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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Demo Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Side-scrolling action adventure about a shaman seeking his father's spirit
83% positive
986 reviews
Demo Voidwrought
Dark 2D Metroidvania with relics, boss fights, and shrine building
76% positive
983 reviews
Spirit of the North 2
Open-world fox adventure with puzzles, runes, and guardian battles
85% positive
981 reviews
Demo Imagine Earth
Real-time planetary city builder balancing expansion against climate damage
82% positive
971 reviews
Unknown 9: Awakening
Third-person action-adventure with stealth and powers to control enemies
37% positive
947 reviews
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
Open-world airship trading and combat with factories and fleets
73% positive
945 reviews
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Solo deduction roguelite where you expose lies and arrest criminals
84% positive
942 reviews
Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
Open-world survival RPG with squad combat, crafting, and zombies
78% positive
941 reviews
Svarog's Dream
Open-world action RPG where death means inhabiting a new body
87% positive
934 reviews
Love Nest ~V0.098~
A retro psychological horror visual novel about possessive love
98% positive
Free
Demo The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
Single-player fantasy RPG with open-world quests and skill leveling
84% positive
933 reviews
Demo Do No Harm
First-person doctor simulation with medical decisions and reality-warping horror
74% positive
932 reviews
Welcome to Dustown
First-person horror with an in-game camera and local voice chat
49% positive
Free
Girls' Frontline
Strategy RPG with firearm-inspired characters and squad-based tactical battles
84% positive
Free
Priest Simulator: Heavy Duty
First-person action sandbox mixing priestly chores with cultist combat
96% positive
Free
The Unliving
Dark fantasy action roguelite about raising and commanding undead armies
62% positive
900 reviews
Demo ADACA
A sandbox first-person shooter built around a gravity-manipulating robotic arm
91% positive
898 reviews
Wolfstride
Turn-based mecha RPG mixing arena battles with city errands
89% positive
886 reviews
Shovel Knight Dig
2D action roguelite with downward digging through changing levels
75% positive
884 reviews
1666: Amsterdam
Third-person action-adventure with witchcraft and a playable cat
65% positive
884 reviews
Frontier Pilot Simulator
Cargo flight simulator with trading and harsh alien weather
69% positive
880 reviews
MECHANICA: A Ballad of the Rabbit and Mercury
Cyberpunk mystery RPG built around music and a three-day loop
94% positive
879 reviews
Lilith Wants to Buy Your Soul
A short visual novel where an imp appraises your soul
96% positive
Free
Byakuya Museum
A horror RPG with death traps and multiple endings
92% positive
Free