The Old Ways - Walkthrough | Trophy Guide | Achievement Guide

The Old Ways - Walkthrough | Trophy Guide | Achievement Guide

Difficulty: 1/10

Duration: 20 minutes

Offline trophies: All

Online trophies: None

DLC: None

Minimum number of playthroughs: 2 chapters

Number of missable trophies: 0

Price: 4.99 € / 4.99 $

Trophies: 19 (1P, 8G, 6S, 4B)

Master vanished three months ago, called away to heal a duke's cursed heir. She should have returned by now. Instead, ancient evil seeps from the castle walls, spreading like poison through the countryside. Livestock lie mutilated in the fields, travelers disappear from dark roads. Creatures that should not be stalk the night. You're all that stands between salvation and slaughter.

Wield forgotten glyphs carved in wood and bone. Call upon elk spirits to gore your enemies. Beseech raven spirits to strike from beyond. Bind corrupted beasts with grasping roots. Summon wind spirits that cleanse tainted flesh from bone.

But glyphs alone won't save you.

Every tower placement is a tactical gamble. You must venture close to danger to build your defenses. No hiding behind walls—your own reach determines where you can place towers. Move too far and leave gaps in your line. Stay too close and be torn to shreds.

The corruption evolves with each defeat. Rotting hares give way to massive infested hogs. Mutated birds circle overhead, immune to earthbound magic. Two-headed abominations strike with doubled fury. Each wave demands new strategies, new risks.

Ancient rituals unlock powerful allies. Transform sacred willows into conduits for ancestral defenders. Channel forgotten burial grounds to raise wolf-warriors from soil and bone. But rituals require perfect concentration—one wrong move breaks the spell.

Master the delicate dance of risk and reward. Push forward to place crucial defenses. Fall back when overwhelmed. Every step matters when malevolent forces hunt you directly.

The war horns lie silent. The church offers empty prayers. Only the ancient ways remain—written in blood, carved in stone, whispered by spirits through cursed ground.

Will you master them before the corruption overwhelms you?

The Old Ways - Where tower defense meets real-time strategy to overcome the wrath of an ancient evil.

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Trophy Guide | Achievement Guide

Disciple of the old ways

Earn every other trophy in The Old Ways

The Old Ways is a strategy game developed by Hyperreality Entertainment and published by y-zo studio.

In terms of trophies, it is an easy and fast game:

• Because it is a cross-buy and cross-save game, you should play the PS4 version of it first.

• The game is like a Tower Defense game, but you need to play Offense as well.

• Your main goal is to finish chapter 1 without taking damage. You need to place a Wellspring Glyph to be able to place other glyphs inside the green area. The Cairn Glyph and the Wheel Glyph are used to do damage against your enemies.

• Keep placing glyphs to advance to the portal that spawn enemies. You need to place an Equilibrium Glyph over the portal to finish the chapter.

• Besides the trophy for finishing chapter 1 without taking damage, the rest of the trophies are gameplay related:

  • Place 20 Cairn Glyphs

  • Place 20 Wheel Glyphs

  • Place 5 Wellspring Glyphs

  • Place 3 Husk Glyphs. This glyph unlocks in chapter 2.

  • Defeat 100 rotting foxes. This enemy appears in chapter 2.

• Keep playing chapter 2, by placing glyphs and defeating enemies until you earn the platinum trophy. Complete chapter 2 to make sure the game is saved.

• After obtaining the platinum, quit the game, open the PS5 version, go to settings, and use the cross-save option to import your PS4 save into the PS5 game, and obtain a new platinum.

Purification

Achieve victory in chapter 1

Vigil steady as stone I

Place a Cairn Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

Vigil steady as stone II

Place 10 Cairn Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Vigil steady as stone III

Place 20 Cairn Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all I

Place a Wheel Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all II

Place 10 Wheel Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all III

Place 20 Wheel Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Tapping the spiritual font I

Place a Wellspring Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

Tapping the spiritual font II

Place 5 Wellspring Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Earthen grasp I

Place a Husk Glyph from chapter 2 and onwards

Earthen grasp II

Place 3 Husk Glyphs from chapter 2 and onwards

Righteous cull I

Defeat a rotting hare from chapter 1 and onwards

Righteous cull II

Defeat 75 rotting hares from chapter 1 and onwards

Righteous cull III

Defeat 150 rotting hares from chapter 1 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters I

Defeat a rotting fox from chapter 2 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters II

Defeat 50 rotting foxes from chapter 2 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters III

Defeat 100 rotting foxes from chapter 2 and onwards

Strategic Advance

Complete any chapter without taking damage

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Trophy Roadmap

Tapping the spiritual font I - Place a Wellspring Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

Vigil steady as stone I - Place a Cairn Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all I - Place a Wheel Glyph from chapter 1 and onwards

Righteous cull I - Defeat a rotting hare from chapter 1 and onwards

Righteous cull II - Defeat 75 rotting hares from chapter 1 and onwards

Righteous cull III - Defeat 150 rotting hares from chapter 1 and onwards

Purification - Achieve victory in chapter 1

Strategic Advance - Complete any chapter without taking damage

Tapping the spiritual font II - Place 5 Wellspring Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Vigil steady as stone II - Place 10 Cairn Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all II - Place 10 Wheel Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters I - Defeat a rotting fox from chapter 2 and onwards

Earthen grasp I - Place a Husk Glyph from chapter 2 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters II - Defeat 50 rotting foxes from chapter 2 and onwards

Earthen grasp II - Place 3 Husk Glyphs from chapter 2 and onwards

Vigil steady as stone III - Place 20 Cairn Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

The wheel turns for all III - Place 20 Wheel Glyphs from chapter 1 and onwards

Corrupted Hunters III - Defeat 100 rotting foxes from chapter 2 and onwards

Disciple of the old ways - Earn every other trophy in The Old Ways