The Hardest Platinums On PlayStation

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The Hardest Platinums On PlayStation
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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 since 2008, trophy hunters have been earning crushingly 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 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

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 playing 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. 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 3 has a rather panned campaign, but what many don’t know is that it’s probably the hardest in the series if you go for the platinum trophy, not solely due to the difficulty itself 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 and challenging this campaign is.

Monster Hunter: World

RNG Never Leads To A Fun Platinum

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 perfect 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 the RNG required to get these crowns make this a platinum only for the die-hard Monster Hunter fans.

Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection

About As Hard As You’d Expect

Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection

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 difficulty.

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 significantly harder in what were already hard levels. You’re truly a master gamer if you get all the way through this.

Street Fighter 6

The Tournament Grind

Some trophy lists aren’t actually too bad, except for one nasty trophy that turns 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 gain 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 count to heighten the odds of playing with boosters. Even then, it can fall to luck.

Hi-Fi Rush

Tango’s Hardest Game Ever

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 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 manner; 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.

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: 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 essentially 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

Up there with the hardest Rockstar titles, 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 and 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

After being a Japanese exclusive for nine years, 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 will take you to the brink.

Call Of Duty Classic

The Hardest COD Campaign

promo image of a battle for Call of Duty Classic.

Even though Call of Duty was more dominant on the Xbox 360 than PS3, COD Classic 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 introduced 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.

Grand Theft Auto 4

An Infamous Multiplayer Grind

Driving around in an Infernus car in Grand Theft Auto 4.

Back in the early trophy hunting days, an infamous platinum that everyone hated was Grand Theft Auto 4. The story mode is difficult enough with the lack of checkpoints, but the multiplayer is where the real challenge lies. The Wanted trophy requires you to reach the highest personal rank in the game.

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Even back in 2008, this was a tough ask for the GTA playerbase, requiring a ridiculous number of hours. The trophy community eventually found an exploit requiring two monitors and two systems, but that was years after the game came out. GTA4’s a great title, but don’t platinum it because the multiplayer is pure Hell.

The Ability To Play Perfectly And Terribly

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The PlayStation community was begging for a trophy patch on this game for the longest time. Four years after the game came out, fans finally got one, but at what cost? Metal Gear Solid 4 is the hardest MGS to get all the trophies in. The main culprit here is the trophy for getting all of the iPod tracks called Sounds of the Battlefield.

You must get the Big Boss emblem, which is really hard but at least a fun challenge that requires mastery. However, you actually need to get all the emblems. This requires at least eight playthroughs and means you also have to get the emblems for playing badly. This is just frustrating and unnecessary. Why couldn’t you just get the Big Boss one and call it a day?

Doom (1993) And Doom 2 (Classic)

Why Can’t You Do This Solo?

These are technically Xbox games, but they are on PlayStation as well and equally difficult. Most of the trophies here aren’t bad at all, except for the Nightmare difficulty ones. In both games, you must beat every level in the core experience on Nightmare difficulty cooperatively. If you want to do it by yourself, which is more challenging and rewarding, too bad.

You must play with two to four players here. Keep in mind this is a local co-op, too. This likely means you’ll be playing by yourself anyway with another controller. Hardcore Doom players just don’t want to play Nightmare mode like this. The actual difficulty itself is also brutal, with Nightmare mode and the additional multiplayer monsters at play.

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Wanted: Dead

Hope You’re Good At Action Games, Rhythm Games, And Scrolling Shooters

Wanted: Dead has to be one of the hardest-ever action games to platinum. The reason for this is that you need to be talented at so many game genres. You obviously need to be good at the core game to beat all the difficulty modes, but what really bites you is the side content.

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You have to be a rhythm game savant because, at release, you had to complete a full seven-minute track without missing a single note. That’s ludicrous, but thankfully, it’s been patched, so you just need to get a 250 combo. It’s still tough, though. Plus, you have to beat an ultra-hard 2D space shooter twice on top of that. Who’s going to excel in all three of those areas to get this platinum?

Outlast 2

A Heart-Shaking Experience

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Outlast 2 is already a horrific experience. But there’s nothing quite as terrifying as attempting to clinch that Platinum trophy for yourself. There isn’t just one trophy that’s the real kicker here either. You’re going to have to put your game face on for this one.

