{"id":1716522,"date":"2026-10-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JYWDnPx9K92wqvZRfhZZe6"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:00:00","slug":"im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m the type of player who loves to 100% a game&#8217;: SungWon Cho on achievement hunting, why he doesn\u2019t like multiplayer games, and the one Balatro joker that nearly drove him to despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Disk Cleanup<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"DEwkbfkEmfdtjT5P9ybme\" name=\"logo_disk_cleanup\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Disk Cleanup logo\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">Welcome to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/tag\/disk-cleanup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Disk Cleanup<\/a>, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like &#8220;How tidy is your desktop?&#8221; and &#8220;What game will you never uninstall?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SungWon Cho got into PC gaming through the children&#8217;s adventure games developed by Humongous Entertainment. &#8220;Games like Freddi Fish, Spy Fox, those really stuck with me,&#8221; says the YouTuber and actor. &#8220;I remember playing those at a pretty young age and just being obsessed with the characters, the dialogue. I don&#8217;t really play adventure games now, but I did then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cho gained a following on YouTube through his viral comedy skits such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPUgjy-Pn-4\">a villain who unintentionally always does helpful things<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EBIsZlV1jHk\">when you have a really good turn in a card game<\/a>, building a channel that today has almost four million subscribers. Alongside producing his own videos, Cho has become a prominent voice in gaming and animation, with roles that include Ratatoskr in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/god-of-war-ragnarok-pc-review\/\">God of War: Ragnarok<\/a>, Abby Saja in the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters, and most recently, the narrator in Paramount&#8217;s Golden Axe animated series. He also appeared in 2023&#8217;s riotous comedy-drama <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlackBerry_(film)\">Blackberry<\/a>, which charts the rise and fall of the Canadian mobile phone company.<\/p>\n<p>Cho stepped away from the mic to give me a guided tour of his Steam library, which he reserves specifically for games he wants to lock into: &#8220;If I know I&#8217;m going to be obsessed with a game, I like to play it on PC,&#8221; he says. Truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-game-are-you-currently-playing\">What game are you currently playing?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2027px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.24%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"LsPmaUXBfMJBCjcQCFQdeB\" name=\"dd1\" alt=\"Dave the Diver and his friends\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2027\" height=\"1140\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Mintrocket)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On PC, I&#8217;m not playing anything currently. I think the last game I got really into on PC was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dave-the-diver-review\/\">Dave the Diver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I knew Dave the Diver would be dangerous for me. I heard people describing the gameplay loop. With PC games, I feel like I need to prepare myself. With Dave the Diver, I had a stretch of time where I was like &#8220;Okay, I can just become obsessed with this game.&#8221; My wife and I will take turns, and sometimes if we&#8217;re really into a game it&#8217;s like &#8220;Hey, you&#8217;re not going to see me. Like in the evenings, you&#8217;re not going to see me. This is what I&#8217;m going to be doing.&#8221; And we are both totally fine with that.<\/p>\n<p>I think the gameplay loop is very satisfying. You get the fish. You cook them up. The art is great. I was very impressed with all of it. I think it was just a joy to play through.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-was-the-previous-game-you-played-and-is-it-still-installed\">What was the previous game you played, and is it still installed?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"CTpmfu9VAYACZEhafzvqJM\" name=\"hades 2 key art\" alt=\"Key art of Hades 2. Melinoe raises her ghostly green arm above her head with magical stars and streaks around her. The dark violet background is split between a view of constellations and a skeleton man.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Supergiant Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/hades-2\/\">Hades 2<\/a>. That was another one that I had to be prepared for in advance. I 100%-ed it. I played it for like 120 hours. I was obsessed. I love the Hades games.<\/p>\n<p>I specifically waited [until 1.0] because I&#8217;m not the type of player who likes to do early access. I like to wait &#8217;till it&#8217;s done so that when I dive in, it all feels new. I had not played any of it in early access. Oh, I forgot to mention, it is still installed, even though I&#8217;m not playing it right now. I&#8217;m just lazy.<\/p>\n<p>I like the second one more. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a controversial take or not, but I really like the main character. I like the casting system that they added to it. The fact that there were two paths, going up or down, I thought that was fun. The new characters are great. Yeah, and I really loved the first one.