Best Perma Death Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated perma death games.

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Gangs of Space Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Aug 2017
Star of Providence Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a large, abandoned facility in search of incredible power, fighting dangerous foes and gaining new weapons and upgrades as you progress.

Price 13.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Jun 2017
Caveblazers Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

Price -93% 0.70€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 May 2017
ATOMINE Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2017
Immortal Redneck Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Apr 2017
Gloom Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

Price -87% 1.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Apr 2017
Asura: Vengeance Edition Asura is an Action Rogue-like set in a fantasy world inspired by the richness of Indian mythology. It features a unique procedural skill tree which changes on every play-through.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Apr 2017
Majotori A narrative trivia game focused on video games, anime and cinema. How many lives will your ignorance ruin?

Price -81% 1.17€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 2017
Dreadhalls You are trapped deep inside a massive dungeon. Explore it, survive it and find a way to escape. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!

Price -52% 4.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Mar 2017
Unexplored The ROGUELITE that feels like a ROGUELIKE. Praised for its fantastically generated dungeons, real-time combat and surprising amount of content and depth. One of the BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR according to PC Gamer and VICE Waypoint.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Feb 2017
Unalive Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities. Kill bosses and stay alive. You have only one chance!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jan 2017
Dungeon Souls Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Dec 2016
Killing Room Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.

Price -65% 5.27€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Oct 2016
GoNNER 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.

Price -95% 0.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 12 Oct 2016
Space Rogue Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 15 Sep 2016
NeuroVoider 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.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!

Price -93% 1.16€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -80% 2.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
Heart&Slash Fight as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of mindless machines in a future where humans are no more. A fast-paced 3D brawler with roguelike elements set in a colorful yet desolated world.

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Aug 2016
Infectonator: Survivors "Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Price -96% 0.47€
Rating 6.5
Release 08 Aug 2016
NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.

Price -19% 22.89€
Rating 6.4
Release 12 Jul 2016
Roguelands Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.

Price -14% 8.47€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Jun 2016
Dungeon Escape Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Price -88% 0.51€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
StarBreak StarBreak is a unique skill-based action platformer MMO where you explore strange sci-fi worlds alongside dozens of other players, kill legions of dangerous aliens and fight epic boss battles.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 10 May 2016
March of the Living Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Price -92% 1.22€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Apr 2016
UnReal World The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

Price 14.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 Feb 2016
Battlevoid: Harbinger Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Price -92% 0.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Feb 2016
XCOM® 2 XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Feb 2016
Subterrain Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Price -93% 1.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Jan 2016
Darkest Dungeon® 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?

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2016
Tharsis Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.

Price -94% 1.03€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Jan 2016
Nuclear Throne Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Price -96% 0.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Dec 2015
Mordheim: City of the Damned Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Nov 2015
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.

Price -96% 0.65€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Nov 2015
Sublevel Zero Redux Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.

Price 13.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Oct 2015
Templar Battleforce An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2015

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