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 Dice Gambit
Turn-based tactical RPG built around dice rolls and inherited abilities
86% positive
1,122 reviews
GoNNER
A roguelite platform shooter with randomized levels and score-chasing combos
84% positive
1,110 reviews
Despotism 3k
Roguelite resource management as an AI exploiting captive humans
79% positive
1,103 reviews
Demo Chained Beasts
Top-down gladiator roguelike where teammates fight while chained together
82% positive
1,091 reviews
Lost:Antinomy
Fantasy choice RPG with daily events and shifting allegiances
88% positive
1,077 reviews
Haven & Hearth
Survival MMORPG with permanent death in a player-shaped wilderness
73% positive
Free
Infectonator: Survivors
Squad-based zombie survival strategy with scavenging and permanent death
68% positive
1,071 reviews
Rift Wizard
Turn-based fantasy roguelike with spell combinations and permanent death
92% positive
1,066 reviews
Cursorblade
Top-down bullet-hell arcade game where your cursor cuts through enemies
86% positive
1,063 reviews
Demo Primordialis
Physics-based roguelike where you build a fish from specialized cells
93% positive
1,039 reviews
Demo Battle Shapers
First-person roguelite shooter with robot battles and stolen boss powers
80% positive
1,020 reviews
Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions
Turn-based strategy RPG with story paths shaped by who survives
84% positive
995 reviews
Demo Spell Disk
Top-down action roguelite focused on building spell and disk combos
89% positive
992 reviews
Templar Battleforce
Turn-based sci-fi tactics with customizable squads in battle suits
93% positive
984 reviews
Insurmountable
Mountain-climbing roguelike where weather and scarce resources shape every route
79% positive
983 reviews
Battlevoid: Harbinger
Space strategy roguelike with turn-based travel and real-time fleet combat
79% positive
971 reviews
RAD
3D action roguelike with mutations in a radioactive wasteland
74% positive
970 reviews
Ironcast
Turn-based match-three battles with upgradeable Victorian walking war machines
72% positive
967 reviews
Warriors: Rise to Glory
Turn-based arena RPG where fallen warriors strengthen your bloodline
79% positive
950 reviews
Rune Coliseum
Turn-based gladiator strategy RPG with queued combat and base building
78% positive
948 reviews
Tribal Wars
Persistent medieval PvP strategy built around villages and alliances
72% positive
Free
Ascend to ZERO
Action roguelite with a ticking clock and time-stopping combat
81% positive
926 reviews
Mage and Monsters
Top-down fantasy auto battler with armies and active spellcasting
89% positive
922 reviews
NeuroVoider
Top-down twin-stick shooter with robot loot and permadeath
76% positive
910 reviews