Demon's Souls Remake Trophy Guide and Platinum Roadmap

The Demon's Souls remake has 37 trophies: 1 Platinum, 5 Gold, 9 Silver and 22 Bronze, according to PowerPyx's list. Its roadmap puts the platinum at roughly 25 to 30 hours for players who already beat the PS3 original and 50 hours or more for newcomers, across at least three playthroughs (two if you back up and reload your save). Almost everything is missable in a given cycle, and two trophies need online play, which requires PlayStation Plus. Here is the full plan, trophy by trophy.

We built this from PowerPyx's trophy list and platinum roadmap, the Fextralife Demon's Souls wiki's NPC, item and spell pages, and the official PlayStation game page, all checked in November 2026. Spoiler warning: the ending and NPC trophies below reveal late-game events.

What the Trophy List Looks Like

The list breaks down into five groups. Sixteen Bronze trophies are simply for defeating each Archstone boss, from Phalanx to Maiden Astraea, and you will earn most of them on a normal run. Seven are challenges tied to specific bosses and areas. Five reward NPC milestones, such as rescuing the spell teachers or giving Ed the Searing Demon Soul. Three Gold trophies are for collecting every spell, every miracle and every ring. The rest cover the ending, two special weapons (the Northern Regalia and Istarelle) and two online feats.

PowerPyx's roadmap summarizes the difficulty as about 5 out of 10 if you have platinumed the original or other Soulsborne games, and about 7 out of 10 if this is your first. There are no difficulty settings to worry about, and it lists no glitched trophies. The key warning is its line on missables: all trophies are missable except the automatic story trophies and the online ones. Nothing returns until the next cycle if you miss it.

There is also no chapter select. Once you beat the game, you move straight into New Game+, and the wiki's route page reminds you that keys, rescued NPCs and warp points reset when that happens. Our area order guide is the easiest way to make sure you hit each area's objectives on the first visit.

The Platinum Roadmap in Five Steps

PowerPyx's roadmap is built around world tendency and character tendency, the two hidden meters that unlock events and NPCs. Its order is:

1. First playthrough, Pure White world tendency: play in soul form, avoid dying in body form, defeat all three bosses of each Archstone, rescue Yuria, Freke and Urbain, and collect the rings that need Pure White.
2. Pure Black world tendency: deliberately die in body form in each Archstone until every world is Pure Black, then collect the rings that need Pure Black.
3. Pure White character tendency: kill the Black Phantom NPCs, then talk to the Monumental in the Nexus for the Friend's Ring.
4. Pure Black character tendency: kill the NPCs the roadmap lists, which brings Mephistopheles, whose final contract leads to the Foe's Ring after killing Yuria.
5. Second playthrough: clear the bosses again, rescue the merchants, secure a save backup, buy every miracle from Urbain, reload, then buy the spells from Yuria.

The NPC steps are the trickiest part, because killing the wrong person too early locks you out of a teacher or a ring. Read our NPC quest guide before step 4 so you understand who Mephistopheles asks you to kill and in what order.

The Boss Challenge Trophies

Seven trophies ask you to clear a boss or a stretch of a level under a condition. They are all missable in a cycle, so know them before you walk through each fog gate.

• One Shall Fall (Silver): defeat the Tower Knight without killing any of the archers on the ramparts.
• Brother-in-Arms (Bronze): defeat the Penetrator with Biorr's help. Rescue him from the palace dungeon first.
• Fists of Legend (Bronze): defeat the Dragon God using the Hands of God.
• Time for Rolling (Silver): cross the walkway in Latria through the Idol's volleys of arrows.
• Not Fooled (Silver): defeat the Fool's Idol without hitting any of its clones.
• One Shall Stand (Silver): defeat the Adjudicator without making him fall down.
• May you be unharmed (Silver): defeat Maiden Astraea without killing Garl Vinland.

Two of these hide a choice. For Maiden Astraea, the wiki notes that killing Garl first makes Astraea take her own life, so for the trophy, slip past Garl and reach her first. For the Adjudicator, PowerPyx's tip is simply not to hit his belly, which means fighting him the slow way, so bring patience and healing.

The Three Collection Golds

These are the trophies that stretch the platinum across several cycles.

