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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Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III
First-person fantasy horror where losing sanity changes enemy behavior
74% positive
80 reviews
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HOPE: Winter Tale
A holiday visual novel about strained friendships, family, and romance
98% positive
80 reviews
Split Echo: Demo
Cooperative puzzle adventure where progress depends on talking to your partner
81% positive
Free
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
A nonlinear murder mystery set in an empire of dogs
96% positive
80 reviews
The Butler
First-person psychological horror about searching for a missing maintenance man
84% positive
80 reviews
Conclave
Fantasy party RPG with turn-based battles and flexible co-op
73% positive
79 reviews
Mother Hub
First-person horror shooter through the abandoned depths of humanity's vault
76% positive
79 reviews
Paradise: Musubi
Boys' love suspense visual novel continuing three characters' happy endings
96% positive
79 reviews
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我非圣贤 / 我非聖賢
A romance visual novel about one man's rise to power
89% positive
Free
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The Carcass
Text-based colony management inside the decaying body of a god
30% positive
79 reviews
Sorcery Jokers All Ages Version
A fantasy visual novel mixing magic with modern weaponry
88% positive
78 reviews
Falsepine
Top-down action roguelike about hunting monsters in a supernatural Wild West
60% positive
Free
Town of Dusk
Text-based mystery adventure where your choices can lead to death
88% positive
Free
Demo Mystery of the Malign
First-person detective adventure built around clues and your own deductions
94% positive
78 reviews
SSTWL - Sector Breach
Office-bound survival horror where watching cameras means neglecting the doorway
96% positive
Free
Among the Trolls
First-person narrative adventure with wilderness survival and Finnish mythology
35% positive
77 reviews
revere
Point-and-click survival horror with puzzles to solve and creatures to repel
64% positive
Free
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Zarathustra - Cybergeddon
Cyberpunk detective adventure where you inhabit an FBI agent's implant
77% positive
Free
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Gravethorn
A side-scrolling action RPG built around timing and limited recovery
83% positive
76 reviews
Laugh Track
Dark comedy visual novel about writing a sitcom under threat
92% positive
Free
At Night: The Student
First-person psychological horror where phone photos guide your daily errands
54% positive
Free
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Olympus 2249
Turn-based RPG where you use battlefield hazards against your enemies
67% positive
76 reviews
Desert Island in Summer?
A romance adventure about finding a girlfriend while stranded
63% positive
75 reviews
Rogue Labyrinth
Top-down action roguelite where attacks turn objects into projectiles
99% positive
75 reviews