Chernobylite Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Chernobylite Trophy Roadmap

• Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 if playing on Very Easy difficulty
• Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10-20 Hours (doable in 10h on Very Easy if you skip most dialogues and rush through / up to 20h if you play on higher difficulties and listen to all dialogues)
• Offline Trophies: 34 (1, 5, 8, 20)
• Online Trophies: 0
• Number of missable trophies: 0 – you can change all your story decisions in exchange for Chernobylite Items whenever you die or use the Radiation Chamber at your base.
• Glitched trophies: 0
• Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on Very Easy
• Minimum Playthroughs: 1
• Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: No – there is no mission select. But you can keep exploring all map areas after the story and you can change your story decisions any time after dying or using the Radiation Chamber at your base.
• Release Date: July 28, 2021 (PC), September 28, 2021 (Consoles)

Introduction

Welcome to the Chernobylite Trophy Guide (Achievement Guide)! This is an incredibly easy and straightforward platinum because all trophies come automatically from the story. You just need to watch out that you recruit all 4 optional teammates, but even if you miss this you can change your story choices retroactively whenever you die, so nothing is missable. When you die you go to the “afterlife dimension” and spend Chernobylite to change any story decisions from earlier. Then you revive at the same day/quest when you died, you don’t need to replay the story. All teammates are met automatically in the story and you get a dialogue to recruit them or to send them away. Always choose to recruit them. The game is divided into 25 days, basically the chapters. Each day has a main quest, after finishing it you use the Portal Generator to return to your base, here you can spend the evening to build new items and learn new skills from teammates, then go to bed, then wake up the next day and play another main quest. There is no big connected open world. Instead, it is divided into multiple small districts that are disconnected from each other. Each quest takes place in one district only. You can collect resources during quests and use them to build out your base and craft better gear. There are no side quests, no Collectibles, no difficulty-related trophies, nothing missable.

Step 1: Play through the Story, Recruit All 4 Team Members

There is only one step: finish the story and you’ll have the Platinum Trophy! All trophies are automatic story-related unlocks.

There are 3 types of trophies but they all come from the story: anything related to finishing quests refers to main story quests (there are no side quests), anything related to investigations is part of the story (flashback sequences), anything else is for building things at your base which you’ll do naturally over the course of the game. Each story quest gives one trophy. It doesn’t matter on what difficulty you play, you can pick Very Easy if you like. You can change the difficulty from the pause menu at any time.

The game is split into “days” which are basically the “chapters”. Each day has a main quest that lasts about 30 minutes on average (x25 days total = Around 12 Hours).

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Always accept all quests, be nice to everyone you meet and agree to help them (you get quests over the radio when leaving your base each morning).
• Recruit all 4 team members (Mikhail, Olga, Tarakan, Sashko)! You meet them automatically in main story quests. After their quests you get a dialogue to recruit them. Technically, you could tell them to not join you but there’s an easy fix, see the next point.
• All story decisions (including team recruitments) can be changed after you die. This costs Chernobylite which you can craft at the Chernobylite Synthesizer in your base. Because you can reset and change any past choices nothing is missable.
• Each day you can send your teammates on resource gathering quests. Craft fully upgraded weapons and armor and give it to your teammates to improve their chances (upgraded Revolver & Camouflage Armor is sufficient). To avoid injuries don’t send them on overly dangerous quests that have less than 80% success chance. Try to keep up their morale by giving them 1 food per day, max out comfort, air quality, radiation protection in your base to improve their psyche.
• Whenever you have a dialogue choice to kill someone or let them live, always choose to let them live – this is generally better to not upset any of your teammates. Killing enemies (armed humans and monsters) is fine.
• Do the board investigations whenever they become available because they each give a trophy (you get a warning before going to bed if one is available). They can still be done later at any time, so it’s no problem if you don’t do them immediately.
• It’s recommended to do the optional objectives during your first visit to each region (marked “?” icons on map). They can lead to clues for the investigation board trophies and other useful resources.

In summary: Be nice to everyone you meet, accept all quests you’re offered, go to all optional map markers, recruit all 4 team members, don’t lose any team members.

