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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malViolence - Definitive Edition
Puzzle-focused visual novel about escaping a supervillain's deadly tests
93% positive
Free
Trinoline All Ages Version
Romance visual novel about grief and an android resembling a lost sister
88% positive
166 reviews
Demo Fossilfuel
First-person survival horror with mutant dinosaurs and invading soldiers
70% positive
166 reviews
Demo A Chamber of Stars
Surreal adventure with puzzles and rhythm performances shaping a musician's life
99% positive
165 reviews
Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out
Turn-based clan strategy where choices can matter decades later
96% positive
165 reviews
Haunted House 2
A horror adventure about a security guard helping vengeful spirits
86% positive
165 reviews
Diluvian Ultra
Retro first-person shooter combining armor-breaking attacks with lethal finishing blows
68% positive
164 reviews
Phil Alone
A puzzle horror game about escaping a repeating day
85% positive
Free
Parking World: Build & Manage
Parking management sim about building garages and keeping them running
61% positive
162 reviews
Demo Primateria
A roguelike card battler where creatures fuse into stronger units
82% positive
161 reviews
Shine Within
Top-down adventure about solving puzzles and helping corrupted spirit monsters
91% positive
Free
Everlast: Undying Tale
Open-world action RPG with skills that improve through use
78% positive
160 reviews
The Girl from Arkanya
A treasure-hunting action RPG with a playable magical capybara
93% positive
159 reviews
Hydrangea
A psychological horror visual novel about romance turning into obsession
91% positive
Free
Waste Walkers
Open-world survival RPG with scavenging, crafting, and a survivor colony
79% positive
158 reviews
Tales from Candleforth
Point-and-click folk horror where forbidden text twists fairy tales
85% positive
158 reviews
Eyes of Hellfire
Cooperative horror deckbuilding with secret objectives that complicate teamwork
70% positive
155 reviews
Once Upon A Puppet
Theater-set puzzle-platformer where a stagehand controls a puppet's strings
86% positive
154 reviews
Eldritchvania
A puzzle-focused metroidvania with sword combat and a sanity system
81% positive
Free
Always The Same Blue Sky...
A seaside visual novel about romance and an island mystery
80% positive
153 reviews
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An Amazing Wizard
2D action roguelite built around combining spells across changing worlds
85% positive
153 reviews
Destiny's Divide
Free-to-play competitive card battles with cards both players can use
63% positive
Free
飛天歷險2025(Dream Of Mirror Online)
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with sword flight and cartoon characters
81% positive
Free
Lower? Higher!
Cyberpunk pawnshop management sim about bargaining for better prices
68% positive
152 reviews