Trophies are a source of pride for some gamers, they typically represent a mastery of particular elements of a game with the platinum trophy representing full mastery of said game. In some ways they demonstrate a player’s skill and ability at playing games, at least this was the intent when trophies were introduced on PS3 games.
There are a number of platinum trophies that are incredibly easy to obtain due to a number of factors. If you’re looking to pad your platinum trophy collection here are some easy ones you can spend an afternoon obtaining. Be warned though that some of these can be embarrassing to have in your collection and you’re better off talking about the total number of trophies you have rather than getting into specifics.
10 Alone In The Dark: Inferno
Cheesy to some a decent survival horror game for others, Alone In The Dark: Inferno contains an easy to obtain platinum trophy, assuming that you don’t mind cheating a little bit. While most games prevent you from obtaining trophies if you cheat, Inferno doesn’t seem to mind.
Using the Infinite Ammo cheat the game becomes a simple shooter and you can breeze through the necessary challenges to obtain the platinum in a few hours. It also has the benefit of being a decent enough game that it won't raise eyebrows to have this trophy in your collection.
9 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Based on the charming children’s movie and book of the same name, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is a simple platformer that has you saving the world with the aid of certain gadgets and companions.
You’ll earn most of the trophies through a single playthrough, and afterward, you can revisit specific areas to find collectibles to meet the remaining requirements for a platinum. It’s a children’s movie tie-in so it’s nothing groundbreaking, but its decent enough for some fun and an easy trophy.
8 WWE: Legends Of Wrestlemania
WWE: Legends Of Wrestlemania is your generic wrestling game that has you facing off against various legends in the WWE world. To get the trophies for this game you’ll need to play the different game modes that have you stepping into the boots of famous wrestlers or creating a character of your own design.
Considering the game received mediocre reviews due to a lack of difficulty it shouldn’t take much effort to breeze through this and beat the various challenges. It might take a little longer if fighting-style games aren’t your forte, but you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly and have a shiny trophy in no time.
7 Hannah Montana The Movie
Depending on your circle of friends this is probably the game on this list to make you the butt of a few jokes. In Hannah Montana The Movie you recreate the premise of the movie’s storyline as the famous singer. To get the trophies you need to successfully complete the adventure, get five stars for each song you perform, and beat the various mini-games with flying colors.
The rhythm-based gameplay might trip up a few gamers, but all-in-all it shouldn’t be much of a challenge. This is one of those trophies you want to be buried in your list of accomplishments and hope no one takes too close a look.
6 Goosebumps: The Game
Goosebumps: The Game is a point and click adventure that has you trying to escape various monsters from the famous book series. In fact, the game is considered a prequel to the movie series with Jack Black.
There isn’t anything terribly complicated or taxing in this game and getting the trophies will take a few playthroughs. The only one that might be a bit tricky is you have to beat the game in a limited number of turns, but you can figure it out with a bit of save-scumming or through a guide.
5 Disney’s Up
Based on the classic Pixar movie, Up is a fairly short game that has you step in the shoes of the movie's various characters to overcome obstacles and progress the story, it’s a very rough precursor to games like A Plague Tale: Innocence.
Beating the game shouldn’t take you too long as there are only a few levels and the puzzles aren’t terribly complicated. The collectibles can be tricky without a guide and you do need a friend to help you in multiplayer to get a trophy, but it’s a great game for a quick trophy nevertheless.
4 Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange achieved a fair amount of commercial success and has a dedicated cult following who debate which ending was the good ending to this day. It’s also known as one of the easier platinum trophies to acquire for the PS3.
The majority of trophies will occur naturally in a single playthrough, the only one you really have to pay attention to is collecting all of the photos. But with a guide, you’ll snag this trophy in a few hours.
3 Terminator Salvation
The infamous Terminator Salvation was a game with a lot of potential and hype, but ultimately failed to deliver and felt like a meager cash grab thanks to repetitive fights, short length, and very little difficulty.
For platinum trophy hunters this game is wonderful as you’re tasked with simply beating the game on the hardest difficulty, a feat made easy by the aforementioned lack of difficulty. Just don’t spend too long wondering why they didn’t take a little more time to turn it into what could have been a great game.
2 Trivial Pursuit
Trivial Pursuit might make some players hesitant to pick up for the platinum trophy if they’re bad at trivia in real-life, but according to many players who’ve played the game and obtained the trophy it really isn’t too hard. Even if you find it is you always have the internet full of answers at your fingertips.
It’ll take a little bit of time, no longer than a few hours, to answer correct questions in each category, get a series of answers correct without any mistakes, and strangely enough get a number of them wrong in a row and you’ll have a trophy.
1 The Walking Dead
This entry might be painful for some given how beloved The Walking Dead series by Telltale Games is to quite a few players, but it’s arguably one of the easiest platinum trophies to earn. All it takes is beating the game.
You read that right, there is no collectible hunting, no time limits, no variations on certain decisions, you don’t even need specific characters to be alive at the end. Simply beat the game any way you wish and you’ll have a platinum trophy in your collection.