God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (can do everything on easiest difficulty, can also exit game at shops to save and back up save to PS+ cloud)
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 6-8 hours (on easiest difficulty)
- Offline Trophies: 12 (1
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) - Online Trophies: 0
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on easiest difficulty
- Hardest Trophy: God of Hope (beating the endboss is the hardest part depending on your loadout)
- Minimum Playthroughs: 10 playthroughs minimum (1 death, 6 to finish story, 3 to get all Boat Captain Keys)
- PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: Yes, but only from PS4 > PS5 (not from PS5 > PS4), it autopops all trophies instantly upon loading the PS4 save on PS5. Delete your PS5 save (back it up to PS+ cloud beforehand) > have the PS4 save on console > boot up PS5 version > it will automatically import the PS4 save. Click on “VALHALLA” in title screen and everything autopops.
- PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: Yes, the DLC is free for both PS4 and PS5
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, can replay it as many times as you want after story
- Supports Manual Saves?: No, there’s only 1 Autosave. But you can exit the game at any shop to save. Then back up the save in PS+ cloud. If you die can copy back the save to respawn at the shop.
- Release Date: December 12, 2023
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)Introduction
Welcome to the God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC Trophy Guide! This free DLC is a roguelite mode where you play through chambers filled with enemies. The goal is to reach the end without dying. If you die, you respawn in the hub area, called “The Shore”. However, each run is relatively short, taking only 20-30 minutes on the easiest difficulty. You can also save your progress mid-game by visiting a shop and exiting the game. This can be used to upload your save to PS+ cloud, if something goes wrong you can copy back the save and respawn at the shop. Each run you complete advances the story. The story chapters can be viewed by pressing Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla. Most of the trophies come automatically from story progress. Focus on playing through the story and try to do the Mastery Quests along the way. You unlock more gameplay features as you complete runs. You are then able to buy permanent attribute upgrades. If you play on easy you should buy the upgrades for more damage to get through it faster. To play the DLC you must download a separate file from PS Store called “God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla”. Then the DLC can be started from the Title Screen by clicking on “VALHALLA”. Also see How to Start God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC. This game mode doesn’t carry over your main game progress as it takes place in a different world.
Step 1: Finish All 6 Story Chapters + Do Mastery Challenges
On your first attempt let yourself die to advance the story. Then finish each attempt in one life without dying to advance the story. Between attempts it will give you some cutscenes. Keep doing this until you earn the trophy 
God of Hope for finishing the story. Everything can be done on the easiest difficulty. If you need to exit the game, visit a shop and choose to return to the main menu, this will save the game without losing progress (you can also back up the save to PS+ and copy it back if you die).
Along the way, already start working on the Mastery Quests. These can be seen by pressing Touchpad > Goals > Mastery. The easiest ones are the “Rage” and “Shield” Masteries. These only require you to select a different Rage/Shield before each attempt. More Mastery Quests become available as you advance the story. Other easy ones are for getting each weapon’s Light/Heavy Relic Glyph. Write them down on a piece of paper and cross them off as you find them, they come randomly from loot chests.
Step 2: Boat Captain Keys & The Forum Arena
The Boat Captain Keys start spawning after reclaiming Pandora’s Statue during the final story Chapter “The Work, Part 3: Benevolence”. It will now spawn 1 key per attempt, always in the first chamber, next to the first chest, in front of the wooden painting. They look like purple glowing items on the ground. You will need another 3 full playthroughs for this. Collect the Key in the first chamber on each attempt, it always spawns in the same place. You must beat Týr at the end of each run to make another key spawn, if you die it won’t spawn a key.
After the story you will also gain access to the third and final arena, called “The Forum”. The three arenas can be played in the foggy maze before the Týr boss (one on the right, one on the left, one in the middle upstairs).
If you haven’t gotten 
Wayfarer for visiting all 9 Realms, make sure that at the start of each run you pick a different weapon bonus from the first chest. What weapon bonus you pick determines what Realm you will visit before the foggy maze area. The 2nd last Realm you visit is always tied to what weapon bonus you selected at the first chest. These realms will never randomly appear, so the only way to get them is to pick between the Axe, Blades, or Spear from the first chest.
