For some people, proving they’ve completed one hundred percent of a game is just as fun as playing the game itself. Since achievements on Steam and on consoles have been introduced, there have been fans who chase after that precious 100%. It shows what they believe is mastery of the game, and that they’ve done all there is to do in the game.
But some people want to get to 100% in as many games as possible as fast as possible, rushing through the games looking for that dopamine hit that comes from seeing their perfect score. For those gamers, it isn't so much about the journey as it is the destination.
10 Donut County Is A Puzzle Game Reminiscent Of Katamari Damacy
Ben Esposito created the popular Donut County while working on a completely different game. It’s a unique puzzle game where the player becomes a hole that clears each level of the game by finding a way to swallow everything in it. This game isn’t all that long, and at best the player might spend a couple of hours getting to the glory of reaching 100%. If they missed anything they can come back any time to whatever level they want and complete the hidden objectives.
9 Life is Strange Is A Time-Traveling Romance Novel
Life is Strange, as a series, has been one of the best things to happen to gaming. It’s a franchise about powers, but without conflict. At the core of the game is a mystery and a focus on romance, but violence rarely ever gets the player out of a situation. The first game takes about a dozen hours to complete, and getting the achievements is easy enough. Make sure to take a ton of pictures and finish the story and that will get the player almost all the way there. A guide might be necessary to wrap up the rest for those who don’t want to pay much attention.
8 A Bird Story Is A Story About A Boy And A Bird
In 2014, developer Freebird Games released A Bird Story. It’s not a long game, just a tiny experimental project the developer worked on after other games, including the award-winning To The Moon and Sigmund Minisode 1: A Holiday Special. A Bird Story is a pixel art game that takes about an hour to play through. It doesn’t have any dialogue but focuses on the relationship between a boy and an injured bird they have found. Getting the 100% is easy enough; just finish the game and that’s it.
7 Tales from the Borderlands Sends Players Through The Borderlands Universe
Gearbox’s Borderlands franchise isn’t for everyone. It takes people with a specific sense of humor to find it enjoyable, to say nothing of loving to shoot people with increasingly powerful guns. But Tales from the Borderlands is considered a game that even people who don’t love the Borderlands series can enjoy.
Developed by Telltale, this narrative adventure game isn’t much of a challenge either. As long as the player completes all five episodes of the game, they will get to brag about an easy 100%.
6 Subsurface Circular Lets Players Uncover What Happened To The Surface World
Bithell Games, known for Thomas Was Alone, came up with a pretty neat idea with Subsurface Circular. In this game, the player is a detective located on the Subsurface Circular who is looking for clues to the whereabouts of some disappeared robots. The game is entirely text-based, but along the way the player is able to discover what happened to the rest of the world as well. Considering the genre, it shouldn’t be shocking that this isn’t a difficult game, and it takes only a few hours to get through the dialogue and 100% the game.
5 Her Story Reveals The Story Of A Woman Being Interviewed By The Police
Her Story is from developer/publisher Sam Barlow. In the game, the player watches some old police station video footage from 1994 where a woman is being questioned by the police for information about her missing husband. Over the course of the game, the woman is interviewed seven times, slowly revealing what happened. For the player, all that’s necessary to get the 100% is to spend about an afternoon on the game, watching all the clips and piecing together the truth behind what really happened.
4 Back to the Future: The Game Sends The Doc And Marty Through Time
Telltale Games has been around a long time, it just took them a while to break through into the mainstream. One of their games that is going to appeal to fans of ‘80s movies more than anything is Back to the Future: The Game. Featuring Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and Michael J. Fox as the future Marty and Marty's ancestor William, the game feels like a fun continuation of the classic movie trilogy.
As far as getting the platinum, there’s not much of a challenge. There are a few things the player may miss on the first playthrough, but they can easily go back since the game is only a about twelve hours long.
3 Theme Park Simulator Asks Players To Enjoy Watching People On Rides
Best Ride Simulators created Theme Park Simulator for anyone who really misses bumper cars and cotton candy. People looking for an easy 100% might find the easiest one here. All it takes is looking at the people on the rides for five minutes apiece. There are ten rides in the game, so it would take the player about an hour to get all the achievements. So long as someone’s willing to waste an hour out of their day watching NPCs go on rides, they’ll be able to nab all the achievements here.
2 inFamous: First Light Is Just A Collectathon
Not enough credit is given to inFamous: First Light. Second Son was a fun game with the idea of switching powers, but First Light focused on the power players liked the most, neon. Being able to rush through the city at super-speed was a ton of fun. The game itself lasts about eight or nine hours, and most of the work for the platinum will involve some collectathon stuff that people can turn their brains off for. There is some minor difficulty in beating the challenges, but it’s still not going to take that long.
1 Batman: The Telltale Series Asks Players To Use Their Minds
Batman fans have likely already played through this title. How could they not? It was one of the last Batman titles they got before the entire video game world cooled on the character. The cool thing about Batman: The Telltale Series was that the player could switch between Bruce Wayne and Batman, and could choose to tackle many parts of the game as either version of the character. Like many Telltale Games, the only thing the player needs to do to 100% the game is to play through all the chapters.