Moving Out 2 has finally launched (and it’s included with PlayStation Plus Extra!), and once again it’s an absolute treat for anyone looking to perfectly and realistically simulate the act of moving a bunch of junk from one building to another, complete with heated and potentially violent arguments amongst family, friends and paid contractors.
If you’re getting stuck into SMG Studio’s fantastic sequel, you might also want to know how to score the ultimate bragging rights and unlock every single trophy (or achievement) on offer. There are more than a few of ’em! Luckily for you, I’ve dug the ol’ typing fingers out of storage and slapped together a handy guide to anything you could want or need to know about every trophy/achievement in the game and how to unlock them.
Get around it:
Do everything we asked for and more! (Platinum)
See below (and below, and below, and below, and below, and below, and…)
Pass your first day at Smooth Moves (Bronze)
You’ll get this as part of playing through the opening portions of the game. If this trophy doesn’t pop for you, it might be due to an error where you’ve booted up the game and then changed your mind and commandeered a small ocean vessel to sail off into the horizon with nothing but the clothes on your back and the clothes on your front. Otherwise, this should work as intended.
Complete the Fantasy Dimension (Silver)
Aside from the starting world of Packmore, this game is split up into a number of other dimensions, each with their own selections of stages and four Tech Gnomes to rescue. You’ll get a trophy for finishing each one, and this is one of those trophies.
Complete the Candy Dimension (Silver)
See the above, it should still make sense here.
Complete the Future Dimension (Silver)
See above, or above the above. Whichever works for you. I’m not fussy. What do you want for dinner?
Find all the Tech Gnomes (Silver)
These little tech support friends are the main goal of Moving Out 2’s campaign, you won’t be able to see it through to the finale until you’ve rescued all of them. Like so many other trophies in this list, this trophy should be a given, provided you’re not a quitter. If you’re a quitter, that’s still perfectly fine and valid, you just won’t get the short-lived dopamine hit associated with popping trophies like this one. I can’t imagine living like that, but to each their own.
Complete all the levels (Gold)
Do the levels. All of them. There’s like, 50-something I reckon. I didn’t do an official count, so I’m sorry if it turns out there’s actually 20 levels or 700 levels, but those numbers definitely don’t seem right. 50 levels seems more right. Just keep doing levels until you run out of levels and if this trophy doesn’t pop then there’s more levels.
Complete a Moving In level (Bronze)
The Moving In levels are some of my favourites. Rather than have you invade attend an unsuspecting person’s a customer’s home and take all of their stuff move their belongings into your truck, you’re tasked with doing the opposite and delivering your truckload of items into their specifically-requested locations within the stage. You’ll definitely do at least one while you’re playing the campaign, so this trophy ain’t difficult.
Complete a Score Attack level (Bronze)
The Score Attack levels give you a break from Moving Out or Moving In with minigame-esque challenges that ask you to do things like catch falling candies or lob big balls into hoops with giant slingshots. These are also fun, and likewise will pop up while you’re working your way through the campaign, so don’t sweat this one too much. Don’t sweat at all, if you can help it.
Reach F.A.R.T level 1 (Bronze)
You’ll gain F.A.R.T. ranks by earning stars in levels, through completing them in pass time, making it in “PRO” time or completing any of the number of optional objectives per level. You’ll reach most of the F.A.R.T. ranks simply by playing through and completing the campaign. F.A.R.T. level 1 is unremarkable and unavoidable, like the little silent toots that slip out when I walk down flights of stairs.
Reach F.A.R.T level 3 (Silver)
As above, you should be reaching these early F.A.R.T. levels naturally by playing through the campaign jobs. F.A.R.T. level 3 shows effort, but little follow-through. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your angle.
Reach F.A.R.T level 6 (Silver)
F.A.R.T. level 6 is approaching the big leagues. People will start to take notice of your F.A.R.T. rank now, so don’t be surprised if you start getting looks on public transport. You’ll need to think about hitting those PRO times and optional objectives to get to the upper echelons of F.A.R.T.
Achieve max F.A.R.T rating (Gold)
This is it. You’ve done it. By smashing all of those PRO times on jobs and satisfying the optional objectives in a veritable buttload of stages, you’re now Top F.A.R.T. Not to gas you up too much, but you’ve now achieved the kind of F.A.R.T. status that clears the room when you walk in. You deserve the Brown-down-low Medal.
Completed all optional objectives on a level (Bronze)
Each level in Moving Out 2 has a total of five objectives to complete to earn stars towards your F.A.R.T. rating. All you need to do for this trophy is complete all of the optional ones in any level, which is easiest one any of the earlier levels but more fun as things get trickier and more cryptic. One time I wrote a guide on how to achieve every one of the optional challenges in the original Moving Out, and I thought I’d be able to do the same again here but I severely underestimated how much I wouldn’t want to do that – so you get a trophy guide instead.
Find an arcade cart (Bronze)
Arcade Carts in Moving Out 2 are very special because they unlock trophies. They also unlock new and challenging Arcade levels, I guess. But more importantly – trophies! If you’re here looking for help with achievements, I’m sorry I keep saying trophies. It’s the same thing, right? Everybody get along xoxo.