For starters, you’re going to have to complete the game on Insane difficulty in order to claim the Saint trophy. But while you’re at it, you might as well finish the game on Insane difficulty without reloading your camera batteries to snag the Messiah trophy. That means you’ll be walking blind in many areas that you must know by heart.

The Outlast series is all about running and hiding. But if you want the Prophet trophy, you’ll need to beat the game without hiding in a barrel or closet. The final task on this gauntlet of terrors is the Asahel trophy, which requires you to speedrun through the game in under four hours. Good luck.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Way Harder Than It Looks

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Look, we’ve all been fooled by the LittleBigPlanet series’ cutesy aesthetic. There are moments in these games that will ultimately test your platforming mettle. Sackboy: A Big Adventure isn’t quite as tough as its predecessors. Most of the trophies are fairly simple to claim. However, there is one among them that will have you gripping your controller in frustration.

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String it Together is the trophy that requires you to beat all the game’s time trials — in one sitting without dying. The Ripsnorter is the final time trial that literally strings all the game’s 15 challenges together in one grueling gauntlet that you must complete in under ten minutes without dying. Welcome to platforming hell, friends.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops

You’ll Need To Be A COD Zombies Pro

Some of the earliest trophies in the history of trophy hunting were among the worst. The Call of Duty series ensured you were skilled enough in the first-person shooting arena to claim a platinum in each succeeding entry. Black Ops’ platinum trophy demanded that you complete the game on Veteran difficulty.

Black Ops for trophy hunters, however, wasn’t just about the difficulty when it came to its Zombies mode. The See Me, Stab Me, Heal Me trophy can only be achieved if you obtain a ballistic knife, upgrade it at the Pack-a-Punch machine, and shoot it at a downed teammate to revive them.

To be clear, this requires that you purchase a randomized weapon at the mysterious chest that moves around the map hoping it’s the knife. Then, you must have the points necessary to upgrade the weapon. Finally, you must find yourself in a situation where you can take this difficult shot at a downed teammate amid the hordes of zombies. Have fun!

Max Payne 3

A Painful Marathon

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The fallen-from-grace cop, Max Payne, sees his story book-ended with an explosive threequel. As a third-person action shooter, your reflexes will undoubtedly be tested. First, you can’t even get the platinum anymore due to the online servers being shut down, but assume you already have the multiplayer trophies. The campaign is the hardest aspect of claiming that platinum, as you must first obtain the Serious Payne trophy by completing the game on hard difficulty.

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That’s not even the tip of the iceberg. Completing hard difficulty unlocks hardcore mode, which you then must complete for the Payne In The Ass trophy. Beating hard difficulty also unlocks A New York Minute mode, which adds a timer to each chapter, forcing you to speed run. You must beat A New York Minute to unlock New York Minute Hardcore.

To claim The Shadows Rushed Me trophy, you must beat the game on New York Minute Hardcore, which requires you to play through the game in one sitting, with time restrictions and no deaths. By this point, you will have played through the game many times, so maybe you’ll be ready.

Evil Dead: The Game

A Truly Evil Platinum

Ash holding his trademark shotgun in Evil Dead The Game.

The multiplayer asymmetrical horror title, Evil Dead: The Game, reintroduces Ash Williams to the world as the deadite slayer that he and his comrades have become across a few Sam Raimi films and a TV series. Because the game is mostly a multiplayer-centric title, earning trophies becomes increasingly difficult given that your skills will only get you so far. You’re at the mercy of your teammates, or the players you are up against.

Anyone who has played Evil Dead: The Game knows that commanding the demon is rather difficult if you’re up against a unified team of survivors. There’s also an extensive learning curve to controlling the demon and spawning enemies. The Armageddon trophy requires that you win 30 matches as a demon. This is easier said than done. Effortless Evil takes this a step further by forcing you to win a match as the demon without using a boss unit, your most powerful tool.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

A Ludicrous Grind

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Star Ocean: The Last Hope isn’t difficult in the same way that other entries on this list are. Its trophy list doesn’t require you to be mechanically gifted, an incredible speedrunner, or a PvP master. Instead, it just asks that you devote some time to it. Between 450 and 1000 hours, to be exact.

The Last Hope is a ridiculously long JRPG without accounting for its trophy list, which requires you to beat it multiple times on different difficulties. There’s also a very small margin for error, as missing a single collectible can force you to play the entire game again to collect it and earn its trophy. If you want this platinum, be ready for the long haul.

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