The Best Perma-death Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Lunar Lander: Beyond added at rank #1.
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Lunar Lander: Beyond (2024)

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As a newly appointed captain of the Pegasus corporation, you must guide a roster of colorful pilots, eclectic advisors and state-of-the-art landers through a taxing series of missions. Deliver cargo, retrieve resources, and rescue stranded pilots as you navigate a mysterious universe of moons and planets. Poor flying and fatigue will stress your pilots, and can lead to sensory illusions.


  • psychological
  • space
  • perma-death
  • comic
  • flight
  • book
  • hand-drawn
  • exploration
  • economy
  • horror
  • grunt
  • sci-fi
  • 2d
  • anime
  • story

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Rick Henderson (2020)

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Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.


  • perma-death
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • arcade
  • procedural
  • choices
  • space
  • boss
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • artillery
  • pixel
  • retro
  • multiball
  • sniper

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Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens (2020)

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Lady Tallowmere's kittens have been acting strange. Still, the dungeon's rituals must be carried out. Despite the unusual circumstances, how many rooms can you clear?


  • rogue-like
  • cooperative
  • loot
  • local
  • perma-death
  • cats
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • attack
  • score
  • 4-player
  • procedural
  • dark
  • gore
  • violent

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OVERWHELM (2018)

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You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

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  • pixel
  • platform
  • perma-death
  • souls
  • horror
  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • action
  • twin-stick
  • dark
  • boss-fight
  • violent
  • boss
  • fast-paced
  • retro

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Gravity Oddity (2023)

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Embark on a one-man rescue mission across the galaxy to bring back your kidnapped roommate in this roguelike space action-adventure.

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  • rogue-like
  • loot
  • perma-death
  • action-adventure
  • procedural
  • cartoony
  • choices
  • 2d
  • space
  • cute
  • funny

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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.

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

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Spectator (2023)

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Featuring Backrooms, Slender, FazPizza, and many more locations based on Creepy stories! You are here to watch surveillance cameras in real time and report any kind of suspicious activity. Anomalies range from furniture movement to otherworldly intruders.

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  • horror
  • sniper
  • procedural
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • perma-death
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • survival-horror
  • dark
  • surreal
  • family-friendly
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • mouse

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Mage and Monsters (2022)

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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
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • top-down
  • wargame
  • pixel
  • management
  • pve
  • war
  • character
  • dragon
  • fantasy
  • strategy

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Gearshifters (2021)

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Steer, drift, spin, smash and gun through waves of enemy vehicles. Go to war against extreme machine bosses. Build up and tune your tactical loadout of car mods, defences and weaponry for each treacherous transport mission. Drive. Destroy. Get Paid. Upgrade!

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  • rogue-like
  • dystopian
  • driving
  • post-apocalyptic
  • performance
  • perma-death
  • shoot-em-up
  • vehicle
  • scroller
  • racing
  • bullet-hell
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • combat
  • boss

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Demons Ate My Neighbors! (2023)

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Demons & VHS horrors terrorize y'alls neighborhood, a nostalgia nightmare! DAMN is a manic adventure roguelite shooter, & funky spin on co-op arcade classics. Find & exorcise neighbors from hell with upgrades, holy squirt guns & household weapons… before the ICE CREAM MAN gets ya! GET PUMPED!


  • rogue-like
  • nostalgia
  • campaign
  • gun
  • soundtrack
  • customization
  • cooperative
  • perma-death
  • 2.5d
  • 1990s
  • shoot-em-up
  • twin-stick
  • character
  • procedural
  • 1980s

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