Hidden Perma Death Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated perma death games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Perma Death games on Steam.

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Pixel Dungeon Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!

Price 4.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 May 2015
Fine Sweeper Fine Sweeper is a Minesweeper variant with additional features such as a campaign mode, “classic mode”, item drops, leader-boards, and achievements.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 May 2015
Domestic Dog Have you ever wanted to be a dog? Well now you can, kinda...

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2015
Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Mar 2015
Ironcast Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.0
Release 26 Mar 2015
Tallowmere Raise your shield. Indulge Lady Tallowmere and her lovingly violent dungeons. New rooms are created every time you play. How deep can you delve?

Price -85% 0.62€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Mar 2015
Catacomb Kids Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.

Price 15.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Feb 2015
Crowntakers Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 07 Nov 2014
Coin Crypt A roguelite deckbuilding adventure game about magical coins. You play as a lootmancer, who can unlock the hidden power inside of coins and use them in magical duels. The loots you take from chests and enemies also become your next moves, so plan carefully!

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Oct 2014
Sproggiwood Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a humorous world inspired by Finnish mythology. Grow your civilization and plunder procedural dungeons with six unique classes. Outsmart mischievous monsters who work together in unexpected ways. No two dungeon dives are alike.

Price -95% 0.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Oct 2014
Vertical Drop Heroes HD Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.

Price -95% 0.35€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Jul 2014
Rogue's Tale Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.

Price -50% 3.44€
Rating 6.9
Release 28 Mar 2014
WazHack Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Feb 2014
Our Darker Purpose Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Jan 2014
Not The Robots You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.

Price -98% 0.28€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Dec 2013