Worst case, if you’d mess up something important, you could reset the bad decisions retroactively on your next death. Then in your next life everything will be fine.

Story Decisions (only important ones, dialogues not listed don’t matter)

Below is the exact Roadmap day by day. The choices I made are highlighted in green, which is what has been tested and proven to get platinum in 1 playthrough without having to reset any story decisions. Note that you can kill yourself (or use the Radiation Chamber) to reset any story decision in the “afterlife”. So basically, you can’t mess up anything permanently.

1. Day 1: Play any of the 5 available quests, it doesn’t matter which one and there are no important decisions here.
2. Day 2: Hacking into NAR servers – Trophy: Heart is a lonely hunter [During radio call in the morning: Agree to do his mission –> Halfway through the quest: Consider other Options > Wipe out NAR server]
3. Day 3: Mikhail in trouble – Trophy: Dark tourist [After saving Mikhail: Ask him to join you]
4. Day 4: A memento from the past – Trophy: Tiny dancer [Guy with grappling hook in house: Sum up your options –> Go with the PDA Upgrade]
5. Day 5: Old documents – Trophy: Rat trap [When given to rearm the traps: Leave it]
6. Day 6: Traitor – Trophy: In a bind [When meeting Konstanty: Try to search him > Let him go]
7. Day 7: Meeting with Tarakan – Trophy: The Ratcatcher [During radio call: Grudingly agree –> Later in apartment building: Agree with Tarakan and burn documents]
8. Day 8: A Voice in the Woods (Olga #1) – No Trophy [Konstanty in Basement: Free Konstanty –> Back at Camp: Help Konstanty]
9. Day 9: On the other side of the barricade – Trophy: NOT a little boy! [In prison cells: Keep boy locked in basement]
10. Day 10: The Hermit – Trophy: Fools rush in [No Choices]
11. Day 11: An Old Friend – Trophy: Three Musketeers [No Choices]
12. Day 12: The Crumb Trail – Trophy: King of mice [At the end of the quest pick: Ask him to join you to have Tarakan join your team]
13. Day 13: A few things from an old hideout – Trophy: A hunter went for a walk [Download the Data]
14. Day 14: The truth about NAR’s experiments – Trophy: A giant turtle [Download the Data]
15. Day 15: Chain reaction – Trophy: A turning point [Surrender] – see How to Escape Enemy Prison Base if you get stuck in the next section
16. Day 16: Big Fish – Trophy: All volunteers [Refuse to shoot down helicopter –> after the quest Mikhail may want to leave your team and you should choose “Tell Him to Stay” so he stays on your team]
17. Day 17: Weapon Transport – Trophy: Guerilla war [Oppose Olivier and blow it up]
18. Day 18: The final exam – Trophy: Thief in law [Ask him to join you]
19. Day 19: Hardware for real men – Trophy: Living dangerously [Press the detonator]
20. Day 20: Some Excuses – Trophy: Like men of science [Spare Semonov]
21. Day 21: Checkpoint Assault – Trophy: Not everyone deserves to die [Agree –> Message about Shadows –> Impersonate Sasha –> Reassure Sashko –> Disagree]
22. Day 22: Kozlov Kidnapping / Kozlov Killing – Trophy: Man from the past with a past [Before Mission in Hideout: Attempt to kidnap Kozlov –> Re-route the Power –> Intimidate Kozlov –> Abduct Kozlov –> Let Kozlov Go]
23. Day 23: Black Stalker – Trophy: Bring the dust [Don’t disclose knowing of Kostya’s plan –> Defend Semonov]
24. Day 24: Hard Truth – Trophy: The right call [Be harsh –> Challenge Him –> Lie to him]
25. Day 24 / Day 25: The Heist – Trophy: Broken cycle [Choices don’t matter, you’ll get the trophy with any ending and with that the platinum. Note: Olga may leave your team on Day 25, but if you want to play the Heist with her in it, you can load the Day 24 autosave and do the Heist on Day 24 with all team members together]