Sage's Trophy (all magic spells) and Saint's Trophy (all miracles) require Freke, Yuria and Urbain alive in the same cycle. Many of the spells cost a specific boss's Demon Soul, and PowerPyx counts the Old Monk's and the Dragon God's souls as needed three times each, with the Leechmonger's, Armor Spider's and Penetrator's needed twice. One cycle gives you one of each, which is why the roadmap uses a save backup and reload in the second playthrough. Our spells and miracles guide lists what every soul buys.

Soulsucker deserves a special note. Yuria teaches it for the Maiden in Black's Demon Soul, and PowerPyx warns that you only receive that soul if you do not kill her at the end of the game.

King of Rings needs every ring, which pulls together several threads: the Pure White and Pure Black rings from steps 1 and 2, the Friend's Ring from Pure White character tendency, and the Foe's Ring from Mephistopheles. PowerPyx also recommends taking the Providential Ring as your starting gift; Fextralife notes it can also be traded from Sparkly the Crow for a Large Sword of Searching, but the gift is the simplest way.

Ending, Item and NPC Trophies

• Seekest soul power (Gold): "Embrace the power of the Old One". PowerPyx ties it to the ending where you kill the Maiden in Black. Because her soul is needed for Soulsucker, you need to see both endings across your cycles.
• Legacy of the Kings (Gold): obtain the Northern Regalia, which Ed forges from the False King Demon Soul, a Demonbrandt and a Soulbrandt.
• One of the few (Silver): obtain Istarelle, which PowerPyx says requires reaching Pure White in the Valley of Defilement.
• Worthy of the Sword (Silver): deliver Makoto to Satsuki, the swordsman who appears in front of the Shrine of Storms Archstone in Pure White world tendency.
• Road to Possibilities (Bronze): give the Flamelurker's Searing Demon Soul to Blacksmith Ed in Stonefang.
• A Dash of Sage, Umbasa and Witch in the Tower (Bronze): rescue Sage Freke, Saint Urbain and Yuria the Witch.

The Northern Regalia is also one of the strongest late-game weapons, which our best weapons guide covers, so this trophy doubles as a gear upgrade.

The Two Online Trophies

Return to Form (Silver) asks you to help another player defeat a boss, which PowerPyx notes uses the Blue Eye Stone. Unwelcome Guest (Silver) asks you to invade and kill a player as the invader, with the Black Eye Stone. Both count toward the platinum, and the official PlayStation page lists an active PS Plus subscription as required for online multiplayer.

Trophies are tied to the PS5 version. Demon's Souls has no official PC release as of November 2026, which our post on whether the remake is on PC explains in detail, so the PS5 is the only place to earn this list.

Mistakes That Cost You a Whole Cycle

Because almost every trophy is missable and there is no level select, a single slip can push a trophy into the next playthrough. These are the ones that catch most hunters:

• Freeing Yurt and walking away. The wiki warns he goes on to kill Freke's Apprentice, the Acolyte of God, Patches, Saint Urbain, Sage Freke and Yuria in turn. Losing the teachers ends any hope of the spell and miracle trophies for that cycle, so kill him the moment you release him or leave the cage shut.
• Spending a shared Demon Soul on the wrong thing. The Dragon God's soul alone buys three different spells and miracles. Trading it to Ed for a weapon before you have bought what you need means waiting for the next cycle.
• Killing the Maiden in Black on every run. You need her soul for Soulsucker, and you only get it when you spare her. Plan which cycle gets which ending before you reach the final area.
• Ignoring world tendency. The roadmap's first two steps depend on pushing each world to Pure White and then Pure Black, because several rings and events only appear at those extremes. The wiki's walkthrough gives an example in the very first area: the Executioner Miralda encounter in the Gates of Boletaria needs Pure White.
• Rushing the Tower Knight. One Shall Fall forbids killing the archers on the ramparts, and it is easy to kill one by reflex during the fight.
• Forgetting the Providential Ring at character creation. It is the easy route to one ring on the King of Rings list. Missing it means the crow trade instead.

Gearing Up for the Long Haul

A platinum run means beating the same bosses several times, often under awkward conditions, and having the right weapons, armor and consumables ready makes those repeat fights far less painful. The store's Demon's Souls page offers a complete bundle with item drops covering weapons, armor, consumables and upgrade materials, with the details listed on the product page.

The item service only supplies gear; the trophies themselves still come from the conditions above, so treat it as a way to shorten the grind between them rather than a shortcut to the platinum.

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