God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC Trophy Guide
Main Game Trophy Guide:
God of War Ragnarok Trophy Guide
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God of Hope Master Valhalla and master thyself. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks after Chapter 6: The Work, Part 3: Benevolence (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
This is for finishing the Valhalla DLC story. After defeating Týr for the 4th time you will unlock this. |
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Invitation Accepted Discover the secret of Valhalla |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks after Chapter 1: The Invitation (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
For this you must die once. Then you get a cutscene and start a new “cycle” of the DLC. The trophy unlocks after the first death cutscene. |
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Dark Odyssey Participate in the sacrifice |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks after Chapter 2: Homecoming (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
The earliest you can do the Sacrifice is on the 3rd run (died once, did another run to return to shore, start 3rd run). Continue playing through the realms until you meet Helios. This is a forced ‘story’ moment and can’t be missed if you play through enough realms in one attempt. In the Helios section you will have to do the Sacrifice to advance, can’t miss it. This will end your 3rd run and return you to the shore. |
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Blood, Sweat, and Týr Battle Týr |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks after Chapter 3: The Host (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
The earliest you can battle Týr is on the 4th run (died once, did another run to return to shore, do sacrifice on 3rd run, then play 4th run to the end until Týr). On the 4th run continue playing through the realms until you reach the Týr boss fight. This is a forced ‘story’ moment and can’t be missed if you play through enough realms in one attempt. Defeat Týr and exit through the gate to finish this run and earn the trophy. |
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Scry Me a River Reclaim Kratos’ Oath Stone |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks at the start of Chapter 4: The Work, Part I: Acceptance (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
The earliest you can do this is during your 5th run (after you defeated Týr for the first time and started the next run). You will come to a point where you must pick up a glowing orb. This is a forced ‘story’ moment and can’t be missed if you play through enough realms in one attempt. On your way to defeat Týr the 2nd time you will automatically get this and it initiates the next story chapter. |
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Wayfarer Visit all 9 Realms in Valhalla |
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In total there are 9 realms.
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No Kratos, No Scry Reclaim Pandora’s Statue |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks during Chapter 6: The Work, Part 3: Benevolence (seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla).
The earliest you can do this is during your 7th run (after defeating Týr 3 times, on the next run after that). You will come to a point where you must pick up Pandora’s Statue. This is a forced ‘story’ moment and can’t be missed if you play through enough realms in one attempt. On your way to defeat Týr the 4th time you will automatically get this. |
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Fight at the Forum Participate in a fight at The Forum arena |
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The Forum is the 3rd and final arena, found in the foggy maze area in the final area before Týr boss. The arenas unlock gradually from story progress. You don’t need to play the first 2 arenas, just playing one match in the third arena is enough. Here’s how to unlock the Arenas:
After you play a match in the third arena you get this trophy. |
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Easy Come, Easy Go Acquire more than 15,000 Fleeting Echoes on a single attempt |
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| For this you must get 15,000 Fleeting Echoes in A SINGLE RUN. It doesn’t count cumulatively across all your runs.
This will come automatically when doing the trophy Alternatively, this can also be obtained before unlocking the Forum Arena. It can be done by defeating all Chosen in the foggy Maze before Týr and playing 1-2 arenas. The first arena unlocks after defeating Týr 2 times. The second arena after defeating him 3 times. The arenas are found in the foggy Maze before Týr, you will get a tutorial message when they unlock. Each Chosen you defeat in the maze gives a score multiplier, so the more of them you defeat the more points you get. With one arena you might only get to 14,000 points. But with 2 arenas and defeating all Chosen you can easily get more than 15,000. So just keep playing until you unlocked all arenas, then this will be trivial. At the blue stone at The Shore you can also buy upgrades that give you more Fleeting Echoes per enemy encounter but this isn’t necessary for this trophy, if you play all 3 arenas and defeat all Chosen you can easily get over 30,000 per run. |
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Understood the Assignment Complete 9 Mastery Quests |
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| Mastery Quests can be viewed by pressing Touchpad > Goals > Mastery. It’s recommended to always pick a different Spartan Rage & Shield on each attempt to work on these from the beginning. After finishing a Mastery you must talk to the Valkyries at The Shore (hub area) to make it count as “completed”.
