The 10 Hardest Platinum Trophies To Get On PS4 | Game Rant
Every gamer has their own feelings about trophies and achievements. Some just can’t resist them and will ravenously hunt down even the most difficult ones in every game they play. Others have particular favorite games or franchises and will only take an interest where those are concerned. One might even buy games simply because they offer an easy-to-acquire platinum trophy, whether it’s actually something the gamer wanted to play or not.
Still, from casual trophy dabblers, to those not interested at all, to dedicated trophy hunters, players have noticed that some games are much less willing to give up their trophies than others. Buckle up for some of the most difficult platinum trophies on PS4. Some games are exclusive to the system, some aren’t, but they’re all going to be super challenging and they've all inspired gamers to replace their controller (and even TV sets) after coming so close but ending up so far.
Updated December 20th, 2020 by Hodey Johns: With the introduction of the PS5, it feels like the end of an era for PS4 games, so the article has been expanded from a top 10 list to a top 15 list that will overview all of the PS4 games. The original challenges the author posted remain, as gamers have still currently fail to reasonably attain platinum trophies on these games, but item entries 15 through 11 are new and rightfully deserve recognition alongside these other brutal games reserved for only the most ludicrous of completionists.
15 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Some first-person shooters struggle with being way too short. But when playing on a mode that means that one death and it's all over on the hardest difficulty setting, the game rightfully feels like it takes forever to successfully conclude.
But that's exactly what Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus wanted gamers to do in order to get the "Mein Leben" trophy. Want some real salt in that wound? The trophy itself was, somehow, only a bronze trophy. Collecting it as well as all of the others makes for a near-impossible platinum trophy.
14 Crypt Of The NecroDancer
It's quite possible to be on a first-name basis with everyone who has ever gotten a platinum trophy in this game. There are only eleven of them. And it's not like the game is unpopular, it's just that only 0.06% of people have ever beaten the game nine times with all nine characters back-to-back without messing up once.
With Nintendo coming out with beautiful soundtrack after beautiful soundtrack, it's no surprise that Crypt of the NecroDancer borrowed from some of those beautiful Legend of Zelda numbers. Sadly, whoever designed the trophies probably should have been aware of Nintendo's target audience when scaling the difficulty.
13 The Witness
Players will spend a lot of time getting even the hardest trophy so long as they are in control of getting to the top of the mountain. But The Witness makes players use all of their skill and a heavy dose of luck in order to get that platinum trophy.
Many puzzle-games need a guide in order to beat because they are so hard, but there are a few challenges in this game that are literally impossible. The expectation is that gamers will recognize and skip impossible puzzles, but it's not immediately consistent or obvious.
12 Next Up Hero
This platinum trophy was always technically possible but never technically achieved. It's already risky to depend on other players to attain achievements, but developer Digital Continue assumed that loads of people would be playing the game, so adding a trophy that required the community to complete 500 stages without anyone in the world failing seemed realistic.
While players in Skyrim are still noting how underrated the dungeons are, Next Up Hero was judged much the opposite. The gameplay was remarkably overrated and the sales never took off to justify this achievement. Some players managed to glitch it via featured mode, but it was never legitimately accomplished.
11 Earthfall
This game combines so many elements of a completionist's worst nightmare. It requires teams of players to kill various targets and only some of them will actually spawn. It's realistic that a given map will only spawn two of the one-hundred required targets. And that's not the worst part.
The PS4 has some amazing co-op games, but this won't be one of them for players that hunt trophies. Earthfall not only requires killing these randomly spawned targets, but also requires that the user is the one who fired the killing shot. If somebody else on the team got the killing blow... sorry, no credit, and hope it spawns again in the next fifty rounds.
10 Devil May Cry 5
This PS4, Xbox One, and PC title was almost guaranteed a spot on this list. After all, in a franchise all about super-powerful characters unleashing absurdly powerful, unnecessarily flashy moves at waves of hideous enemies, it’s no surprise that things get a little tense at times.
The roster of trophies in Devil May Cry 5 is a mixed bag, featuring a good amount that are simply tied to progression. The kicker, however, is that various difficulty modes have to be conquered too. In Hell And Hell mode, for instance, the player can’t survive a single hit, and the enemies are extraordinarily tough. Players will need to master Nero before even looking at such an achievement.
9 Bloodborne
The exclusive face that launched a thousand PS4 purchases, the dark, grim and gothic Bloodborne was one of the most convincing arguments to buy the system at the time of the game’s release. FromSoftware’s latest promised to be every bit as difficult as the Dark Souls series, and it certainly delivered on that front. Even having the best hunter tools in the game will scarcely help.
