Dying Light The Beast Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Dying Light: The Beast Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 60-70 Hours
Offline Trophies: 31 (1, 6, 9, 15)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 0, nothing missable
Glitched trophies: 0
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, everything can be done on Easy difficulty
Hardest Trophy: Craftsman
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy, Autopop, Save Transfer: No, game doesn’t have a PS4 version
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, there is still free-roam after the story but not mission replay.
New Game+ Mode?: Will be added later after launch, New Game+ is on Techland’s Roadmap
Supports Manual Saves?: No, only Autosave
Release Date: September 18, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to the Dying Light: The Beast Trophy Guide! While Dying Light: The Beast started out as DLC for Dying Light 2, it eventually turned into its own standalone game. This chapter in the Dying Light universe delivers a condensed, story-driven experience packed with intense parkour combat but now with mutation-based abilities that become more powerful and brutal throughout the game. The trophy list is designed for completionists, you need to find all 100 collectibles, 49 blueprints, and complete all 20 side quests. Nothing is missable, and all trophies can be earned in a single playthrough.

Step 1: Finish the Story

Play through the story on any difficulty. Playing on the lowest difficulty “Easy” is fine for trophies. Along the way, feel free to do as much or as little side content as you want. Doing side quests when they become available is beneficial for the XP rewards. However, you can still clean up everything after the story in free-roam. It’s also good to unlock the 23 Safe Zones and 11 Substations as soon as possible. They are marked on the map by question marks. These unlock Blueprints for crafting, and whenever you die the game respawns you at the nearest Safe Zone.

Step 2: Collectibles, Blueprints, Side Quests

For Cabinet of Curiosities you need to find all 100 collectibles, for Craftsman you need all 49 blueprints, and for Good Samaritan you need all 20 side quests. Here are guides for everything you need for trophies:

Cabinet of Curiosities:

Craftsman:

49 Blueprints

Good Samaritan:

20 Side Quests

If you have any of the 23 Safe Zones or 11 Substations remaining, clean them up during this step too. Lastly, clean up any miscellaneous trophies you have remaining, such as 6 revolver headshots in 20 seconds.

Things You Should Know Before You Start:

Night falls every evening at 7:00 PM (19:00): Your alarm will go off as the sun starts to go down, but you still have about 30 minutes before it becomes truly dark and the Volatiles come out. Even at the end of the game, Volatiles can be deadly and especially so in groups. Don’t bother trying to fight them unless you’re prepared.
If you can’t get to a Safe Zone, a Dark Zone is the next best thing: It sounds counterintuitive, but whatever Viral enemies you might run into in a Dark Zone, none of them will be as dangerous as a Volatile, and Volatiles won’t follow you inside. So you might as well spend your night killing zombies and looting, just don’t poke your head out until 8:00AM.
Don’t get too hung up on trying to loot everything or kill every zombie: There’s always going to be more zombies and items in buildings will respawn very quickly so it’s okay to just focus on the missions, especially at the beginning of the game while you’re levelling up. Regular zombie kills give very little XP and only drop basic raw materials/valuables, making grinding on the streets a waste of time. Most of your experience and items will come from completing the missions. Once you’re able to start raiding Dark Zones without relying on stealth, you will be able to rake in valuables and specialized materials in bulk.
Prioritize Unlocking Safe Zones: Even if you’re in the middle of a mission, you should still detour to secure every safe zone you find right away. Every time you die, you’ll respawn at the nearest safe zone so the more you have the less you’ll have to run to get back to what you were just doing. Also you’ll want to have a safe zone close by if you accidentally get caught out at night, so again the more the better. Finally, almost every safe zone will have a blueprint in it for a weapon, throwable or a mod, making you even deadlier when you get back out there.
Use Survivor Sense constantly: It has a decent range, will highlight Virals, Volatiles, Chimera, and People, even through walls. It will also put a white dot on anything that can be interacted with (mostly finding salvage), and will highlight collectibles in the area with an orange treasure chest icon, making collectible hunting so much easier.
Don’t repair a weapon too soon: The game will warn you when your weapon is about to break, prompting you to repair it ASAP. The problem being that each weapon can only be repaired so many times before it is destroyed and taking all of your mods with it, so you have to be strategic with your best weapons. Absolutely ignore the warning, and keep using it until it “breaks”. Then you can repair it from the menu, and it will be no different than if you’d repaired it early except that you won’t have wasted that last bit of durability.
Or don’t repair it at all: If you go to a workbench and use the “Weapon Enhancement” screen to raise the level of a weapon, it will be restored to 100% condition without counting as one of that weapon’s repairs. This will work until a weapon is raised to level 15, dramatically extending the usefulness of your favorite weapons.
The top of the map isn’t north: Check the lower left corner of the map. North is actually towards the lower left of the map, making your compass heading nearly backwards compared to a normal map’s orientation. All directions given in this guide will be according to the compass indicator.
Hold the Touchpad / View Button to see your watch: Useful to see what time it is and how long you have before nightfall.
Use Opportunity Weapons and Environmental Hazards: Particularly on the larger Chimera, don’t ignore the fuel tanks or pitchforks that are usually present in the area. Eventually you’ll also get a remote activator for car bombs and electric fences! Every point of damage you do this way is one hit your weapons don’t have to take to their durability.
Sell nothing, buy everything: You can sell weapons at the Town Hall and Exile’s Cove vendors, but it’s never a good idea. For the small amount of cash you’ll get, you’re better off dismantling the weapon for parts. In fact, you should get used to picking up every weapon you can and dismantling all the weak weapons every time your inventory is full. The only thing you should ever sell is valuables, because that’s all they’re good for. Conversely, there are items that you should always buy in the stores: bullets of any kind, rare resources (Cordyceps, Poppy, Oxidizers, etc.), and common resources that you always run out of (e.g. Wiring, Resin). This will depend on what consumables / throwables you prefer.
Save your bullets: Even if you buy ammo every time you’re in the store, it will always be in short supply. When you search raiders with weapons, you might get 2-3 bullets/shells/rounds but more often than not you’ll get nothing, and the Convoys that the game keeps reminding you about might have a couple of boxes of ammo with a bullet or two each. So don’t pass up looting any soldier/raider, picking up every gun, and opening every convoy you pass by. Then save your ammo for the Chimera fights.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

Dying Light: The Beast Collectible Guide