<\/p>\n<p>I also felt like the second one added more challenge. I enjoyed the increased challenge. Looking back on Hades 2, I just loved it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-the-oldest-game-by-release-date-currently-installed-on-your-pc\">What is the oldest game (by release date) currently installed on your PC?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:921px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.24%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fcokHtHZGiJaGpFzZmQM2c\" name=\"VVVVVV.jpg\" alt=\"An upside down guy navigating through spikes.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"518\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Terry Cavanagh)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not sure why it&#8217;s this one. I mean, it&#8217;s a good game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/vvvvvv\/\">VVVVVV<\/a>. I think that&#8217;s the oldest game I have technically installed, and I don&#8217;t remember why it&#8217;s installed. We played it on my Let&#8217;s Play channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@prozdplaysgames\">ProZD Plays Games<\/a>, and I think I just wanted to check something about it. I forget how many hours I played. It&#8217;s a great game. <\/p>\n<p>The one that was closest to oldest was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/civilisation-v-review\/\">Civilization 5<\/a>. I played a lot of Civ 5 \u2026 I actually have never played any of the other ones. I haven&#8217;t even played Civ 6 yet. I think there&#8217;s a delusional part of me that&#8217;s like, &#8220;well, I&#8217;m going to get all the achievements one day.&#8221; Which obviously I&#8217;m never going to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the type of player who loves to 100% a game \u2026 I know not everyone loves achievements. They&#8217;re kind of divisive. I enjoy them because they encourage me to try things I probably normally wouldn&#8217;t try. Not to say that I couldn&#8217;t try them anyway, but sometimes like &#8220;Oh, just play this game in a weird way just to get this little sticker&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a person who loves checking off lists. I love checklists. Like some of my most played games, you&#8217;ll see why I 100%-ed them is because it&#8217;s that kind of game. Hades 1 and 2 are that. My favourite games to play on PC are ones where I can have, on my second monitor, just a list, or a paper list in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Which sounds torturous to some people, but for me, that&#8217;s like my bliss.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-the-highest-number-of-hours-you-have-in-any-given-game-according-to-steam\">What is the highest number of hours you have in any given game, according to Steam?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"zTtwSy6iCk2Qd4exp5pfWV\" name=\"20240219142722_1.jpg\" alt=\"A hand of cards in Balatro.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: LocalThunk)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s an easy answer. Let me get the exact number of hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/balatro\/\">Balatro<\/a>. I 100%-ed it. 354 hours.<\/p>\n<p>That is one of the best games of all time for me. I love that game. It consumes you. I refuse to play it on mobile because I know that&#8217;s bad for me. With PC, it&#8217;s like &#8220;Well, I can only do it when I&#8217;m at home.&#8221; If I had access to that on my phone, it&#8217;d be really bad.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the hardest achievement on that is [getting gold] with every joker in the game. I chronicled my struggle because I had one joker left, the fucking obelisk, which, I hate that joker. That joker sucks. But it&#8217;s a rare joker. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicsofmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-23-at-12.47.32%E2%80%AFAM.png\">really funny image<\/a> that went viral, where it&#8217;s me in despair at my computer, hands on my head with the little win screen \u2026 I got so good at the game that I could beat it on the gold stake very easily, but then it became a hunt, and so I would get to the final part where I&#8217;m like &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;m about to win.&#8221; And I would just start cycling through jokers, like &#8220;Where is this thing&#8221; and it would <em>not<\/em> show up.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges in that game are also very difficult. There&#8217;s a whole challenge section. Those got really brutal, and I would never want to do those again. One of the hardest ones is Jokerless, where you have zero joker slots. That&#8217;s not fun. That was brutal. There&#8217;s another one called Cruelty where big blinds just don&#8217;t give you money\u2014also miserable. Most of the challenges were fun. But there are a couple, some of the last ones, that were a slog.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-game-will-you-never-ever-uninstall\">What game will you never, ever uninstall?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"FLeuFoYa2zgwZuym3Ts4Qb\" name=\"nerts online.jpg\" alt=\"Six different games of solitaire on one green table.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair-4.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Zachtronics)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have a great answer for you, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1131190\/NERTS_Online\/\">Nerts Online!