The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Trophy Guide & Roadmap

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 9-12 hours
Offline Trophies: 21 (1, 7, 9, 4)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 6 – The Saviour , The Monster , The Uncaring , God Mode , A Moment of Hope , Eternal Damnation
Glitched trophies: 0
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can play on Story Mode difficulty
Minimum Playthroughs: 3 – 1 playthrough required for each passenger trophy
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Level Select after finishing the game
Release Date: March 16, 2023

Introduction

Welcome to The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Trophy Guide! An on-rails shooter similar to Rush of Blood, Switchback for PSVR2 will have you going through the four Dark Pictures games. In order to get Platinum, you will need to complete the game without dying, shoot all 12 Gargoyles, as well as save / kill / abandon all four passengers. This will require 3 playthroughs, but a playthrough will only take 3 hours.

Step 1: Complete the game on any difficulty without dying, shoot all Gargoyles, abandon all passengers

As there are no trophies tied to difficulty, you can play the game on Story Mode difficulty. While playing through, you will want to keep an eye out for Gargoyles to shoot, they will have the yellow targets like the bonus score items, and there will be 1 per level (plus 2 in the credits). You will need to complete the game without dying, which for the most part is quite easy, especially on the lowest difficulty, but you will have to be careful of a few areas where you can die instantly. If you do happen to die, you will have two more playthroughs to attempt this, but you can always quit out after each level and back up your save if you want to guarantee this (PS5 Settings > Saved Data and Game/App Settings > Saved Data (PS5) > Cloud Storage > Upload – if you die simply download this backup save from Cloud).

There are two miscellaneous trophies you can work towards during this playthrough, one is for getting a 10x combo, which is best done in either Level 7 – Into the Abyss or Level 10 – Frozen Hell, as well as obtaining all weapons from the weapon crates. There are 10 weapons total, and as long as you shoot the weapon boxes as you see them in each level you will get this without issue. Many of the weapons are either required for progression or will appear many times and are hard to miss.

Throughout the game there are four passengers that you will encounter, one per each Anthology. Across each playthrough you will need to abandon them all, kill them all and save them all. In the first playthrough it is recommended to abandon them as this is the easiest to do. Below is when you encounter the passengers and how to abandon them:

Level 2 – Maiden Voyage: At the end of the level, this passenger will be in a box filling with water. To abandon him, simply shoot the locks on the door behind him to continue.
Level 5 – Burning Trials: Halfway through the level there will be a passenger on a large pyre to your left. To abandon her, make sure the track is going right (shoot the switch if it is going left) to skip past the area
Level 7 – Into the Abyss: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger in a cage below a burning crane. To abandon her, shoot the correct symbols with your flare gun on the first rotation. If you don’t do it on first rotation, she will die instead.
Level 9 – Panopticon: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger against a back wall with 3 blades, and 5 blockades you will need to clear by shooting the correct fuse box. To abandon him, shoot the fuse boxes that lead towards the passenger to clear 2 of the 3 blades, then clear the blockades quickly before he is killed by the third blade.

In the last level, you will have a timer during the final boss fight. If you defeat the boss before the timer runs out, when you reach the credits make sure to shoot at least 70% of the floating text. When you reach the credit roll at the end, let them play out. At the end of the credits you will get a message required for A Moment of Hope .

For Gargoyles refer to Switchback VR – All Gargoyle Locations.

Step 2: Complete the game again, kill all passengers, run out of time against Belial in the final fight

This time you will want to complete the game again, killing the passengers and running out of time against Belial in the last chapter. By running out of time in this fight and shooting 70% of the text during the initial credits section, you will get a message from Belial at the end of the credits required for Eternal Damnation . If you failed to complete the game without dying, you can attempt it again here. If you missed any weapons or didn’t get a 10x combo, you can try them again.

In order to kill the passengers, do the following:

Level 2 – Maiden Voyage: At the end of the level, this passenger will be in a box filling with water. To kill him, simply do nothing until the box fills up completely.
Level 5 – Burning Trials: Halfway through the level there will be a passenger on a large pyre to your left. To kill her, use the UV Light on the mannequins holding the torches and shoot them to burn her.
Level 7 – Into the Abyss: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger in a cage below a burning crane. To kill her, either shoot the top of the crane with the flare gun without breaking the supports below, or do loops around the area until it burns.
Level 9 – Panopticon: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger against a back wall with 3 blades, and 5 blockades you will need to clear by shooting the correct fuse box. To kill him, simply wait until he gets killed by the blades, then continue through the blockades.

Step 3: Play through to Level 9 and save all passengers

If you have done everything else by this point then you should only need to save all the passengers. You won’t have to do a full playthrough for this, as the trophy will pop after saving the last passenger in Level 9.

In order to save the passengers, do the following:

Level 2 – Maiden Voyage: At the end of the level, this passenger will be in a box filling with water. To save him, shoot the levers to fill them all simultaneously to turn off the flames.
Level 5 – Burning Trials: Halfway through the level there will be a passenger on a large pyre to your left. To save her, use the UV Light on the mannequins holding the ropes and shoot them to free her.
Level 7 – Into the Abyss: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger in a cage below a burning crane. To save her, shoot the supports below the cage with the flare gun, then shoot the top of the crane to free her.
Level 9 – Panopticon: Near the end of the level, there will be a passenger against a back wall with 3 blades, and 5 blockades you will need to clear by shooting the correct fuse box. To save him, shoot the fuse boxes that lead towards the passenger to clear all 3 blades, then clear all the blockades.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR – All Gargoyle Locations