As difficult as simply reaching the end credits can be, fans who want the platinum trophy will really have to go the extra mile. A good deal of Chalice Dungeon delving is needed to collect all the weapons (Hunter’s Essence), all three different endings will need to be seen (Yharnam Sunrise, Childhood’s Beginning, Honoring Wishes), some monstrous bosses will need to be slain, and much more. Not to mention the fact that the platinum means nothing without also acquiring the trophies from the DLC, The Old Hunters (where some truly devastating bosses dwell).
8 Monster Hunter World/Iceborne
As franchise fans will know, Monster Hunter World is a game that never really ends. Yes, the story can be wrapped up and the credits will roll, but this is a franchise about taking hundreds of hours, finally getting rare drops, completing armor sets, and learning new weapons. It stands to reason that the game’s platinum trophy will be a beast to get.
As always, there are a fair amount of simple progression-based trophies, but others require a whole lot of grind, plus RNG and luck in some cases. Players have lots of arena quests to do (so be sure to learn from the pros first), 500 large monsters to hunt, Hunter Rank 100 to reach, but the worst would probably be the trophies that require a huge collection of gold crowns (tiny and giant monsters), as that’s purely a matter of luck. Then there are the new Iceborne trophies!
7 Super Meat Boy
Speaking of games that are notoriously, viciously difficult, our next case study is none other than Super Meat Boy. For many, this old-school platformer is one of the most brutal titles to hit the genre in recent gaming memory, and its roster of trophies certainly attests to this.
Beat all Warpzones? Beat every separate hunk of the Dark World without dying (individually)? Attain 100% completion? Any gamer with the perseverance and skill to nab this platinum really is a platformer master.
6 The Evil Within
Honestly, this is a bit of a pick your poison situation. For some players, The Evil Within 2 represents more of an overall challenge than the original, but The Evil Within’s Akumu mode is just a bit more traumatizing of an experience.
Between the regular game and its three DLC packs (The Assignment, The Consequence, and The Executioner), there are 72 trophies available in this mind-bending survival horror title. They range from just plain time-consuming (upgrading all weapons, for instance) to incredibly difficult. Completing the game on Akumu mode (the hardest difficulty with additional restrictions such as any damage at all one-shotting the player) has pushed more than one player to uninstall the game.
5 Alien: Isolation
From one survival horror experience to another, Alien: Isolation is one of many horror games with a phenomenal female protagonist. Gamers who play through this have surely noticed two things: firstly, it’s a super tense and finely crafted experience that actually does the franchise justice. Secondly, it’s darn tough in place and players are probably becoming a finely-sliced entrée for the xenomorph several times before reaching the end of the game (for the few who ever get that far).
The biggest problem, then, is the One Shot trophy, which requires the player to make it all the way through without dying. After a lot of practice and probably a reduction in difficulty some will barely manage that feat. This is not to mention all the other collectibles and busywork the platinum requires.
4 Gran Turismo Sport
As sad as it is, some platinum trophies become literally impossible to obtain over time. This was the case with the PS3’s Gran Turismo 5, which lost access to two online-based trophies (Course Designer and Proud Owner) when the servers were shut down. While PS4’s Gran Turismo Sport still has a possible platinum, it may as well be inaccessible too.
There are some very difficult racing challenges here, a lot of time-consuming ones (Record Number of Races), a demand for a gold rating in every Driving School challenge (and in every other type of challenge individually), a grind for 1,000,000 drift points, a grind for levels… in terms of the time sink, this is definitely a rough one.
3 Grand Theft Auto V
Rockstar continues to pump out the updates for Grand Theft Auto Online, partly because it’s still one of the biggest open-world titles on the market. Originally releasing on Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2013, the current-gen ports continue to sell like wildfire, and it’s really no surprise; there’s an outrageous amount to do here.
Whenever a game offers an absurd range of content, dedicated players are compelled to do it all, even if it's saving the money to buy the most absurdly expensive properties in the game. Grand Theft Auto V’s trophies demand a bit of everything, from excellent mission performances to grinding the online level all the way up to 100.
2 Furi
Furi doesn’t offer a huge, urban playground to cause mayhem in. Here, it’s just the player, a futuristic arena, and a ravenous, gigantic, ill-tempered boss that wants to slice the protagonist into salami with all the malice it can muster.
Furi is a relentless arcade boss rush that mixes hack and slash and old school shooter elements. It’s tough as steely, steely nails, and its trophy roster reflects that. S ranks on the hardest difficulties will test anyone.
1 The Last Of Us Remastered
With so many great narrative games on the PS4, Naughty Dog’s dystopian masterpiece is still one of the PlayStation’s finest exclusives. Kudos to those who have secured the platinum in Joel and Ellie’s harrowing adventure, because it doesn’t come easy.
Between survivor and grounded difficulties, a whole lot of collectibles, the heavy grind of the Firefly/Hunter trophies, and certain missable ones (That’s All I Got, Let’s Gear Up, I Want To Talk About It, and Master Of Unlocking), this can be a heck of a long road.
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