The Best Lore Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : What Awaits, Aleksey? added at rank #29.
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BOOK OF HOURS (2023)

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Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?


  • narration
  • historical
  • dynamic
  • life
  • lore
  • time-management
  • tabletop
  • rpg
  • combat-free
  • crafting
  • card
  • choices
  • exploration
  • alternate
  • text

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Saint Kotar: The Crawling Man (2022)

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This is a story about the fall of a man. Told in the form of an interactive comic book with sounds and animations, Saint Kotar: The Crawling Man follows the appalling life of Mojse, his fall from a beloved teacher to a bitter and vengeful leader of a sinister cult.


  • faith
  • comic
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • horror
  • fiction
  • dynamic
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • conversation
  • book
  • demons
  • drama
  • thriller

23

How We Got Here (2021)

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You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

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  • lore
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • drama
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • story
  • 2d
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • cute
  • funny

24

Superheroes Academy (2022)

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To all Superheroes, their mentors, captains, students, and helpers - we need you to run our Agency and Academy! Run Superheroes Organization, build bases, develop infrastructure, hire heroes, train students, but most of all help the needy and save the world in a superhero real-time strategy game.

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  • real-time
  • base-building
  • lore
  • immersive
  • comic
  • time-management
  • building
  • superhero
  • procedural
  • choices
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • management
  • rogue-like

25

The Archipelago (2022)

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The Archipelago is a visual novel about brewing tea. The teas you choose determine who you encounter in the midst of a vibrant and changing world.

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  • cooking
  • lore
  • lgbtq
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • conversation
  • interactive
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • drama
  • anime
  • casual

26

He Needs His Medicine (2021)

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You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.

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  • dark
  • lore
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychological
  • scroller
  • crafting
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • story
  • casual

27

Aestik (2024)

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Make impactful decisions in moral dilemma situations, which will change the course of your journey through this atmospheric, hand-drawn metroidvania. Explore the hazardous paths of the Realm of Aestik and fight its corrupted inhabitants as you unravel its deep-rooted mysteries.

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  • souls
  • lovecraftian
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • nature
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • platform
  • choices
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • controller-support
  • 2d

28

Forbidden Magic (2023)

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Catch a magical arsonist before you lose your heart! Will you romance a rival agent, your hellhound shapeshifter partner, or your boss—an actual devil? A sweet romantic text-based, role playing game.

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  • choices
  • text
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • romance
  • lore
  • paranormal
  • rpg
  • high-school
  • supernatural
  • character
  • first-person
  • vampire
  • multiple-endings
  • fantasy

29

What Awaits, Aleksey? (2024)

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Utilize your analytical skills to connect the dots and unveil hidden conspiracies! Join the ranks of the People's Intelligence Bureau as a junior cryptologist, decipher cryptic messages and unravel plots brewed up by enemies of the state. Or . . . decide to save them...?

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  • cold
  • typing
  • dynamic
  • dystopian
  • lore
  • logic
  • investigation
  • political
  • narration
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • retro
  • war

30

Escape From Lavender Island (2023)

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Escape from Lavender Island is a 3rd person open world exploration game. Follow Zede Aksis as he wakes up from a dream about a city only to realize that what he saw in his sleep is a physical reality he cannot find a way out of.

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  • walking-simulator
  • lore
  • capitalism
  • hidden-object
  • exploration
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • historical
  • alternate
  • dark
  • post-apocalyptic
  • surreal
  • third-person
  • comedy
  • narration

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