Best Perma Death games on PC
Games where death can permanently end a run, erase a character, or remove major progress, making survival and decisions about risk central to play.
- Careful risk management
- Limited recovery from failure
Related: Roguelike, Survival, Difficult
755 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo INTO EVIL
A top-down roguelike where equipment grants new combat abilities
91% positive
110 reviews
On My Own
Wilderness survival with changing seasons and trial-and-error tool crafting
71% positive
109 reviews
Rogue Islands
First-person survival roguelike with magic combat and permanent death
68% positive
Free
Void Marauders
Turn-based tactics with space piracy and a crew to manage
76% positive
109 reviews
Fat Prisoner Simulator 3
A hockey simulator where prisoners can hit their opponents
87% positive
109 reviews
Demo I See Red
Twin-stick roguelite shooter with a grappling hook and destructible cover
90% positive
109 reviews
Under A Star Long Cold
Stealth action with thirty minutes to loot a doomed planet
80% positive
109 reviews
Demo Trials of Valor
A side-view roguelike fighter with branching, board game-style routes
95% positive
108 reviews
Ball Torture
A 2D puzzle game about steering a bowling ball past traps
81% positive
107 reviews
Ball laB
A precision platformer about bouncing a ball between spikes
64% positive
106 reviews
Changgwi
First-person survival horror with lantern-lit exploration in a Joseon-era village
75% positive
Free
Demo Blacksea Odyssey
Top-down roguelike shooter about harpooning giant creatures in space
79% positive
105 reviews
Demo HyperParasite
Twin-stick roguelite shooter where you survive by stealing human bodies
84% positive
105 reviews
Demo Chrono Survival
An action roguelite where events change the course of runs
73% positive
105 reviews
Footgun: Underground
An action roguelike where your only weapon is a ball
85% positive
105 reviews
Hive Jump 2: Survivors
Top-down roguelike shooter with jetpacks and waves of alien insects
80% positive
104 reviews
I Shall Remain
A zombie survival action RPG in an alternate-history United States
66% positive
103 reviews
Street karate 3
Arcade beat 'em up with improvised weapons and crowd-clearing strikes
85% positive
103 reviews
Demo Archtower
Action RPG dungeon crawling with permanent death and lasting clan upgrades
96% positive
103 reviews
Walkers
Open-world zombie survival with a community to build and defend
65% positive
103 reviews
NecroBouncer
Hack-and-slash roguelite about a necromancer working as a nightclub bouncer
75% positive
102 reviews
Clicker Arena
Roguelite auto battler combining arena fights, hero management, and deckbuilding
51% positive
102 reviews
Demo 99 Waves
A 2D action roguelite with skills you can automate
85% positive
102 reviews
Dice of Kalma
Roguelike dice deckbuilder with poker hands and score-changing skulls
89% positive
102 reviews