Guardians of the Galaxy All Collectibles Locations Guide

Guardians of the Galaxy has 126 Collectible Locations. This collectibles guide shows all locations in chronological order for 100% game completion and all trophies and achievements.

• 45 Outfits
• 15 Guardian Collectibles
• 32 Items
• 34 Archives

All of the Collectibles are missable, the reason being that your progress reverts in Chapter Select to the progress you had when you played the Chapter for the first time (except Outfits which do stay). Finding missing items in Chapter Select doesn’t add them to your save later in the game. In other words, whatever you find through Chapter Select doesn’t get saved and doesn’t count towards trophies & achievements. Even if you change your choices via Chapter Select, those choices won’t update for later Chapters. The Collectibles do carry over into New Game Plus, however. But depending on what you missed, you might need to replay most or all of the game again.

A few Collectibles are also tied to making specific choices during the Story, which makes them highly missable. Most importantly, you must side with Nikki in Chapter 2 to get her Access Card to use it later in the game. There are also some Collectibles that cancel out each other, which makes it impossible to get all Collectibles in a single playthrough (it would take 3 playthroughs minimum, because Chapter 6 has 3 vending machine collectibles that require 1 playthrough each). For trophy purposes you only need 65% Completion + All Outfits, which is doable in 1 single playthrough as long as you don’t miss anything. All relevant choices will be pointed out here in the Guide.

The following sections of the Compendium will be filled automatically from Story Progress: Characters, Factions, Creatures, Places.
On those you automatically get to 65%, so don’t worry about them. The only Compendium Collectibles you need to pick up in the world are Items and Archives. The Items come mostly from finding the Guardian Collectibles and then interacting with them when you’re back on your spaceship. Always do this as soon as possible, because some of them can no longer be interacted with after certain points in the game, or they can bug out later.

Outfits are found in purple chests which are highlighted in Visor Vision (activated by pressing the right stick). Archives, Items, and Guardian Collectibles aren’t highlighted in Visor Vision. The blue items in Visor Vision that unlock “Lore” don’t count as Collectibles in the Compendium and aren’t needed for anything, so you can skip all those.

It is highly recommended to save in a different Manual Save Slot at the start of each Chapter. If you forget something in the Chapter, reload the save and replay the Chapter. The story is quite long (around 20 hours). Missing a Guardian Collectible, Item or Archive isn’t a problem, you don’t need all of them for trophies (only 65%). But if you miss too many of them, you’d need to replay the game. It’s better to reload your Manual Save and just replay the Chapter right away. Make sure you save in a different slot, because the autosave automatically keeps overwriting the active Save Slot.

There is no Collectible Tracker in the game. On PS5, some of the trophies do have trackers, but there is no in-game tracker in Chapter Select. You can see your collected items via the Compendium, however. By following this guide you should get the trophy for 65% Compendium Completion by the time you step out of your Spaceship in Chapter 13.

Trophies & Achievements unlocked from Collectibles:

1. Thoughtful Captain  – Find half of the Guardian Collectibles.
2. Managerial Skills  – Find all of the Guardian Collectibles for one Guardian.
3. Like a Glove!  – Find and equip one Outfit.
4. Fashion Passion  – Find and equip all Outfits.
5. Lore Hoarder  – Collect 65% of all Galactic Compendium entries of each category.

Chapters:

Click the links for individual collectible locations Chapter by Chapter.

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11 (No Collectibles)
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15 (No Collectibles)
• Chapter 16 (No Collectibles)