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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Placid Plastic Deck - A Quiet Quest
A story-driven adventure with duck decks and skippable card battles
80% positive
210 reviews
Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
Fantasy grand strategy MMO with city building and player-run trade
69% positive
Free
Demo Touken Ranbu Warriors
Historical hack-and-slash about sword spirits investigating changes to Japan's past
87% positive
206 reviews
Fun with Ragdolls Plus
Physics-driven 3D platformer with a story and world-building sandbox
75% positive
204 reviews
Demo Uberich: Advent Sinners
A visual novel linking supernatural attacks to a wider conspiracy
82% positive
203 reviews
The Wild Eternal
First-person exploration through foggy wilderness with a fox demigod
77% positive
Free
La Quimera
Sci-fi first-person shooter with solo or co-op mercenary missions
53% positive
200 reviews
Phobos
2D fantasy MMORPG about exploring, fighting creatures, and solving quests
64% positive
Free
2ECONDS TO STΔRLIVHT: My Heart's Reflection
A visual novel about coming out and facing transphobic bullying
82% positive
Free
Diluvian Ultra: Awakening
Retro first-person shooter where stripping armor sets up lethal attacks
71% positive
Free
DRAW CHILLY
Side-scrolling arcade combat with a growing squad of mechanics
82% positive
198 reviews
Penkura
Sci-fi survival and base building with programmable robot companions
88% positive
197 reviews
Tres-Bashers
A side-scrolling metroidvania where a flashlight makes monsters vulnerable
96% positive
197 reviews
Demo 甜點王子2 典藏版
A dating and bakery management sim aboard a traveling airship
86% positive
197 reviews
Kunado Chronicles
Post-apocalyptic fantasy visual novel about rebuilding a society shaped by war
78% positive
195 reviews
Demo goblinAmerica
A movement-focused first-person shooter about possessing presidents to change history
90% positive
195 reviews
My Big Sister: Remastered
Top-down horror adventure about two sisters trying to break a curse
90% positive
195 reviews
1000 Cuts: Jomaku
Side-scrolling sword action where a single hit can kill you
85% positive
Free
Fantasy Online 2
Top-down pixel-art MMORPG with quests, crafting, and gear collecting
81% positive
194 reviews
Sigh of the Abyss
Dark fantasy visual novel with branching choices and optional romance
97% positive
192 reviews
Franzen
A short turn-based RPG about technomancers investigating a spreading darkness
96% positive
Free
Knock On The Window
First-person horror walking simulator with VHS visuals and a mysterious knock
91% positive
192 reviews
Demo 彗星战团
A sci-fi visual novel following a mercenary into mech warfare
88% positive
191 reviews
Celtic Heroes
Fantasy MMORPG where all equipment can be traded between players
57% positive
Free