PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025

With New Year’s Day solidly in the rearview mirror, now is a great time to look back at everything we accomplished this year. Whether you scored a big promotion or graduated from university, now’s the time to reflect on what you knocked out of the park and how you can improve next year.

If you’re a trophy hunter, you probably want to see how many platinum trophies you’ve earned this year. The annual PlayStation Wrap-Up is here to answer all your data-related questions! Once you know where you stand in 2025, you can start setting goals for what you’d like to accomplish in 2026.

In this post, you will learn what the PlayStation Wrap-Up is, how to get ahold of yours, and a detailed analysis of the author’s statistics for 2025. Can you guess what PlayStation game comprised our favorite trophy hunt of the year?

What is PlayStation Wrap-Up?

PlayStation Wrap-Up is a service Sony runs on an annual basis to share personalized statistics and facts about how PlayStation players used their consoles throughout the year. It typically includes how many hours were played, the number of games launched, and the top games by playtime over the entire year. This information can also be viewed by month.

Technically, the very first year-in-review campaign was sent directly to players’ emails in 2017. The official website was launched in 2018 and has been maintained ever since. We now have the pleasure of viewing detailed information about our gaming sessions in December of every year.

There are a few quirks regarding the PlayStation Wrap-Up that all trophy hunters should be aware of. Unfortunately, content within the PlayStation Wrap-Up does not account for playtime on older generations of consoles, including the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Additionally, the service isn’t 100% accurate in its logging, so there may be some errors in your data. This is especially true for any gaming you do after the service is launched.

If you need perfectly accurate data for further analysis, you may need to do your own timekeeping. Otherwise, the PlayStation Wrap-Up can be a fun way to gain some insight into your trophy hunting exploits over the last year!

If you’d like to see your 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up, you can access it here.

My Year-in-Review

As it turns out, 2025 was a difficult year for my trophy hunting efforts. I earned 798 trophies, boosting my trophy level from 487 to 504. That’s an average of 2.19 trophies per day. Given my account’s long-term average of 2.44 trophies earned per day, that’s a slight downgrade.

Although the PlayStation Wrap-Up claims I earned 17 platinum trophies, I actually earned 18. The discrepancy is likely because I completed another platinum trophy right before the analysis was created. The games I completed in 2025 are below, ordered by date achieved:

1. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
2. Hogwart’s Legacy
3. Okami HD
4. Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
5. Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
6. Metaphor: ReFantazio
7. Kingdom Hearts II
8. Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
9. The House in Fata Morgana
10. Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip XXL
11. Final Fantasy XVI
12. Bad End Theater
13. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Remastered
14. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered
15. Resident Evil 6
16. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Remastered
17. Silent Hill f
18. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

If you’d like to know my thoughts about any of these games that haven’t explicitly been covered in an article, my entire trophy list can be found on this page. I provide either a recommendation or brief explanation on why I would avoid each title.

In 2025, I started gaming right off the bat on New Year’s Day. The first game I played was Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, a first-party Sony game that was released 3 years ago. I also balanced playing new games with older ones, as I have a reasonable split of PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games.

Although the PlayStation Wrap-Up shows Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus for my first trophy in January, I actually completed that title on December 31, 2024. Sony’s system must have gotten confused since it was right on the boundary between years.

The PlayStation Wrap-Up claims I played 40 games this year. If we trust the games played statistic on my account for PSN Profiles, my lifetime games amount to 270 in total. That means I played approximately 15% of my games at least once in 2025.

In order to earn all these trophies, I played on my PlayStation 5 console for 1,334 hours. This was derived from 620 play sessions and 40 games in total. That means I played an average of 2 hours per play session and averaged about 33 hours per game. I also spent approximately 25 hours per week gaming, which tracks as it’s my primary hobby.

It’s worth noting that there is one PlayStation Vita title that I have put a decent number of hours into that isn’t shown in the statistics above. That game is Tales of Hearts R, and my save file is at about 40 hours.

