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
1,217 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Grail
Fantasy deckbuilding autobattler where your cards fight on their own
84% positive
484 reviews
GAME.exe
Single-player horror inside a secondhand computer and its unreleased game
83% positive
481 reviews
Demo Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings
Samurai roguelite strategy with card-equipped squads that fight automatically
74% positive
480 reviews
HORROR TALES: The Wine
First-person horror with puzzles and a stalker on your trail
77% positive
472 reviews
Demo Under The Island
Top-down action adventure with puzzles across an interconnected island
92% positive
471 reviews
Lugh World
Online creature-collecting RPG with island exploration and branching evolutions
67% positive
470 reviews
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Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker
Detective adventure built around open-ended questioning of AI-driven suspects
89% positive
464 reviews
Demo Crown Gambit
Tactical card adventure about choosing who claims a contested throne
94% positive
463 reviews
100 hidden mice
A hidden-object search for mice in a hand-drawn laboratory
96% positive
462 reviews
Pomberito
First-person horror combining farm chores with South American folklore
93% positive
452 reviews
FOUNTAINS
Soulslike action RPG with tough combat and interconnected exploration
84% positive
451 reviews
Demo The Simen Rumors
A horror visual novel built around misleading the reader
79% positive
446 reviews
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Great Houses of Calderia
Feudal grand strategy with family politics and real-time battles
61% positive
444 reviews
Ruff Ghanor
Fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where allies bring their own card decks
85% positive
443 reviews
qualia
Text-based psychological horror about distinguishing humans from artificial intelligence
92% positive
Free
Demo Title_Pending
Comedy adventure about exploring an unfinished game during a playtest
95% positive
440 reviews
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Water Margin Online
Free-to-play historical MMORPG with recruitable heroes from Chinese literature
78% positive
Free
Demo Fragile
Horror puzzle adventure about a child's escape from captivity
65% positive
439 reviews
明星志願2
Show business simulation with daily scheduling and multiple endings
82% positive
436 reviews
Fallen Tear: The Ascension
Side-scrolling metroidvania with recruitable allies for combat and exploration
71% positive
434 reviews
Nocturne: Prelude
A story-driven RPG with rhythm battles in a digital afterlife
97% positive
Free
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Cosmic Ultramarine
A surreal visual novel with timelines you can revisit
97% positive
431 reviews
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX
Turn-based fantasy RPG about alchemy and exploring painted worlds
91% positive
428 reviews
Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~ DX
Crafting-focused fantasy RPG about exploring Arland for a missing mother
78% positive
427 reviews