10 Video Games Where You Can Only Die ONCE

10. ZombiU

ZombiU is one of those early 2010s games that spawned out of the zombie apocalypse craze at the time. However, unlike its competitors, the game has a rather unique approach to emphasizing the dread of trying to survive the undead uprising. Every death in ZombiU is permanent.

Even though the game features a save system, whenever you die, you don't get to play as your character again. Instead, you are spawned into the world as another survivor, and your previous one is turned into a zombie.

For this reason, no single run is the same, and as you may imagine, this makes for some interesting gameplay. Each time you die, you need to reacquaint yourself with your surroundings and your new character, and then venture out into the world to find your previous self and take back your belongings from their zombified body.

Of course, it can be frustrating to lose a character you've grown attached to, but then again, this feeling is exactly what ZombiU relies on to make your postapocalyptic struggle all the more intense.

If you want your favorite survivor to get a happy ending, you need to make extra sure no zombies are getting free nibbles from them.