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
312 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Lords of the Fallen
Souls-like action RPG across parallel realms of living and dead
68% positive
56K reviews
Total War: WARHAMMER
Fantasy grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
79% positive
52K reviews
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Dark fantasy FPS with shield parries and demon-filled medieval battlefields
88% positive
46K reviews
Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
Third-person fantasy action RPG about uniting seven distinct companions
68% positive
45K reviews
Super Animal Royale
Top-down battle royale where customizable animals fight with guns
93% positive
Free
EVE Online
Player-driven space MMO built around trade, exploration, and warfare
73% positive
Free
Legend of Mortal
Choice-driven wuxia RPG where personality reshapes stories and combat
77% positive
38K reviews
Sultan's Game
Dark fantasy card RPG about surviving a sultan's deadly demands
94% positive
35K reviews
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Branching psychological horror visual novel about slaying a princess
97% positive
34K reviews
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Fast-paced hand-drawn 2D fighter with fourteen distinct warriors
88% positive
32K reviews
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Open-world fantasy RPG built around exploration and character freedom
95% positive
29K reviews
Sonic Frontiers
Open-zone 3D platforming with high-speed exploration and combat
89% positive
29K reviews
No More Room in Hell 2
Eight-player cooperative zombie FPS with infection and permanent character death
57% positive
28K reviews
RuneScape ®
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and boss fights
82% positive
Free
Cruelty Squad
Surreal tactical FPS with corporate assassinations and multiple mission routes
96% positive
25K reviews
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
90% positive
24K reviews
Another Crab's Treasure
Cartoon soulslike adventure where trash becomes your protective shell
92% positive
22K reviews
Blasphemous 2
Difficult 2D Metroidvania with weapon swapping and grotesque bosses
91% positive
22K reviews
Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
21K reviews
Ghostwire: Tokyo
First-person open-world action against spirits in a deserted Tokyo
83% positive
21K reviews
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
Dark fantasy action RPG with weighty combat and towering bosses
59% positive
21K reviews
Old School RuneScape
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and player voting
83% positive
Free
Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
16K reviews
Armello
Turn-based fantasy board game with cards and a throne to claim
82% positive
16K reviews