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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Cocaine Dealer
Crime management sim about packaging cocaine and directing street sellers
82% positive
116 reviews
Snake Crush Survivors
Snake-style action roguelike with match-three skills and character upgrades
89% positive
115 reviews
XenoWorld ~The Rondeau of Astra~
A tactical roguelite combining chess-style battles with card mechanics
80% positive
113 reviews
Slimekeep
Twin-stick roguelike where slimes grow stronger and yield more resources
88% positive
112 reviews
• Dread Chess ✣
A chess puzzle adventure built around matches that play themselves
77% positive
Free
Demo The Away Team: Lost Exodus
A space text adventure where your decisions shape the crew's survival
73% positive
Free
Burning Knight
Top-down bullet-hell roguelike with items you can combine into new builds
68% positive
111 reviews
Feral Fury
Twin-stick roguelite shooter with armed pandas and randomized stages
76% positive
110 reviews
Demo Cyberemo 2007
A side-scrolling platformer with boss fights and multiple endings
77% positive
110 reviews
DIG - Deep In Galaxies
A space action roguelike where you dig through planets
96% positive
110 reviews
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