I had to stop playing survival-in-zombie-apocalypse mobile games because they do this. The same enemies on the same maps have different HP depending on your level, so for someone like me who would play on the easy setting if there was one (life is hard enough, when I play games I'm not looking to challenge myself, just for easy wins), who prefers to grind a little first and build up a nice camp and arsenal before I brave proper battle (my least favourite part), there is no point, because by the time I've done that I've levelled up several times (hard not to do at the start of a game) and the enemies I face become overwhelming and it becomes too stressful for me to enjoy (though so would fighting from the get go, so even if I play the "proper" way, I still don't have fun).

I get that many people thrive on that kind of stress and edge-of-the-seat-ness, and enjoy the brutal competitiveness of it all, but some of us just want to wonder around a world picking up shit at our own pace and occasionally shoot at something, and I wish they made more games aimed at us lol

Just Caelid things

Ditto for SMT Nocturne. Random enemy accounters can occasionally take initiative. Some spawns have extremely brutal movesets between crits, ailments and instakills (which are horrifyingly effective against player units in this game). Since it's game over if the main character dies, you could get booted back to your last save by an unlucky encounter with a half dozen demons dogpiling you before you have the chance to do anything. This can happen as early as the first city.

Later, this charming calcium man voiced by Keith Silverstein accosts you in a sewer to steal your candles, and he 100-0's your whole team in Phase 2 unless you learned Sukunda and fused Bicorn. The whole game's basically like this, it's hilarious.

But then you can't get out

This is annoying too...