There are 24 Mastery Quests total, they become available gradually as you make more story progress and unlock new features. You only need to finish 9, so you can pick the easiest ones. Recommendations of easy ones:
Other easy challenges are the ones that require you to find one of each Light/Heavy Runic Attack Glyph. However, this involves some luck, they are randomly found in chests. If you want to go for these, write down all Runic Glyphs you still need. When you open a chest check if it’s one you need and if so cross it off your list. You can also press Touchpad > Goals > Masteries while at a chest to check which ones you still need. |
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Style Points Equip a Cosmetic Armor |
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| After you died for the first time, complete the next run until you are returned to the hub area. In the hub area, before starting your next run, interact with the yellow glowing pillar to change your cosmetic appearance. This is purely cosmetical and doesn’t affect your attributes. You go back to the hub area “The Shore” between each run.
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You Again? Find all 3 Boat Captain Keys |
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The Boat Captain Keys are only available after reclaiming Pandora’s Statue in Chapter 6: The Work, Part 3: Benevolence, as seen under Touchpad > Goals > Valhalla. That’s after unlocking Then on your next attempt, in the first chamber it will spawn a purple key in front of the painting, next to where you open the first chest.
It will spawn 1 key in this place per additional run you successfully finish. You have to defeat Týr each time! If you die it won’t spawn the next key. The 2nd and 3rd key spawn in the same spot, in the first chamber in front of that same painting. So just keep defeating Týr, start another attempt, collect the next key in the first chamber, repeat until you got 3 keys. |
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Main Game Trophy Guide:
God of War Ragnarok Trophy Guide
greendakota99 says
Thanks so much for the guide!
For the “find one of each Light/Heavy Runic Attack Glyph” Mastery Quest – when you are presented with your 2 random options, you are able to open the Goals menu and see which ones you have selected so far. This should be easier than tracking it with pen and paper.
PowerPyx says
This works but you gotta scroll through menus every time and and click through the challenges which gets a bit annoying and immersion-breaking. I find it more efficient to have everything at a glance written down and cross it off instead of scrolling through the menu at every chest. I added a note to the trophy description that it can also be checked via the menu while at the chest, comes down to personal preference.
yphastos says
There is a *much* easier way to know which ones you are missing. You just need to look at the titles of each relic (weak/strong runic attack, not the actual name of the relic), and if you haven’t chosen one yet, they will show a little “quest” icon to the left of their title.
The quest icon is the same as elsewhere in the game, which usually is a dark blue, with what seems a couple of intertwined snakes. Here they appear plain in color.
Actually, in the “stores” (don’t remember the name), is the same for relics (the green ones). if you still don’t have one, they’ll show the little icon in the corner within the actual icon of the relic, as well as on the item description, meaning that you don’t have those yet.
I don’t know if i can post links, but in case i don’t, here it is a link to a gallery for more clarity, just replace _ with a dot:
imgur_com/a/vIK8d66
I don’t know if this was added in some update, since I’ve started to play just recently, but i find it super useful. Hope it helps someone!
falsaai says
Thank you so much for this. This DLC looks fun. I’m glad Santa Monica is not making us suffer to get these trophies.
Patrick says
Huh lol? It requires 10 playthrus lol. They didn’t make it easy lol. Pain in the ass it looks like. Bunch of doing the same thing over and over ten times
Edward says
hi will you show us the bestiary of valhalla
Argandalf says
Hey, thanks for the info! just toa dd up, I died on the last story mission after picking up pandora’s doll and when starting the run again i found a boat key. There might be something else that triggers it maybe.