Find all arcade carts (Gold)
Guess what? I’ve put in the work to guide you to each and every one of the Arcade Carts you’ll need to find in Moving Out 2. Isn’t that nice of me? I did screenshots and all. So high tech! Take a look:
PACKMORE
MIDDLE FOLKMORE
SNACKMORE
THE VOID
Find a missing employee (Bronze)
Moving Out 2 has a bunch of employees for you to choose from and virtually embody, but there are even more available than just the initial selection! Find special Character Crates hidden in levels and in the overworld maps and you’ll soon amass an army of colleagues big enough to make even the meanest CEO nervous.
Find all the crates (Gold)
Now you’ve gotta find all of your F.A.R.T. friends! There’s a heap of them, and they’re all great folks. So don’t leave them trapped, cruelly, in shipping crates. I’m a little concerned that the developers didn’t program enough fresh air and water for them to survive in there, so if you don’t seek them all out within the first few hours of starting the game I’m worried they’ll perish.
It’s a good thing I can tell you where they all are:
PACKMORE
MIDDLE FOLKMORE
SNACKMORE
PACKTROPOLIS
Find a style crate (Bronze)
Style crates are the little boxes hidden through the overworld maps and in some levels, and they give you new outfits for characters that are already unlocked from the beginning. My style crate at home is a laundry basket full of clothes that are either clean or not, and every day is a lucky dip.
Find all style crates (Gold)
Here’s an exhaustive (and exhausting) list of where to find each style crate in Moving Out 2:
PACKMORE
MIDDLE FOLKMORE
SNACKMORE
PACKTROPOLIS
THE VOID
Complete an arcade level (Bronze)
Remember when you went around and collected all of those hidden Arcade Carts for the other trophy? Well now you’ve gotta actually complete the damned things! Joke’s on you, collector person. Nah, these are actually a lot of fun and you’ll have fun completing them…
Complete 5 arcade levels (Silver)
…or else.
Smash 256 statues total (Silver)
This can be done pretty quickly just be repeating the Indiana Drones level in Packtropolis a few times and smashing up all of the pillars. You don’t even need to finish it, just keep restarting once you’ve smashed everything and you’ll have this after about the third time. The best news is that even after you pop this trophy you can keep smashing stuff. Smash smash. SMASH. SMASH.
Make 25 shots on any of the basketball hoops in the game
The easiest way to get this early and quickly is to go to 742 Evergoose Terrace, grab the basketball from the upstairs bedroom and bring it to the hood of your truck, from which you can slam dunk into the nearby hoop like the NBA 2K23 you are.
Break 95 windows (Silver)
You’ll absolutely have broken more than 95 windows by the time you clock out of your very last job and head home to a Woolies microwave butter chicken and the latest episode of Drag Race Australia. Also, if you got a chuckle out of the whole “95 windows” gag in this trophy you’re due for any number of check-ups right now. Don’t disappoint your GP, they’re very sensitive.
Score a goal in Packmore (Bronze)
There’s a soccer pitch toward the bottom of the Packmore overworld near the beach, and some silly kids have left their ball right in the middle of it. Drive your truck onto the pitch (watch out for silly kids) and punt that sucker in. If you somehow accidentally fling it outside the confines of time and space, or just somewhere not on the pitch, you can jump into a level and back out to reverse the flow of time and put everything back in its right place.
Find the Hidden Thing (Silver)
You’ll already get this while going for the character crates trophy but in the event that, for some reason, you want this specific trophy and not that one, here it is again. Head down toward the bottom of the Packmore overworld map and by a cliff edge you’ll see a bridge being held up by two ropes, drive into both ropes to lower it, then cross and navigate the little maze of islands until you reach the character crate, which unlocks Herbie. I’ve been trying not to think too much about the physics of those ropes holding the bring up in the air, because I don’t think that makes sense? Ugh, here I go again, thinking too much about it.
Smash 404 items while driving the truck (Silver)
If you don’t pick this up naturally just by being a bad driver (good for you!), the easiest place to do this is just in Packmore. Just drive into a bunch of fences, light posts and mail boxes and when you run out of public and private property to smash, quickly load into a level and quit back out to see the fruits of upper-middle class insurance policies. Then smash more stuff.
Do you have the patience? (Bronze)
In the very final level of the game, The End Zone, right at the end (of The End Zone) you’ll board a magical train pulled by a giant goldfish. You’re meant to disembark when it reaches its destination, but if you stay on board you’ll wind up in a looping situation. If you have the fortitude to wait for around 10 minutes you’ll be rewarded with some amusing conversations, a few little visual surprises along the way, and of course your bronze trophy. Which feels a little like an insult but also I’m the one that sat here and watched a train loop 20-something times. Alternatively, you could go do something else while you wait, but then you’d miss published evidence of the folks at SMG Studio losing their absolute noodles.
So, how’d you go? I spent ages putting this all together, so if you notice any errors or have any suggestions to share – please keep them to yourself!