Summary

  • Platinum trophies vary from speedruns to multiplayer dominance.
  • Like a Dragon: Ishin! has a tedious grind to max level and a requirement to craft every item in the game.
  • Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls Online asks you to... become Emperor? Wait, are you seriou-

Ever s🤡ince 2008, trophy hunters have been earning ꩲcrushingly difficult trophies. Anything is possible when digital bling is on the line, including world-class speedruns, no-death runs, and multiplayer dominance. A platinum trophy is the mark of a truly completed game, only being unlocked when you earn every other trophy in a game's trophy list (not counting DLC trophies).

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The difficulty of hunting a platinum trophy varies wildly, from 20-minute shovelware adventures to 100-hour endurance challenges. In the spirit of exploring the more challenging side of trophy hunting, here are the most difficult platinum trophies that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation has to offer.

Updated on February 3, 2025, by Dominic Allen: PlayStation Trophies have been around since the summer of 2008, and since their inception, there's grown to be an unimaginable sea of platinum trophies. There are a lot of easy ones to boost your trophy level, but plenty of brutal platinums as well that'll push you to your limits. Some are difficult due to single-player, multiplayer, can take a very long time, or just generally require a high amount of skills. Whatever it is, these games aren't a cakewalk.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

A Platinum Ten Years In The Making

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
First-Person
Simulation
Mystery

Released
൲ April✅ 27, 2022
ESRB
T For Teen // Drug Reference, Mild Bl🔜ood, 𝐆Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Mild Violence
Developer(s)
ꦚ Crows ജCrows Crows
Publisher(s)
♋ Crows Crows Crows, Galactic Cafe 🍃
Steam Deck Compatibility
Verified
How Long To Beat
3 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

Time-sensitive trophies are always annoying if you want to do them legit, but The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has the worst of them all. Most of the trophy list is actually really easy, except for two. One for play༺ing Ultra Deluxe on your console for all 24 hours of a Tuesday, which wastes a ton of time and energy. Hopefully, your bill doesn't go up too high.

The second for playing Ultra Deluxe ten years after you previously played it. Obviously, people change the date to get this trophy nice and easy, but doing it legitimately forces you not to play the game at all for ten years on PlayStation. On the bright side, think of all the social media engagement you'll get in 2032 for waiting ten years. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game Director William Pugh will definitely appreciate it.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3

A Campaign That Does Not Mess Around

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Released
🔜 November 6, 2015 𓂃
ESRB
M ꦍfor Mature: Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Vio𓆉lence, Strong Language
Developer(s)
Treyarch
Multiplayer
Local Co-Op, Local Multiplayer, Online Co-O🎃p, Online Multiplayer
Number of Players
4 (Co-Op)
Split Screen Orientation
Horizontal (Campaign); Vertical Or H💖orizontal (Zom𓆏bies)
Platform(s)
PS4, Xbox One, PC
How Long To Beat
9 Hours
OpenCritic Rating
Strong

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has a rather panned campaign, but what many don't know is that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it's probabಞly the hardest in the series if you go for the platinum trophy, not solely due to the difficulty ꧙itself but the challenges you must complete. You have to beat the game on Veteran,🍃 which isn't too bad, but you must beat every level without dying once.

That's frustrating like no other on Veteran and can be a real time-killer. Then you have to beat Realistic difficulty, essentially a one-hit death mode. Then you must beat all 16 rounds of the Training Simulator on Realistic, which is beyond savage. To top it off, there's a bunch of grindy challenges to beat, adding even more time to the platinum. It's absolutely ridiculous how long a🐼nd c꧅hallenging this campaign is.

