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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Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Cloud of Han
Turn-based RPG about a mysterious unit in Three Kingdoms China
73% positive
187 reviews
Rubbings
Folklore horror adventure where ghost stories guide a village investigation
87% positive
187 reviews
Clandestinity of Elsie
Psychological survival horror with monsters drawn from a veteran's fears
78% positive
Free
Everything Ends In 0
Interactive fiction about conversations at the end of the world
92% positive
Free
Traveller's Hymn
Open-world RPG with automatic combat and equipment-driven character growth
94% positive
Free
SHRIMP GAME: KRILL CONFIRMED
An underwater looter shooter where you combine different elemental powers
96% positive
Free
Abyss The Forgotten Past: Prologue
A 2D fantasy platformer mixing weapon combat with RPG progression
59% positive
Free
Demo Venture to the Vile
2.5D Metroidvania about gaining powers to explore a monster-infested town
77% positive
185 reviews
Auridia
Platforming metroidvania with almost no combat and a history to uncover
96% positive
184 reviews
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
A romance visual novel set around a coffee shop
93% positive
183 reviews
Börd Killer
First-person arena shooter about fighting hordes with a shotgun
88% positive
Free
公主：东方与远征（Princess: The East and the Expedition）
An action roguelike mixing real-time strategy with dating sim elements
83% positive
183 reviews
Demo Space Wreck
Isometric space RPG where turn-based combat is completely optional
86% positive
182 reviews
Employee of The Month
First-person horror about working in a strange rural store
96% positive
182 reviews
Looking For Fael
First-person puzzle adventure through a maze of interconnected apartments
98% positive
182 reviews
Demo Nobody Nowhere
Side-scrolling sci-fi text adventure about replicants and consciousness research
93% positive
181 reviews
Mulaka
A 3D action-adventure rooted in the mythology of northern Mexico
91% positive
180 reviews
Tyrania - A Kinetic Visual Novel
Kinetic visual novel about controlling technology in a war-torn world
78% positive
Free
Decline's Drops
A 2D platformer mixing precision jumps with boxing combat
96% positive
179 reviews
Demo Duskpunk
Text-based steampunk RPG about surviving a city fueled by corpses
91% positive
179 reviews
Demo Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy with planetary warfare and political bargaining
95% positive
179 reviews
Black Legend
Turn-based tactical RPG with alchemical combat in a fogbound city
64% positive
177 reviews
Rappelz
Medieval fantasy MMORPG built around taming monsters for battle
59% positive
Free
A Fisherman's Tale 2
VR puzzle adventure with detachable hands and interchangeable body parts
84% positive
177 reviews