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
826 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Doomed to Hell
Top-down roguelike shooter about fighting your way out of hell
84% positive
233 reviews
A Healer Only Lives Twice
Real-time dungeon strategy where healing competes with dwindling torch supplies
78% positive
232 reviews
魔塔地牢
Strategy dungeon crawler with randomized maps and careful route planning
69% positive
232 reviews
AI
Presidents Tower Defense
Third-person tower defense with U.S. presidents fighting off aliens
90% positive
Free
Coin Crypt
A roguelite deckbuilder where coins serve as money and moves
92% positive
228 reviews
Steam Marines
Turn-based squad roguelike with careful positioning and permanent marine deaths
54% positive
227 reviews
Rogue Station
Space station-building roguelite about managing crews and repelling enemy ships
76% positive
227 reviews
Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
Dungeon-crawling roguelite with daily runs that change the rules
92% positive
225 reviews
Freaky Awesome
Action roguelite where healing transforms you into different mutant forms
57% positive
224 reviews
Lost Scavenger
Open-world survival RPG with scavenging and permanent character death
54% positive
224 reviews
Demo Dicealot
Dice-building roguelike where one bad roll wipes your turn's score
74% positive
224 reviews
MidBoss
Turn-based dungeon roguelike where you take over defeated monsters' bodies
83% positive
223 reviews
Breakout Epilepsia
Arcade brick-breaking mixed with shoot 'em up boss fights
84% positive
Free
BEERCRUSH
First-person roguelike runner where drinking beer keeps you alive
100% positive
219 reviews
Transcendence
Open-world space action RPG with randomly generated star systems
88% positive
217 reviews
Linguist FPS - The Language Learning FPS
A first-person shooter that ties language practice to survival
70% positive
217 reviews
Ice Station Z
Open-world survival on an Arctic island after a viral outbreak
75% positive
216 reviews
HeatStroke
A desert driving simulator where you type an entire story
89% positive
216 reviews
Berserk Mode
First-person fantasy roguelite with monster transformations and health-draining dungeon runs
95% positive
214 reviews
Stellar Interface
Side-scrolling space shooter built around mixing weapons and ship upgrades
77% positive
211 reviews
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Only Way is Down
Precision 3D platformer about guiding a cat down a skyscraper
69% positive
208 reviews
Demo Box of Broken Nails
First-person psychological horror about keeping a mysterious door boarded shut
97% positive
206 reviews
Raining Blood: Hellfire
A twin-stick roguelike shooter where fire, water, and electricity interact
90% positive
205 reviews
Demo Project Songbird
First-person psychological horror about a musician recording in isolation
84% positive
205 reviews