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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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Isometric point-and-click adventure about stealing artifacts from books
92% positive
2,018 reviews
Finding Frankie
First-person horror platformer with parkour courses and deadly chases
89% positive
2,014 reviews
Demo GRIME II
A 2.5D metroidvania about stealing enemy forms and summoning them
83% positive
1,977 reviews
Duelyst II
Turn-based card battles with deckbuilding and grid-based unit positioning
73% positive
Free
Demo Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Action strategy game mixing sword combat and nighttime tower defense
91% positive
1,958 reviews
東方憑依華 ～ Antinomy of Common Flowers.
2D fighting game with tag-team battles and bullet barrages
91% positive
1,951 reviews
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Real-time strategy with four factions battling to control Ghur
56% positive
1,947 reviews
Soulstice
Third-person hack-and-slash about two sisters fighting together in a ruined city
76% positive
1,943 reviews
Allods Online RU
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with rival factions and Astral ship battles
65% positive
Free
Garten of Banban 4
First-person horror adventure searching an abandoned kindergarten for your child
79% positive
1,894 reviews
Happy's Humble Burger Farm
First-person restaurant horror where wrong orders bring danger
93% positive
1,867 reviews
Wildmender
Open-world survival gardening where you restore a desert oasis
84% positive
1,857 reviews
Demo The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
Action RPG with a fairy companion and journeys across time
78% positive
1,851 reviews
Narita Boy
2D action-adventure with sword fights across a retro digital kingdom
78% positive
1,850 reviews
Kindergarten 3
A dark comedy puzzle adventure with a gator at school
94% positive
1,850 reviews
Demo Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Dark fantasy strategy RPG about leading a caravan through wastelands
83% positive
1,845 reviews
We Were Here Tomorrow
Two-player puzzle adventure built around sharing clues over walkie-talkies
39% positive
1,823 reviews
DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake
Two fantasy RPG remakes you can play in either order
83% positive
1,818 reviews
重生之我是小虾米
Free-to-play martial arts RPG with open exploration and idle progression
95% positive
Free
He Needs His Medicine
Surreal horror about mixing a creature's medicine for different outcomes
79% positive
Free
Rabbit Hole
A 2D roguelike platform shooter with dozens of collectible weapons
90% positive
Free
Hammerting
Dwarven colony sim about mining deeper to supply wartime allies
60% positive
1,787 reviews
Demo Eternal Strands
Third-person fantasy action RPG with elemental magic and climbable giants
88% positive
1,781 reviews
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
Text-based detective game about tracing connections through a town's wiki
96% positive
1,771 reviews