The Perma Death Zone

Games where death can permanently erase characters, progress, or runs.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Dungeon Settlers - Players say: Build a refuge on barren land, then train a four-person party to scavenge a shifting dungeon in pauseable real-time combat. Players like: Dungeon-Base Loop · Pauseable Tactical Combat · Squad Building ·
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A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Fracture Point - After years in prison, you return to a dark megacity ruled by a ruthless corporation. The only way forward is up - through countless floors of a heavily guarded skyscraper - to reach the corporation's leader and take your revenge.
Rogue Blight - Rogue Blight is a rogue-lite with focus on souls-like combat, featuring a Slay The Spire-inspired map system. Fight your way through ever-changing maps. Customize your playstyle based on what you find. Death is punishing. Only skill and persistence will carry you forward.
Lucky Shot - A shooting dopamine machine! Lucky Shot is a roguelike mag-builder FPS where you master different weapons, build wild combos, and break the game to reach massive high scores.
Slot & Dungeons - A deck-building roguelite where the reels decide your fate! Enemies and items appear based on the spin of the slot. Master luck and strategy to conquer the dungeon!
EverRail - Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
MOLDRISE - Players say: A foot infection drives you up a 30-floor apartment block, where you barter, scavenge, and learn from each failed climb. Players like: Oppressive Building Atmosphere · Knowledge-Based Progression · Distinctive Visuals and Sound ·
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It started in your foot. Now it’s in your head. All that remains is the command: GO UP. Meet strange neighbors. Make bad trades. Every ascent teaches you what you should have done differently.

Welcome to the Game III - Players say: As Simon races to clear a dangerous debt, search dark-web sites for puzzle keys, defend your PC, and evade killers in a motel. Players like: Tense Motel Atmosphere · Multitasking Pressure · Satisfying Challenge ·
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Navigate the internet's dark net, searching for pieces of a puzzle that once combined will clear your outstanding debt. Scan strange websites for info, hack into PCs while defending your own, and buy/sell goods & services, all while avoiding threats in this strategic, suspenseful horror game.

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Jul 16, 2026
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Better Minesweeper - A modern take on classic Minesweeper, focused on quality-of-life improvements, flexibility, and customization.
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Jun 14, 2026
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Battle Ram - Players say: Guide a lab-created ram with your mouse, ramming robots and dodging projectile barrages across lethal arenas. Players like: Unusual Ram Premise · Colorful Hand-Drawn Art · Challenging Arcade Action ·
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Battle Ram - an experiment of scientists developed in a secret laboratory, a powerful creature against robots, who will win?

Orbital Bullet – The 360° Rogue-lite - Players say: Traverse procedural cylindrical arenas, leap between rings, and fire in every direction in a run-based action-platformer. Players like: Circular Arenas · Weapon Variety · Persistent Upgrades ·
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Orbital Bullet is a fast paced 360° action-platformer with rogue-lite elements, where all actions take place in a circular pattern. Fight your way through a variety of procedural planets and use body modifications, crafting and heavy weaponry. Kill. Die. Modify.

Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial - Players say: As Erza, a demon-bound warrior, battle through tower stages, gather upgrades, and defeat bosses to earn a Hunter's License. Players like: Colorful Visual Style · Enjoyable Combat · Fluid Character Movement ·
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Tower Hunter: Erza’s Trial contains core elements of roguelite games, presented in a toon render style. The player explores a mysterious tower with Erza, vanquishes mutant monsters and defeats bosses to acquire a Hunter’s License and become the most powerful Battle Maiden.

Dead In Vinland - Players say: Lead a stranded Viking family through turn-based island survival, balancing camp needs, exploration, relationships, and combat. Players like: Character Stories · Resource Planning · Tense Survival Challenge ·
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DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Fury Unleashed - Players say: Shoot through shifting comic-book pages, chain kills, gather upgrades, and battle through roguelite runs solo or in co-op. Players like: Co-op Fun · Fast Combat Flow · Comic-Book Art ·
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Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.

NeuroVoider - Players say: Pilot a brain-driven robot through procedurally generated stages, shooting enemies and swapping gear alone or in local co-op. Players like: Synth Soundtrack · Robot Customization · Local Co-op ·
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NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

ScourgeBringer - Players say: As Kyhra, a clan warrior, slash, shoot and dash through machine-filled rooms in a fast-paced, repeat-run platforming dungeon. Players like: Fluid Aerial Combat · Responsive Movement · Pixel Art ·
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ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.

Darkest Dungeon® - Players say: Lead flawed heroes through randomized dungeons, managing stress, supplies and turn-based battles as you reclaim an ancestral estate. Players like: Tactical Party Combat · Gothic Art and Atmosphere · Hero Stress System ·
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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Dark Deity - Players say: Lead four academy recruits through a fantasy war, directing turn-based battles and shaping a growing squad’s classes and gear. Players like: Tactical Combat · Branching Class Choices · Battle Animations ·
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Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

Atomicrops - Players say: Grow crops, explore a radioactive wasteland for supplies, and survive nightly bullet-hell attacks in a run-based farm shooter. Players like: Farming-Shooter Blend · Addictive Run Loop · Character and Build Variety ·
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A twin-stick, bullet-hell, roguelite where you must cultivate and defend the last farm in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Farm mutated crops, upgrade your weapons, marry townsfolk, and kill every mutant creature that tries to invade your homestead! Yee-haw! 

GoNNER - Players say: Guide Ikk through shifting, enemy-filled platforming runs, chaining kills and gathering gear to find a gift for whale Sally. Players like: Distinctive Visual Style · Standout Soundtrack · Satisfying Kill Combos ·
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GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.

