Hardest Platinum Trophies on PS5 and PS4, Ranked

Crypt of the NecroDancer is the clearest choice for the hardest Platinum trophy on PlayStation. The Coda character combines several punishing rules at once. You move at double tempo, die after missing a beat and cannot touch gold. The procedural layouts also prevent you from memorising one fixed route.

Coda is only part of the problem. Lowest of the Low requires an All Chars run without collecting items or using shrines. A late mistake can erase a long sequence of successful clears. You need rhythm accuracy, enemy knowledge, safe routing, improvisation and composure at a level no other Platinum demands for so long.

Super Meat Boy turns short platforming stages into long consistency tests. Its no-death trophies require you to clear complete groups of levels without dying, with separate challenges for the standard and Dark World versions.

Impossible Boy is the defining wall. It asks for a deathless clear of Cotton Alley's Dark World, where small timing errors end the run immediately. Every stage can be practised in isolation, but the trophy only counts when you chain the full set together. That difference between knowing each level and surviving all of them is what makes the Platinum exceptional.

Splasher combines three demanding forms of platforming mastery. You need Platinum medals in the individual time attacks, strict full-game speedruns and a complete no-death run. Each requirement tests a different weakness.

The speedrun trophies punish inefficient movement across the whole campaign, while the no-death clear punishes even one lapse in concentration. There is little room to compensate for a bad section later. You must know the fastest routes, execute advanced movement consistently and stay calm through a run that remains dangerous until the final screen.

Most of Wolfenstein II's trophy list is manageable. Mein Leben makes the Platinum one of the hardest ever created. The mode uses the game's highest combat difficulty while disabling saves and checkpoints. You have one life for the entire campaign.

A successful run usually lasts several hours, but the real time cost comes from practising every encounter until your route is reliable. A death in the final chapter has the same result as a death in the opening section. You return to the beginning. The Platinum therefore depends on both shooter skill and the mental control to play conservatively under constant pressure.

Devil May Cry 5 asks you to do more than survive its hardest modes. Worthy of Legend requires S ranks on every mission across every required difficulty, including the one-hit pressure of Hell and Hell.

High scores depend on stylish, varied combat, clean clears and a strong understanding of each mission's scoring opportunities. You also need competence with Nero, Dante and V rather than relying on one preferred character. Individual missions are replayable, so failure does not erase a whole campaign, but the number of high-level performances needed keeps the Platinum firmly in 10/10 territory.

Trackmania Turbo requires Gold medals on all 200 campaign tracks and 50 Trackmaster medals. The Trackmaster total can be earned on the courses that suit you best, but the Gold requirement means the final Black Series tracks cannot be avoided.

Success is measured in fractions of a second. You need precise steering, clean racing lines and enough consistency to repeat a near-perfect route after every failed attempt. The difficulty also changes with the game's different vehicle types, so mastery of one handling model will not carry the entire Platinum.

Tetris Effect: Connected is built around SS ranks across every mode where that grade is available. The most famous wall is Sprint, which requires a 40-line clear in under 70 seconds for SS. Ultra, Master and the other Effect modes test different forms of speed, efficiency and recovery.

Experienced Tetris players may enter with the stacking habits they need. Newer players must learn fast placement, rotation systems, clean wells and advanced scoring before the trophy becomes realistic. The remaining accumulation trophies add time, but Seriously? Seriously. is the skill check that decides whether the Platinum is possible.

Crash Bandicoot 4 requires 106 percent completion, including N. Sanely Perfect Relics and Platinum Time Trial Relics across its 38 standard levels. The Perfect Relics demand every box in one life, while the time trials remove checkpoints and set aggressive target times.

Long stages, hidden boxes and late-cycle precision sections make repetition especially punishing. You may learn a level well enough to finish it, then need many more attempts to complete the perfect and time-trial versions. The Platinum is not one impossible challenge. It is dozens of difficult performances with almost no weak level in the set.

Assetto Corsa demands Gold results across every career series and every relevant special event. The hardest time attacks, races and drift events expect genuine simulation-racing skill rather than simple familiarity with the tracks.

You must understand braking points, weight transfer, tyre grip and car setup well enough to produce repeatable laps. A racing wheel can make precise inputs more natural, but it does not remove the pace requirement. The 150-hour commitment also includes long events where one mistake can spoil an otherwise strong result.

I Am Bread makes movement itself the challenge. Each corner of the bread is controlled separately, so climbing a wall or crossing a kitchen becomes a physics puzzle. The Platinum then asks for A++ ranks across the story stages and alternate modes.

Those ranks combine speed with clean, efficient movement. Fighting the controls is not enough. You must eventually use them with precision. The time estimate varies more than most games on this list because some players adapt to the grip system quickly, while others spend dozens of hours on a single troublesome stage.

The Diablo II: Resurrected Platinum is defined by reaching level 99 with a Hardcore character. Hardcore uses permanent death, so one mistake, disconnect or unsafe fight can erase a character with hundreds of hours invested. A single Hardcore level 99 character can satisfy both level 99 trophies, but reaching that point remains an enormous commitment.

The rest of the list also requires extensive class clears and a PvP ear objective. It ranks below the pure execution games because a careful build and efficient farming route make progress predictable. The permanent-death risk still turns a long grind into one of PlayStation's most stressful trophy journeys.

The Elder Scrolls Online combines an MMO-sized checklist with one unusually difficult multiplayer objective. Emperor requires you to lead your alliance's campaign leaderboard when that alliance controls the six central keeps in Cyrodiil.

You need sustained Alliance Point farming, the right campaign timing and a coordinated group capable of taking and holding the required territory. Master Fisher adds a large RNG grind elsewhere in the list. ESO sits lower because its hardest moment depends heavily on organisation and circumstances, but the overall Platinum can demand months of focused play.