PowerPyx says
Did some more experimenting on this. The exact trigger is having collected Pandora’s Statue (
No Kratos, No Scry ), which is the final story run where you defeat Týr the last time. If you die during the run it will spawn the key on the next attempt regardless.
Argandalf says
Yes, I did it on another account and that is the trigger, thanks for checking!
Jaxen says
I got a key after killing Tyr once. So the trigger is something else or mine is bugged.
PowerPyx says
Maybe there is yet another way to trigger it earlier. Some people commented it may be related to how many Chosen you defeat in the maze, which would make sense because on later runs you are forced to defeat more of them before you can fight Týr (thus ‘guaranteeing’ you killed enough Chosen to automatically trigger a key on next run).
However, the sureshot way that seems to work for everyone is to defeat Týr the 4th time, then defeat him again to respawn a key each time.
Sakthi says
Hey thanks for the guide, only thing is how do I transfer the ps4 save to PS5 for this particular dlc alone. you mentioned it as auto pop trophies, can you pls elaborate on that step bcuz I can’t find any save or load in Valhalla dlc
PowerPyx says
Delete your PS5 save (back it up to PS+ cloud beforehand) > have the PS4 save on console > boot up PS5 version > it will automatically import the PS4 save. Click on “VALHALLA” in title screen and everything autopops.
Ash-n-Joker says
Powerpyx, there is a strange perk that says “???” and is called something like “mark of the collector”. I’m very curious if you found out what it does? I was very curious when I saw it because it had no description, no nothing.
Ash says
Found out what it does. You destroy the perk, it gives you a random relic with 1 charge, infinitely. So pretty op. You use the relic, it swaps to another random one, and so on. Pretty fun!
Arroyo says
Turns out you don’t need to beat Tyr to spawn another boat key (you don’t even have to fight him, actually). As long as you trigger the conversation related to the key (which happens when you enter the “foggy area”) before dying, you’ll get another one on your next run.
Thanks for the guide!
Arroyo says
Small correction: the conversation happens in Helheim, which is just before the “foggy area”.
Srad77 says
Hi, has anyone been able to get Relic Mastery achievement? I have 12 of 13 relics but can’t find last one, Glaive of Dodher
Jaxen says
I have only beat Tyr once and I have a boat key already. I don’t recall if I got it on the following run or the run after. I didn’t get to Tyr on the run immediately after I killed him the first time. I do not have the No Kratos, No Scry trophy.
JL says
For the boat key trophy, I actually got my 3rd key without having to defeat Tyr in the prior run. What happened was on my 2nd key run I finished up the objective in Greece (which is to defeat 6 chosen) but I had to return to shore from the options menu because Kratos suddenly fell through the map while climbing a ledge.
When I returned to shore and started another attempt, when I grabbed the key again it counted as my 3rd. Maybe the key (no pun intended) is to return to shore instead of dying? It definitely isn’t locked behind defeating Tyr again though. Maybe once reaching Greece or completing the objectives there?
PhantomFear94 says
I’m a huge admirer of this site, to preface, but if I was to nitpick this is more of a 4-5/10 difficulty.
I am on Ch. 6 and I’ve not died (except intentionally to kick the DLC off) but my 2nd and 3rd time battling Tyr were extremely close calls. Pretty nervous for 4 through 6. It is nothing brutal, but Valhalla is harder than anything in the base game IMO. I had absolutely no issues with anything base game.
I usually either strongly agree with the difficult rating or accept it as cautious to account for player skill level, but I question 3/10 if the base game is a 4/10 – I’d at least flip it. Maybe I am just getting old.
PowerPyx says
You can back up your save at the shop just before Týr. Even if you die can simply restore the save. On lowest difficulty it’s not bad if you upgraded your damage/defense. Týr frequently dropped health from the throughout the fight. There is also some luck involved with what buffs you get from chests but if you always go for stat increases (ideally strength/defense) that makes it easier. Don’t forget to use relics either, especially the one that slows time is good. If you die, copy back save from PS+ cloud to respawn before Týr without redoing everything.
Snake2410 says
I would have to disagree. It’s a 3/10 on easy, 4/10 on normal. This coming from someone who really struggled with the berserker king and Valkyrie queen in the normal game on balanced difficulty.
