The Best Perma-death Games - Page 4

Update : Depth Diver added at rank #26.
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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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Mercenaries of War (2024)

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PC Windows Android

Welcome to Mercenaries of War, an online hardcore PvP survival game with permanent death.Keep yourself protected by buying weapons and stocking up on bullets. If you die, your character is permanently dead and you will have to start over fresh.


  • perma-death
  • time-management
  • choices
  • pvp
  • war
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • point-and-click
  • text
  • crime
  • real-time
  • casual
  • packed
  • combat

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Bad Mechanic (2024)

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PC Windows

Bad Mechanic is a whimsical tower-defense bullet-hell roguelike. Plan (and improvise) your defenses against a swarm of mini middle managers. Dodge your own towers’ attacks as you collect loot. Build a unique arsenal of towers and items in each run that will kill you in spectacular fashion.

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  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • perma-death
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • resource-management
  • building
  • real-time
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • tactical
  • pixel
  • zombies
  • bullet
  • strategy

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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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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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Draft of Darkness (2021)

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Linux PC Windows

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

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  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • card
  • battler
  • perma-death
  • deckbuilder
  • survival-horror
  • dungeon-crawler
  • procedural
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2.5d
  • nonlinear
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • pve
  • strategy

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Minesweeper Together (2025)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows

Minesweeper Together is a puzzle board game about revealing cells and avoiding mines cooperatively.

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  • board-game
  • perma-death
  • logic
  • procedural
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • tutorial
  • puzzle
  • team
  • strategy
  • cooperative
  • lgbtq
  • multiplayer
  • character

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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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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
  • combat
  • mythology
  • 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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