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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Demo Arcadie II: Cold Lands
Text-based fantasy adventure about ruling a kingdom and navigating romance
84% positive
108 reviews
Demo 琉璃烟火-Flame in Glass-
A crime visual novel told through live-action still photographs
99% positive
106 reviews
Echoes of Vision
Turn-based tactical RPG about investigating and containing urban legends
88% positive
Free
Demo Yuri Dating Agency
A text-based lesbian dating game with hidden stories to uncover
89% positive
105 reviews
Freeland
Online VR role-playing with space travel and player-built planets
46% positive
Free
Demo HANA : Hide and seek
A horror RPG about a strange woman haunting your home
87% positive
105 reviews
Demo Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
A choice-driven visual novel following a refugee werewolf in Poland
80% positive
105 reviews
Plus Ultra: Legado
A comic-book Metroidvania set among Mesoamerica's historical locations
79% positive
105 reviews
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Time-loop horror adventure where you influence people and rewind their mistakes
96% positive
105 reviews
Dream about yoU
A narrative puzzle adventure through dreams in a flooded future
90% positive
105 reviews
Punk Wars
Turn-based strategy with steam, diesel, steel, and atomic factions
58% positive
104 reviews
Lempo
Psychological horror set in a forest inspired by Finnish mythology
81% positive
104 reviews
Snafu
Psychological horror inside a medieval business game corrupted by a virus
94% positive
104 reviews
Demo Panthalassa
Point-and-click adventure about a submarine AI awakening in an unfamiliar body
98% positive
104 reviews
The King's Dilemma: Chronicles
Political simulation where council votes shape a kingdom's future
70% positive
103 reviews
BLINK: The Last Night
Psychological horror where random blinks trigger changes in your surroundings
77% positive
102 reviews
Demo Neuroshima Hex
Turn-based board game battles with armies that play differently
70% positive
102 reviews
Demo Knights of the Chalice
Party-based fantasy RPG with tactical combat based on tabletop rules
86% positive
101 reviews
SCP: Nemesi - Alpha Testing
Asymmetric survival horror with one creature hunting four unarmed humans
72% positive
Free
Itchy Scratchy
Point-and-click horror about scratching someone who asks for help
78% positive
Free
TERRACOTTA
Puzzle action-adventure with realm-switching inside an ancient Chinese tomb
81% positive
99 reviews
The Companion
A walking simulator linking spiritual and physical worlds through visions
70% positive
99 reviews
ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
Norse mythology adventure with puzzles, choices, and rhythm-based combat
86% positive
98 reviews
Solitude Underwater
First-person horror adventure about surviving sharks in a damaged diving cage
60% positive
Free