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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First-person sci-fi mystery where daily choices reshape your surroundings
89% positive
Free
The Demon King: Harem
Adult fantasy RPG combining turn-based battles, relationships, and city rebuilding
85% positive
72 reviews
Murderous Muses
Detective puzzle adventure with living portraits and a changing culprit
75% positive
71 reviews
The Perfect Pencil
A surreal action platformer where analyzing your surroundings reveals secrets
68% positive
71 reviews
Obscure Chronicle of Dynasty
Turn-based strategy RPG set in an alternate Three Kingdoms history
92% positive
71 reviews
Demo Concealed
A psychological horror visual novel about students disappearing from school
77% positive
71 reviews
BlightFog
A story-driven RPG about traveling by bike with an infant
87% positive
Free
The Sixth Sorrow
Psychological horror about grief and secrets within a troubled family
86% positive
Free
Demo Flux Empyrean
A sailing puzzle adventure where understanding the world drives progress
96% positive
71 reviews
Demo Wienne
Short fantasy RPG built around a branching time-loop story
87% positive
Free
Chaos Chain
Open-world cyberpunk RPG with character flaws, custom backgrounds, and psionics
91% positive
70 reviews
No Delivery
Turn-based horror RPG about working nights at a haunted pizzeria
97% positive
70 reviews
Trail of Stars
Dark fantasy visual novel about two squires falling in love
100% positive
Free
Applewood
A puzzle-platformer where an imp handles conflict without direct attacks
94% positive
Free
Howdy, Jacob!
A hidden-object game mixing puppet videos with dystopian dark humor
87% positive
69 reviews
Hello Puppets: Midnight Show
Stealth-puzzle horror with changing levels and puppets that hunt you
72% positive
69 reviews
Greed's Grub
First-person horror about serving burgers to customers from hell
87% positive
Free
Demo Adventure of Samsara
A 2D Metroidvania mixing science fiction with cosmic fantasy
87% positive
68 reviews
Vanildo's Journey
An adventure RPG blending dark humor, mystery, and turn-based battles
96% positive
Free
黎明为歌 - Melody before the Dawn
A story-driven puzzle adventure about nightly visits to another world
88% positive
68 reviews
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A darkly comic puzzle adventure about escaping a cursed workplace
97% positive
68 reviews
Tango: The Adventure Game
A humorous point-and-click adventure following a tango singer's troubled past
85% positive
67 reviews
Demo Memory Lost
Cyberpunk top-down shooter built around taking over enemy bodies
88% positive
67 reviews
MITE - Terror in the forest
Third-person forest horror where looking away lets a creature approach
76% positive
Free