My top 5 games of the year are a bit surprising to me, the more I scroll down the list. Metaphor: ReFantazio sitting proudly in the number one spot is the most iconic one of the bunch. I adored that game and absolutely loved every moment of my time with it. So much so that I put together a trophy guide with fancy calendars to make the experience as streamlined as possible for other players. It’s an RPG that calls for multiple playthroughs (of which I personally re-experienced fully by reading all dialogues and such), so it tracks that it consumed so much of my time this year.

The Kingdom Hearts collection of games in second place is also a no-brainer if you look at my platinum trophies for this year. I completed three distinct Kingdom Hearts games in 2025: Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, Kingdom Hearts II, and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. The series is generally known for its difficult and time-consuming trophies, of which I can attest. That’s why I have a decently high playtime in the collection.

However, the title in third gives me pause. Really, Call of Duty: Black Ops III? It’s a first-person shooter that I’ve already earned the platinum trophy for a few years ago. While it’s true that I’ve started having weekly play sessions with some friends where we do a few rounds of Zombies, I’m surprised it’s overtaken nearly everything else on my list. The hours represented here were not trophy hunting hours, but rather casual sessions.

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom in the fourth slot is a title I’d rather not talk about, so it’s ironic that it’s been boosted onto my page by this article of all things. Just when I thought I’d gotten away from throwing the gavel down on it. I didn’t really like this game personally, so I’m a bit annoyed that it evidently made it on my top 5 games played for the year. Still, it’s a JRPG, so you can expect a gauntlet of a trophy set.

Kingdom Hearts III is an interesting case for the fifth and final listing. I actually earned the platinum trophy for this game many years ago, in 2019. However, this was the year that I decided to go back for many of the DLC trophies. This includes fighting all the secret/super bosses and doing a brand-new playthrough with hard modifiers that includes fighting those bosses again. It’s seriously an undertaking, so don’t underestimate it. Hence, my playtime was pretty significant here.

My PlayStation Wrap-Up includes a few more details I found interesting that I’d like to share. They’re nothing groundbreaking, but do serve as fun tidbits. Below are three more panels that we’ll be discussing:

I laughed out loud when I saw the page that shows the value you’re getting out of PlayStation Plus. Despite having been a member for so many years, I have rarely gotten much out of the service, to be honest. That is displayed quite clearly here. I’m not sure which PS Plus title it is, which is mildly infuriating as it’ll almost certainly be gnawing at me for days. That said, I do claim the titles every month and play online with enough regularity that it is worth it to me. Not to mention, the ever-annoying presence of online trophies.

Lastly, my social stats. Please don’t roast me for being an irredeemable introvert, folks. I spent just under 100 hours in multiplayer games, joined almost 60 parties, sent just over 20 messages, and added 3 new friends. The hours and parties are almost certainly from my friends and me gambling away all our points at the mystery box in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The messages were actually mostly sent to strangers, who asked for my help in one way or another. And the friends, well… Who can say?

Trophy Milestones

Instead of showing detailed statistics per month, the PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025 gives us our data broken out by common trophy milestones. In this case, they cover the first trophy, 10th trophy, 25th trophy, 50th trophy, 100th trophy, every increment of 100 trophies beyond that, then ending with the latest trophy earned. It is possible that at a certain point, it may take even more trophies to get a separate milestone. Only a more accomplished trophy hunter than me could say definitively.

Of the games captured on these milestones, several were already discussed above. I won’t get into my gripes with Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom here either. Metaphor: ReFantazio, Kingdom Hearts, and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 were also already covered.

Tales of Graces f Remastered is still in progress, a whole year since I started it. I’ve been approaching it more leisurely as I’ve technically already earned its platinum trophy on PlayStation 3. It’s also another JRPG, and as you can see from the list of games I’ve completed in 2025 above, I suffered no lack of this year.

Hogwarts Legacy is a game I wavered on playing for several years. It’s an open-world RPG set in the Harry Potter universe, set many years before the events of the books. I grew up reading this series, but never felt a deep attachment to it. The game itself was actually quite enjoyable, however.

