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 Stellifier - an otome game inspired by older idols
Choice-driven otome visual novel about older idols making a comeback
79% positive
39 reviews
Demo Pluralys
A narrative adventure with a device that freezes time
90% positive
39 reviews
Empire Chronicles
Story-rich pixel RPG with turn-based tactics and large skill trees
94% positive
31 reviews
Demo The Soul Stone War 2
Text-based fantasy RPG about powers, allies, and a lost companion
90% positive
30 reviews
Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition
Cyberpunk dating visual novel where date order affects later conversations
100% positive
29 reviews
飛天歷險國際中文版(Dream Of Mirror Online)
Free-to-play MMORPG with flexible classes, crafting, and group dungeons
60% positive
Free
Demo Obey the Insect God
A 2D action platformer with sprites made from live actors
100% positive
23 reviews
Demo Johnny Chainsaw
Puzzle platformer without a jump button, built around environmental navigation
95% positive
22 reviews
WastePunk
A post-apocalyptic shooter with quests, loot, and simplified RPG mechanics
85% positive
20 reviews
EEP 17 Rail- / Railway Construction and Train Simulation Game
Railway construction sandbox for building and operating detailed transport networks
67% positive
18 reviews
Amber of The End
A deckbuilding RPG with turn-based battles across different time loops
100% positive
15 reviews
Paracesium
Body horror time management with increasingly demanding cadaver experiments
100% positive
5 reviews
Demo Complexia, A Ballet of Blades
Top-down sword action with attacks you choose and combine
0% positive
1 reviews
Billie Bust Up
A 3D platformer with battles timed to the music
Coming soon
0 reviews
EXS1~EthnologySister:Cultural functionalism
Story-driven adventure about an island reunion hiding supernatural mysteries
No reviews yet
Free
IKUMA - The Frozen Compass
An Arctic adventure where a boy and husky investigate a lost expedition
Coming soon
0 reviews
ILL
First-person survival horror against monsters in a research fort
Coming soon
0 reviews
Threads of Time
A time-traveling RPG with turn-based battles and party combos
Coming soon
0 reviews
Demo At Fate's End
A fantasy action-adventure about sword fights with estranged siblings
Coming soon
0 reviews
Demo Emberville
An action RPG about escaping a prison and rebuilding a town
Coming soon
0 reviews
Mariachi Legends
A Mexico-set Metroidvania where a detective transforms to fight criminals
Coming soon
0 reviews
Phantom Line
A co-op tactical shooter about hunting anomalies with artificial bodies
Coming soon
0 reviews
World of Anterra
Open-world RPG with nonlinear quests and grid-based combat
Coming soon
0 reviews
Drakantos
Free-to-play pixel-art MMORPG with changing dungeons and cooperative combat
Coming soon
Free