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 Wienne
Short fantasy RPG built around a branching time-loop story
87% positive
Free
Chaos Chain
Open-world cyberpunk RPG with character flaws, custom backgrounds, and psionics
91% positive
70 reviews
No Delivery
Turn-based horror RPG about working nights at a haunted pizzeria
97% positive
70 reviews
Trail of Stars
Dark fantasy visual novel about two squires falling in love
100% positive
Free
Applewood
A puzzle-platformer where an imp handles conflict without direct attacks
94% positive
Free
Howdy, Jacob!
A hidden-object game mixing puppet videos with dystopian dark humor
87% positive
69 reviews
Hello Puppets: Midnight Show
Stealth-puzzle horror with changing levels and puppets that hunt you
72% positive
69 reviews
Greed's Grub
First-person horror about serving burgers to customers from hell
87% positive
Free
Demo Adventure of Samsara
A 2D Metroidvania mixing science fiction with cosmic fantasy
87% positive
68 reviews
Vanildo's Journey
An adventure RPG blending dark humor, mystery, and turn-based battles
96% positive
Free
黎明为歌 - Melody before the Dawn
A story-driven puzzle adventure about nightly visits to another world
88% positive
68 reviews
组长！怨念请查收！
A darkly comic puzzle adventure about escaping a cursed workplace
97% positive
68 reviews
Tango: The Adventure Game
A humorous point-and-click adventure following a tango singer's troubled past
85% positive
67 reviews
Demo Memory Lost
Cyberpunk top-down shooter built around taking over enemy bodies
88% positive
67 reviews
MITE - Terror in the forest
Third-person forest horror where looking away lets a creature approach
76% positive
Free
GeraScopia
2D horror platformer with multiple endings and a fishing minigame
93% positive
67 reviews
Demo TELLURICENE
A romance visual novel about studying a potentially dangerous species
100% positive
67 reviews
Demo Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters
Text-based horror RPG about hunting vampires on Vancouver's streets
79% positive
67 reviews
FATAL ERROR - RTS
Real-time strategy with base building in a virus-infected computer
95% positive
66 reviews
三国佣兵传奇
Turn-based tactical RPG with permanent losses for defeated mercenaries
71% positive
66 reviews
Realm of Alters
Turn-based card battles with shields that become cards when broken
62% positive
Free
Ten Deadly Games: Jamsepticeye
Ten short games explore death through horror, puzzles, and action
88% positive
Free
Demo UNDETECTED
Top-down stealth action using darkness and noise to evade guards
68% positive
66 reviews
CHEMISTS: Area of infection
A third-person survival shooter where you must remember your routes
62% positive
66 reviews