Mortal Shell 2 Achievement Guide: 100% Checklist

This Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide opens with the answer you came for: the full game has 53 trophies on PlayStation (Platinum included) and 52 achievements on Xbox and Steam, and 15 of them are hidden boss trophies. Below you get the complete tables, the two missable trophies locked inside the opening hour, the separate beta list, and a fast 100% route. Verified on 2026-08-18, two days before launch.

How many trophies and achievements are there?

PlayStation players get 53 trophies: one Platinum, one Gold, a stack of Silvers, and a long tail of Bronzes. Xbox and Steam players get 52 achievements with identical conditions but no Platinum equivalent at launch. Insider Gaming reports that a Platinum-style equivalent for Xbox has been talked about for the not-so-distant future, but nothing like that exists today.

Fifteen of the 53 are hidden, and they mostly track boss kills. The rest split into three buckets: story progress, unlocks (Shells, weapons, sidearms), and collectibles (Ova, Lute Tracks, Tarstones, Map Fragments, Shell Memories). No Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide would be complete without flagging the missables first, so here they are.

Missable trophies: read this before you start

Mid Summer? — Enter the Festival. At the very beginning of the game, on the path down the hill toward the Festival, an NPC named Marigold calls you over. Speak to her, receive the flower crown, and the trophy pops. Walk past her and it is gone for that save.

No, You Still Can't Win — Take the Tar Golem to his minimum health. The tutorial ends with a scripted-loss fight against the Tar Golem. The story continues whether you win or lose, but the trophy only pops if you drain his health bar to zero yourself and trigger the defeat cutscene on your own terms.

Our Tar Golem page covers the boss encounter itself in more detail, and the short FXG video embedded below walks through the quit-and-retry loop step by step. Treat this section as the urgent part of the Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide; everything else can be cleaned up at your own pace.

Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide: full trophy list

Here are the 38 non-hidden trophies and achievements, compiled from Insider Gaming's launch-era list:

Trophy	Rarity	How to unlock
No Lifer	Platinum	Unlock all trophies for Mortal Shell 2 (PlayStation only)
You're More Than a Weapon	Bronze	Claim your first Shell, Weapon and Sidearm
Mid Summer?	Bronze	Enter the Festival — missable, see above
Home at Last	Bronze	Reach Marrow Keep
Haunting Times	Bronze	Watch your first Shell Memory
Deep Cuts	Bronze	Unlock Axe and Dagger
Big Boi	Bronze	Unlock Great Martyr's Blade
Just the Tip	Bronze	Unlock Black Needle
Like Clockwork	Bronze	Unlock the Clockwork Scythe
Stop – Hammer Time	Bronze	Unlock the Obsidian Hammer
Dual Wielding	Bronze	Unlock the Axatana
Cut You Down to Size	Bronze	Unlock the Veteran's Battle Axe
Spiked	Bronze	Unlock the Caged Hystrix
Old Painless	Bronze	Unlock the Triarch Repeater
Beautiful Baby	Bronze	Unlock the Cursed Child
Speared	Bronze	Unlock the Ballistazooka
Chop Chop	Bronze	Unlock the Salvaged Trebuchaxe
Old School	Bronze	Unlock the Forgotten Crossbow
Bring My Ova Back to Me	Silver	Collect all of the Ova
Heavy Metal	Silver	Play all Lute Tracks in the game
Forever Alone?	Bronze	Unlock Tiel
Down with the Thickness	Bronze	Unlock Lazlo
Vengeance is Mine	Bronze	Unlock Eredrim
The Alchemist	Bronze	Unlock Sariel
Arrival	Bronze	Unlock Proxima
My Brether	Bronze	Unlock Smert
Heartless	Bronze	Unlock Gragu
Stoned	Silver	Find all Tarstones
Decked Out	Silver	Reach the maximum bonding tier for a Shell at the Shellkeeper
Over 9000	Silver	Max out a weapon at the Tarforge
So Fresh, So Clean	Bronze	Cleanse all Beacons
Sat Nav	Silver	Find all Map Fragments
Seeking the Past	Silver	Watch all Shell Memories
Shell Seeker	Silver	Unlock all Shells
Guns, Lots of Guns	Silver	Unlock all Sidearms
Lord of War	Silver	Unlock all Weapons
This is Not an Achievement	Gold	Complete Mortal Shell 2
Bag Holder	Bronze	Joke trophy: you have mastered nothing, and this is your reward

Hidden trophies (boss spoilers)

Hidden trophy	Rarity	How to unlock
Ultimate Karen	Bronze	Defeat Magdalena, the Lady of the Woods
Meat's Back on the Menu, Boys!	Bronze	Defeat The Lost Child
Headcase	Bronze	Defeat The Nameless Captive
Nightmare Fuel	Bronze	Defeat Sir Isaac, the Scholar-Prince
Something in the deep...	Bronze	Defeat Hexapod
Praise him!	Bronze	Defeat The Monolith
It burnssssssssss	Bronze	Defeat Droeg, the Conquerer
Giga Chad	Bronze	Defeat Malborn Offspring
Lost Your Head	Bronze	Defeat Orrem, the Reclaimed
It's over now?	Bronze	Defeat Zmey, the Unbidden
Sester	Bronze	Unlock Sester Genessa, the secret Shell
Peter's Perfect Parry	Bronze	Perfect Guard every one of The Nameless Captive's headspins using the Untarnished Seal
Feed Me	Bronze	Cause Egon to pass away
No, You Still Can't Win	Bronze	Take the Tar Golem to his minimum health — missable, see above
Ascension	Bronze	Discover the secret of the Mango

Beta achievements are a separate list

The open beta ran as a standalone Steam app with its own 9 achievements, pulled from Steam's official app data: My First..., Reach Marrowkeep, Find Axe and Dagger, Complete The Beta, Claim Tiel, Cleanse all Beacons, Finish the Fight, A Dark Force is Near, and Brutal, Savage, Rekt.

The beta list still matters for one reason: "Find Axe and Dagger" proves the weapon was obtainable in the beta, but its location changed completely for release. Our Weapons page has the current route, and the beta page tracks what the beta contained.

The fastest 100% route

Here is the completion order this Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide recommends, arranged so that nothing becomes permanently unreachable:

Boss trophies pop naturally along the way, so a clean run is mostly about not skipping the opening missables and hoovering up collectibles as each region opens.

That is the whole list. This Mortal Shell 2 achievement guide will be re-verified after launch week, when the community confirms whether any description text changed between the pre-release list and the shipping build.