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nerts is a card game. I&#8217;ve played it in person and I play it online. It&#8217;s basically chaotic, competitive solitaire, where you&#8217;re all trying to get your cards in a pile as quickly as you can in real time by basically, you&#8217;re playing solitaire in front of you and throwing cards in the middle, like into their piles. There&#8217;s a free version of it, just called Nerts Online.<\/p>\n<p>I will never uninstall it because it&#8217;s so fun to play. I have over 100 hours. It plays quite well, considering it&#8217;s also a free game. I&#8217;m very good at the game as well, and I have some friends who are also very good, so it&#8217;s really fun to compete. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a multiplayer guy. I don&#8217;t really like multiplayer games, but Nerts Online is the one exception because I&#8217;m a big board game guy \u2026 I much prefer single-player games. I think, one, I don&#8217;t want to be depending on\u2014this sounds petty\u2014but I don&#8217;t want to be dependent on trying to schedule with other people. I just want to play a game. Especially as we&#8217;re all getting older, we&#8217;re busy adults, it&#8217;s harder and harder to find time.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve had some not great experiences with multiplayer games, where it&#8217;s like if everyone else knows how to play, they leave you behind in the dust, that king of thing where [they&#8217;re like] &#8220;We&#8217;ll teach you! We&#8217;ll teach you!&#8221; and then as soon as you start up, they just zoom off and you&#8217;re like, &#8220;Well, fuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But even then, if I only have a limited amount of time to play games, I want to dedicate it to single-player \u2026 I just have so many games I want to play single-player that it&#8217;s like, well, multiplayer games can just eat up your time if you&#8217;re not careful. And not to diminish them, but I feel like, to me, they&#8217;re less nutritious for my personal taste. I feel like I want to experience a memorable single-player thing instead of &#8220;Oh, I just kind of, not threw away three hours, but I played a bunch of this multiplayer game [and] I don&#8217;t remember that much of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-39-s-a-piece-of-non-gaming-software-installed-on-your-pc-that-you-simply-couldn-39-t-live-without\">What&#8217;s a piece of non-gaming software installed on your PC that you simply couldn&#8217;t live without?<\/h2>\n<p>This will tell you a lot about me and how tech illiterate I am. I refuse to learn how to use Photoshop or anything like that. I have no idea how to use that stuff. If I need to edit and image, I use Microsoft Paint. That tells you how little I know or care about learning new technologies. I&#8217;m like &#8220;Well, this is what I know. I don&#8217;t care enough to learn a whole new thing. I&#8217;ll just use Paint.&#8221; If I need to crop an image, I&#8217;ll just open-up Paint.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"generally-how-tidy-is-your-desktop-screen\">Generally, how tidy is your desktop screen?<\/h2>\n<p>Dude, I&#8217;m a disaster. Right now, it&#8217;s shameful. I&#8217;m friends with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/ray-chase-the-voice-of-cyclops-in-x-men-97-has-1-000-freaking-hours-in-slay-the-spire-and-is-running-a-smell-build-in-kingdom-come-deliverance-2-i-wear-perfumes-and-walk-into-battle-with-my-fancy-boy-outfit\/\">Ray Chase<\/a> and I was reading his, and he&#8217;s like &#8220;Oh yeah, I only have one folder&#8221; or something like that. Looking at mine, it&#8217;s disgusting. <\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re in my line of work, you often have to sign a lot of contracts, like PDFs and stuff. Looking at my desktop, it&#8217;s just filled with random PDFs. I have random screenshots. I don&#8217;t even look at my desktop. The desktop to me is just another folder and it&#8217;s nasty.<\/p>\n<p>You know what, I&#8217;m gonna tell you, right now, how many\u2014oh my God!\u2014I have, on my desktop, 260 individual files. Yep. It&#8217;s just a disaster. Again, I&#8217;m lazy. I&#8217;m like &#8220;Eh, I&#8217;ll do it later&#8221;. If I need to post an image, I&#8217;ll just save it on my desktop, and then it&#8217;s just lying there.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-percent-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like &#8220;How tidy is your desktop?&#8221; and &#8220;What game will you never uninstall?&#8221; SungWon Cho got into PC gaming through the children&#8217;s adventure games developed by Humongous Entertainment. &#8220;Games like Freddi Fish, Spy Fox, those really stuck with me,&#8221; says the YouTuber and actor. &#8220;I remember playing those at a pretty young age and just being obsessed with the characters, the dialogue. I don&#8217;t really play adventure games now, but I did then.&#8221; Cho gained a following on YouTube through his viral comedy skits such as &#8220;a villain who unintentionally&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/im-the-type-of-player-who-loves-to-100-a-game-sungwon-cho-on-achievement-hunting-why-he-doesnt-like-multiplayer-games-and-the-one-balatro-joker-that-nearly-drove-him-to-despair\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1716523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1716522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;I&#039;m the type of player who loves to 100% a game&#039;: SungWon Cho on achievement hunting, why he doesn\u2019t like multiplayer games, and the one Balatro joker that nearly drove him to despair | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Disk Cleanup(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. 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