The Pathless is a puzzle/adventure game without fast-travel or a map. It’s a rather chill experience and a relatively easy Platinum to earn.
Earning the Platinum in The Pathless more-or-less requires 100% completion, with just a handful of miscellaneous trophies.
Trophy Difficulty: 2/10
- Estimated Time To Platinum: 10–12 hours
- The Number of Missable Trophies: “Sky Master” is potentially missable, while “Storm Master” is missable. Read each trophy description for more information.
STEP 1: PLAY THROUGH THE STORY, CLEARING EACH AREA AS YOU GO
The Pathless is a relatively straightforward Platinum trophy. You have to beat the game and collect nearly all of the collectibles. If you want to make it easier on yourself (there’s no fast travel), clear each area of all lightstones before moving on to the next one.
STEP 2: CLEANUP
Once you’ve beaten the game you can load back in to just before you started the fight with the last boss. You can backtrack to any of the earlier areas in the game and everything is still obtainable at this stage except for the trophy “Storm Master”.
THE PATHLESS TROPHY GUIDE
No Path Untraveled (Platinum)
Collect all trophies.
Unlock all the other trophies and earn yourself the shiny Platinum for The Pathless.
1000 Talismans Shot (Bronze)
Shoot 1,000 talismans.
You’ll unlock this about halfway through the game. 1,000 sounds like a lot, but you’re always shooting talismans when moving in this game.
Acrobat (Bronze)
Shoot 5 talismans while airborne before touching the ground.
You’ll unlock this naturally as you play through the game.
Sky Master (Silver)
Get 10 flaps. (Potentially Missable)
You get one extra flap for each boss you defeat and one at the start of the game — so that’s five flaps. The other five you’ll unlock as you earn experience from secret lanterns.
I have marked this as potentially missable as you can lose experience if you fail the storms. I earned 12 flaps by the end of the game, so there’s more than enough to make sure you earn the trophy unless you fail the storms over and over.
Skill Shot Master (Bronze)
Chain 10 skill shots in a row.
This one is a little confusing and may take some practice.
You need to fire your arrow at a talisman right as it reaches 50% on the pull-meter of a talisman’s diamond. If you do it correctly there’s a slight slo-mo animation and the arrow lands with a lot more thunder. The trophy image (on the left) shows you exactly where 50% is on the diamond.
You can do this on the same talisman, waiting for it to reappear, or on 10 different talismans.
I found it easier to find a spot where several talismans were evenly spaced out around my character and just get into the rhythm of it. If the talismans are roughly the same distance from you it’ll make the timing easier.
Epic Flight (Silver)
Fly for over a minute without touching an updraft.
You’ll unlock this naturally as you play for 100%. There are several high spots like the Old Fortress or the Observatory where you can glide down for well over a minute.
Super Slide (Bronze)
Slide 400 meters down a steep slope.
Between the Great Plains (third area) and Mountain Tundra (fourth area), there’s a big mountain. If you climb to the top and pick a spot to slide down you’ll hit 400+ meters easily.
Epic Landing (Bronze)
Fall 150 meters without gliding and land hard.
In the later parts of the game you’ll be flying high a lot, so just pick a spot and drop.
River Rider (Bronze)
Drift 300 meters down a river.
Although the description suggests you need to “drift,” you don’t. Simply let the current carry you 300m without touching the controller.
The Great Plains (third area) has lots of river spots; pick one with a nice current from its top end and let yourself get carried away.
Trick Shot (Bronze)
Bounce an arrow off two mirrors.
Plenty of the puzzles in the later areas have mirrors where you’ll need to bounce arrows off two or more mirrors.
High Flyer (Silver)
Reach the highest updraft above the mountain.
In the final area, Mountain Tundra, there are a lot of updrafts in the open space in the middle of the map. The highest one is located nearly directly opposite the platform that takes you to the final boss fight.
To spot it, find the big skeleton of some creature on top of a mountain and jump into the updrafts close to the skull.
Observer (Bronze)
Reach the observatory.
Cold Hike (Bronze)
Reach the old fortress.
You need to find this as part of The Pathfinder quest.
Forest Whisperer (Bronze)
Run with 6 animals.
This is the most tedious trophy in the game.
Firstly, find a nice open space with lots of animals. It doesn’t matter which area, but The Great Plains has, well, great plains.
Start chasing an animal and try to sit just behind it without overtaking. After a couple of seconds close enough, gold sparks appear on it — that means it’s now following you.
Repeat five more times to get six animals following you at once. Don’t go too fast or turn too sharply or followers may drop off.
