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 Alaris
Fantasy romance visual novel about a healer who sees auras
98% positive
85 reviews
Destiny Online
A free-to-play fantasy MMORPG where captured monsters fight alongside you
80% positive
Free
Demo Eclipse : Special Forces
A fantasy visual novel with superpowered women and timed choices
92% positive
85 reviews
Thor's Ascension: Nine Realms
Isometric action roguelike about hunting gods across Norse realms
65% positive
84 reviews
Demo Fallen Seeds
Sci-fi visual novel with alien romance and political intrigue
87% positive
84 reviews
7 Bones and 7 Stones - The Ritual
Multiplayer horror where villagers complete a ritual while a monster hunts
57% positive
Free
Demo The Hundred Year Kingdom
A turn-based civilization builder played out over a hundred years
76% positive
83 reviews
protoViolence - Definitive Edition
A dark sci-fi visual novel about children turned into cyborgs
96% positive
Free
Demo Artificer: Science of Magic
Survival RPG where scientific research unlocks an alien world's magic
60% positive
82 reviews
长明火计划 Project: Eternal Flame
A sci-fi visual novel with card battles and dungeon runs
90% positive
82 reviews
enJoyTyping
A psychological horror typing game with time limits on words
68% positive
Free
Demo Ghost Deliverer
Top-down horror adventure with puzzles rooted in Korean folklore
99% positive
82 reviews
Demo how to kill a fly [ H2KAF ]
A dialogue puzzle game where you speak using borrowed sentences
98% positive
82 reviews
Disgraced
Turn-based RPG about organizing a rebellion in feudal Japan
80% positive
81 reviews
Labyrinth of Zangetsu
Turn-based dungeon RPG with monochrome art and Japanese folklore
73% positive
81 reviews
Lost Cartridge - Cold Read
Top-down horror adventure about escaping a library without fighting back
94% positive
81 reviews
Sign: Broken Kether
Fantasy visual novel about a stranded witch seeking lost powers
98% positive
81 reviews
Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III
First-person fantasy horror where losing sanity changes enemy behavior
74% positive
80 reviews
Split Echo: Demo
Cooperative puzzle adventure where progress depends on talking to your partner
81% positive
Free
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
A nonlinear murder mystery set in an empire of dogs
96% positive
80 reviews
The Butler
First-person psychological horror about searching for a missing maintenance man
84% positive
80 reviews
Conclave
Fantasy party RPG with turn-based battles and flexible co-op
73% positive
79 reviews
Mother Hub
First-person horror shooter through the abandoned depths of humanity's vault
76% positive
79 reviews
Paradise: Musubi
Boys' love suspense visual novel continuing three characters' happy endings
96% positive
79 reviews