Risk of Rain (2013) - Players say: Stranded on a hostile planet, fight through randomized 2D stages, gather items, and race rising difficulty to find a way home. Players like: Item Build Variety · Escalating Runs · Distinct Survivors ·
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Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

BEERCRUSH - Enter the world of John Beer in this psychotic, fast-paced roguelike where you drink beer to stay alive! Dash as fast as you can through unique and crazy worlds to break the vicious cycle. So what are you waiting for!? LIVE LIFE. EVERY GOLDEN MINUTE OF IT!
your sisters - Players say: Keep animated characters on your desktop as they follow your cursor, react to clicks, and unlock new looks through interaction. Players like: Steam Profile Styling · Desktop Companions · Trading Cards ·
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Who needs one desktop girl when you can have a whole squad? Meet your adorable chaos crew, always cute, sometimes weird and fun. Your Sisters is a little dose of dopamine for your boring desktop.

Sculplings - A creature-collecting roguelike where every monster is sculpted in real clay and brought to life! Collect and battle a random assortment of hand-sculpted monsters in order to become the #1 Sculpling Champion!
868-BACK - 868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time! Use hacking powers to fight enemies, steal the servers' data, and face increasingly nasty situations before being disconnected (again!) by the richest corporations on earth.
One More 6ix - A semi-idle dice clicker where the odds rarely favor you. Risky offers, mysterious phone calls, unexpected debts. What are you willing to sacrifice to land nine sixes in a row?
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Dec 2, 2025
99% 👍
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False Dream - You find yourself trapped in a dream. If you capture anomalies in the dream with a camera, you might be able to escape.
Ogre Chambers 2222 - SURVIVE in a transforming arena against ALIEN OGRES in this ROGUELIKE BULLET-HELL 💥 MODIFY your gun, make smart upgrade decisions and master your spaceship's controls to conquer the OGRE CHAMBERS !
Box of Broken Nails - First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
Lost Flame - Lost Flame is a modern roguelike game featuring unique and challenging turn-based combat. Find your way in the ruined kingdom of Hiraeth while fighting against legendary warriors of the past and spawn of the unfathomable Abysm.
Dunjungle - Players say: As a monkey hero, fight corruption across shifting jungle dungeons, combining weapons, spells, and relics in repeatable runs. Players like: Responsive Combat · Build and Weapon Variety · Replayable Progression ·
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A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Aliya: Timelink - Players say: Chat across 1,000 years with a stranded astronaut, guiding her through ship emergencies and choices that shape her route. Players like: Emotional First Story · Real-Time Immersion · Aliya's Character ·
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The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

Path of Achra - Players say: Build a hero from culture, class, faith, and powers, then survive turn-based runs through Achra's hostile lands toward the Obelisk. Players like: Build-Crafting Depth · Wild Effect Chains · Quick Runs ·
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Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...

It Steals - Players say: Navigate maze-like levels, collect blue orbs, and outwit a different lurking monster in each arcade-style horror mode. Players like: Tense, Scary Chases · Distinct Game Modes · Effective Sound Design ·
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AROUND EVERY CORNER. Face against stealthy antagonists that will take advantage of your expectations.

Brutal Orchestra - Players say: After dying in Purgatory, recruit strange companions and use pigment-powered tactics in turn-based runs to pursue revenge. Players like: Tactical Combat Planning · Surreal Art Direction · Strange Story And Humor ·
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Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into Purgatory finding ​all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.

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Dec 17, 2021
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Don't Starve - Players say: As Wilson, stranded in a hostile, procedurally generated wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and fight to survive. Players like: Distinctive Hand-Drawn Art · Discovery Through Survival · Randomized World Exploration ·
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Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

PUMPKIN PANIC - Players say: A pumpkin-headed farmer tends a forest plot, earns money through crops and fishing, and tries to escape as monsters roam. Players like: Cozy Horror Contrast · Tense Sound Design · Farm-and-Survive Loop ·
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COME TO THIS COZY FARM! Plant crops, take care of the plants, go fishing, or whatever you prefer, but have a good time! But be carefull, they say that strange things are happening in the area...

Windowkill - Players say: A twin-stick shooter where you fire at your shrinking game-window edges to reshape the arena while battling enemies and bosses. Players like: Window Gameplay Twist · Fun, Challenging Runs · Distinct Character Styles ·
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Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Majotori - Players say: Answer pop-culture trivia for Lariat the witch to grant characters’ wishes—or let wrong answers and chance twist their fates. Players like: Trivia With Consequences · Funny Short Stories · Branching Outcomes ·
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A narrative trivia game focused on video games, anime and cinema. How many lives will your ignorance ruin?

Cogmind - Players say: A turn-based sci-fi roguelike where a robot scavenges parts, rebuilds under fire, and fights or sneaks through a hostile complex. Players like: Adaptive Robot Builds · Tactical Stealth · World Lore ·
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Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.

Liquidators - Players say: As one of three Chernobyl workers, navigate irradiated plant corridors, read a Geiger counter, and shut down critical valves. Players like: Oppressive Atmosphere · Radiation-Based Tension · Chernobyl Tribute ·
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Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Noita - Players say: Descend procedurally generated caverns as a spellcaster, building wands and surviving a world made of reactive pixels. Players like: Custom Wand Building · Reactive Pixel Physics · Secrets and Exploration ·
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Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

FTL: Faster Than Light - Players say: Command a Federation ship through a shifting galaxy, balancing crew, power and weapons in paused battles to deliver vital information. Players like: Strategic Ship Management · Varied Runs · Earned Victories ·
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This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.