Monster Hunter: World

RNG Never Leads To A Fun Platinum

Released
January 26, 2018🙈 🏅
ESRB
T for Teen: Blood, Mild L🤡anguage, Use of Alcohol, Violence
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
Capcom
Multiplayer
🐠 Onlineಌ Co-Op
Platform(s)
PS4, Xbox One, PC
How Long To Beat
48 Hours
Metascore
90
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

A🔥 common misconception non-trophy hunters have is that platinums that take a ridiculously long time aren't actually difficult. In achievement/trophy hunting, time required matters, so yes, a platinum taking hundreds of hours is considered difficult, and a perfe𓃲ct example is Monster Hunter: World.

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Not only will you have to reach Rank 100, taking over 100 hours on its own, but you must get a gold crown and miniature crown for every large monster in the game. The huge time commitment, taking an estimated over 300 hours, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the RNG required to get these crowns make this a platinum only for the die-hard Monster Hunter 𝕴fans.

Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection

About As Hard As You'd Expect

Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
Action

OpenCritic Rating
Strong

The Ghosts 'n Goblins series is notorious for its brutal difficulty, so it's no surprise the platinum for Resurrection hurts. It isn't too complicated, as you just have to get all the collectibles, get all the upgrades, and complete everything. That last part is easier said than done, though, because beating every shadow stage in 🅠the game proves to be a Herculean task, even on the second-lowest dif꧟ficulty.

Yes, second-lowest, as you can't beat the whole game on the lowest one. These shadow stages work as the second run through the levels the series is known for, and they're significant🤡ly harder in what were already hard levels. You're truly a master gamꦛer if you get all the way through this.

Street Fighter 6

The Tournament Grind

5.0/5

Released
🍎 June 2, 2023
ESRB
T For Teen Due To Mild Blood, Mild Languagꦚe, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
Capcom
Multiplayer
𝓀 Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer 🐻
Cross-Platform Play
🔯 PC, PS4, PS5, & Xbox Series X|S
Metascore
92
Platforms That Support Crossplay
PC, PS4ꦯ, PS5, & Xbox Series X|S
PS Plus Availability
N/A
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

Some trophy lists aren't actually too bad, except for one nasty trophy that tu🔜rns the experience into a nightmare. Street Fighter 6 belongs in that league because the Dominating Like a Ninja trophy will seriously test your patience. For this trophy, you need to win ten tournament matches. A tournament game is best of three, so you can still gai𓆏n progress towards the trophy without winning the set.

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Tournaments aren't a daily occurrence and happen on specific dates, which just elongates the platinum. You're best off getting together in a boosting group and trying to get into a server with a very low player cඣount to heighten the odds of playing with boosters. Even then, it can fall to luck.

Hi-Fi Rush

Tango's Hardest Game Ever

4.5/5

Released
𓄧 January 25, 2023 𓃲
ESRB
💞 Rated T: Fantasy Violence, Language 🀅
Developer(s)
꧒ Tango Gameworks
Publisher(s)
Bethesda
How Long To Beat
ဣ 8-10 Hour♛s
File Size Xbox Series
💟 16 GB (November 2023)
X|S Optimized
No
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

Tango Gameworks already has a reputation for impossibly hard platinums with games like The Evil Within. The one-hit kill Akumu mode is pretty bad, but to be frank, Hi-Fi Rush is even worse. Yes, it's easier on PlayStation due to the 16📖8澳洲幸运5开奖网:amazing feedback of the DualSense controller, but the tasks required are still ridiculous.

Hi-Fi Rush essentially copies the trophy list of Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, requiring you to defeat bosses in a special mannerꦡ; in this case, beat them without taking damage, S rank every level on every difficulty, and accomplish numerous things in the Bloody Palace equivalent, Rhythm Tower. All of this demands expert-level play, and that second requirement needs to vanish going forward. There's no reason why you need to S rank both the hardest difficulties and 🍨the easiest.

Dead Space 2

Significantly Harder On PlayStation

A needle approaches Isaac Clarke's eye in Dead Space 2.

