8 Hardest Video Game Trophies & Achievements Of 2021 (So Far)

8. Ripe For The Picking - Hitman 3

As what are now some of gaming's most complex play-spaces - killing playgrounds of slapstick carnage and specificity in equal measure - Hitman 3 rounds out IO Interactive's Hitman trifecta with some of the most enjoyable levels yet.

While there are tons of finicky, "right place, right time" achievements across the board, "Ripe for the Picking" is in itself a trilogy of challenges that are VERY hard to get right.

To trigger the trophy you'll have to kill three targets in three annoyingly tricky ways. The first is dropping target Tamara Vidal into a grape crusher... that happens to be located in full view of a ton of NPCs. You can eventually unlock a starting location that eases up this portion of the challenge, but in itself, it's a tough task.

Second is getting Don Yates to drink a specific glass of poisoned wine, which is a nightmare to set up, and third is killing both of them at the same time with the same type of lethal gas. The latter requires getting them into the same room, and you to be in the right place, with the right item to trigger said gas, so it disperses and actually connects at the right time.

Needless to say, trophy data at time of writing shows less than 2% of all players have managed to achieve this on PlayStation.