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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GeraScopia
2D horror platformer with multiple endings and a fishing minigame
93% positive
67 reviews
Demo TELLURICENE
A romance visual novel about studying a potentially dangerous species
100% positive
67 reviews
Demo Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters
Text-based horror RPG about hunting vampires on Vancouver's streets
79% positive
67 reviews
FATAL ERROR - RTS
Real-time strategy with base building in a virus-infected computer
95% positive
66 reviews
三国佣兵传奇
Turn-based tactical RPG with permanent losses for defeated mercenaries
71% positive
66 reviews
Realm of Alters
Turn-based card battles with shields that become cards when broken
62% positive
Free
Ten Deadly Games: Jamsepticeye
Ten short games explore death through horror, puzzles, and action
88% positive
Free
Demo UNDETECTED
Top-down stealth action using darkness and noise to evade guards
68% positive
66 reviews
CHEMISTS: Area of infection
A third-person survival shooter where you must remember your routes
62% positive
66 reviews
火起雪中寺
Detective adventure built around time loops and a temple fire
82% positive
66 reviews
Demo Cosdarica's Journey at the End of the World
A visual novel about refusing to wait for humanity's end
88% positive
Free
Demo Be Missed and Remembered: The Letter from Mayoiga
A folklore visual novel about a house visitors cannot remember
94% positive
66 reviews
Suns of Wiraqocha
A 2D maze adventure about recovering stolen suns
98% positive
65 reviews
Farmagia
Action RPG where you grow monsters to command in battle
46% positive
65 reviews
Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch
Dungeon defense with spell cards and troops that fight automatically
74% positive
65 reviews
Demo Little Gods of the Abyss
A 3D puzzle platformer about repairing a world's broken gates
88% positive
64 reviews
The Backrooms: Found Footage
First-person survival horror inside a seemingly endless maze of offices
69% positive
64 reviews
Demo Egghead Gumpty
First-person survival horror about spotting the monster stalking you
67% positive
64 reviews
Demo Blade Prince Academy
A squad-based tactical RPG with pausable combat and attack combos
67% positive
64 reviews
Paws of Coal
A slow-paced detective adventure built around scientific deduction
92% positive
64 reviews
Ichima-san
A doll-sized exploration adventure with item collecting and stealth
98% positive
64 reviews
What Awaits, Aleksey?
Point-and-click detective puzzles about decoding messages and identifying political suspects
81% positive
64 reviews
NEON
First-person puzzle platformer with rocket launchers and grappling hooks
36% positive
64 reviews
玄中记
A free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with creature taming and guild warfare
89% positive
Free