8 Video Games That Reward You For NOT Levelling Up

When the darkness hides all sorts of monsters that will make you wet yourself with their outlines alone, FromSoftware titles like Dark Souls, Deamon's Souls, and Bloodborne really do push you to level up your character in order to even the rather overwhelming odds.

You'll find examples of players grinding out souls in order to hit harder than a freight train or tank enough damage to shrug off even the final bosses biggest attacks, however as with every aspect of these SoulsBorne games, if you want to get even more out of the experience, you're going to have to get a little mad.

For example, if you're a horrible griefer, then why not pick on new players by exploiting Dark Souls 1's broken Invasion system which attempts to match players up depending on their level and upgraded weapon power. If you choose to not level up then you can jump freely into new players games and have your fill, feasting on all the rewards you can.

However, if you want to dial up this rotter's rewards, why not head to Dark Souls 3? Here, if you're utterly insane, you could join the Path Of The Dragon Covenant without levelling up or upgrading your weapons, offer up 80 Dragon Scales and laugh your way to hell as you now invade low-level players' worlds and hit them with unarmed Dragon Form attacks that do damage high enough to one-shot most builds.

It's a true horror show, but an Evil player's dream.