The Best Perma-death Games - Page 3

Update : Trials of Yarbil added at rank #1.
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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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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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Mountain 78 (2025)

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Linux PC Windows

Mountain 78 is a frustrating game about climbing a mountain. With only three jumps at a time, every move counts. One mistake can send you tumbling down. Will you reach the top?

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  • precision
  • philosophical
  • perma-death
  • platform
  • parody
  • minimalist
  • colourful
  • physics
  • atmospheric
  • difficult

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Three Sisters (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Three Sisters is a goofy RPG featuring some cute little (not nightmare inducing) enemies and a story where nothing bad ever happens! Wait, what's that? You played the other games? crap.

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  • perma-death
  • dark
  • rpg
  • party
  • eroge
  • gambling
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • cats
  • visual-novel
  • humor
  • stylized
  • top-down
  • historical
  • alternate

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Rogueformer (2025)

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Rogueformer is a 2D, procedurally generated, platformer where a magical, living ice cube develops a range of unique perks that help it survive in a cruel, destructible environment, filled with all sorts of foes and curses.

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  • perma-death
  • rogue-like
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • procedural
  • platform
  • pve
  • replay-value
  • scroller
  • humor
  • abstract
  • local
  • retro
  • dark
  • difficult

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Tribute of Minos (2025)

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PC Windows

A dungeon-crawling adventure set in ancient Greek mythology. Explore the ruins, battle mythical beasts, collect treasure and ancient relics to aid your quest. Within the Labyrinth lays a great beast, the Minotaur.

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  • perma-death
  • dungeon-crawler
  • historical
  • pve
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • action-adventure
  • rpg
  • alternate
  • multiple-endings
  • casual
  • 2d

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R (2025)

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Linux PC Windows Android

Run, hide, adapt and survive in a mansion of endless night and bizarre brain-twisting phenomena in this 2D hand-drawn psychological horror title.


  • horror
  • perma-death
  • psychological
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • hand-drawn
  • comedy
  • multiple-endings
  • thriller
  • multiplayer
  • stealth

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Back door (2025)

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PC Windows

Back door is a single-player horror adventure game where the player moves through five locations in the mind of the main character Mark. The goal of the game is to find a way from the world of illusions to reality, successfully distinguishing between them.

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  • parody
  • souls
  • dating-sim
  • perma-death
  • linear
  • pve
  • walking-simulator
  • nature
  • horror
  • anime
  • hidden-object
  • colourful
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • single-player

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