Summary
- Some PS5 Platinums are simpler than others, with games like Until Dawn requiring strategic planning over skill.
- Resident Evil Village's Infinite Ammo feature makes achieving the Platinum easier, despite a few challenging aspects.
- Dead By Daylight's Platinum can be obtained by simply playing varied matches, combining strategy and skill.
If Platinum trophies were easy to obtain, it would defeat the point of grinding for them. That being said, some Platinums are much more manageable than others, especially for the survival-horror sub-genre, which relies more heavily on collectibles and specific gameplay objectives over any rigorous grinding mechanics.
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Many Platinums require hours' worth of striving to achieve, but for players looking to add a simple Platinum to their collection, some are surprisingly straightforward and require little more than a few hours of toil. There's still going to be a lot of trial and error involved and certainly a lot of reloading checkpoints, but they won't turn out to be quite as grueling.
5 Until Dawn
The Game Rewards Forward-Thinking Over Pure Skill
Until Dawn
- Released
- October 4, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Ballistic Moon
- Publisher(s)
- PlayStation PC LLC
- Genre(s)
- Horror
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5
What makes Until Dawn such an easy Platinum is the fact that players can unlock a "chapter select" feature after the first playthrough that allows them to replay specific segments and retrieve collectibles they may have missed. Until Dawn is less about speed-running and more about formulating a specific approach to choosing the correct outcomes and even making the more unconventional decisions to earn rarer trophies.
Rather than relying on skill, as many Platinums do, Until Dawn merely requires players to grow familiar with the story's mechanics and trigger the correct responses. It only takes a couple of playthroughs—probably three, tops—to have all characters live and die in separate runs, which leaves additional replays (if needed) to go back for missed collectibles or scenarios. Until Dawn's Platinum isn't difficult, but it does require some strategic planning from the get-go to ensure that all trophies are hit in as few playthroughs as possible, since the game itself can take anywhere from a couple of hours to eight or more.
4 Resident Evil Village
Infinite Ammo Makes Speed-Running Playthroughs Easier
Resident Evil Village
- Released
- May 7, 2021
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Capcom
- Publisher(s)
- Capcom
- Franchise
- Resident Evil
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR2, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
Resident Evil Village is another simple Platinum thanks to the game's Extra Content Shop, which allows players to purchase infinite ammo weapons. It will take multiple playthroughs to achieve, but that endless ammo will certainly make things go a lot faster as Ethan plows through enemies with no issues. One of the biggest drawbacks to shooting for Resident Evil Village's Platinum is The Mercenaries, an extra game mode purchasable from the in-game store that plays similarly to Resident Evil: Revelations 2's Raid Mode.
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Players might also find it challenging to take on Heisenberg's boss fight on the game's hardest difficulty—Village of Shadows—but a little persistence goes a long way. Playthroughs can take anywhere from two to four hours each with infinite-ammo weapons equipped, but replaying Resident Evil Village isn't too tedious thanks to the immersive boss fights and engaging combat segments.
3 The Quarry
Reloading Checkpoints Allows Players To Retry Specific Chapters
The Quarry
- Released
- June 10, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Supermassive Games
- Publisher(s)
- 2K
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
Technically, The Quarry only requires a minimum of three playthroughs to Platinum, but it could take longer depending on a player's experience with Supermassive Games. Anyone who has Platinumed Until Dawn will know the basics of how to navigate a branching storyline and reload checkpoints to their advantage. The Quarry's Movie Mode is connected to the Creature Feature trophy, which is one of the more time-consuming of the bunch. In Movie Mode, players can decide if all characters live, all characters die, or they can make executive decisions regarding each character's personality that affect the outcome of the story.
Either way, the Creature Feature trophy will be awarded upon completion of Movie Mode at least once. The only problem is that it needs to play out to its end, like a real movie, which can take a few hours—and a whole other playthrough—in itself. Every other trophy speaks for itself; find all the tarot cards, watch all the premonitions, make certain choices, etc. Undoubtedly, The Quarry's Platinum is more time-consuming than necessarily challenging.
2 Blair Witch
Guides Make Tricky Collectibles Easier To Find
Blair Witch
- Released
- August 30, 2019
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Bloober Team
- Publisher(s)
- Lionsgate Games
- Franchise
- Blair Witch
- Genre(s)
- Survival Horror
- Platform(s)
- PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, Amazon Luna
Despite being a canon continuation of The Blair Witch Project, which is lauded as one of the greatest found-footage horror movies of all time, Bloober Team's Blair Witch is one of the lesser-known survival horrors, particularly in comparison to stand-out titles like Outlast, The Evil Within, and Amnesia. When following a guide, Blair Witch's Platinum trophy becomes ridiculously easy. Without it, players can expect to miss a lot of collectibles and interactions that are pivotal to achieving total completion. In general, the game's many enemies aren't too overwhelming, particularly with checkpoints saving players from the terrible inconvenience of permadeath mechanics.
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Not many players will be able to uncover Blair Witch's collectibles by themselves, so it's recommended to use a guide to save time and effort, even if it does take away from the game's unpredictability. Fighting or avoiding enemies isn't too demanding of a task, but sniffing out the collectibles makes the Platinum runs a lot more taxing. It's very common to find oneself wandering around and not knowing where to go, so guides cut out all the wasted hours of meandering about aimlessly for a quick and painless handful of playthroughs.
1 Dead By Daylight
Players Can Grind Out The Game's Platinum By Simply Playing
Dead by Daylight
- Released
- June 14, 2016
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Behaviour Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Behaviour Interactive
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- Genre(s)
- Horror, Survival
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Stadia, Switch, Mobile
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
It might sound obvious, but one of the easiest ways to grind toward Dead by Daylight' s Platinum trophy is by simply playing the game. A lot of the trophies are obtainable by playing endless trials, thereby tallying up the number of stuns, generator repairs, vaults, and other actions that all come part and parcel with the matches. Some trophies are relatively straightforward, whereas others require a little more strategy, and some skill does come into play. Dead by Daylight can only be Platinumed if players are familiar with both roles—Survivor and Killer—as specific trophies are only obtainable from one perspective or the other.
Even without making a conscious effort to horde trophies, players can grind through at least thirty or forty percent of the total achievements by simply joining matches and playing to their heart's desire. Some of the harder trophies include the Killer-centric ones, such as needing to kill all four Survivors with only that specific Killer's perks. A lot of the base trophies require actions to be completed tens and thousands of times, so the more matches played, the easier it is to tick off repetitive challenges.
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