The Best Perma-death Games

Update : Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days added at rank #1.
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Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days (2025)

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PC Windows

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

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  • psychological
  • 2.5d
  • survival-horror
  • immersive
  • perma-death
  • zombies
  • scroller
  • simulation
  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • choices
  • crafting
  • horror
  • stealth
  • management

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Three Sisters (2025)

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Three Sisters is a goofy RPG featuring some cute little (not nightmare inducing) enemies and a story where nothing bad ever happens! Wait, what's that? You played the other games? crap.

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  • perma-death
  • dark
  • party
  • cats
  • gambling
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • rpg
  • humor
  • stylized
  • top-down
  • historical
  • alternate
  • lore
  • pixel

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Rogueformer (2025)

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Rogueformer is a 2D, procedurally generated, platformer where a magical, living ice cube develops a range of unique perks that help it survive in a cruel, destructible environment, filled with all sorts of foes and curses.

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  • perma-death
  • rogue-like
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • procedural
  • platform
  • pve
  • replay-value
  • scroller
  • humor
  • abstract
  • local
  • retro
  • dark
  • difficult

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Tribute of Minos (2025)

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A dungeon-crawling adventure set in ancient Greek mythology. Explore the ruins, battle mythical beasts, collect treasure and ancient relics to aid your quest. Within the Labyrinth lays a great beast, the Minotaur.

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  • perma-death
  • dungeon-crawler
  • historical
  • pve
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • action-adventure
  • rpg
  • alternate
  • multiple-endings
  • casual
  • 2d

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R (2025)

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Run, hide, adapt and survive in a mansion of endless night and bizarre brain-twisting phenomena in this 2D hand-drawn psychological horror title.


  • horror
  • perma-death
  • psychological
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • hand-drawn
  • comedy
  • multiple-endings
  • thriller
  • multiplayer
  • stealth

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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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Terra Exodus (2025)

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PC Windows

Defend the evacuation of Terra on the losing side of an alien invasion. This experimental action strategy game breaks out of genre norms to provide fresh mechanics to strategic gaming.

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  • rogue-like
  • real-time
  • perma-death
  • tactical
  • procedural
  • tower-defense
  • aliens
  • strategy
  • destruction
  • experimental
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • futuristic
  • dark
  • 3d

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CRUEL (2025)

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PC Windows

A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements

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  • shooter
  • first-person
  • perma-death
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • boomer
  • wick
  • violent
  • fast-paced
  • adrenaline-pumping
  • post-apocalyptic
  • gore
  • run
  • shoot-em-up
  • fps

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Answer To Survive (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Can you win in the best show in the afterlife?

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  • platform
  • precision
  • trivia
  • 3d
  • perma-death
  • voxel
  • humor
  • satire
  • third-person
  • dark
  • question
  • family-friendly
  • cartoony
  • funny
  • pixel

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One Armed Bandit (2024)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows

Spin to win in this slot-machine-building roguelike!

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  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • deckbuilder
  • cartoony
  • surreal
  • strategy
  • procedural
  • choices
  • gambling
  • 2d
  • cute
  • various

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