Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 15-20 Hours
- Offline Trophies: 25 (1
, 7
, 9
, 8
) - Online Trophies: 0
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: 3 -:gold: Shadow Incarnate
Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves,
Relics of the Past - Does difficulty affect trophies?: There are no difficulty settings, but Microphone needs to be put to “Immersive” to unlock
At One with the Shadows - Hardest Trophy:
Shadow Incarnate - Minimum Playthroughs: Possibly 1, but 2 is highly recommended
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, there is a mission select (no free roam)
- New Game+ Mode?: No
- Supports Manual Saves?: No, only autosaves
- Release Date: December 04, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to the Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow Trophy Guide! Follow Magpie through the streets of The City as she loads her pockets up with goodies while uncovering secrets about the Keepers and Baron Northcrest.
Step 1: Complete all Missions in Immersive Mode and with Master Thief Status
Warning: The game has a game breaking issue where you’ll no longer be able to draw your blackjack or put items into your body to collect it. The only way to fix this is to delete the game and reinstall it. There are a number of things that can cause this to happen, such as the game crashing, the game freezing, or when closing the application while in a mission. It can also randomly happen while playing as well. As a precaution you should back up your save after every mission, so you always have a fallback save if it gets corrupted.
Before starting any missions, you’ll want to make sure in your settings you have the Microphone set to Immersive Mode so you can work on unlocking
At One With the Shadows. You can then mute your microphone afterwards to completely negate Immersive Mode and easily earn the trophy while working towards Master Thief Status in each mission.
In order to get Master Thief Status for a mission, you’ll need to collect all gold and all collectibles, don’t alert the guards, and don’t kill any guards in a single run. If you kill or alert a guard, reloading a checkpoint will not negate that on the result screen therefore you won’t earn Master Thief. If this happens, you’ll need to restart the entire mission. Therefore if you’re about to alert a guard it’s recommended to reload the checkpoint before triggering the alert. You can refer to
Shadow Incarnate for all 7 missions with Master Thief Status.
Step 2: Complete all Missions Without Using the Bow or Blackjack
Now that the hardest stuff is out of the way. you’ll want to work on completing all the missions again, but this time without using the bow or the blackjack. You can still use your bow for its utility, like rope arrows for example. You just can’t attack an enemy with your bow or blackjack. The tutorial of how to use the blackjack during the first mission doesn’t count against this trophy as it’s unavoidable.
Step 3: Miscellaneous Cleanup
With all the main runs completed, you’ll now want to clean up any of the miscellaneous trophies you missed.
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow Trophy Guide
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Legacy of Shadow Unlock all other Trophies |
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| Earn all other trophies in Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow to unlock Platinum (no DLC needed). | ||
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City of Thieves Complete Mission 1 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Eyes Open Complete Mission 2 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Unlikely Partnership Complete Mission 3 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Thick as Thieves Complete Mission 4 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Maximum Security Complete Mission 5 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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All is Lost Complete Mission 6 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Breaking Through Complete Mission 7 |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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Last Rites Complete Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow |
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| Story-related and cannot be missed. | ||
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No Loose Ends Complete all bonus objectives in all missions |
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Each mission has 2 bonus objectives that you can complete. You can check what your bonus objectives are by pausing the game and swapping from your primary objective to your bonus objective. Most of the bonus objectives will lead you to more loot to get more gold which you have to do for Shadow Incarnate anyway, but some of them are for doing other specific things.
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Relics of the Past Discover all the lost relics to complete the Clocktower collection |
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| Bugged warning: The lost relics need to be collected in one sitting. If you close the game and load your save, all the lost relics will disappear from the Clocktower. If you’ve already collected them before you can still collect them again.
Lost relics are collectibles that can be found throughout the game. There are a total of 8 lost relics to find. There is 1 in each level and the first one you find is story related. Collecting a lost relic will reward you with choosing an upgrade from Cassandra, which is required for
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A Perfect Heist Complete a mission with Master Thief status |
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Refer to Shadow Incarnate. |
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Shadow Incarnate Complete all missions with Master Thief status |
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| Unobtainable: This trophy is currently unobtainable because in Mission 6, New Quarter 2, there is a banner you’ll need to shoot with a Fire Arrow to burn it away and reveal a climbable area. The flag will not burn when shooting it with a Fire Arrow and you can’t get up there any other way beside the handholds behind the banner, which you can’t use unless the banner is burned. Because of this, you can’t get to the locked chest above, which contains some gold required to get Master Thief.
In order to get Master Thief status on a mission, you’ll have to get all 3 playstyle accolades in a single run. This is easily the hardest part of the platinum as some of the levels can be really unforgiving with the layout of enemies and gold. Especially with enemies that are difficult to knock out. It’s not recommended to stack this with
The “Knockouts” and “Objectives” stats on the results screen do not matter. You can still get Master Thief without doing all the bonus objectives, depending on if the objective is related to gold or not, and knocking out guards doesn’t matter either. Most missions can be done on your very first run of them, 3 missions will require you to get upgrades before you can complete them fully.
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Tricks of the Trade Acquire your first upgrade. |
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Refer to Tools of Perfection. |
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Tools of Perfection All all upgrades. |
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There are a total of 14 upgrades to get throughout the game. In order to unlock upgrades, you’ll have collect a certain amount of gold in the level as well as find the lost relic in the level. Both of these are required to unlock Shadow Incarnate, so it’ll come naturally while working towards that.
