Saints Row (2022) Trophy Guide & Roadmap

August 22, 2022 by PowerPyx 296 Comments

Saints Row (2022) Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3.5/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 40-60 hours
Offline Trophies: 49 (3, 5, 41)
Online Trophies: 2 (1, 1) – Prankster , Completionist
Total Trophies (PS5 has one extra Gold but one less Silver): PS5 – 51 (1, 3, 5, 42) / PS4 – 51 (1, 2, 6, 42)
Number of missable trophies: 0
Glitched trophies: Everything is obtainable, but Chaos Tamer can bug out in rare cases. The following trophies can have tracking issues but there are easy fixes for them: Wrecking Ball might take more than one towed object kill, keep doing more kills and it should unlock, It’s a Bird! can have issues with increasing counter on Wingsuit challenges but you can load an older manual save from before getting all Perks to still do it (keep different Manual Saves as precaution, rebooting game can help to fix it too), Shopping Spree can have issues with some stores showing as completed but the district counter being stuck, this is quickly fixed by rebuying something from stores. Warning: Playing Co-Op is known to freeze Challenge Progress permanently, avoid Co-Op until you have all other trophies and make a Manual Save before.
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on the easiest difficulty “Tourist”
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: No Save Transfer, No Autopop
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: Yes
PS4/PS5 Crossplay: Yes, PS4 players can play Co-Op with PS5 players
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, can still free roam after story. You can still go everywhere and do everything trophy-related after the story. Nothing is missable.
Release Date: August 23, 2022

Introduction

Welcome to the Saints Row (2022) Trophy Guide! In order to get Platinum you need close to 100% game completion. Nothing is missable. Everything can be done on easy. You can technically do things in any order you want, the entire world is accessible after the first Mission. It’s most time-efficient to focus on the story first, you unlock a VTOL plane after finishing the story. This makes it much quicker to get around the city and complete all districts. Most of your time will go into the 100% completion of the 15 inner-city districts and completing all Venture Missions. The Venture Missions are needed for 100% district completion too. In total there are 431 District Collectibles (265 Discoveries, 75 Threats, 41 Side Hustles, 35 Stores, 15 Ventures). The game is quite lenient with some requirements: the districts outside the city (deserts) don’t need to be completed. From the Main Collectibles you only need 85 of 115. Challenges are only needed to the extent of unlocking all Perks but there are a lot more Challenges than you need so you can skip the hard ones. Overall an easy list.

Step 1: Story [10 Hours]

The first step is to finish the story. You can play on the lowest difficulty “Tourist”. Enabling Aim Assist is allowed and doesn’t void any trophies. Nothing is missable. You can still do everything after the story. All Challenges, Collectibles etc. are still possible after finishing the story and reaching 100% completion, even the ones tied to specific enemy types.

There are just a few things you should pay attention to:

[Collectible Tracking – Discoveries] It’s recommended that you DON’T interact with any of the yellow “Discoveries” icons on the map until you start collecting them all. The icons go away once collected, this can make it confusing which ones you already got and which ones you are missing. Weather Stations and Rooftop Access auto-complete upon discovery, simply by having their icon on the map. If you haven’t interacted with anything but the district shows “1/13 Discoveries completed” it’s because you found a Weather Station or Rooftop Access. You can keep all the Discoveries for Step 2 after the Story. If you already want to clear out some districts during the story refer to the 100% Completion Guide. If you accidentally pick up a few Discoveries that’s fine and doesn’t void anything, but keep a note which ones you got to avoid confusion later.
[Time Saver] After Main Mission 12: Networking you can build Ventures (businesses) from the Empire Table in your Headquarters. Save your money for these. You must build all 15 Ventures and complete all of their missions to get 100% completion in all districts. They are also required to unlock a post-story mission. The sooner you build the ventures, the sooner they start generating passive income. The higher-tier Ventures are quite expensive, ranging from $400,000 – $8,000,000. After you get your first Venture you can use the “Cash App” on your phone to retrieve the income from it. Always reinvest it into new businesses, don’t spend it on unnecessary things like vehicle upgrades or expensive clothes (buying a few weapon upgrades is fine though).
[Avoid Co-Op] Warning: Playing Co-Op is known to freeze Challenge Progress permanently, avoid Co-Op until you have all other trophies and make a Manual Save before.

Step 2: 100% Districts & Completing All Ventures [20-25 Hours]

Build Ventures at the Empire Table in your HQ to unlock the “Threats” on the map. Complete all Threats, Side Hustles, Discoveries, Stores, Venture Missions in each district. Then the district will get a golden icon and shows “District Complete” when scrolling over it. Only the 15 districts in the inner city (the ones that contain threats) are needed for trophy All Mine. The desert areas outside town (Rojas & Badlands) aren’t needed for it, but there’s a trophy for completing all yellow “ Photo Hunt” Discoveries, a few of those are also in the desert.

After building the last Venture “Saints Tower” (costs $8 Million) you will also get We could go home, or… for singing Karaoke with your friends. It gives you a special cutscene. But you have to do this for the 100% completion anyway. When doing the @TCHA Side Hustles (giving 1-5 star ratings to businesses) it’s best to always give 1 star as it gives extra unlocks like the Pinata Stick, but they are all replayable even if their map icons go away.

There are 431 District Completion Items in total. Click the links below for guides to everything you need:

Step 3: 85 of 115 Collectibles [1-2 Hours]

The Main HQ Collectibles are purple glowing objects that you must photograph with the camera. They are the ones listed in the “Collectibles App”. There are 115 total but only 85 are needed for the trophy The Collector. You can skip any 30 of them. At this point you will already have 10 from story rewards and 19 from 100% completion rewards. Meaning 29 are already done, only 56 remain for the trophy.

» Saints Row All Collectible Locations

Step 4: All 10 Vehicle Special Upgrades [1 Hour]

For Heard You Like Wheels you must get all 10 unique Vehicle Special Upgrades. These are the “Signature Abilities” shown in the bottom right of the garage, they require doing little challenges like barrel rolls or backflips. You only need them for one car each, not for every car in the game.

» Saints Row All Vehicle Special Upgrades Guide

Step 5: Challenges & Perks [3-5 Hours]

Perks are unlocked by doing Challenges. In the Missions App press to view your Challenge Progress. There are 34 Perks total, you need all of them for Jack of All Trades. Luckily, there are a lot more Challenges than you need to unlock all Perks. This means you can skip the harder Challenges and focus on easier ones. 46 of 74 Challenges are needed for this, the remaining 28 can be ignored.

After having finished the story and 100% completion you will already have completed many challenges automatically. You will also have access to all weapons, vehicles, and can summon any enemy faction via the “Contacts” app (this is unlocked from the KAKTS Radio venture). It’s super quick to farm anything related to combat or specific enemies this way. You can use it to spawn enemies infinitely. It’s still available after having finished the KAKTS radio venture and after having 100% in all districts. Spawn enemies through Contacts App outside your HQ, do weapon kills to complete Challenge, return to your HQ to change weapons, repeat the cycle for the next challenge. See the below guides for solutions for all Challenges and all unlockable Perks:

» Saints Row All Perks Guide
» Saints Row All Challenges Guide

Step 6: Miscellaneous Trophies [1 Hour]

You might still have some miscellaneous trophies left, such as doing a Quadruple Backflip or hitting a Pinata using a Pinata Stick. Refer to the trophy descriptions below for anything you have left. After this the Platinum will be yours.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides: