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Platinum Picker

You didn't pick this game... the crate did.
Add your PlayStation backlog, spin, and go earn whatever it lands on.
Series in order, DLC accounted for, no comfort picks.

Series rule: a game only enters the draw once every earlier game in its series is done.
DLC rule: games marked "DLC needed" sit out until you own the DLC.
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How to Use
01

Build your library

Add every PlayStation game you own or want to platinum. Add a game only needs a name, everything else can be filled in later. Got a big backlog? Paste a list takes a whole library at once, even just names, then hit ✨ Fill missing info and it fetches cover art, difficulty, time, guide links, platforms and more for the whole lot in one sweep.

02

Set the details

Difficulty out of 10, rough time, playthroughs needed, ownership, platforms (PS3 / PS4 / PS5 / Vita), online trophies, and DLC. Series games get a series name and a number, that's how the picker knows BioShock comes before BioShock 2. Hit 🔍 Find Game next to the name and pick your game from the list to give it proper box art. And mark ➕ PS Plus catalogue games as exactly that: catalogue games can leave the service, so it's worth knowing which platinums are on borrowed time.

03

Spin the crate

Hit Pick My Next Platinum and the crate spins through your eligible games before landing on one. Completed games, games waiting on an earlier title in their series, games missing DLC, and games you don't own all sit out automatically. Want a say without picking? Open ⚙️ Roll filters and cap the difficulty or time, go disc-only or digital-only, dodge online trophies, and more. Filters only shape the roll, the library below always shows everything.

04

Lock it in

Like the roll? Lock it in pins the game to the top of the page until it's done. Not feeling it? Roll again. No take-backs is more fun though, just saying.

05

Cross it off

Platinum earned? Hit Completed on the card. It drops to the bottom of the library, leaves the draw for good, and unlocks the next game in its series. The counter in the top corner keeps score.

06

Progress saves itself

Everything saves in your browser automatically. Want it safer than that? Hit Sign In in the top bar (Twitch or Discord, free) and your library also saves to your account, so it survives cleared browser data and follows you to any device. Staying signed out is fine too, just use the same browser and don't clear its data.

Why is a game locked? Every locked card says why at the bottom: already completed, an earlier series game isn't done, DLC is needed but not owned, you don't own the game, or you've flagged Earlier titles yourself (for series games you haven't added to the library, like owning Black Ops 6 without finishing Cold War). Fix the reason and the game joins the draw. Ticking Include games where I still need the DLC in the ⚙️ Roll filters lets "DLC needed" games roll anyway, go for the base platinum now and mop up the DLC trophies later.
Links: every game links to its trophy list and a guide. Until you paste in direct links, they fall back to a PSNProfiles search and a PowerPyx search for the game's name, so they work from the moment you add a game. Cover art comes from IGDB, and when you pick a game in 🔍 Find Game, its difficulty, time, guide links and platforms auto-fill too where the data exists, powered by PlatPrices. Auto-fill never overwrites anything you've already typed.
Danger zone: want to start over?
Our Curators

The trusted hunters keeping the community data honest. When the store's numbers are wrong, their corrections are what everyone gets instead. Contributions count every stat, guide link and DLC they've filled in for the rest of us.

