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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CYBRID
VR rhythm combat with color-matched blades and bullet deflection
86% positive
146 reviews
The Druid
A 2D roguelike platformer rooted in Celtic mythology
86% positive
Free
Upwards, Rain! The Post Office of Farewells
A visual novel mixing word puzzles with letters from the dead
97% positive
146 reviews
The Grade 5B Case Files
Detective visual novel about two girls solving everyday school mysteries
91% positive
Free
Demo Sorry We're Open
Supermarket horror RPG with turn-based battles that spend your money
94% positive
145 reviews
Fallow
A surreal puzzle adventure through dreams and a changing home
97% positive
144 reviews
Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
A puzzle platformer about switching perspectives and reshaping shadow paths
89% positive
143 reviews
Bonnie's Bakery
Story-driven cooking and horror in a town of cartoon animals
97% positive
143 reviews
Veritus
Dungeon-crawling action-adventure about piecing together a lost key
79% positive
143 reviews
Demo Throne of Monsters 怪物的王座
Psychological horror visual novel centered on a female protagonist
92% positive
142 reviews
Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story
Point-and-click puzzle adventure centered on a present at your door
89% positive
Free
30 Birds
Narrative puzzle adventure through a city built on rotating lanterns
96% positive
141 reviews
The Jewel of Monostructure
A dark fantasy visual novel with a branching supernatural story
97% positive
140 reviews
Demo Legends of the Round Table
Arthurian tactical RPG where knights grow old and die
90% positive
140 reviews
Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan
An action RPG set in an African-inspired fantasy world
83% positive
139 reviews
The Great Wastes
A turn-based tactical RPG where you can rewind battles
68% positive
139 reviews
Bakery
Pixel-art bakery management sim about making bread and training staff
80% positive
138 reviews
Lunar Axe
A point-and-click adventure blending real locations with Brazilian folklore
88% positive
137 reviews
The Crow's Eye
First-person puzzle platforming at a university conducting unethical experiments
72% positive
136 reviews
Demo Kamifuda
A card battler and visual novel set at an eldritch university
88% positive
136 reviews
Light and Shadow - Doppelganger
A story-driven JRPG with separate paladin and assassin paths
74% positive
136 reviews
Arima Lodge
Short interactive fiction set entirely inside a hotel elevator
88% positive
Free
Into the Sinkhole
Side-scrolling platformer about descending a sinkhole while dodging springboards
74% positive
135 reviews
时空传说：佣兵王战记
A turn-based fantasy RPG with free exploration and maze-like dungeons
83% positive
135 reviews