Reynatis is a very niche title that I dipped my toes into last year. I picked it up due to its relationship with both Crystar and Crymachina, two games that I enjoyed dearly. What they all have in common is hack-and-slash gameplay and an emotionally gripping story. Well, I can’t promise anything with Reynatis just yet since I’m still pretty early.

Final Fantasy XVI is another game I finished this year that I’ve been avoiding discussing. It’s the latest mainline entry in the Final Fantasy series, excluding remakes and numbered sequels. While I enjoyed some aspects of the game, I ultimately walked away pretty disappointed. I’m not saying any particular reader will like or dislike Final Fantasy XVI, but I’d certainly recommend exercising some caution before picking it up for yourself.

Digimon Story Time Stranger is yet another title that’s still in progress despite having been started a while ago. However, it’s at the top of my list to be completed. It’s a JRPG (go figure) with an incredibly fun gameplay loop and a detailed, lived-in world to explore. I’m not sure how far into the game I am, but I’ve loved everything so far. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, though, I am a big Digimon fan!

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection comprises both Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. I’m not surprised at all that an Uncharted game ended up somewhere on the milestone tracker, seeing as I went through and cleaned up the entire series in 2026. These final two entries were a breath of fresh air after the gauntlet the original trilogy served.

Lastly, Resident Evil Revelations was the most recent pick-up. I’ve already gone through a significant chunk of the Resident Evil series and earned their platinum trophies. With Resident Evil 6 very nearly completed, it was only natural to start moving on to the next. I picked Revelations since one of my all-time favorite entries was Revelations 2. (Funnily enough, we’re working backwards here.) I’m still very early, but am having fun.

Looking at the dates on these milestone trophies, I hit about 100 trophies a month when I was able to play consistently. That tracks with last year’s total of about 1,200 trophies. Yet, this year, I only actualized 800 for the entire year. Why so different?

That’s because I had a lot of other non-virtual things taking up my time: some good, some bad. The most significant among these were that I had another surgery and started coming to terms with an important diagnosis. The medical details aren’t really relevant here, except for the fact that it totally got in the way of me gaming (and writing)!

My Game of the Year

I’ve played a lot of games this year. I bounced between old and new games of many genres while hunting for trophies. Some were amazing adventures, and others were painful lessons. But what video game was my favorite?

Seeing as I’ve played 40 games this year and earned 18 platinum trophies, you’d think it would be difficult to choose one as a favorite. Yet, when I really think about it, there’s no question. So many of the games I played this year were intolerable by my tastes.

The one game that I enjoyed the most this year would have to be…

Anyone who’s played Metaphor: ReFantazio can speak to the insane quality of the turn-based gameplay, riveting narrative beats, authentic dialogue, believable character design, beautiful music… Name any aspect of video game development, and this game probably has it in spades.

I’ve been following the title’s development cycle ever since it was first announced under the name Metaphor: ReFantazio in 2023. I’m a huge fan of Atlus’ works, having played the Persona games thoroughly and dabbled in Shin Megami Tensei. One of my favorites has always been the very quirky title, Catherine.

Although Catherine was published by Atlus, it was actually developed by a different team than the Persona games. Persona is generally handled by P-Studio, while Catherine (and Metaphor: ReFantazio) were handled by Team Zero.

I am so glad that I watched this game so closely. The only thing I would have loved to see more of in this game would have been more romance. Whether a full-fledged dating mechanic (optimistic) or just a few more scenes built into the story (more realistic), I would have been a big fan.

Although I’ve yet to play Astro Bot for myself, and I know it will be a good game when I do, it destroys me that it won the official Game of the Year designation for 2024 over Metaphor: ReFantazio. I just cannot fathom how such a high-quality title that sustains itself for more than 100 hours of meaningful gameplay could lose out to a short platformer. Again, I haven’t played it yet, so I could change my mind.

Outside of Metaphor: ReFantazio, other favorites this year would be Silent Hill f and Kingdom Hearts II. They were both incredibly memorable experiences that had great trophy lists. I enjoyed the many playthroughs of Silent Hill f, and Kingdom Hearts II was a big childhood favorite that certainly held up.