Chernobylite Trophy Guide

	Chernobylite Communion Earn every trophy
Earn all other trophies in Chernobylite to unlock Platinum.
	Broken cycle Reach one of the game endings
Automatic story-related trophy. Complete “The Heist” mission, which is the big board in your hideout next to the binoculars where you select the quests each day. How “The Heist” turns out doesn’t matter, you get the trophy with any ending. The Heist board says that it requires 5/5 teammates, 5/5 tools acquired, 4/4 investigations conducted (investigation boards in your bedroom) – all of these come automatically from story progress. Even though it says 5 teammates on the Heist board you can actually start it with fewer team members, so it’s okay if you lost someone during the story. Should you have accidentally started The Heist before finishing the Day 24 trophy-related quest, you can simply choose “Load Game” and reload the automatic save from the start of the day, then it puts you back before The Heist and you can keep playing.
	Dark tourist Recruit Mikhail
Day 2: “Hacking into NAR servers” quest – Mikhail will call you over the radio when leaving your base and offers a quest. Accept it and select it from mission select (marked as red main quest). Follow Mikhail’s instructions throughout the quest (Halfway through the quest: Consider other Options > Wipe out NAR server). Day 3: You get another call from Mikhail and for quest “Mikhail in Trouble”. Complete this quest and at the end select “Ask him to join You”. This will recruit him. If you accidentally clicked on the wrong dialogue and denied him to join your team, you can either reload the last Autosave or change your decision later at any point after dying.
	Queen of the forest Recruit Olga
Day 8: A Voice in the Woods – Olga will call you in the morning of Day 8 and offers a quest. Be sure to select it from the mission list (marked as red main quest). At the end of the quest, pick dialogue “Ask her to join you”. If you accidentally clicked on the wrong dialogue and denied her to join your team, you can either reload the last Autosave or change your decision later at any point after dying.
	Thief in law Recruit Sashko
Day 18: The final exam – During this quest you will meet Sashko in a building and he asks you to jump out of the window. Jump out and pick dialogue “Ask him to join you”. If you accidentally clicked on the wrong dialogue and denied him to join your team, you can either reload the last Autosave or change your decision later at any point after dying.
	King of mice Recruit Tarakan
Day 12: The Crumb Trail – On Day 12, you get Tarakan’s 3rd story quest where you must rescue him. Afterward, pick dialogue option “Ask him to join you” and the trophy will unlock. Your choices in the previous quests don’t matter. If you accidentally clicked on the wrong dialogue and denied him to join your team, you can either reload the last Autosave or change your decision later at any point after dying.
	Wounded warrior Find Oliver and convince him to help you
Prologue: Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks during the Prologue.
	Three Musketeers Finish “An old friend” quest
Day 11: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 11.
	NOT a little boy! Finish “On opposite sides of the barricade” quest
Day 9: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 9.
	Man from the past with a past Finish ” Kozlov Killing” or ” Kozlov Kidnaping” quest
Day 22: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 22. Before the mission when leaving your hideout you can choose “Attempt to kidnap Kozlov”  or “Decide to kill Kozlov” which will lead to one quest or the other, but for the purpose of this trophy it doesn’t matter which one you choose. Personally, I chose “Attempt to kidnap Kozlov”, which is the recommended option as it’s what has been tested to get platinum in 1 playthrough without messing anything up.
	Black mask wearing … Finish “Power plant” quest
Prologue: Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks during the Prologue.
	You cannot change the past Change your memory for the first time
Day 10: Automatic story-related trophy. On Day 10 when you go to the Quest Select screen you will get killed by an explosion – this is part of the normal story progress. Then you come to an afterlife dimension and have to interact with a big cube that lets you change a past memory in exchange for some Chernobylite which unlocks the trophy. You can find Chernobylite at some “?” question mark icons on the map or by crafting it at the Chernobylite Synthesizer in your base.
	Rat trap Finish “Old Documents” quest
Day 5: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 5.
	Armed and dangerous Modify any weapon
At your base you must build a weapon upgrade station (e.g. Igor’s Inventory > Weapon Smith > Revolver Calibration Tools), then using that upgrade station you can make modifications to your weapons. For example, you can modify the magazine size to earn this trophy.
