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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Demo Lords of Infinity
Text-based political RPG about steering a noble house through crisis
95% positive
216 reviews
London: Echoes of the Past
A mystery visual novel about a woman returning from death
76% positive
216 reviews
Demo Graze Counter GM
Bullet hell shooter where near misses charge your counterattacks
95% positive
215 reviews
Heart of the Forest
Live-action psychological horror where your choices decide who survives
70% positive
214 reviews
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Snowdome
Visual novel about a clerk asked to save the world
90% positive
213 reviews
Tales Beyond The Tomb - White Silence
First-person horror walking simulator tracing a doomed expedition through snow
65% positive
212 reviews
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Snowed Under | 雪葬
First-person horror about shoveling snow to uncover buried buildings
61% positive
211 reviews
Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Demo (Prologue)
A text-heavy caravan RPG set in a dark fantasy wasteland
73% positive
Free
Placid Plastic Deck - A Quiet Quest
A story-driven adventure with duck decks and skippable card battles
80% positive
210 reviews
Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
Fantasy grand strategy MMO with city building and player-run trade
69% positive
Free
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Back：Fade
Live-action horror about surviving a supernatural realm alongside other trapped people
78% positive
209 reviews
Demo Touken Ranbu Warriors
Historical hack-and-slash about sword spirits investigating changes to Japan's past
87% positive
206 reviews
Fun with Ragdolls Plus
Physics-driven 3D platformer with a story and world-building sandbox
75% positive
204 reviews
Demo Uberich: Advent Sinners
A visual novel linking supernatural attacks to a wider conspiracy
82% positive
203 reviews
The Wild Eternal
First-person exploration through foggy wilderness with a fox demigod
77% positive
Free
La Quimera
Sci-fi first-person shooter with solo or co-op mercenary missions
53% positive
200 reviews
Phobos
2D fantasy MMORPG about exploring, fighting creatures, and solving quests
64% positive
Free
2ECONDS TO STΔRLIVHT: My Heart's Reflection
A visual novel about coming out and facing transphobic bullying
82% positive
Free
Diluvian Ultra: Awakening
Retro first-person shooter where stripping armor sets up lethal attacks
71% positive
Free
DRAW CHILLY
Side-scrolling arcade combat with a growing squad of mechanics
82% positive
198 reviews
Penkura
Sci-fi survival and base building with programmable robot companions
88% positive
197 reviews
Tres-Bashers
A side-scrolling metroidvania where a flashlight makes monsters vulnerable
96% positive
197 reviews
Demo 甜點王子2 典藏版
A dating and bakery management sim aboard a traveling airship
86% positive
197 reviews
Kunado Chronicles
Post-apocalyptic fantasy visual novel about rebuilding a society shaped by war
78% positive
195 reviews