The Best Lore Games

Update : Towerborne added at rank #26.
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Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

Survive an apocalyptic world in Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out, where every decision you make shapes your clan's fate. Engage with gods, manage resources, and navigate a rich lore-filled saga. With stunning hand-drawn artwork and immersive storytelling, this game offers a unique blend of strategy and narrative gameplay.


What we like:
  • Engrossing lore
  • Unique resource management gameplay
  • Beautiful hand-drawn artwork
  • Immersive survival element
  • Excellent storytelling
What could be improved:
  • Limited access to rituals
  • Consequences of actions not always clear
  • Repetitive tasks

  • turn-based
  • choices
  • lore
  • survival
  • survival-storybook
  • strategy
  • system-driven
  • procedural
  • grand-strategy
  • socio-economy
  • stand-alone
  • narrative
  • old-school
  • simulation
  • combining

2

Harold Halibut (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s

Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.


  • narrative
  • walking-simulator
  • cinematic
  • interactive
  • lore
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • well-written
  • platform
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • city-sized
  • retro-future

3

Creatures of Ava (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.


  • creature
  • collector
  • exploration
  • non-aggressive
  • action-adventure
  • curiosity-driven
  • lore
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • cozy
  • wholesome
  • adventure
  • crafting
  • colourful
  • cute

4

Limbus Company (2023)

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90
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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.


  • turn-based
  • lore
  • rpg
  • dystopian
  • strategy
  • grid
  • combat
  • team
  • visual-novel
  • story
  • pve
  • tactical

5

In Stars And Time (2023)

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85
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PC Windows Playstation 5 l Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.


  • time-looping
  • rpg
  • lgbtq
  • party
  • lore
  • turn-based
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • fantasy
  • combat
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • choices

6

Reverse: 1999 (2023)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone

Reverse: 1999 is a 20th Century Time-Travel Strategic RPG developed by Bluepoch. As the Timekeeper, the observer of eras, you will embark on a journey across time and space, from the Roaring '20s to the turn of the millennium, uncovering the truth about the "Storm" and the mystery of the year 1999.


  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • lore
  • battler
  • visual-novel
  • 2d
  • historical
  • alternate
  • card
  • story
  • tactical
  • anime

7

Lunar Axe (2022)

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Linux Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

After a big earthquake in the city, ruins of an old building collapse and you end up trapped inside an abandoned house. Find a way out and unravel the mystery of inexplicable tremors, revealing ancient secrets and a mystical artifact, before the city is destroyed.

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  • point-and-click
  • lore
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • mystery
  • mythology
  • linear
  • supernatural
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • collectathon
  • story
  • adventure

8

The Thaumaturge (2024)

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PC Windows

The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, salutors exist: esoteric beings that only thaumaturges can truly perceive and use for their needs.


  • dark
  • isometric
  • story
  • rpg
  • lore
  • magic
  • combat
  • turn-based
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • psychological
  • detective
  • mystery
  • collector
  • creature

9

Kabaret (2023)

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70
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Xbox Series X Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

Welcome to the Kabaret - where monsters from Southeast Asian myths and folklores dwell. Perform tea cermonies, play traditional games, and question your humanity.


  • lore
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • investigation
  • choices
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • point-and-click
  • narration
  • hand-drawn
  • demons
  • stylized
  • interactive
  • folklore
  • story

10

Three of Cards (2021)

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90
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PC Windows

Three Cards is a movie-like noir stealth action game. The magician has a horrible relationship with insurance company A. Help the magician to take revenge on the key characters who have plunged him into hell, and shed light on his path. Because the process will be very dark and terrible.

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  • noir
  • lore
  • philosophical
  • superhero
  • metroidvania
  • drama
  • pve
  • atmospheric
  • stealth
  • scroller
  • rpg
  • crime
  • dark
  • story
  • action-adventure

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