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Video game challenges and trophies have become an integral part of the gaming landscape over the years. Whether you’re hunting for achievements on an Xbox console or pursuing that elusive platinum trophy on a PlayStation, there’s something endlessly satisfying about a digital high-five being beamed into your eyeballs from your TV screen when you nail a feat within a game.
And then there are those achievements which can only be described as a Herculean labor. Masochistic in their design, you’d have to be truly dedicated to a game to earn kudos from it for accomplishing something that very few players will even try to attempt. We’ve rounded up some of the toughest achievements in games below, in case you feel like taking a trip down the memory lane of video game malice.


