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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Deck Hunter
A fantasy roguelike deckbuilder with card combos and customizable armor
67% positive
310 reviews
Demo Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
Dark fantasy side-scrolling action RPG with tough bosses and choices
78% positive
309 reviews
永生之庭
A strategy RPG where enemies can become romantic partners
58% positive
309 reviews
Midnight Ramen
A cooking visual novel about helping troubled late-night customers
96% positive
305 reviews
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Isometric action RPG about devouring souls and switching between worlds
57% positive
303 reviews
The RPG Engine
A tabletop roleplaying toolkit for building and exploring 3D worlds
85% positive
Free
Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered
Fantasy JRPG with turn-based battles and powers drawn from masks
81% positive
300 reviews
Saint Kotar
Point-and-click horror mystery with two protagonists and occult rituals
74% positive
293 reviews
Islands of the Caliph
First-person action RPG across islands shaped by Middle Eastern folklore
87% positive
292 reviews
Creepy Tale: Snow Child
A fairy-tale horror adventure combining brainteasers with action and stealth
90% positive
292 reviews
Demo Leenie Boog
First-person survival horror where staying alive depends on listening closely
80% positive
291 reviews
Foole's World
A personality-test visual novel with conversations shaped by your answers
99% positive
Free
Hellsinker.
A bullet-hell shooter built around positioning and on-the-fly tactics
89% positive
288 reviews
Demo Silent Hope
Dungeon-crawling action RPG with seven heroes and distinct fighting styles
70% positive
288 reviews
Komorebi
A dystopian romance visual novel set amid social unrest
93% positive
287 reviews
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Pact Between Us
Live-action life simulation about raising your younger sister
87% positive
287 reviews
HEARTSHOT
First-person VR espionage shooter built around high-tech magnet gloves
63% positive
286 reviews
Anglerfish
Horror action-adventure where dying changes your next attempt to survive
83% positive
285 reviews
Demo Blood Flowers
Puzzle visual novel following a meteorite mystery across three eras
82% positive
285 reviews
Ambrosia Sky
First-person sci-fi exploration built around cleaning a fungus-infested colony
88% positive
284 reviews
Touhou: Fading Illusion
A visual novel with branching choices in a supernatural world
92% positive
Free
Demo Heroines of Swords & Spells 2
Turn-based fantasy RPG where a dysfunctional party complicates familiar tactics
94% positive
283 reviews
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX
An alchemy-focused RPG where you progress without a time limit
87% positive
282 reviews
EXOME
Cooperative horde shooter set in a forest overtaken by corruption
79% positive
280 reviews