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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BOOK OF HOURS
Combat-free occult library RPG about restoring rooms and decoding lore
84% positive
5,065 reviews
FINAL FANTASY VI
2D turn-based JRPG with an ensemble cast and customizable magic
91% positive
4,912 reviews
DON'T SCREAM
First-person forest horror where screaming restarts the night
65% positive
4,880 reviews
WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界
A text-based puzzle adventure where rearranging sentences changes people's fates
92% positive
4,804 reviews
Garten of Banban 0
First-person puzzle horror about a kindergarten's dark past
70% positive
Free
Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun
Historical action RPG with spears, swords, bows, and mounted combat
72% positive
4,685 reviews
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Free-to-play card battler combining characters from six animated shows
74% positive
Free
Demo Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons.
A 2D bullet hell shooter with seasonal shots and bosses
98% positive
4,642 reviews
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Action adventure on a mythical island where a creature hunts you
92% positive
4,626 reviews
Garten of Banban 2
First-person horror adventure with puzzles beneath an empty kindergarten
67% positive
4,560 reviews
Starcom: Unknown Space
Top-down space RPG about building ships and exploring alien worlds
92% positive
4,555 reviews
SCP: Containment Breach 2
Survival horror with playable test subjects, guards, and escaped creatures
79% positive
Free
月华辉映之刻
Historical otome visual novel mixing forbidden romance with mystery
90% positive
4,410 reviews
Crisol: Theater of Idols
First-person survival horror where every shot costs your own blood
85% positive
4,382 reviews
Demo Well Dweller
Dark fairy-tale metroidvania starring a tiny bird with a matchstick
98% positive
4,354 reviews
Demo Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Isometric party-based RPG where choices shape life aboard a generation ship
86% positive
4,342 reviews
Demo Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Survival strategy where your decisions change a stranded starship's journey
77% positive
4,325 reviews
Yarimono
Monster-collecting RPG with turn-based battles and a one-hit move
85% positive
4,294 reviews
DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake
Classic fantasy JRPG remade in 2.5D with turn-based party combat
75% positive
4,189 reviews
Demo Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
Nonlinear turn-based JRPG about an empire spanning generations
93% positive
4,147 reviews
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A psychological horror visual novel about murders and forgotten memories
96% positive
4,097 reviews
Dune: Imperium
Digital board game mixing deck-building, worker placement, and political rivalry
93% positive
3,955 reviews
Demo 灾厄黑龙与谎言公主
Fantasy visual novel about a princess befriending her dragon captor
91% positive
3,921 reviews
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
Turn-based fantasy RPG following Estelle's search for Joshua
97% positive
3,909 reviews