10 Video Games That Punish You For Being Smart

10. Undertale Has A Tragic Twist For Levelling Up

In modern gaming, players can attain a thrilling power trip by maximising how they spend experience points and level up their characters. Shrewd use of upgrade trees, grinding for maximum points and indulging in these systems usually results in easier combat encounters and a larger gameplay toolset.

Undertale fully understood the player's desire to strive for more experience points gained from defeating enemies, and quite cruelly saved a twist surrounding this feature for the very end of the game. Early on you're told that you gain EXP for killing enemies and LV points increase attack power and player health. Naturally, because you've probably played a video game before, it's easy to assume these acronyms stand for 'experience points' and 'level' respectively - pretty standard stats in this medium.

The twist reveals this not to be the case however, as these stats have been tallying how much of a dick players have been during their play through. EXP actually stands for 'execution points', which according to character Sans is a "way of quantifying the pain you have inflicted on others." Similarly, 'LV' is actually gauging your own 'level of violence'.

Both stats have essentially been marking just how much of a murderous psycho you've been while playing Undertale, something which factors heavily into the title's twisted ending.