Released
𒀰 Janua🔴ry 25, 2011
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Inꩵtense Violence, Strong Language ☂
Developer(s)
๊ Visceral Games
Multiplayer
♈ Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer
Platform(s)
PS3, Xbox 360, PC
How Long To Beat
9 Hours
File Size Xbox Series
ಞ 13 GB (October 2022)
X|S Optimized
No

A horror game that most people know is brutal to platinum is Dead Space 2. The game's infamous for its Hard Core difficulty, allowing only three saves throughout the campaign while being set to Zealot mode, and if you die, the game puts you back to where you last saved. What a lot of people don't know is that the Xbox 360 version is much easier due to one simple fact: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the game was released on two discs.

On an actual 360, not on future Xbox consoles, if you die while on disc two, the game can only put you back somewhere on that disc. This means the start of🐭 disc two es💯sentially acts as a checkpoint, a true lifesaver. On PlayStation 3, Dead Space 2 is on one Blu-ray disc, meaning you'll have to play Hard Core mode legitimately.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Never Has The Story Of An Open-World Rockstar Game Been More Frustrating

5.0/5

Released
♛ O🌟ctober 26, 2018
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol ꦐ
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer 𒆙
Cross-Platform Play
N/A
Cross Save
N/A
Steam Deck Compatibility
yes
Platform(s)
PS4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia
How Long To Beat
50 Hours
Metascore
97
PS Plus Availability
ꦓ Extra & Premium
X|S Optimized
yes
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty

Up there with the hardest Rockstar t⛦itles, like Grand Theft Auto 4, Red Dead Redemption 2 will take you to the brink. Unlike the difficulty of GTA4, which was largely in the multiplayer aspect, Red Dead 2's single-player has to be the hardest ever for a Rockstar open-world game.

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Not only does 100 percent completion take the longest time yet, with so many tasks an🦩d annoying challenges, but you'll need to clear 70 story missions with a gold medal rank. You must do every task in one run, unlike previous Rockstar titles, and with only 104 story missions, you can't skip too many of them.

Like A Dragon: Ishin!

The Worst Grind Of The Yakuza Series

Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Action-Adventure

Released
Februa♏ry 21, 2023
ESRB
🦹 ⛦ M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
Developer(s)
𒁃 Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Publisher(s)
Sega
Franchise
Yakuza
How Long To Beat
25 Hours
File Size Xbox Series
27 GB (November 2023) 🍰
X|S Optimized
Yes
PS Plus Availability
🌜 Extra & Premium 🦩
OpenCritic Rating
Strong

After being a Japanese exclusive for nine years, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Like a Dragon: Ishin! finally made it to the rest of the world. Yakuza fans rejoiced, but 🌳trophy hunters were singing a different tune. The Yakuza platinums are already on the difficult side, but Ishin has an even worse aspect: tedium.

The platinum ♉grind for Ishin is ludicrous, requiring you to max out at level 99 and craft every single item in the game. This process is so tedious that it's simply bad for your mental health. Unless you're a diehard fan, don't try to get this platinum because it w🧸ill take you to the brink.

Call Of Duty Classic

The Hardest COD Campaign

promo image of a battle for Call of Duty Classic.

Released
Decem🎉ber 1, ♐2009
ESRB
💯 Teen // Blood, Violencꦗe
Developer(s)
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Infinity Ward, Aspyr Media
Multiplayer
🦩💯 Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
Platform(s)
PS3, Xbox 360

Even though Call of Duty was more dominant on ꧅the Xbox 360 than PS3, COD Clꦫassic offered a platinum trophy, unlike the small 200G on Xbox. This is great, but unfortunately, Call of Duty Classic remains the hardest COD campaign in the series. Unlike nearly every other instalment, the original COD did not have regenerating health.

That was in൲troduced in COD2. To boot, on Veteran difficulty, you don't even get health packs. You must get through this game with as little damage as possible. The original PC version had a quick save feature, but not in this 360 and PS3 port. The challenge here is on a whole other level, even more so than World at War.