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 Title_Pending
Comedy adventure about exploring an unfinished game during a playtest
95% positive
440 reviews
Demo Fragile
Horror puzzle adventure about a child's escape from captivity
65% positive
439 reviews
明星志願2
Show business simulation with daily scheduling and multiple endings
82% positive
436 reviews
Fallen Tear: The Ascension
Side-scrolling metroidvania with recruitable allies for combat and exploration
71% positive
434 reviews
Nocturne: Prelude
A story-driven RPG with rhythm battles in a digital afterlife
97% positive
Free
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX
Turn-based fantasy RPG about alchemy and exploring painted worlds
91% positive
428 reviews
Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~ DX
Crafting-focused fantasy RPG about exploring Arland for a missing mother
78% positive
427 reviews
Vampire: The Masquerade - Heartless Lullaby
A detective RPG with both mortal and vampire perspectives
80% positive
Free
Demo Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Noir detective adventure uncovering a conspiracy in an insect underworld
81% positive
422 reviews
Demo 蛊婆 Lady in Tomb
A survival horror adventure through a tomb filled with monsters
92% positive
419 reviews
Steam Prison
Steampunk romance visual novel about exile and a divided society
82% positive
418 reviews
Caves of Lore
A turn-based fantasy RPG with grid combat and hidden secrets
90% positive
418 reviews
Demo Zefyr: A Thief's Melody
An open-world adventure with climbing, stealth, and turtle rides
96% positive
414 reviews
大科学家
A text adventure where a tavern owner's routine unravels
94% positive
Free
FLATHEAD
A high-or-low horror game with a creature closing in
93% positive
409 reviews
Dreams in the Witch House
Point-and-click horror balancing student life, survival, and an occult investigation
91% positive
408 reviews
Three of Cards
Stealth puzzle action with magic tricks and a corporate revenge story
95% positive
Free
A House of Many Doors
Exploration RPG aboard a train that walks on mechanical legs
82% positive
404 reviews
Arcadie: Second-Born
Text-based fantasy RPG about royal choices, diplomacy, and romance
95% positive
399 reviews
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX
Turn-based fantasy RPG with two alchemists and timed assignments
91% positive
394 reviews
Blazing Aries
2D action RPG about fighting spreading Calamities with combos
88% positive
392 reviews
Demo Terraformental
Text-based incremental adventure about surviving and learning through time loops
96% positive
389 reviews
Kanna Maze
A sci-fi visual novel about murders and distorted space-time
87% positive
385 reviews
Below, Rusted Gods
First-person horror where you guide an expedition by radio
87% positive
385 reviews