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Update Log
v1.611 Sep 2026
  • The Platinum Cabinet, and the community gets sharper.
  • 🏆 The Platinum Cabinet: a new view under the search bar where every completed game becomes a permanent trophy card with its cover, platform and the date you earned it. Newest platinum first, with a running count for the year. Completion dates record automatically from now on
  • 🎁 Per-DLC "Included" state: the price button now cycles price → Owned → Included, for games where some DLC ships free (New Game+ updates) and some doesn't. Included verdicts are community-shared; what you've bought stays your business
  • 🔀 "It belongs to a different game": a new hide reason for DLC the store wrongly links to the wrong game in a franchise. Removes it from that game for everyone, without touching the DLC on its real game
  • 🔍 Find Game is now a full re-sync: curator-corrected values update the card even where something stale was already filled in. Series and number are community-shared too, so franchise numbering follows the hunters, not the store's sub-series guesses
  • Game matching got strict: a search can no longer land on the wrong game in a series (no more Darksiders II pulling Darksiders 1). No close match now honestly says "not found" instead of guessing
  • 🔄 Refresh library data in Settings: one button re-syncs every game against curator, community and store data, and retires the old fake 5/10 defaults to honest ?/10s
  • Store lookups went on a diet: prices and DLC refresh weekly instead of daily (PS Store sales last 14 days anyway), nothing refetches in the background without you asking, and the tool watches its own monthly data budget so it can never hit the wall mid-month
v1.55 Sep 2026
  • The curator update: trusted hunters take the wheel.
  • 🛡️ Curators: corrections from trusted hunters override both the crowd and the API's numbers when the API gets it wrong. Your own edits always beat everything on your own library, curator or not
  • A new "Our Curators" tab shows the roster with everyone's contribution count, because keeping the data honest deserves the spotlight
  • 🧩 DLC moved into the edit form: DLC trophies is a simple No / Yes / Included-with-the-game, and the game's DLC list shows right there, each with a price that flips to "Owned ✓" when you click it. "Included" is for remasters whose DLC trophies ship in the box, nothing to buy
  • ➕ Find DLC searches the store to attach add-ons, and ✍️ Add by name covers included and delisted DLC the store doesn't list. Type a DLC's difficulty and time right in its row, no detour to the card
  • 🤝 DLC attachments are community-shared: hand-attach a DLC to a game and it attaches for every hunter who adds that game after you
  • "No DLC" is now final: the daily store refresh respects your call instead of re-pulling a list you've said doesn't exist
  • ❓ Missing info stops nagging about PS3/Vita games you've filled in by hand
v1.45 Sep 2026
  • PS Plus, prices and polish.
  • ⏳ PS Plus departures: games about to leave the catalogue get a countdown tag, and once the date passes they switch to a locked icon and stop being rolled, with quick buttons to set what you actually own now. The leaving list is curated monthly
  • 💰 Not-owned games show their current PS Store price on the card, in yellow with a sale icon when they're discounted right now. Wishlisting has never been this dangerous
  • Quick filters under the toolbar: All · 💿 Disc · ☁️ Digital · PS Plus · 🚫 Wishlist · ❓ Missing info, for one-tap views of your library
  • ⚙️ Settings menu in the tab bar: import, export, Clear all, and a one-click splitter that turns old multi-platform entries into one card per platform
  • One platform per entry going forward: each platform is its own trophy list, so cards hold a single platform and ⧉ Duplicate clones a game for its other version. Pasted "PS4/5" rows split into two cards automatically
  • Fresh hand-made icons for PS Plus, left-the-catalogue, leaving-soon, and on-sale states
v1.35 Sep 2026
  • Adding games got a whole lot smarter.
  • 🔍 "Find cover" became "Find Game": picking a match now adopts the official title and fills the cover, difficulty, time, guide links, platform, trophy counts, genres, and the game's DLC list, all in one click
  • 📚 Series auto-fill: the series name and number fill in from release order. Big loose franchises like Call of Duty get the label without the numbering, so nothing gets locked behind games that don't need playing in order
  • ✨ The cover sweep grew up into "Fill missing info": one button fetches covers AND details for every game missing them. Paste a bare list of names, press one button, get a full library
  • Paste format reworked to match how people actually write lists: platform first, then name, then whatever you know in any order. "PS5 | Astro Bot | Digital" just works
v1.24 Sep 2026
  • The community update: the tool now fills itself in.
  • 🤝 Community stats: fill in a difficulty, time or playthrough count the guides don't cover (signed in) and it quietly fills everyone else's blanks. Served as the median, so one daft answer can't skew it
  • 🌐 The online-trophies tick and 🔗 direct guide links share the same way. Shared links only ever point to PSNProfiles, PowerPyx or PS3Trophies, anything else is rejected
  • Hiding a DLC now asks why: "no trophies" reports it, and once two hunters agree, that DLC stops showing up for everybody
  • ☠️ Unobtainable warnings: games with a dead platinum (shut-down servers and the like) get flagged and leave the draw, games where only the 100% is dead get a milder ⚠️. Powered by the PSNP+ community list, with a dismiss button if a flag doesn't apply to your version
v1.14 Sep 2026
  • The DLC update. Open a game's card and see its trophy DLC listed with counts, difficulty and time (yours to fill in where no guide data exists), current price with a 🔥 sale marker, and a delisted warning for DLC pulled from the store
  • Click a DLC's price when you own it and it flips to "Owned ✓". Names open the PS Store, stats open the guide where one exists
  • Season and expansion passes get their own row under the DLC list with current price and sale status
  • Auto-fill also brings in trophy counts (🏆🥇🥈🥉) and genre tags, shown on the detail popup
  • Guide links from auto-fill fall back to PSNProfiles guides when PowerPyx doesn't have one
v1.01 Sep 2026
  • Launch! Platinum Picker is live for everyone
  • ⚙️ Roll filters: cap the difficulty or time, roll disc-only or digital-only, only games with (or without) DLC, dodge or seek online trophies, and include games where the DLC is still missing. Filters remember themselves per browser and only shape the roll, never the library
  • 🖼️ Find missing covers (now ✨ Fill missing info): one button sweeps your whole library and fetches box art for every game that doesn't have it yet, perfect after pasting in a big list
  • ✨ One-click auto-fill: picking a game in 🔍 Find Game also fills in its guide difficulty, time to platinum, trophy guide links and platforms where the data exists (powered by PlatPrices), only ever into fields you left blank
  • Platform tags: mark each game PS3 / PS4 / PS5 / Vita and they show as tags under the title
  • ➕ PS Plus catalogue is its own ownership type, because catalogue games can leave the service and take your access with them. There's a matching roll filter too
  • 🗑️ Clear all button in the toolbar, and every warning (delete, clear, import-replace) is now a proper in-site popup instead of an ugly browser box
  • The roll button wears the new Platinum Picker logo
  • The example games ship with real cover art, so the crate looks proper from your very first visit
v0.31 Sep 2026
  • Cover art arrives: search IGDB by name when adding or editing a game and pick the right match from a list, or paste any image URL by hand
  • Covers show on the library cards, the pinned pick, the detail popup, and spin through the crate reel
  • The roll toggle became practical: instead of "include games I don't own", it now lets games you're only missing DLC for into the draw. Unowned games simply never roll
  • Digital ownership icon changed from ⬇️ to ☁️ so it reads at a glance next to the disc
v0.21 Sep 2026
  • New slim header matching the rest of the site's tools, with a proper back link and underlined tabs
  • Library cards are now a uniform size, with the ownership icon moved beside the edit buttons
  • Tidier toolbar: search, sort and all the library buttons on one line, save info moved above the search box, and the search box stopped hogging the whole row
  • The two picking rules (series order and DLC) are spelled out right under the roll button
v0.11 Sep 2026
  • First build: trophy-hunting library with difficulty, time, playthroughs, ownership, DLC and online-trophy tracking per game
  • Crate-spin picker that rolls a random eligible game, respecting series order and DLC ownership
  • Lock in a pick and it stays pinned at the top until the platinum pops
  • Bulk paste, JSON export and import, search and six sort orders
  • Optional account sync from day one: sign in with Twitch or Discord and your library follows you to any device