Best Lore-Rich games on PC
These games place substantial fictional history, characters, and setting details around their main action. They span shooters, online RPGs, open-world adventures, Souls-like games, and turn-based combat, so the tag describes depth of worldbuilding rather than one gameplay style.
- Extensive setting and backstory
- Story connected to worldbuilding
- Mostly action-oriented gameplay
Related: Story Rich, RPG, Fantasy, Atmospheric
1,099 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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BLUE REFLECTION
Magical-girl RPG alternating school friendships with supernatural battles
80% positive
1,490 reviews
Demo Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Lovecraftian horror built around lighthouse work and ship-routing decisions
90% positive
1,489 reviews
Darza's Dominion
Cooperative bullet-hell MMORPG with permadeath and randomized dungeons
68% positive
Free
Moonbreaker
Top-down turn-based tactics with paintable sci-fi miniature squads
84% positive
1,460 reviews
Backrooms: Lost Tape
Horror walking simulator with puzzles and hostile entities in liminal spaces
81% positive
1,454 reviews
The Bunny Graveyard
A pixel art horror adventure mixing minigames with computer mysteries
95% positive
1,453 reviews
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition
Party-based fantasy RPG with tabletop rules and player-built adventures
48% positive
1,445 reviews
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Isometric action adventure across islands full of puzzles and monsters
82% positive
1,414 reviews
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
Point-and-click adventure RPG with Norse mythology and class-specific puzzles
88% positive
Free
Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen
Visual novel and turn-based tactics RPG about an amnesiac village leader
93% positive
1,406 reviews
Garten of Banban 6
First-person horror with puzzles in a kindergarten's forgotten levels
77% positive
1,389 reviews
Demo Trials of Innocence
Courtroom detective visual novel about exposing lies in murder trials
90% positive
1,355 reviews
Worshippers of Cthulhu
Lovecraftian city builder about growing a cult to awaken Cthulhu
80% positive
1,346 reviews
Whispering Willows
A supernatural adventure about solving puzzles by leaving your body
81% positive
1,341 reviews
Shardbound: Forge Your Path, Master Your Strategy
Turn-based card battles built around positioning units on terrain
71% positive
Free
Demo Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
3D platformer where paint and thinner reshape a forgotten world
92% positive
1,337 reviews
Harold Halibut
Third-person story adventure aboard a submerged spaceship in an alien ocean
82% positive
1,330 reviews
Demo Verho - Curse of Faces
First-person dungeon crawler in a world where unmasking is fatal
91% positive
1,299 reviews
One-Eyed Likho
First-person folk horror adventure with puzzles solved through fire
94% positive
1,247 reviews
The Divine Invasion
A cyberpunk action adventure set between dreams and reality
78% positive
1,238 reviews
Ragnarok: The New World
Open-world fantasy MMORPG with class switching on one character
35% positive
Free
The Talos Principle: Reawakened
First-person puzzle adventure in a simulation with philosophical questions
89% positive
1,215 reviews
Demo Cooking Companions
Psychological horror visual novel about survival in a mountain cabin
94% positive
1,211 reviews
Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains
Turn-based RPG crossing medieval Eurasia with monster capture and fusion
82% positive
1,206 reviews