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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Furquest
A story-driven RPG with a different minigame for every enemy
85% positive
91 reviews
Demo Before Fate
Sci-fi survival RPG about crossing time rifts and restoring a base
82% positive
91 reviews
Demo Syrup 2: Candy Alchemy RPG
A candy-crafting RPG mixing visual novel storytelling with monster battles
99% positive
91 reviews
HOUSE CALL
First-person point-and-click horror about answering a desperate call for help
89% positive
Free
Ascension: Transition and Silver
A queer visual novel about wishes with a price
91% positive
Free
Utawarerumono: ZAN
A hack-and-slash brawler with a switchable team of four fighters
76% positive
90 reviews
Utawarerumono: ZAN 2
Hack-and-slash RPG with more than twenty playable characters
81% positive
90 reviews
Fable Hospital
Medieval hospital management sim with absurd diseases and alchemy
73% positive
89 reviews
Cedric & Odious
Free fantasy action RPG with hack-and-slash combat and floating platforms
93% positive
Free
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots
Noir point-and-click adventure about a detective bear and missing robots
87% positive
87 reviews
Shut your teeth
A dark visual novel about Russian travelers and Thai folklore
91% positive
Free
Testament: The Order of High Human
First-person fantasy action-adventure built around combat, puzzles, and platforming
44% positive
87 reviews
HYAKKI YAKO Survivor
Action roguelike where you switch between spread-out and concentrated attacks
66% positive
87 reviews
Goldenheart
First-person fantasy adventure with gear upgrades instead of character levels
91% positive
87 reviews
Dreamcards
Roguelike deckbuilding where everyday people and actions become dream cards
99% positive
87 reviews
Not in Heaven
Surreal horror adventure about a child searching for her father
56% positive
Free
Demo Dreambound
A psychological mystery visual novel about grief, dreams, and murder
97% positive
86 reviews
翎之歌
Dark visual novel about surviving as the world's last human
90% positive
86 reviews
Demo The Last Winter Knight
Gothic visual novel about a ghost inhabiting a suit of armor
99% positive
86 reviews
Draw Steel
Fantasy virtual tabletop with tactical combat and custom adventure tools
98% positive
86 reviews
Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
A point-and-click mystery in an abbey whose monks remain silent
92% positive
86 reviews
Lily's Lil Video Shop!
Point-and-click horror behind the counter of a VHS rental shop
90% positive
86 reviews
Demo Blood Park
First-person survival horror inside a pair of forgotten VHS tapes
88% positive
86 reviews
Whisperwind
First-person horror built around puzzles and a prison mystery
96% positive
85 reviews