The Best Perma-death Games

Update, : Dragon Dodge Valley added at rank #46.
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Hell is Others (2022)

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PC Windows

Hell is Others is an extraction horror PVPVE top-down shooter. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt and loot in a place where blood is literally currency.

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  • top-down
  • gun
  • philosophical
  • perma-death
  • twin-stick
  • survival-horror
  • shooter
  • loot
  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • thriller
  • customization
  • dystopian
  • fast-paced
  • stealth

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The Witch's House (2018)

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PC Windows

A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.


  • horror
  • 2d
  • rpgmaker
  • perma-death
  • rhythm
  • survival-horror
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • puzzle
  • platform

3

Hunt: Showdown (2019)

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PC Windows Android Playstation 4 Xbox One

Hunt: Showdown is a high-stakes, tactical PvPvE first-person shooter. Hunt for bounties in the infested Bayou, kill nightmarish monsters and outwit competing hunters - alone or in a group - with your glory, gear, and gold on the line.


  • first-person
  • shooter
  • survival-horror
  • royale
  • fps
  • perma-death
  • cooperative
  • western
  • team
  • pvp
  • match
  • open-world
  • gore
  • atmospheric
  • tactical

4

Voidigo (2021)

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early access PC Windows

Voidigo is a chaotic and colorful roguelite shooter with a focus on dynamic and unique boss fights. Equip the many weapons and powerups to fight back the void corruption throughout the worlds. Hunt or be hunted.

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  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • hunting
  • perma-death
  • procedural
  • bullet-hell
  • loot
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d

5

Rick Henderson (2020)

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PC Windows ps2 xbox Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.

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  • perma-death
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • arcade
  • procedural
  • choices
  • space
  • boss
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • artillery
  • pixel
  • retro
  • multiball
  • sniper

6

Card Survival: Tropical Island (2022)

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Android Mac OS PC Windows

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.


  • survival
  • card
  • crafting
  • perma-death
  • hand-drawn
  • text
  • simulation

7

Rift Wizard (2021)

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PC Windows

Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.

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  • rogue-like
  • character
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • magic
  • dungeon-crawler
  • customization
  • traditional
  • procedural
  • 2d
  • minimalist
  • fantasy
  • top-down
  • rouge
  • pixel

8

Soulforged (2022)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Join our community on a fantastic journey across a vast, unique world. Discover new technologies, build infrastructure and brave new frontiers. All that with no fees or in-game purchases. Please note: This is a slow-paced game limited by Action Points that regenerate very slowly in real time!


  • perma-death
  • mmo
  • pve
  • character
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • choices
  • customization
  • exploration
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • open-world
  • turn-based
  • crafting

9

ELDERBORN (2020)

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PC Windows

ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.


  • dark
  • souls
  • swordplay
  • perma-death
  • fantasy
  • pve
  • comic
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fight
  • 3d
  • sci-fi
  • book
  • first-person
  • atmospheric

10

Baldi's Basics Plus (2020)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Baldi's Basics Plus is like the original game, but PLUS! The same cruddy edutainment horror type parody theme is back, but with hugely expanded gameplay features, including procedurally generated levels, field trip minigames, crazy random events, PLUS more characters, more items, and more chaos!

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  • parody
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • horror
  • perma-death
  • stealth
  • 1990s
  • satire
  • 3d
  • surreal
  • first-person
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • funny
  • exploration

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