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 goblinAmerica
A movement-focused first-person shooter about possessing presidents to change history
90% positive
195 reviews
My Big Sister: Remastered
Top-down horror adventure about two sisters trying to break a curse
90% positive
195 reviews
1000 Cuts: Jomaku
Side-scrolling sword action where a single hit can kill you
85% positive
Free
Fantasy Online 2
Top-down pixel-art MMORPG with quests, crafting, and gear collecting
81% positive
194 reviews
Sigh of the Abyss
Dark fantasy visual novel with branching choices and optional romance
97% positive
192 reviews
Franzen
A short turn-based RPG about technomancers investigating a spreading darkness
96% positive
Free
Knock On The Window
First-person horror walking simulator with VHS visuals and a mysterious knock
91% positive
192 reviews
Demo 彗星战团
A sci-fi visual novel following a mercenary into mech warfare
88% positive
191 reviews
Celtic Heroes
Fantasy MMORPG where all equipment can be traded between players
57% positive
Free
Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Cloud of Han
Turn-based RPG about a mysterious unit in Three Kingdoms China
73% positive
187 reviews
Rubbings
Folklore horror adventure where ghost stories guide a village investigation
87% positive
187 reviews
Clandestinity of Elsie
Psychological survival horror with monsters drawn from a veteran's fears
78% positive
Free
Everything Ends In 0
Interactive fiction about conversations at the end of the world
92% positive
Free
Traveller's Hymn
Open-world RPG with automatic combat and equipment-driven character growth
94% positive
Free
SHRIMP GAME: KRILL CONFIRMED
An underwater looter shooter where you combine different elemental powers
96% positive
Free
Abyss The Forgotten Past: Prologue
A 2D fantasy platformer mixing weapon combat with RPG progression
59% positive
Free
Demo Venture to the Vile
2.5D Metroidvania about gaining powers to explore a monster-infested town
77% positive
185 reviews
Auridia
Platforming metroidvania with almost no combat and a history to uncover
96% positive
184 reviews
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
A romance visual novel set around a coffee shop
93% positive
183 reviews
Börd Killer
First-person arena shooter about fighting hordes with a shotgun
88% positive
Free
公主：东方与远征（Princess: The East and the Expedition）
An action roguelike mixing real-time strategy with dating sim elements
83% positive
183 reviews
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山河小侠
Turn-based martial arts RPG where your choices shape the ending
80% positive
183 reviews
Demo Space Wreck
Isometric space RPG where turn-based combat is completely optional
86% positive
182 reviews
Employee of The Month
First-person horror about working in a strange rural store
96% positive
182 reviews