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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G.O.P.O.T.A
A first-person life sim about petty crime and neighborhood mischief
82% positive
1,752 reviews
Demo Oblivion Override
Side-scrolling action roguelite with combat robots and rising alert levels
89% positive
1,740 reviews
Xanadu Land
Massively multiplayer bullet hell RPG with cooperative boss battles
90% positive
Free
Ancient Dungeon
VR dungeon roguelite with changing layouts and sword combat
94% positive
1,719 reviews
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
A physics-based platformer about climbing a mountain with golf shots
74% positive
1,699 reviews
Cogmind
Turn-based sci-fi roguelike where your robot rebuilds from salvage
94% positive
1,685 reviews
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
87% positive
1,652 reviews
Demo SpellRogue
Turn-based roguelike combat built around dice-powered spells and rerolls
86% positive
1,629 reviews
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ForgeTax
First-person forging roguelite about risking swords to pay a dragon
52% positive
1,626 reviews
Dungeon 100
Card-building dungeon autobattler where you face your own creations
81% positive
1,609 reviews
Heavy Bullets
First-person roguelike shooter where spent bullets must be recovered
82% positive
1,568 reviews
bit Dungeon II
Action roguelike with weapon-based leveling and one-chance soul recovery
83% positive
1,543 reviews
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes
Turn-based tactical RPG following a resistance squad through occupied Warsaw
67% positive
Free
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Dungeon Settlers
Colony-building strategy where your settlement supplies expeditions into changing dungeons
78% positive
1,479 reviews
Demo Bootstrap Island
VR survival roguelike with changing threats on a 17th-century island
79% positive
1,475 reviews
Scrutinized
Detective horror game about sorting reports while intruders stalk your home
89% positive
1,473 reviews
Darza's Dominion
Cooperative bullet-hell MMORPG with permadeath and randomized dungeons
68% positive
Free
Pronoun Palace
A spelling roguelike where enemies change how you use letters
99% positive
1,469 reviews
StarBreak
Free-to-play 2D action platformer with permadeath and alien boss fights
78% positive
Free
Deadly Days
Strategy roguelite about scavenging zombie cities with unpredictable gear
86% positive
1,454 reviews
Spirit Realm
Third-person mythology action RPG with flight and permadeath
74% positive
1,451 reviews
Dungeon Souls
Action roguelike dungeon crawler set in randomly generated levels
77% positive
1,430 reviews
Corpse Keeper
Dark fantasy action RPG with decaying fighters and timed expeditions
74% positive
1,419 reviews
Demo Coal LLC
A mining management roguelite where your workforce can reach billions
92% positive
1,413 reviews