This will likely take several attempts, but once you can tame one animal you’re on your way to six.
Storm Survivor (Bronze)
Survive 3 storm encounters unscathed. (Potentially Missable)
You’ll most likely run into more than three storms as you play. But if you’re a god at dodging them, this could be missable. After you defeat the boss in each area the storm will disappear.
Eagle’s Companion (Bronze)
Pet the eagle 4 times.
Press Square to pet your Eagle. Do it lots, it feels good.
The Pathfinder’s Tale (Silver)
Find all the lore of the Pathfinder’s story.
There’s one location in each of the four areas that has the lore messages needed. If you’re playing to 100% the game, you’ll likely find them all naturally.
YouTube user RoonCo SP has a great video with the locations of all the lore pieces if you need help, or think you’ve missed one.
None of these is missable. You can clean up by loading back into the game after completing it.
Ancient Whispers (Bronze)
Discover 15 lore messages.
Echoes of the Past (Bronze)
Discover 30 lore messages.
Wisdom of the Ancients (Silver)
Discover 45 lore messages.
There are more than 45 lore messages in the game and if you’re reading each shiny blue orb you come across you’ll get this sometime during the fourth area.
Gift of the Tall Ones (Gold)
Collect the gift from every spirit.
You’ll earn this after obtaining each of the gifts from the spirits.
After you complete an area, a totem will appear in the final battle area with nine lightstone spots for the remaining lightstones in the area. Bring them all back and insert them into the totem and the spirit of that area will appear and lead you on a journey; at the end they’ll give you a gift.
Finding all of the lightstones isn’t hard, especially once you’ve beaten the boss in an area.
If you’re struggling to find a lightstone, climb to the top of a tower or a high spot and press L1/Triangle and look for any signs of red.
The most obscure locations are the Old Fortress in Redwood Steppe (up a mountain), and the Observatory (on top of a mountain) in Mountain Tundra. Both glow red when scanning with L1/Triangle if you’re within range.
Gift of the Elk Spirit (Silver)
Obtain the Gift of the Elk Spirit.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Gift of the Lizard Spirit (Silver)
Obtain the Gift of the Lizard Spirit.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Gift of the Snake Spirit (Silver)
Obtain the Gift of the Snake Spirit.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Gift of the Bear Spirit (Silver)
Obtain the Gift of the Bear Spirit.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Hunter of the Light (Silver)
Collect all the lightstones.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Light of Cernos (Bronze)
Collect all the Elk lightstones.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Light of Sauro (Bronze)
Collect all the Lizard lightstones.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Light of Nimue (Bronze)
Collect all the Snake lightstones.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Light of Kumo (Bronze)
Collect all the Bear lightstones.
See “Gift of the Tall Ones” for more information.
Secret Seeker (Bronze)
Discover 15 lanterns.
See “Expert Secret Seeker” for more information.
Great Secret Seeker (Bronze)
Discover 30 lanterns.
See “Expert Secret Seeker” for more information.
Expert Secret Seeker (Silver)
Discover 45 lanterns.
Lanterns give you experience points in the form of yellow orbs. Sometimes finding one is as simple as lighting up a row of torches on a bridge or hitting some musical chimes in the correct order.
There are well over 45 lanterns and you shouldn’t have trouble finding them as you play and collect things. When you press L1/Triangle the red areas that highlight where lightstones are also highlight areas where lanterns are. So by hunting for all the lightstones in any area, you’ll come across plenty of lanterns as well.
Monastery (Bronze)
Complete the puzzle at the Monastery.
You’ll come across the Monastery while going for 100% completion.
Textile Workshop (Bronze)
Complete the puzzle at the Textile Workshop.
You’ll come across the Textile Workshop while going for 100% completion.
Bathhouse (Bronze)
Complete the puzzle at the Bathhouse.
You’ll come across the Bathhouse while going for 100% completion.
The Adventure Begins (Bronze)
Reach the mainland.
Cleanse the Elk (Bronze)
Cleanse the Forest Plateau.
Cleanse the Lizard (Bronze)
Cleanse the Redwood Steppe.
Cleanse the Snake (Bronze)
Cleanse the Great Plains.
Cleanse the Bear (Bronze)
Cleanse the Mountain Tundra.
The Truth is a Pathless Land (Silver)
Complete the game and view the credits.
A New Path Awaits (Gold)
Witness the extended ending.
You unlock a secret ending that plays after the credits by completing the game with all four of the gifts of the spirits unlocked. You can unlock this the first time you beat the game, or replay the ending if you have to clean up some of the lightstones after beating it once.
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