GTA VI trophies and achievements: what the 100 % takes

Why there's no GTA VI trophy list

Trophy and achievement lists appear on the PlayStation and Xbox listings once a game is finished, usually days before launch or on the day itself, and until then there's nothing to consult. Rockstar doesn't announce them separately either: they show up on the storefront, not on the Newswire. With GTA VI on sale on November 19, 2026, any trophy list published today with names and descriptions is invented. What is usable right now is understanding how GTA V's list was built, because it sets the studio's bar.

GTA V's achievement structure, the real precedent

GTA V split its achievements into four clear groups. One for story progress, with an achievement for each major score. Another for side content: strangers and freaks, hobbies and pastimes, the loose activities dotted around the map. A third for mastery, demanding that missions be done well rather than merely finished. And a whole fourth group obtainable only in GTA Online, which caught out anyone who only wanted story mode. The crown on top was Career Criminal, the achievement for reaching 100% game completion.

What 100% in GTA V actually required

Not finishing the story. GTA V's completion counter adds up the main missions, the strangers and freaks strand, the random events scattered around the map, the hobbies and pastimes (flight, races, tennis, golf, yoga and company) and a miscellaneous section holding exactly what most people leave for last: stunt jumps, under-the-bridge flights and the collectible sets. That's why the two lists travel together: in practice, hunting collectibles in GTA V isn't a completionist quirk, it's part of the requirement for the highest trophy.

• Series collectibles, set by set

PlayStation platinum and Xbox points aren't the same thing

GTA VI is confirmed for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the two platforms count differently. PlayStation hands out bronze, silver and gold trophies and adds a platinum awarded automatically once you hold all the rest: on PS5 the platinum depends on completing the entire list, hard trophies included. Xbox has no platinum: it distributes gamerscore points across the objectives, and a big release's base game usually spreads 1,000 of them. The practical consequence is that on Xbox you can pick at achievements with no final target, while on PlayStation the list is all or nothing.

What locks a trophy out: cheats and shortcuts

Here's a historical fact that saves grief. In GTA V cheats lock achievements and trophies while they're active, and reloading the save switches them off; in GTA IV, where codes were dialled on the character's phone, they stayed logged and some achievements stopped being available in that save. Story progress survives in both cases: what you lose is the credit. Nothing is confirmed for GTA VI about cheats or their effect on trophies, so this is series history rather than an announced rule.

• Cheats across the series

Replaying missions: why almost nothing was lost in GTA V

GTA V introduced two things that change how you plan a trophy run: it scores every mission with medals and lets you replay it from the menu. That means the achievement for stacking gold medals doesn't force a fresh save or a flawless first attempt; you can return to a specific mission and redo it with the objectives in front of you. It's the difference between a reasonable list and a list with trophies lost forever in chapter three. Whether GTA VI keeps mission replay is our expectation, not a fact.

What can be anticipated about GTA VI's list

Not much, and it's worth stating how little. Two details confirmed by Rockstar bear directly on it: you play two protagonists and switch between them, even mid-mission, and they share money, hideouts and wanted level. A trophy list built on that would have to decide whether it measures the characters separately or as a single save, and Rockstar hasn't said a word about it. It also hasn't announced anything about the online component, which in GTA V took a whole group of the base game's achievements.

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