	Industrial age Gain access to the second tier of structures in the base
At your base you must enter the building menu and go to Base Upgrades > Building Tools > Laser Cutting Machine. Building this unlocks the trophy and allows you to build Tier 2 structures.
	Chernobylite age Gain access to the third tier of base structures
At your base you must enter the building menu and go to Base Upgrades > Building Tools > Chernobylite-Powered Tools. Building this unlocks the trophy and allows you to build Tier 3 structures.
	Conspiracy Complete “Conspiracy” Board Investigation
There are 4 Investigation Boards: Conspiracy (4 Facts, 7 Clues) Web of Lies (3 Facts, 6 Clues) Black Stalker (3 Facts, 5 Clues) Woman in Red Dress (3 Facts, 4 Clues) – unlocked after the first 3 investigation boards are done All the Investigation Boards are found in Igor’s Room at your base, on the wall across from your bed where you go to sleep each night. After obtaining enough Facts and Clues you will get a warning before going to bed that says a Simulation is ready. Interact with the Investigation Board and click “Run Simulation” in the bottom right corner. This will play a flashback and skips time to the next morning. You don’t need ALL the clues, having half of them is enough, but you do need all of the Facts. You get the Facts automatically from main story quests, can’t miss them. Clues are found at green “?” Question Mark Icons on the map. While not every “?” icon leads to a clue (they can also lead to loot etc), all clues are behind such “?” icons on the map. Around a fifth of the “?” icons are clues. They are all marked automatically on the map, just make sure you clear out all of these on each visit to a region. You can visit a different region each day. The main quests take you to all regions automatically. You must finish one board before you can run the simulation on the next board. So in summary; simply complete main quests and go to all these “?” map-icons along the way and you’ll get enough Facts and Clues to complete the boards. Here’s a picture of the board in Igor’s Room at your base (room where you go to sleep each night):
	Web of Lies Complete “Web of Lies” Board Investigation
See trophy “Conspiracy” above.
	Black Stalker Complete “Black Stalker” Board Investigation
See trophy “Conspiracy” above.
	Woman in Red Dress Complete “Woman in Red Dress” Board Investigation
See trophy “Conspiracy” above.
	In a bind Finish “Traitor” quest
Day 6: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 6.
	Guerilla war Finish “Weapon transport” quest
Day 17: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 17.
	A turning point Finish “Chain Reaction” quest
Day 15: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 15.
	Like men of science Finish “Some excuses” quest
Day 20: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 20.
	A giant turtle Finish “The truth about NAR’s experiments” quest
Day 14: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 14.
	Heart is a lonely hunter Finish “Hacking into NAR servers” quest
Day 2: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 2. After reaching your base and playing the first mission (after finishing Day 1), you will get a call over the radio on the morning of Day 2 when leaving your base. Mikhail will offer you a quest. Accept it. Then in Day 2 mission select you will have the new main mission called “Hacking into NAR servers”. It will be marked as a main mission with a red exclamation point. Complete this main quest.
	Fools rush in Finish “Hermit” quest
Day 10: Automatic story-related trophy. On Day 10, Mikhail will give you the main quest “Hermit”. When you try to start the quest, the nuclear reactor will explode and kills you as part of the story, but then you switch to the afterlife dimension and get revived. After you’re back alive (this is all part of the story), you wake up again on Day 10 and can select the “Hermit” quest a second time. This time the quest will start normally.
	All volunteers Finish “Big Fish” quest
Day 16: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 16.
	Tiny dancer Finish “A memento from the past” quest
Day 4: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 4.
	The Ratcatcher Finish “Meeting with Tarakan” quest
Day 7: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 7.
	Living dangerously Finish “Hardware for real men” quest
Day 19: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 19.
	Not everyone deserves to die Finish “Checkpoint assault” quest
Day 21: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 21.
	A hunter went for a walk Finish “A few things from an old hideout” quest
Day 13: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 13.
	The right call Finish “Hard truth” quest
Day 24: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 24.
	Bring the dust Finish “Black Stalker” quest
Day 23: Automatic story-related trophy, this is the main quest on Day 23.