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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GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
Fast-paced 2D fighting with anime visuals and wall-breaking battles
88% positive
52K reviews
Super Animal Royale
Top-down battle royale where customizable animals fight with guns
93% positive
Free
Demo Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
Third-person fantasy action RPG about uniting seven distinct companions
69% positive
43K reviews
Lords of the Fallen
Souls-like action RPG across parallel realms of living and dead
65% positive
41K reviews
007 First Light
Third-person spy action following James Bond's early days at MI6
90% positive
36K reviews
Demo Legend of Mortal
Choice-driven wuxia RPG where personality reshapes stories and combat
75% positive
36K reviews
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Branching psychological horror visual novel about slaying a princess
96% positive
34K reviews
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Dark fantasy FPS with shield parries and demon-filled medieval battlefields
87% positive
34K reviews
Total War: WARHAMMER
Fantasy grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
78% positive
34K reviews
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Fast-paced hand-drawn 2D fighter with fourteen distinct warriors
77% positive
32K reviews
RuneScape ®
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and boss fights
82% positive
Free
Sultan's Game
Dark fantasy card RPG about surviving a sultan's deadly demands
93% positive
26K reviews
Cruelty Squad
Surreal tactical FPS with corporate assassinations and multiple mission routes
96% positive
26K reviews
Sonic Frontiers
Open-zone 3D platforming with high-speed exploration and combat
90% positive
24K reviews
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Open-world fantasy RPG built around exploration and character freedom
94% positive
24K reviews
Old School RuneScape
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and player voting
83% positive
Free
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
89% positive
22K reviews
Demo Mortal Shell II
Open-world Souls-like action RPG with combat unrestricted by stamina
78% positive
21K reviews
No More Room in Hell 2
Eight-player cooperative zombie FPS with infection and permanent character death
59% positive
19K reviews
Blasphemous 2
Difficult 2D Metroidvania with weapon swapping and grotesque bosses
90% positive
18K reviews
Another Crab's Treasure
Cartoon soulslike adventure where trash becomes your protective shell
92% positive
18K reviews
Demo Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
16K reviews
MIR4
Open-world martial arts MMORPG with clan warfare and territory control
65% positive
Free
Garten of Banban
First-person horror adventure in a kindergarten where everyone vanished
54% positive
Free