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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ScourgeBringer
2D roguelite platformer built around fast dashes and attacks
87% positive
2,821 reviews
Dodgy Deliveries
Co-op bicycle deliveries through a city with traffic and monsters
70% positive
Free
Dark Deity
Top-down tactical RPG with squad training and lasting battle wounds
72% positive
2,771 reviews
Otherworld Legends
Roguelike beat-'em-up with distinct heroes and item-driven builds
65% positive
Free
Demo Aethermancer
Creature-collecting roguelike built around three-monster teams and turn-based battles
91% positive
2,752 reviews
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Fantasy roguelike auto battler about equipping and positioning dwarves
81% positive
2,691 reviews
Battle Ram
Top-down action game where a mouse-controlled lamb fights robots
84% positive
2,676 reviews
30XX
Side-scrolling action roguelite with randomized stages and distinct playstyles
88% positive
2,639 reviews
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Open-world pirate action RPG built around ship battles and trading
69% positive
2,624 reviews
Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Retro zombie survival strategy on a westward station wagon trip
89% positive
2,606 reviews
Delver
First-person dungeon crawler with randomized runs and permanent death
88% positive
2,602 reviews
Demo A Legionary's Life
Text-based Roman soldier RPG with turn-based combat and permadeath
85% positive
2,573 reviews
Demo Slice & Dice
Turn-based dice roguelike with five heroes and run-ending defeats
97% positive
2,570 reviews
Demo Soulash 2
Fantasy sandbox roguelike with generated histories and player-built settlements
84% positive
2,543 reviews
Angvik
2D action platformer with one life to clear its stages
88% positive
2,538 reviews
Tharsis
Turn-based space survival strategy with dice and ship emergencies
70% positive
2,512 reviews
Legend of Keepers: Prologue
Turn-based dungeon management where you defend treasure from invading heroes
92% positive
Free
Urtuk: The Desolation
Open-world tactical RPG with hex-grid battles and extracted enemy traits
87% positive
2,491 reviews
It Steals
First-person survival horror in mazes with monsters that hunt you
98% positive
2,405 reviews
Immortal Redneck
First-person roguelite about a mummified tourist fighting through pyramids
90% positive
2,380 reviews
ELDERBORN
First-person dark fantasy slasher with difficult, weapon-based melee combat
87% positive
2,359 reviews
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Turn-based dungeon crawler with randomized runs and permanent death
94% positive
2,280 reviews
LONESTAR
Turn-based roguelike bounty hunts built around spaceship unit combinations
90% positive
2,259 reviews
Eldritch
First-person roguelike with stealth in randomly generated Lovecraftian dungeons
88% positive
2,220 reviews