The Best Perma-death Games - Page 2

Update : Trials of Yarbil added at rank #1.
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Star Scavenger (2025)

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Dig your way out of debt. Star Scavenger is a roguelike top-down shooter about blasting asteroids to get the precious minerals inside. Scavenge, dodge pirates, and beat the market to free yourself from an unjust punishment.

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  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • space
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • arcade
  • capitalism
  • retro
  • 2d
  • action
  • minimalist
  • momentum
  • controller-support
  • shooter
  • colourful

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Breakout Epilepsia (2025)

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A fast-paced Breakout-style arcade with a bold black-and-white aesthetic. Engage in space battles against stunning yet deadly alien foes who are determined to destroy you. Intense visuals, thrilling gameplay, and a challenge that will test your reflexes.

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  • perma-death
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • linear
  • abstract
  • funny
  • minimalist
  • psychedelic
  • space
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • controller-support
  • anime
  • 1980s
  • shooter

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Between (2025)

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PC Windows Android

"May you leave no regrets in this journey of life." 、 An independent game about death. Explore the past lives in an atmospheric graveyard.


  • typing
  • modeling
  • animation
  • perma-death
  • cinematic
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • logic
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • rhythm
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • multiple-endings

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Biorage (2025)

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Biorage is a high-intensity story-driven FPS where a rebellion battles a ruthless corporation across fractured timelines.

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  • perma-death
  • first-person
  • pve
  • lore
  • shooter
  • fps
  • surreal
  • historical
  • alternate
  • linear
  • travel
  • dystopian
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • story

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Mangui (2025)

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PC Windows

Mangui is a turn-based roguelike game inspired by spooky traditional Korean folklore. Play as one of four protagonists, unraveling the mysteries of the dark Mangui mountains. Live to tell the tale in this dangerous world filled with ghouls and monsters!

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  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • traditional
  • tutorial
  • pve
  • demons
  • drama
  • mythology
  • combat
  • linear
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • story
  • rpg

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Stopping Santa (2025)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Stopping Santa is a Jazzy top-down arena shooter where you play a mercenary fighting against Santa’s legions. Short play sessions, simple controls, instant action, and a global leaderboard for the Top 10. Inspired by classic arcade games.

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  • top-down
  • shooter
  • perma-death
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • arena
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • fight
  • mythology
  • funny

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PARANOIA PLACE (2025)

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PC Windows

PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-3 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.

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  • cooperative
  • campaign
  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • perma-death
  • hunting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • gore
  • psychological
  • demons
  • supernatural
  • stealth
  • survival
  • realistic
  • first-person

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Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days (2025)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

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  • zombies
  • survival-horror
  • survival
  • psychological
  • 2.5d
  • perma-death
  • immersive
  • stealth
  • scroller
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • atmospheric
  • choices

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PLATE (2025)

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Linux PC Windows

Rogue like monster battler where every decision counts.

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  • cartoony
  • perma-death
  • rogue-like
  • 1990s
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • anime
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • 2d
  • psychological
  • rpg
  • fight

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PEPPERED: an existential platformer (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS

An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.

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  • platform
  • soundtrack
  • philosophical
  • lgbtq
  • precision
  • humor
  • perma-death
  • dystopian
  • replay-value
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • psychological
  • dark
  • pixel
  • action-adventure

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