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
240 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Lamia Must Die
Party-based RPG where your survivors determine the ending
61% positive
Free
Orb Tower
Bubble-matching arcade game with magic items and roguelike tower runs
96% positive
200 reviews
Vulture for NetHack
Isometric roguelike with random dungeons and permanent death
71% positive
198 reviews
Terra Randoma
Turn-based roguelike RPG with a procedurally generated open world
89% positive
167 reviews
Bronana
Survivor-like action with banana warriors fighting mutant food hordes
73% positive
157 reviews
An Amazing Wizard
2D action roguelite built around combining spells across changing worlds
85% positive
153 reviews
Aura of Worlds
Side-scrolling roguelite platformer where you turn traps against enemies
91% positive
151 reviews
Pixel Descent
Twin-stick dungeon roguelite with bullet-hell combat and permanent upgrades
84% positive
141 reviews
Wander Hero
Deckbuilding strategy RPG with turn-based marble battles and mercenary recruitment
77% positive
140 reviews
Cocaine Dealer
Crime management sim about packaging cocaine and directing street sellers
82% positive
116 reviews
Darkchaser: Battletide
Top-down action roguelite with enemy waves and competitive PvP
77% positive
100 reviews
Neon Ascending
Grid-based tower defense roguelite focused on arranging modules against waves
82% positive
90 reviews
Maze Keeper
Roguelike tower defense where you guard a haunted maze
48% positive
86 reviews
Minesweeper Together
Logic puzzle game with online co-op and versus matches
96% positive
82 reviews
Arrogue
Turn-based roguelike deckbuilder with physics-driven arrows and permanent death
74% positive
80 reviews
Cribbish
Roguelike deckbuilder built around cribbage hands and rule-changing relics
85% positive
79 reviews
Long Live Caesar
Roman strategy puzzle about finding conspirators before Caesar falls
83% positive
70 reviews
Letterlike
Roguelike word game built around letter draws and upgrades
96% positive
53 reviews
Vault of Power
Fantasy roguelike autobattler with spell builds and automatic dungeon battles
63% positive
52 reviews
开局一把剑
Single-player roguelike dungeon RPG built around flexible skill combinations
69% positive
42 reviews
Demiurges
Turn-based fantasy roguelike mixing deck building with hex-grid battles
89% positive
37 reviews
SideQuest Hunters
Corner-screen idle RPG with automatic battles and roguelite progression
72% positive
36 reviews
Oops!!! I Slept With Your Mom
Top-down endless arcade game about a baby searching for Mommy
80% positive
35 reviews
Crystant
Post-apocalyptic survival roguelite with turn-based combat and resource management
100% positive
1 reviews