On easy and normal if you concentrate on defense and strength upgrades before each run it’s really easy. Even on the default difficulty I never once died in a run other than the first run to advance the story. I beat Tyr the last time on normal and didn’t even get knocked down to half health.
Plus you can get up to three resurrection stones, two to start a run, and another if you have the crests once you get to the final area. Easy/normal it’s a 4 tops, but I’d stick to a 3/10. Even the forum boss fights are way easier than their main game equivalents.
PhantomFear94 says
An important note on “You Again?” – it isn’t true you have to beat Tyr to get the boat keys.
I think the requirement is 6+ of Valhallas chosen in Greece, not defeating Tyr. I could see why you’d think this because if you defeat Tyr you’d get the same result, but I never beat Tyr after the story and still got all 3 keys.
For me, I the story, then got my first key spawn as per the guide. However, on my next run, I then died in the forum, (I did 7 Valhalla Chosen) and still spawned my 2nd key. After this I tried dying again, nothing happened, but after fighting and dying to Tyr on my next run (I did 10 Valhalla Chosen, both easier arenas for 15K) and that spawned my final key.
Each time, the continuity was 6+ Valhalla Chosen to spawn Tyr, but I didn’t defeat him either time. This the easiest path to DLC 100%
– Die once
– Finish story, defeat Tyr 4 times
– 1st key spawned, do 7 Valhalla Chosen to spawn both Tyr and Forum fight – choose forum before Tyr (doesn’t matter if you win)
– 2nd key spawned, do both easier arenas for 15K and to spawn both Tyr and Forum fight – go straight to Tyr (doesn’t matter if you win)
– Mop up 9 Masteries if required
This way I only beat Tyr the 4 mandatory times for the story, and didn’t have to win in the Forum.
PhantomFear94 says
Meant to add 3rd key spawned alongside Mastery mop up, but you get the idea.
ValhallWarrior says
Like I’ve said in my comment below, I’ve got all three keyes before even fighting Tyr a second time during the main story. I’m playing on hardest difficulty and after collecting Oath Stone I’ve was trying to reach second Tyr fight multiple times. During those multiple attempts, all three keyes spawned for me. You only need to pick up the key and go to the realm (Niflheim, Helheim or Muspelheim) to trigger the conversation about the key between Kratos and Mimir. I’ve never fought more than required four Valhalla chosen during my attempts. I’ve seen some walkthroughs online, some people also picked up the key on their way to fight Tyr a second time, way before they collected Pandora’s figure.
ValhallaWarrior says
You can collect Boat Captain keyes way earlier. I’m playing on hardest difficulty and, after picking up Oath Stone while I was trying to reach second fight with Tyr, I collected all three keyes during each run. You just need to get to the Niflheim, Helheim or Muspelheim before Greece part where Kratos and Mimir will talk about the keyes. I don’t know what triggers keyes to spawn, but they spawned for me after first fight with Tyr and after I picked up Oath Stone.
Hnuv says
For the Captains keys I got my second one without having to defeat Tyr again
ADVGYM says
After getting all 12 of the Trophies why doesn’t it give you the Platinum Trophy?
yphastos says
There are no platinum trophies for the Valhalla DLC, and in fact, no other DLCs or extra modes (e.g. New Game +) for any other game have platinum trophies.
I read somewhere that it is kind of a rule that only the main games can have platinums (and although most games do, not every game have plats, e.g. old ones or some indies)
zulqarmessi says
After getting God Of Hope trophy
You can easily get boat key 3 times without full playthrough.
STEPS –
Start a run, grab key from 1st room, complete 2nd room and in 3rd select Skull Shaped door to fight Valkyrie Chosen.
Then in next room you will have that ascending sand unlocked to teleport to you upper realm either Muspelheim, Niflheim or Helheim.
At this point Kratos and Mimir will talk about Key, this conversation is the green signal that your progess is saved and you can exit to the shore safely.
Rinse and repeat 2 more time.