The Best Perma-death Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Stopping Santa added at rank #20.
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Age of Fear 3: The Legend (2017)

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Play as either Nairi, an imprisoned Dryad fighting for her freedom, or Gilrock, a drunken Dwarven Lord on a quest to restore his family's honour (or just to kick some arse!). The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.


  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • perma-death
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • top-down

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Space Bandit (2022)

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Brutal (one hit kill) twin stick shooter with hilariously clever fun enemies that don't just run at you like an idiot. Also has roguelike and Sci-Fi stuff.

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  • bullet
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • editor
  • shoot-em-up
  • time
  • twin-stick
  • level
  • procedural
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • pve
  • gore
  • violent
  • space

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Climbing Over It with a Spear (2023)

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Climb a mountain with a spear, if you fall, you get up.

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  • precision
  • perma-death
  • platform
  • physics
  • parkour
  • difficult
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • single-player

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Deep Space Scoundrel (2023)

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Deep Space Scoundrel is a rogue-like space adventure where you use a variety of classic arcade mechanics to explore the universe, customize your ship, land at spaceports, and fraternize with other aliens and low-lives.

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  • rogue-like
  • gun
  • perma-death
  • shoot-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • customization
  • attack
  • score
  • space
  • arcade
  • sci-fi

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System Escape (2023)

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Can you escape this difficult underground facility? Robots listen for your every move and cameras monitor sensitive areas. You'll find a utility device and laser gun, but being stealthy will be your best chance at staying alive! Made for VR, but supports non-VR play too.

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  • stealth
  • robots
  • perma-death
  • vr
  • hacking
  • bullet
  • sci-fi
  • time
  • shooter
  • futuristic
  • difficult
  • fps
  • procedural
  • first-person

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Deadland 4000 (2022)

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A turn-based post-apocalyptic roguelike set on a straight line. Scavenge food, sneak past enemies, find loot, and survive by any means necessary in the year 4000.

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  • traditional
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2.5d
  • procedural
  • loot
  • survival
  • class
  • stealth
  • strategy

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Jettatura (2022)

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Jettatura is a challenging first-person dungeon-crawler (DRPG) with round-based combat. Form a band of up to six mercenaries to scout the subterrene world to reclaim a stolen ancient artifact from the surreptitious death-cult that pilfered it!

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  • old-school
  • rpg
  • movement
  • party
  • dungeon-crawler
  • perma-death
  • underground
  • class
  • grid
  • magic
  • medieval
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • management
  • inventory

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Longphort (2021)

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Become a Sea King as you manage a Viking crew and a Viking fort, organising and overseeing raids in an indirect management game.

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  • perma-death
  • base-building
  • building
  • medieval
  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • management
  • military
  • real-time
  • multiple-endings
  • tactical
  • top-down
  • turn-based
  • class
  • historical

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#tacticalunderground arcade (2021)

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Welcome to the world of shooting sports! There are tons of shooting tournaments waiting for you in the #tacticalunderground arcade! Day and night, in closed shooting ranges or on huge training grounds, take part in matches in sports and tactical disciplines.

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  • perma-death
  • pve
  • shoot-em-up
  • nonlinear
  • pvp
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • sport
  • arcade
  • military
  • tactical
  • realistic
  • stealth
  • cooperative
  • atmospheric

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Entity Researchers (2022)

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You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.

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  • rpg
  • japanese
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon-crawler
  • perma-death
  • old-school
  • jrpg
  • surreal
  • character
  • exploration
  • procedural
  • loot
  • isometric
  • turn-based
  • post-apocalyptic

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