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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Forsaker:DingDing&Blade
Dark fantasy visual novel combining card battles with interwoven storylines
75% positive
125 reviews
The motel
A horror adventure built around a late-night motel shift
86% positive
124 reviews
Universe For Sale - Prologue
Sci-fi visual novel about a woman who creates custom universes
89% positive
Free
ELIF
A third-person puzzle-platformer exploring childhood memories with a dog's help
83% positive
Free
The Archipelago
A visual novel where brewing tea determines who visits
91% positive
Free
Demo Siren's Call: Escape Velocity
Psychological horror visual novel set after battles with supernatural creatures
98% positive
122 reviews
Psycutlery
Side-scrolling action platformer where you wield a mind-controlled spork
99% positive
Free
GHARP
First-person stealth shooter about infiltrating an organization to stop terrorism
44% positive
Free
Future Racer 2000
First-person psychological horror with a racing game inside its story
93% positive
121 reviews
Claire
Psychological horror adventure where discoveries and decisions lead to different endings
90% positive
121 reviews
Beasts of Burden
A monster-battling horror RPG set in a repeating day
77% positive
Free
Demo Liminal Shroud
Psychological horror in shifting spaces, without monsters or combat
88% positive
120 reviews
The Shadows of Pygmalion
A dark fantasy visual novel mixing school life and supernatural conflict
80% positive
119 reviews
Bokuten - Why I Became an Angel
A romance visual novel about deciding which couples should stay together
82% positive
119 reviews
Bad Dream: Stories
Point-and-click horror adventures set in dreams with their own logic
94% positive
119 reviews
Affliction
First-person horror shooter about surviving a chemical weapon containment breach
47% positive
118 reviews
Demo NOISZ
A rhythm-based bullet hell shooter with visual novel storytelling
95% positive
118 reviews
The Space-Eating Croc
A horror-influenced mystery adventure through a hotel's strange spaces
95% positive
118 reviews
IZGUB 2001
A visual novel about political and criminal intrigue during wartime
97% positive
118 reviews
Lawless Lands
Turn-based fantasy RPG with randomized campaigns and a customizable hero
86% positive
117 reviews
Swallow The Blue: Remastered
2D psychological horror where survival depends on obeying hotel rules
58% positive
Free
Winds Of Arcana: Ruination
Side-scrolling Metroidvania with mix-and-match weapons and ancient magic
78% positive
116 reviews
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City
First-person VR action with martial arts and rooftop parkour
77% positive
116 reviews
Uh Oh!
Short first-person horror seen through a retro VHS camcorder
86% positive
Free