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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Demo GUILT: The Deathless
Roguelike action RPG in a shared world that outlasts death
82% positive
73 reviews
Netherguild
Turn-based dungeon crawling with a party and limited supplies
95% positive
73 reviews
HeadHorse Legacy
First-person escape horror with puzzles and a horse-headed killer
82% positive
73 reviews
Demo Letalis
Creature-collecting RPG with turn-based arena battles and permanent fighter deaths
95% positive
73 reviews
Seals of the Bygone
Class-based survival roguelike with up to four players sharing a screen
83% positive
72 reviews
Dashing Fire
Fast-paced action roguelike about dashing and fighting between tiny planets
96% positive
72 reviews
Greedy Rabbit
A 2D puzzle platformer with normal, high, and double jumps
64% positive
Free
Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef
Top-down roguelite shooter with sanity-driven curses and permanent rewards
81% positive
72 reviews
Farabel
Turn-based fantasy tactics where your hero grows weaker between battles
69% positive
71 reviews
Jetboard Joust
Side-scrolling roguelite shooter where leaping off your board grants brief invincibility
83% positive
70 reviews
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Long Live Caesar
Roman strategy puzzle about finding conspirators before Caesar falls
83% positive
70 reviews
No Delivery
Turn-based horror RPG about working nights at a haunted pizzeria
97% positive
70 reviews
Sunken
Dungeon-crawling action RPG where unlocked skills survive each death
58% positive
Free
The Merchant's Guide to the Kingdom
Fantasy management RPG about running a shop and directing adventurers
59% positive
69 reviews
Vegangsters
A roguelike deckbuilder where card speed determines who acts next
93% positive
69 reviews
OREBLAZE
Mining action with timed tributes to a treasure-hungry king
93% positive
69 reviews
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Come in
First-person horror walking simulator about a date at an isolated house
68% positive
69 reviews
Demo Searching For Rest
A cemetery roguelite combining deckbuilding, automatic battles, and upgrade combinations
96% positive
68 reviews
Lilac 0
A vertical bullet hell shooter with a bullet-clearing dash
91% positive
68 reviews
The Curse Of Yendor
Turn-based dungeon crawling with spells that reshape the terrain
93% positive
67 reviews
Neon
A 2D puzzle-platformer with shape changes and carefully timed movement
94% positive
67 reviews
Adventure of Leek
A side-scrolling precision platformer with boss fights and speedrunning
88% positive
Free
Snotty's Sewer
First-person stealth horror with a former TV character hunting you
78% positive
Free
Witchinour
Twin-stick roguelite shooter with dungeon runs and steadily rising difficulty
92% positive
66 reviews