The Best Lore Games - Page 3

Update : Harold Halibut added at rank #2.
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Viscerafest (2021)

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early access PC Windows Linux

Viscerafest is a Sci-Fi Fantasy Singleplayer Arena FPS with minor Collectathon elements. Fight through hordes of aliens and eldritch monstrosities wielding a slew of powerful weapons, juggling your resources, and exploring over 23 intricately designed hand-crafted levels.


  • shooter
  • first-person
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • arena
  • stylized
  • aliens
  • cartoony
  • pixel
  • retro
  • fps
  • horror
  • old-school
  • sci-fi
  • arcade

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ShadowBringer (2022)

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82
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PC Windows

Escape the underground research facility and discover the truth of your origin. ShadowBringer is a 3D stealth game where you take on the role of a shadowy monster. Awakened with no recollection of the past, a voice in your head whispers softly to you: "Get out of this place".

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  • underground
  • lore
  • 3d
  • linear
  • horror
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • retro-futuristic
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • aliens

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Prodigal (2020)

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94
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Android PC Windows

Grab your pick and strike out into a vibrant world of monsters, puzzling dungeons and curious townsfolk! Can you unravel the mysteries of this old town and keep its people safe? It’s time to return home, Vann’s Point needs you.


  • dating-sim
  • lore
  • romance
  • conversation
  • retro
  • dungeon-crawler
  • magic
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • modern-retro
  • story

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Imagine Earth (2021)

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77
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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


What we like:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • lore
  • nature
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • science
  • management
  • base-building
  • economy
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • space
  • resource

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Anglerfish (2022)

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90
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PC Windows Android Playstation 4 j Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

The game only saves when you die. Every time you die, something changes. Every change is based on where and how you died. Go on an epic adventure only equipped with your trusted shotgun, your wit and your strong stomach for disturbing exploration. Can you survive a night at the bar, Anglerfish?


  • horror
  • humor
  • rogue-like
  • lore
  • psychological
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • surreal
  • choices
  • gore
  • survival-horror
  • pixel
  • hidden-object
  • survival
  • exploration

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Heartless Lullaby (2022)

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79
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PC Windows

Experience Vampire: The Masquerade in a new way through this isometric cRPG. Change perspectives as you travel through the Heartless Club as a Human and a Vampire. Roll the dice, take your choices, and embrace the night in this narrative prologue.

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  • vampire
  • lore
  • choices
  • isometric
  • rpg
  • old-school
  • point-and-click
  • investigation
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • multiple-endings
  • narration
  • story
  • 3d
  • classic

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Murderous Muses (2023)

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75
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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

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  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

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EXS1 ~ EthnologySister: Cultural functionalism (2021)

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100
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PC Windows

在南国小岛上与金发修女的相遇的拳手高中生,对方是多年未见的青梅竹马,与记忆中很大变化。越是喜悦般重逢,背后却越是隐藏着什么?战斗,悬疑,灵异,治愈,推理,剧情持续反转,前来杀人的乌鸦一般的女子和岛上一切的真相到底是……

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  • clicker
  • word
  • 2d
  • dating-sim
  • lore
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • boxing
  • supernatural
  • psychological
  • detective
  • interactive
  • romance
  • surreal
  • relaxing

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Book of Travels (2021)

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78
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early access Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Ready your pack, grab your walking stick and step into a world of mystery and legend. Craft a unique character and immerse yourself in the enchanted lands of Braided Shore. Set your own goals and adventure alone or together with Travellers you meet on the road in this serene TMORPG.

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  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • lore
  • character
  • trading
  • rpg
  • magic
  • customization
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • fantasy

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The Hundred Year Kingdom (2022)

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70
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Create a world free of conflict in this innovative turn-based simulation. Work together with a mythical young goddess to develop a peaceful civilization over the course of a century.


  • city-building
  • turn-based
  • simulation
  • colony
  • historical
  • lore
  • building
  • anime
  • time-management
  • immersive
  • multiple-endings
  • management
  • pixel
  • choices
  • romance

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