10 Open-World Games That Punish You For 100%

The Assassin's Creed games get regularly ragged on for their stringent adherence to the "Ubisoft Formula," whereby the map is cluttered with a litany of peripheral gumpth blatantly intended to pad the experience out and increase its perceived "value."

But an equally dispiriting by-product of this is that, in the case of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, hoovering up all the side content makes the game so absurdly easy.

It doesn't help at all that Valhalla is by far the easiest of the series' open-world entries, and so with even a cursory amount of busy-work completed, you'll be able to soundly curb stomp the majority of what the main game throws at you.

Naturally anybody putting over 100 hours into a completionist run will end up doing a lot of tediously un-challenging work, even on higher difficulties.

Few people want an Assassin's Creed game to be Dark Souls, but the overall levelling system feels woefully unbalanced for anyone wandering off the main path.