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.
Fury Unleashed
Comic-book roguelite platformer where quick kills sustain combat combos
87% positive
2,921 reviews
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Top-down roguelike shooter with scarce ammunition and permanent death
85% positive
2,904 reviews
Delver
First-person dungeon crawler with randomized runs and permanent death
88% positive
2,854 reviews
30XX
Side-scrolling action roguelite with randomized stages and distinct playstyles
90% positive
2,817 reviews
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Fantasy roguelike auto battler about equipping and positioning dwarves
82% positive
2,714 reviews
Battle Ram
Top-down action game where a mouse-controlled lamb fights robots
84% positive
2,676 reviews
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Open-world pirate action RPG built around ship battles and trading
69% positive
2,624 reviews
Slice & Dice
Turn-based dice roguelike with five heroes and run-ending defeats
97% positive
2,580 reviews
Urtuk: The Desolation
Open-world tactical RPG with hex-grid battles and extracted enemy traits
88% positive
2,545 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
A Legionary's Life
Text-based Roman soldier RPG with turn-based combat and permadeath
87% positive
2,498 reviews
Uplink
Hacking strategy game about contract jobs and covering your tracks
91% positive
2,440 reviews
LONESTAR
Turn-based roguelike bounty hunts built around spaceship unit combinations
91% positive
2,440 reviews
Soulash 2
Fantasy sandbox roguelike with generated histories and player-built settlements
85% positive
2,433 reviews
It Steals
First-person survival horror in mazes with monsters that hunt you
98% positive
2,405 reviews
Lost Eidolons
Turn-based tactical RPG about leading a rebellion through grid battles
68% positive
2,404 reviews
Eldritch
First-person roguelike with stealth in randomly generated Lovecraftian dungeons
88% positive
2,220 reviews
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Turn-based dungeon crawler with randomized runs and permanent death
95% positive
2,196 reviews
Bing in Wonderland
2D action roguelite with enemy waves and butt slams
97% positive
2,159 reviews
Jupiter Hell
Top-down turn-based roguelike with guns and permanent death
92% positive
2,118 reviews
Brutal Orchestra
Turn-based roguelike tactics in Purgatory powered by colored pigment
98% positive
2,101 reviews
Majotori
Trivia game where quiz answers shape branching character stories
96% positive
2,076 reviews
Oblivion Override
Side-scrolling action roguelite with combat robots and rising alert levels
91% positive
2,052 reviews