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
312 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Souldiers
2D action adventure across an interconnected realm near the afterlife
69% positive
3,151 reviews
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Real-time strategy with four factions battling to control Ghur
52% positive
3,148 reviews
Dark Deity
Top-down tactical RPG with squad training and lasting battle wounds
72% positive
3,114 reviews
Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face
Short psychological horror about protecting family from a nighttime visitor
86% positive
3,097 reviews
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Side-scrolling runner where platforming moves follow the music
92% positive
3,078 reviews
FINAL FANTASY IV
Party-based pixel RPG with story-driven exploration and active-time battles
92% positive
3,062 reviews
Miasma Chronicles
Turn-based tactical RPG with real-time exploration in ruined America
80% positive
3,045 reviews
Happy's Humble Burger Farm
First-person restaurant horror where wrong orders bring danger
88% positive
3,001 reviews
Lost Skies
Open-world survival crafting with buildable airships and grappling hooks
61% positive
2,988 reviews
Garten of Banban 3
First-person horror adventure searching for your child beneath a kindergarten
73% positive
2,976 reviews
Home Safety Hotline
Analog horror hotline simulator about identifying strange household hazards
91% positive
2,957 reviews
The Midnight Walk
Stop-motion dark fantasy adventure evading monsters with a lantern creature
93% positive
2,927 reviews
Lightmatter
First-person puzzle adventure where shadows kill and light clears paths
92% positive
2,908 reviews
FINAL FANTASY III
Party-based pixel JRPG centered on freely changing character jobs
93% positive
2,874 reviews
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Isometric point-and-click adventure about stealing artifacts from books
91% positive
2,837 reviews
Soulstice
Third-person hack-and-slash about two sisters fighting together in a ruined city
73% positive
2,809 reviews
Songs of Silence
Fantasy strategy with turn-based map play and automated battles
81% positive
2,761 reviews
Visions of Mana
Party-based fantasy action RPG with elemental combat and semi-open exploration
78% positive
2,742 reviews
SpellForce: Conquest of Eo
Turn-based fantasy strategy with a roaming wizard tower
80% positive
2,680 reviews
Tower of Time
Isometric party RPG with pauseable real-time battles inside a mysterious tower
82% positive
2,663 reviews
Noctuary
Visual novel about two aspiring guardians with monster battles
94% positive
2,633 reviews
Hammerting
Dwarven colony sim about mining deeper to supply wartime allies
57% positive
2,602 reviews
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
Turn-based JRPG with puzzle-like crafting in a dream world
94% positive
2,602 reviews
Blade of Darkness
Third-person dark fantasy action RPG with gory, combo-based combat
90% positive
2,590 reviews