Cowboy requires S rank on the eight original stages. These are The Village, The Castle, The Factory, The Mad Village, and the four matching second versions. The Bloody Village and Bloody River from Additional Orders are not required for the base Platinum.

Unlike the public-match progression in Dead by Daylight, every Mercenaries attempt is offline and can be restarted immediately.

Score Priorities

Your combo is the main score multiplier. Learn where each enemy spawns, move toward the next group before the current one is fully cleared, and avoid looting when the combo timer is close to expiring.

Collect nearby blue ability orbs and yellow time orbs, but do not break the route for a distant pickup that costs the combo. A complete, controlled chain usually matters more than killing every possible enemy.

Use the shop between areas to strengthen one main weapon rather than spreading Lei across several weak options. Damage, rate of fire, and reload speed reduce the time enemies remain between you and the next spawn.

Using Winters' Expansion Characters

If you own Winters' Expansion, Mercenaries Additional Orders lets you use characters such as Chris, Heisenberg, and Lady Dimitrescu. Their stronger crowd control can make S ranks on the original eight stages more forgiving.

The DLC characters are optional. You can earn Legendary Cowboy with Ethan, and you never need to complete Bloody Village or Bloody River for the base trophy.

Winters' Expansion adds seven trophies. They are separate from the base list and are not required for Ethan Winters.

A Hardcore Shadows of Rose clear can unlock all three difficulty trophies. Craft each available item type during that run, then complete the two Additional Orders stages for the full DLC set.

Winters' Expansion adds only seven trophies and leaves the base Platinum untouched.