The Best Perma-death Games for Xbox One

Update : Backrooms: Partygoers added at rank #12.
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Heretic's Fork (2023)

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Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!


  • rogue-like
  • deckbuilder
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • auto-battler
  • card
  • perma-death
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • demons
  • top-down
  • arena
  • pixel
  • tactical
  • 2d
  • arcade

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Lunar Lander: Beyond (2024)

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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.


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

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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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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.


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

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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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Radio Free Europa (2024)

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Linux PC Windows Xbox One

A top-down 2.5D Spaceship shooter. Choose your ship and upgrade it as you go as you fight your way back to earth to deliver a message. Fast-paced dogfights, massive bosses, vibrant graphics, and an original soundtrack that reacts to gameplay.


  • rogue-like
  • gun
  • 2.5d
  • twin-stick
  • perma-death
  • space
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • customization
  • multiple-endings
  • shooter
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • top-down
  • economy

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Zombies. (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Zombies is a round based survival game following a sole surviver and thier blood lust for killing the undead.

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  • top-down
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • 2d
  • zombies
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • procedural
  • post-apocalyptic
  • vampire
  • pve
  • atmospheric
  • gothic
  • action
  • horror

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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.


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

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Polyfury (2023)

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You thought geometry was difficult? Now it's got a gun! Face the fury of the Seven Deadly Shapes and blast your way through a barrage of bullets and lasers in this highly accessible bullet hell.


  • bullet-hell
  • top-down
  • perma-death
  • tutorial
  • attack
  • score
  • shoot-em-up
  • modern
  • linear
  • shooter
  • pve
  • minimalist
  • controller-support
  • futuristic
  • difficult

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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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