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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Another Crab's Treasure
Cartoon soulslike adventure where trash becomes your protective shell
92% positive
18K reviews
Demo Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
16K reviews
MIR4
Open-world martial arts MMORPG with clan warfare and territory control
65% positive
Free
Garten of Banban
First-person horror adventure in a kindergarten where everyone vanished
54% positive
Free
Demo Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
15K reviews
CONTROL Resonant
Third-person action RPG with a shapeshifting melee weapon in warped Manhattan
91% positive
15K reviews
Demo The Last Caretaker
Open-world survival crafting as a robot working to save humanity
84% positive
14K reviews
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
Dark fantasy action RPG with weighty combat and towering bosses
58% positive
14K reviews
Ghostwire: Tokyo
First-person open-world action against spirits in a deserted Tokyo
83% positive
14K reviews
SCP: 5K
Co-op tactical horror shooter inside anomalous underground research facilities
79% positive
13K reviews
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Sci-fi shooter remake with an expanded arsenal and optional combat modifiers
61% positive
13K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
First-person horror as a night technician among active animatronics
90% positive
13K reviews
东北之夏
A free visual novel about livestreamers in northeastern China
98% positive
Free
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Tactical fantasy RPG with customizable squads and automatic battles
94% positive
13K reviews
The Talos Principle 2
First-person sci-fi puzzler about robots, civilization, and humanity's legacy
94% positive
13K reviews
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
Pixel-art JRPG with timed turns and three-player local co-op
88% positive
13K reviews
Songs of Conquest
Turn-based fantasy strategy with tactical battles and kingdom building
85% positive
13K reviews
Honkai Impact 3rd
Anime action RPG with combo combat and an ongoing story
72% positive
Free
Fate Seeker II
Open-world martial arts RPG mixing real-time combat and investigations
87% positive
12K reviews
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DragonSword : Awakening
Open-world action RPG with hero switching and status-driven combat combos
88% positive
12K reviews
Summoners War
Turn-based strategy RPG about collecting monsters and building specialized teams
68% positive
Free
Armello
Turn-based fantasy board game with cards and a throne to claim
82% positive
12K reviews
Cultist Simulator
Roguelike narrative card game about founding an occult cult
80% positive
11K reviews
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA
Fast 2D anime fighter with simple inputs and rollback netcode
88% positive
10K reviews