Assassin's Creed Origins
Action RPG
Assassin's Creed Origins is forgiving about base-game cleanup, but treating its menus like Odyssey's can cause mistakes. Progress is saved automatically rather than through unrestricted manual slots, and one trophy rewards selling a large batch of trinkets together. Learn the crafting system, keep that trinket goal in mind and finish the current campaign's remaining activities before deliberately starting New Game Plus.
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What should you plan before starting Assassin's Creed Origins?
Keep trinkets until you can sell 100 together, and remember that Origins uses autosaves rather than ordinary manual slots. The base platinum has no permanent missables and exploration continues after the story. New Game+ unlocks after completion, but it restarts the campaign rather than replacing ordinary cleanup.
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A relaxed campaign with two useful precautions
Use these checkpoints to protect the playthrough without revealing the story's outcomes.
Do not sell every trinket immediately
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle requires selling 100 trinkets together. Ordinary resources and unwanted weapons are different inventory categories. Keep the trinket collection until its requirement is met rather than creating a long late-game farming task.
Recognise the automatic-save system
Ubisoft describes automatic saves, not an unrestricted manual-save menu. Wait for saving to finish before quitting, and read any overwrite prompt carefully when starting another campaign or replay.
Upgrade permanent crafted equipment
The crafted quiver, bracers and other equipment improve Bayek independently of a newly looted weapon. Gather the relevant animal and transport resources while travelling so a good weapon is not held back by neglected equipment.
Clean up before choosing New Game+
Post-story exploration is suitable for outstanding locations and combat goals. NG+ keeps equipment and abilities but resets the journey; choose it for another story run, not just to return to an unfinished question mark.
Content reviewed 2026-11-07. Updated Origins base campaign; DLC completion has separate requirements.
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Before you start
PLAYTHROUGH PLAN
Before You Start checklist
Set up your save plan
Assassin's Creed Origins relies on checkpoints or autosaves; finish risky activities before leaving and never assume an older state can be restored.
Protect the completion route
Assassin's Creed Origins allows a forgiving standard cleanup route, but tracking optional progress as you go still reduces endgame backtracking.
Know the last safe checkpoint
Assassin's Creed Origins has no major point-of-no-return trap in the normal route, so progress can be paced without hoarding every task for one checkpoint.
Choose difficulty deliberately
Assassin's Creed Origins does not require a specific difficulty for the standard trophy or achievement route, so choose the setting you will enjoy.
Budget 50–70h base platinum estimate
Use Assassin's Creed Origins's 50–70h base platinum estimate estimate as a planning range, not a promise. Exploration, difficulty and optional goals can move the total substantially.
Spoiler-free warning
The base platinum has no permanent missables, but save up 100 trinkets before selling them together for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Origins uses autosaves, not rotating manual slots. Finish cleanup on the current campaign before choosing New Game+.
BEGINNER GUIDE
10 things I wish I knew before starting
The useful systems, early mistakes and easily missed details worth understanding before you commit dozens of hours.
Scout before entering a camp
Use Senu to identify guards, objectives and useful approaches before climbing into a restricted area. Planning a route is safer than reacting to several patrols at once.
Compare weapon level as well as rarity
An old legendary weapon can lag behind appropriately levelled equipment. Check its damage and upgrade cost before assuming its colour makes it the best current option.
Collect crafting materials on normal journeys
Animals and guarded transports supply equipment materials. Tag useful resources while travelling rather than postponing every equipment upgrade until a difficult fight.
Improve the quiver for longer excursions
Extra arrow capacity makes ranged approaches more sustainable. Check the permanent crafting panel instead of searching only the weapon inventory for improvements.
Respect enemies above your level
The level gap matters in combat and assassination damage. Complete nearby quests and improve equipment when an enemy is clearly beyond the current character's strength.
Synchronise convenient viewpoints
A viewpoint gives a useful fast-travel destination and improves scouting. Activate nearby ones while exploring to make later return trips less cumbersome.
Keep trinkets separate from general selling
The batch-sale trophy is easy to delay by selling trinkets piecemeal. Keep those items until the full requirement is ready; routine weapon decisions are a separate matter.
Use a shield deliberately
Lock-on and blocking help manage individual threats, but surrounding enemies can still overwhelm a static defence. Reposition before committing to a long attack sequence.
Leave awkward collectibles for better tools
The map remains available for cleanup. If an activity is tedious with current equipment, continue the campaign and return with stronger tools instead of forcing it immediately.
Separate the base game from its expansions
The Hidden Ones and The Curse of the Pharaohs have their own areas and trophy work. A base-platinum checklist does not describe every task in the complete package.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Assassin's Creed Origins FAQs
Does Origins have permanently missable base trophies?
No permanent base-platinum missables are listed. Keeping trinkets for their batch-sale trophy avoids an unnecessarily slow cleanup task.
Can you make rotating manual saves in Origins?
Not through a normal manual-save menu. Ubisoft documents an automatic-save system; do not apply Odyssey's manual-save advice to this game.
Can you explore after the ending?
Yes. The completed campaign supports remaining exploration and side activities without starting a new story.
What carries into Origins New Game Plus?
Ubisoft lists inventory, gear, weapons, abilities and crafted-equipment progress among the retained content. Story progression is restarted.
Is a hard difficulty required for the base platinum?
No. Choose an enjoyable combat setting; the base list does not demand a complete hard-mode campaign.