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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THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Director's Cut
First-person sci-fi puzzle adventure built around absorbing and redirecting energy
73% positive
383 reviews
First Dwarf
Survival action RPG with mech combat and floating-island colonies
78% positive
381 reviews
西游记2021
Turn-based RPG about battling demons on a pilgrimage west
95% positive
381 reviews
蜀汉再临：源起 Restart ShuHan Dynasty:Origin
A Three Kingdoms interactive movie where choices can rewrite history
78% positive
381 reviews
Sword Legacy: Omen
Turn-based tactical RPG where dwindling willpower can send heroes panicking
68% positive
380 reviews
Mandemon
Mystery visual novel where different endings reveal different secrets
87% positive
380 reviews
Demo Twilight Monk
Action RPG with side-scrolling dungeons and overhead world travel
77% positive
378 reviews
Demo The Coma 3: Bloodlines
2D survival horror with three playable characters and occult mysteries
85% positive
378 reviews
Demo Meteor World Actor: Badge & Dagger
Detective visual novel combining supernatural cases with buddy-cop comedy
90% positive
377 reviews
FixFox
Sci-fi adventure about fixing machines with scavenged everyday objects
86% positive
374 reviews
The Narcotic Operation
A live-action crime adventure built around risky undercover decisions
88% positive
371 reviews
Demo RATUZ
A horror platformer about escaping a prison where experiments go wrong
88% positive
368 reviews
Noob - The Factionless
Turn-based party RPG spanning a fictional online game and real life
80% positive
366 reviews
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow
First-person VR stealth built around shadows, noise, and hands-on theft
72% positive
366 reviews
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Live-action dating sim mixing workplace drama with branching romantic choices
84% positive
363 reviews
Demo 7Days Origins
A chat-based mystery adventure built around trust and personal secrets
87% positive
362 reviews
Sakura Gozen
Side-scrolling adult RPG with a samurai aiming for tournament victory
95% positive
362 reviews
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
A party-based fantasy RPG where magical masks power elemental combat
88% positive
360 reviews
Demo Message From Aliens
A sci-fi puzzle game about decoding an alien writing system
96% positive
360 reviews
Coralina
Surreal top-down RPG about investigating deaths alongside a crow
93% positive
358 reviews
Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
Dialogue-heavy zombie adventure about convincing animals to scavenge
85% positive
355 reviews
悠久之树
Turn-based fantasy RPG with ancient ruins and a chapter-based story
71% positive
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Atelier Meruru ~The Apprentice of Arland~ DX
Turn-based RPG about crafting and developing a kingdom against time
95% positive
350 reviews
Demo Quartet
Turn-based RPG with reserve heroes who act immediately when swapped in
94% positive
348 reviews