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.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Action strategy game mixing sword combat and nighttime tower defense
92% positive
2,555 reviews
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
Fantasy 4X strategy with hero progression and tactical battles
74% positive
2,531 reviews
The Baby In Yellow
Comedy horror game where a baby turns babysitting dangerous
97% positive
2,518 reviews
FINAL FANTASY V
Turn-based pixel RPG built around flexible job and ability combinations
90% positive
2,517 reviews
Cryptmaster
First-person dungeon crawler where typed words drive combat and puzzles
93% positive
2,296 reviews
Sword and Fairy Inn 2
Casual inn management with characters from Sword and Fairy
49% positive
2,281 reviews
Wildmender
Open-world survival gardening where you restore a desert oasis
84% positive
2,243 reviews
Shoppe Keep 2
Fantasy shop management with thieves and open-world supply runs
56% positive
2,235 reviews
Erenshor
Single-player fantasy RPG with simulated adventurers and old-school MMO pacing
94% positive
2,220 reviews
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Isometric action adventure across islands full of puzzles and monsters
80% positive
2,174 reviews
Office Life
Career life sim with branching stories and deckbuilding workplace conflicts
89% positive
2,133 reviews
Jaded
2D precision platformer with time-slowing attacks and fast dashes
94% positive
2,112 reviews
咸鱼殿下 / My journey
Live-action period romance with plot choices and multiple endings
85% positive
2,104 reviews
Finding Frankie
First-person horror platformer with parkour courses and deadly chases
90% positive
2,064 reviews
Driftland: The Magic Revival
Fantasy real-time strategy with floating islands and indirect unit control
72% positive
2,016 reviews
Cogmind
Turn-based sci-fi roguelike where your robot rebuilds from salvage
96% positive
2,007 reviews
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Third-person survival horror where photographs ward off island ghosts
89% positive
1,978 reviews
東方憑依華 ～ Antinomy of Common Flowers.
2D fighting game with tag-team battles and bullet barrages
91% positive
1,946 reviews
Garten of Banban 4
First-person horror adventure searching an abandoned kindergarten for your child
77% positive
1,937 reviews
Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Dark fantasy strategy RPG about leading a caravan through wastelands
85% positive
1,878 reviews
Narita Boy
2D action-adventure with sword fights across a retro digital kingdom
78% positive
1,850 reviews
Trash Goblin
Cozy shopkeeping game where you restore and sell trinkets
88% positive
1,804 reviews
Trials of Innocence
Courtroom detective visual novel about exposing lies in murder trials
92% positive
1,800 reviews
Eternal Strands
Third-person fantasy action RPG with elemental magic and climbable giants
88% positive
1,781 reviews