20 Video Games That Punish You For Being Too Skilled

20. Words Overkill - Typing Of The Dead

Typing of the Dead is a bizarre horror game in which you fight a horde of ravenous zombies by typing words on your keyboard, as if you were trapped in some really messed-up version of the Spelling Bee.

The game’s silly premise and its cheesy sense of humor might make you believe that the gameplay is a walk in the park, but in reality, the game’s difficulty can spike quite drastically.

Especially for those who think typing words really fast is the easiest challenge in the world.

Although the game doesn’t really tell you this, Typing of the Dead has a secret dynamic difficulty scaling. When you type words really fast and don’t make any mistakes, the game will give you longer and more complex words until you’re stuck typing in entire sentences within a short amount of time.

The difficulty changes are absolutely brutal, which is why it’s better to deliberately make mistakes to avoid having to type the equivalent of Shakespearean dialogue every time they have to kill a zombie.

It makes sense that zombies would target smarter players more aggressively, though. Their brains would be like A5 Wagyu to them!