Has the achievements in *BioShock Remastered* disappeared? Actually, you launched the wrong version.

To get straight to the point, this isn’t a case of trophies evaporating. It’s more like going back to your dorm and picking up the wrong takeout order: the bag looks the same, but what’s inside isn’t your meal. Recently, a player on Reddit complained that after finishing BioShock: Remastered on PS4 in 2021, they wanted to go for the platinum again now, only to find that their old trophies looked like they had been wiped clean. They were completely dumbfounded.

What made it even stranger was that they manually synced their trophies, then tried re-earning some achievements in hopes of “waking up” the old records, but none of it worked. On top of that, they discovered they could unlock trophies again that they had already earned before, which made the whole thing even more confusing. In their understanding, BioShock: Remastered only had a PS4 version, unlike some games that clearly separate the PS4 and PS5 editions, so their first reaction was naturally to assume the system had bugged out.

People in the comments quickly started “solving the case.” Some pointed out that BioShock previously had both a collection version and a standalone version, and those two editions could each come with their own separate trophy list. Another player used The Witcher 3 as an example, saying that while the base game and the complete edition may look almost identical, their trophy pages can still be split apart—like two groups of people living in the same dorm building, with similar room numbers, making it especially easy to mix them up when visiting.

In the end, the original poster confirmed the key detail: the account hadn’t changed; it was still the same PSN account. The real issue was the launch environment. They opened this PS4 game on a PS5, and the system therefore generated a new trophy list. Naturally, the trophies originally earned on the PS4 wouldn’t show up there. Put simply, the trophies didn’t disappear—you were just taken by the system into a different “classroom.”

This is actually a pretty representative case. As long as a game has both PS4 and PS5 versions, the platform often allows players to earn two separate trophy sets, and that has long been a common mechanism on Sony’s side. One veteran player who has been collecting trophies since 2009 also said they had never seen trophies vanish for no reason, so this is most likely still a version difference rather than some kind of account-related incident.

If you’re also going back to clean up trophies in older games, my advice is simple: first confirm exactly which version you’re launching, then check whether it’s the collection version, the standalone version, or a list tied to a different console. Don’t immediately assume the system has stabbed you in the back, or you’ll end up like people in a dorm looking for a charger that’s clearly on the next bed over, yet everyone spends half an hour arguing first. For trophy hunters, identifying versions has now become just as important as finishing the game itself; and for ordinary players, this is also a reminder of one thing: cross-generation consoles may look convenient, but there are a lot of details underneath, and if you don’t sort them out, it’s easy to end up wasting your effort.