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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Eydigard
Open-world action RPG with shapeshifting and rival clans in Norway
71% positive
55 reviews
Demo A Killer Chat! Christmas
A Christmas dating chat sim about romancing serial killers
100% positive
55 reviews
Demo Unsent
A 3D platformer about delivering letters that never reached anyone
100% positive
55 reviews
Vesper: Zero Light Edition
2D puzzle platformer built around light manipulation and enemy possession
76% positive
54 reviews
Deepwell
A story-driven adventure about a town surrounding a mysterious hole
100% positive
Free
NABI
A mouse-controlled horror platformer where falls can undo your progress
61% positive
54 reviews
Another_World
First-person psychological horror about artificial intelligence and the human mind
42% positive
Free
Demo WiZmans World Re;Try
Turn-based fantasy RPG where defeated monsters reshape your party
77% positive
53 reviews
Demo Get Up In The Night
A darkly comic sci-fi adventure with real-world satire
98% positive
53 reviews
Demo Toward Dawn
A turn-based RPG set in a world of Welsh mythology
100% positive
53 reviews
零域都市：猫娘编队
A tactical card RPG with catgirl squads and mid-battle transformations
74% positive
Free
Imaginary Friend Institution
Psychological horror where imaginary friends emerge in a 1950s institution
94% positive
52 reviews
MITNAL
First-person horror exploration through a jungle temple and its catacombs
83% positive
52 reviews
R2V Rev to Vertex
Street racing on Hong Kong roads where pulling ahead wins
37% positive
51 reviews
Demo Century of Anticipation
A point-and-click adventure about passing time while stuck at home
94% positive
Free
Benny Bash
Horror puzzle adventure where a cursed game changes the real world
80% positive
51 reviews
Void Sails
Action-adventure RPG with airship battles and story-shaping choices in space
71% positive
51 reviews
and yet, we dream
A psychological visual novel about deciding the fate of souls
92% positive
51 reviews
Demo Chainsaw
Psychological horror RPG where enemies keep attacking during your turn
94% positive
51 reviews
Mistwinter Bay
Fantasy visual novel RPG about ruling a town through choices
84% positive
50 reviews
Oblitus mortis
A side-scrolling metroidvania drawing its monsters from Venezuelan folklore
94% positive
50 reviews
Vay
Linear 2D JRPG about stopping machines after a royal kidnapping
75% positive
48 reviews
The Fool's Apprentice
Magic school management simulator where you direct apprentices with spells
52% positive
44 reviews
Coreupt
Fast sci-fi fighting with long combos and power-trading core activations
79% positive
43 reviews