The Best Perma-death Games - Page 3

Update : Lunar Lander: Beyond added at rank #5.
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Enduring Dreamers: Freya (2022)

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PC Windows

Endless Platforming, slippery ground, obstacles everywhere, and a storm is chasing you! What's your high score?

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  • snow
  • precision
  • perma-death
  • scroller
  • platform
  • pve
  • character
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • customization
  • linear
  • 2d

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Mage & Monsters (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Create an army and use spells while it fights for you. Mage & Monsters is an active auto battler, where you must choose wisely between upgrading the might of your army, or increasing the power of your spells.


  • auto-battler
  • perma-death
  • magic
  • choices
  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • wargame
  • pixel
  • management
  • pve
  • character
  • war
  • dragon
  • coin
  • fantasy

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Square Edges (2024)

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PC Windows

Mini arcade game about a cube jumping on moving platforms. All platforms move at different speeds. Find the right moment to make a precise jump so as not to fall off the edge. Collect tokens and gain a high rating to purchase other characters.

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  • perma-death
  • isometric
  • casual
  • arcade
  • platform
  • puzzle

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Skeletons (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Regurgitated back into a cursed and dying world, you must fight and explore to ascend the tower. But be warned, time and life isn't on your side.

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  • perma-death
  • nonlinear
  • action-adventure
  • first-person
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • magic
  • fps
  • medieval
  • horror
  • shooter
  • mystery

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Morbid (2022)

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early access PC Windows Xbox One Android

Morbid is an atmospheric psychological horror game; experienced as Senior Detective J. Taylor, unfold haunting and morbid events that will question your sanity.


  • rogue-like
  • spectacle
  • japanese
  • immersive
  • horror
  • perma-death
  • hack-and-slash
  • character
  • choices
  • pve
  • action
  • psychological
  • swordplay
  • fiction
  • action-adventure

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Alien Slayer (2024)

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PC Windows Android

A top-down rogue-like shooter. Customize your weapons with looted upgrades to stay alive as long as possible.


  • perma-death
  • choices
  • rogue-like
  • top-down
  • aliens
  • shooter
  • procedural
  • futuristic
  • pixel
  • action
  • 2d
  • single-player

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Liquidators (2020)

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PC Windows

Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

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  • nonlinear
  • souls
  • perma-death
  • underground
  • cold
  • 1980s
  • fmv
  • 3d
  • historical
  • retro
  • exploration
  • dark
  • experimental

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BEAST (2023)

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BEAST is a dynamic and brutal gridless tactical turn-based RPG where moral choices during battle influence the gameplay. In a grimdark medieval world, torn by plague and military conflicts, you decide if you should exercise or exorcise your inner beast with dire consequences for you and your allies!

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  • turn-based
  • gothic
  • perma-death
  • tactical
  • cinematic
  • rpg
  • historical
  • strategy
  • dark
  • isometric
  • gore
  • fantasy
  • beat-em-up
  • medieval
  • horror

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Golfie (2023)

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PC Windows

Golfie is a run-based, roguelike minigolf deck builder. Play through procedurally-generated levels, build a deck of crazy card abilities, and try to beat all 18 holes. Pick your route carefully because no two runs – or shots – are the same!

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  • rogue-like
  • mini
  • deckbuilder
  • perma-death
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • golf
  • procedural
  • dungeon-crawler
  • stylized
  • character
  • relaxing
  • colourful
  • physics
  • sport
  • card

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Infrared (2023)

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PC Windows

You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. The only way to leave is to fuel up your car. But to do so, you'll have to venture into this desolate forest to find a way to unlock the gas station. But, every bit of flesh in your body screams that you are not alone...

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  • survival-horror
  • 1990s
  • perma-death
  • 1980s
  • multiple-endings
  • cinematic
  • survival
  • collectathon
  • retro
  • horror
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • first-person
  • open-world
  • rogue-like

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