PlayStation
35 Trophies
Current trophy guides agree on 35 PlayStation trophies, including 1 Platinum, 3 Gold, 18 Silver, and 13 Bronze.
Verified Trophy Hub
35 PS Trophies
34 Steam / Xbox
Trophies / Achievements
Mouse PI For Hire Trophy Guide Hub
This hub is the fast, sane version of trophy planning. It keeps the platform totals, the Jack Squat cutoff, the patch-sensitive bug notes, and the best next pages all in one place before you commit to a full Platinum run.
PC / Xbox
34 Achievements
Steam shows 34 achievements, and the Xbox presentation matches the same non-Platinum structure at 1,000 Gamerscore.
Route Shape
1-Run Friendly
Launch-window roadmaps still treat the Platinum as a 1-playthrough route, with no difficulty-specific trophies and no need to inflate the challenge setting.
Risk Layer
Missables Matter
The real challenge is not raw combat. It is hub timing, side jobs, collectibles, and a few patch-sensitive trophies.
Big Picture
What this hub is actually for
A trophy hub should lower your stress, not just duplicate the longest roadmap on the site. So this page focuses on the high-value truths that shape every serious run: platform totals, the hub cutoff, which trophy families create risk, and which supporting pages you should pair together.
The short version is encouraging. MOUSE: P.I. For Hire does not demand a high difficulty route, and the strongest public roadmaps still treat it as a one-run Platinum. The less comforting part is that the route is packed with things you do not want to postpone casually: cards, comics, newspapers, side jobs, clues, and a few combat or misc triggers that are easiest when done in context.
If you want the full step-by-step version, the Platinum Guide is still the main road. This hub is here to help you decide what to worry about before that page gets long.
Route Mood
This Platinum is really a planning puzzle with good aim attached
Most failed clean runs do not collapse because the player cannot fight. They collapse because a side job was left hanging, a collectible chain was mentally deferred, or a hub-sensitive trophy family was left alive too close to the cutoff.
Trophy Lanes
The four trophy groups that shape your run
Not every trophy deserves the same kind of attention. The categories below are where the route pressure actually comes from.
Hub-sensitive progress
This is the category that makes Jack Squat so important. Baseball Cards, Raygun-related progress, side jobs, and anything that wants the hub or office flow should be treated as pre-cutoff work.
Collectible-linked trophies
Newspapers, Baseball Cards, Comic Strips, and upgrade-related progress all feed trophies or achievements directly. These are the easiest things to underestimate because they look slow, harmless, and very recoverable until they suddenly are not.
Clue and side-job stability
Steam hotfixes v1.0.4 and v1.0.5 both touched trophy-relevant quest logic. That is a strong reason to distrust older launch-day roadmap wording when it sounds more alarmed than current patch notes justify.
Misc combat trophies
These are rarely the hardest trophies in isolation, but they become annoying if you leave all of them for the end. The cleanest road is still to do them opportunistically while the right barrel, enemy, or hazard is already in front of you.
Known Trouble Spots
What still deserves caution even after the Steam hotfixes
The cleanest honest summary is this: launch-week trophy guides reported multiple bug-prone trophies, and official Steam hotfixes later addressed some of the most important quest and clue issues. That is good news, but it is not the same thing as a permanent all-platform guarantee that every trophy is now boringly safe.
For a hub page, that means the safest wording stays modest. Side-job reliability improved. Clue tracking improved. But if your route depends on a trophy family that already had a shaky reputation at launch, you still want manual fallback saves and current patch awareness.
This especially matters for Real Deal Gumshoe, because its risk surface is not just one trophy pop. It is the whole chain of side-job availability, completion logic, and hub pacing around it.
Best Next Pages
Where to go from this hub
Roadmap
Platinum Guide
The full one-run route with cutoff planning, patch-sensitive warnings, and trophy-family sequencing.
Support Page
Collectibles Hub
Best paired with trophy hunting when you need the collectible families, shop logic, and risk hierarchy in one place.
High-Risk Lane
Baseball Cards Guide
The right follow-up if `S'all in the Cards`, `Everybody Loves Rayguns`, or hub timing is your current bottleneck.
Route Support
Beginner's Guide
Helpful when your actual problem is room scanning, traversal habits, or staying organized enough to protect a single run.
FAQ
Quick trophy answers
How many trophies are in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire?
PlayStation has 35 trophies including the Platinum. Steam and Xbox use the matching 34-achievement structure without a Platinum.
Can I earn the Platinum on easy difficulty?
Yes. Current roadmaps agree there are no difficulty-specific trophies.
What is the biggest trophy cutoff to remember?
Treat Jack Squat as the practical hub cutoff for side jobs, card-related progress, and other hub-sensitive cleanup.
Are the launch bugs fully solved everywhere?
Steam hotfixes improved clue and side-job stability, but the safest current wording is still cautious. Older bug warnings should be re-read through the lens of those hotfixes rather than repeated blindly.
Version Note
What this hub is based on
This page was updated on April 28, 2026 using the official Steam achievements page, official Steam hotfix announcements, SteamDB patch references, and launch-window trophy guides published between April 16 and April 22, 2026.
The most likely future updates are still the same ones trophy hunters care about most: platform patch parity, side-job stability, and any change that softens or sharpens the practical importance of Jack Squat as a route cutoff.