Goals for Next Year

In 2025, I wrote several goals for myself. Now that the year is over, we will discuss whether they’ve been reached and set new goals for what I’d like to accomplish in 2026.

• Earn a platinum trophy at least every two weeks.
  • Verdict: Not Reached.
  • With 18 platinum trophies earned in 2025, I earned a platinum trophy about every 3 weeks. To stay on track, I needed to earn 26 platinum trophies this year.
• Get my completion rate above 85%.
  • Verdict: Not Reached.
  • Last year, I pointed out that this might be a stretch goal. Unfortunately, it did end up being too optimistic. I hovered around 80% this year, mostly because I keep starting new games without finishing old ones (poor discipline). You can tell because my side goal of cutting down on incomplete games actually moved in the wrong direction. Last year, I had 66 games on my profile that were incomplete; now, I have 74.
• Complete specific “White Whale” games.
  • Verdict: Partially Reached.
  • Last year, I specifically pointed out the following games that I really wanted to complete: Monster Roadtrip, Tales of Hearts R, and Okami HD. In 2025, I unlocked the platinum trophies for Monster Roadtrip and Okami HD, and I am actually almost finished with Tales of Hearts R.
• Reach 200 total platinum trophies.
  • Verdict: Not Reached.
  • Alas, as of today, I am sitting at 194 platinum trophies. So close.
• Hit PlayStation level 500.
  • Verdict: Reached.
  • I am currently at PlayStation Level 504. Yay!

Looking back on my goals from last year, I whiffed on quite a few metrics. It’s a little disappointing, but you can’t win them all. I’m hoping that I’ll do better in 2026. Below are what I hope to accomplish next year:

• Earn a platinum trophy at least every two weeks.
  • I don’t intend to change this goal because I don’t enjoy playing shovelware titles. Upping the rate of platinum trophies achieved would eventually require these kinds of games to keep up. (As it turns out, I couldn’t even hit this rate in 2025!)
• Get my completion rate above 85%.
  • I want to keep this goal as-is because I think it is achievable, so long as I can stay focused. That means not chasing after every new shiny thing that crosses my path.
  • I still maintain that this might be a stretch goal since many of the games remaining on my backlog are either incredibly long, difficult, or impossible to complete at this point.
  • This is a necessary step toward my long-term goal of a 90% completion rate.
• Complete specific “White Whale” games.
  • In 2025, I finished several “White Whale” games that have been haunting me. The titles that most interest me this upcoming year are:
    • Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, to complete the Kingdom Hearts series;
    • Trine: Enchanted Edition, to cross it off my list with vigor;
    • Final Fantasy X-2 HD, to complete an unconventional childhood marvel that has remained on my list untouched since 2016.
• Reach 200 total platinum trophies.
  • Can I leave myself an easy one? This is still my next big trophy hunting milestone. I don’t suppose 225 platinum trophies would be reasonable when I’m currently at 194.
• Hit PlayStation level 525.
  • I went up 20 PlayStation levels (486 to 506) in 2025. I’d like to keep up the pace and shoot for a similar result.
  • This doesn’t seem like much, but the higher level you get, the more points you need to earn to continue climbing the ranks.

Reflection

Overall, I’m happy with the trophies I’ve earned this year. I kept my completion rate above 80% and knocked out several titles that were important to me. Although I didn’t meet many of my goals, that doesn’t mean I’m any less of a trophy hunter. We all have low periods where it can be tough to manage everything we want to do. This hobby is all about consistency in the long-term, so don’t give up. Plus, it’ll be even easier to outbeat 2025’s score in 2026 with even more platinum trophies!

My year was busy enough that my trophy hunting statistics dropped by a third. That means I was only doing 67% as much as I did in 2024. Fair’s fair that I probably played harder/longer games in 2025—which probably meant every trophy earned took longer—but it’s still a jarring drop for anyone who lives and breathes numbers. Still, I hope that my numbers make you feel better about yours!

Did you accomplish everything you hoped to this year? What trophy hunting goals will you be working toward in 2026? Feel free to share details about your PlayStation Wrap-Up below! If you want to read more personal commentary, check out my article about my controversial trophy hunting hot takes.