You can check which upgrades you’ve unlocked by checking the rewards tab on the pause menu. |
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Silent Shadows Complete a mission in Immersive Mode without being heard |
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Refer to At One With the Shadows. |
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At One with the Shadows Complete all missions in Immersive Mode without being heard |
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| Once you first boot up the game, you’ll be greeted with a settings menu. In the gameplay section there will be a microphone setting and you’ll want to set that to Immersive. In this mode, guards will hear you if you talk or make a noise into the microphone. You’ll need to complete all missions in this mode without any guards hearing you. This only counts for guards hearing you from your microphone, so you can still be heard from running or falling and still complete the mission without being heard.
You can of course do this as intended and just be very quiet as you play the game, or you can do it the easy way and after setting the game to Immersive Mode, press the |
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Real Thieves Don’t Use Weapons Complete all missions without using the bow or blackjack |
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The bow and blackjack are you 2 main weapons in the game and how you’d deal with most of the guards. However, you’ll need to complete all missions without using them. It’s not recommended to stack this with Shadow Incarnate and to do a new run of each mission specifically for this trophy as it’ll make both runs a lot easier. Below are some tips you can use to make the run a little easier.
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Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves Wear a Captain’s helmet and knockout every subordinate guard in a level |
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| Bugged warning: This doesn’t seem to unlock by doing the trophy normally, but will just unlock after you knock out the guard during the bow tutorial, even if you’ve never equipped or even picked up a Captain’s Helmet in your playthrough yet.
The easiest place to do this is during the Stonemarket mission as there are very few guards there and you have access to a Captain’s Helmet directly at the start of the mission. Put it on, and start going crazy against the guards. |
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Returned to Sender Distract a guard with an item you pickpocketed from them |
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| There are plenty of places to get this, but the Stonemarket mission is the easiest place to do it as there is a tutorial about pickpocketing where the guard will stand completely still for you to pickpocket him. After grabbing the pouch, you can throw it ahead of him. | ||
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Long Arm of the Outlaw Knock out a guard from over 25 meters away |
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| For this trophy you’ll need to knock out a guard using the blunt arrows from at least 25 meters away. The best mission to do this on is the Dayport District as there is a lot of open areas where you can shoot guards from. From the start of the level, you can follow the left side of the map and there will be a guard patrolling a balcony on the opposite side of the map that you can shoot. | ||
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Barehanded Burglary Smash a glass cabinet with your bare hands |
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| There are plenty of places to get this, but the Stonemarket mission is the easiest place to do it as you’ll come across a glass cabinet as part of your main objective. Once you reach the Medallion, you can punch the glass cabinet it’s located in instead of opening it. If you didn’t knockout the sleeping guard nearby this will alert him and you’ll take some damage from punching the glass. | ||
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If You’re Happy and You Know It Make an unconscious guard clap their hands. |
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| After knocking out a guard, you can grab their hands and start clapping them together until you unlock the trophy. | ||
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Taking In the Sights Gaze out over the river from the Somerville Observatory overlook. |
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| During the Somerville Observatory mission you’ll come across a balcony that has scaffolding on it that you can use to enter the building. While on the balcony, go up to the railing and look out over to the river. Stand there for a bit while looking around the river and you should unlock the trophy. If you’re struggling to unlock it, try moving to a different area of the balcony and look around. | ||
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Let’s Start a Bar Fight Knock out a guard by smashing a bottle on their head |
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| There are plenty of places to get this, but the Stonemarket mission is the easiest place to do it as there are a lot of guards that will stand perfectly still with their back facing towards you. Grab a bottle and go up to one of these guards and smash it over their heads to knock them out. | ||

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button and scroll over to the microphone icon and mute your microphone. Guards will no longer hear you through the microphone but it will still count as clearing it in Immersive mode. When you do this however there are some things you can no longer do. Such as blowing out candles or calling the bird that gives you gold. The candle one isn’t as important as you can still punch the fire to put out candles, but if you’re stacking this with 







Gnillisch says
Good job on having the guide up that fast again!
One bug I noticed so far in the very first mission: I wasn’t able to loot the 3 opened windows. One of them worked fine, the other two were just black once I opened them so there was no loot to collect. Might be patched soon but I figured it might be worth noting if anyone else faces this issue.
ObsiEez says
There was a new patch today with the release that I haven’t been able to test yet that might have broken some more stuff, or has fixed some other issues as well. I personally never encountered this issue from my numerous runs of the first level, so I’d assume this is a newer bug
westersburg says
Not sure if i got this right. You need to collect all lost relics for the whole game in 1 session?
ObsiEez says
Yes, as they despawn whenever you reload into the game. I have yet to test if this issue has been fixed on the Day 1 patch however. You can collect all the relics pretty quickly however & shouldn’t take more than an hour to recollect them all after finishing the game
Frank [Vertigo-Games] says
Thank you for creating the guide for Thief VR: Legacy of Shadows! We really appreciate the support.
We noticed you encountered some bugs and issues during your playtrough, we’re happy to inform you that an upcoming patch next Wednesday, December 10th, will fix all the listed bugs above.
ObsiEez says
That’s really great to hear. The game is fantastic, but just suffering from some pretty glaring bugs. It’s good to hear those are on the radar with an incoming patch as besides those, everything else is great
Michael tiron says
It looks like there is no sitting mode or comfort options only standing in the game if anyone have updated on the fix the game
Cj says
Today’s update didn’t fix the issue of the flag not burning in mission 6. I also had all rewards before the update and still no trophy unlock for all of the upgrades.
strukelj says
What if instead when we alert a guard, we close the game instead of “reloading checkpoint”. I wonder if this would work and stop the game from “saving” what just happened anyways
I will try this on a new save to test and if it works I will report back, unless someone already knows
ObsiEez says
It’d be the exact same as restarting the mission as closing the application mid-mission will boot you back to the Clocktower. This also has a very high chance of breaking the game like mentioning in Step 1 of the roadmap, which requires a reinstall to fix.