Games That Punish You for Being a Completionist

The roundup spotlights games that deliberately frustrate completionists with joke rewards, purchasable trophies, or mocking endings.

Breath of the Wild gives Hestu’s Gift for all Korok Seeds, a reward widely seen as useless rather than satisfying.

NieR: Automata even lets players buy achievements, turning the usual trophy chase into a satire of completionism.

The piece shows how some games treat 100% play as a joke, making the final payoff feel meaningless.