The Best Lore Games for Playstation 5

Update : Creepy Tale: Some Other Place added at rank #3.
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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

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In Stars And Time (2023)

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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

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Creepy Tale: Some Other Place (2024)

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j Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.


  • escape
  • dark
  • room
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • puzzle
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • point-and-click
  • mystery

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BIOMORPH (2024)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch j Playstation 5 PC Windows

BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.


  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • platform
  • exploration
  • lore
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • multiple-endings
  • combat
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • non-linear

5

Perennial Order (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows

Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat. Set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors, explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or in two player co-op, all in a realistic painterly style.


  • cooperative
  • rush
  • souls
  • lore
  • lovecraftian
  • dark
  • boss
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • fantasy
  • local
  • hack-and-slash
  • one-hit-death
  • hand-drawn
  • action-adventure

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Venture to the Vile (2024)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows j

Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?


  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • 2.5d
  • lore
  • platform
  • gothic
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • narrative
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • 2d

7

Graze Counter GM (2023)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

A refreshing and highly re-playable bullet hell style shooter that WANTS you to play dangerously! Ride the razor's edge of life and death in this high-risk high-reward danger oriented arcade style shooting game.


  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • lore
  • 1990s
  • mech
  • anime
  • sci-fi
  • dark
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • cute
  • arcade
  • casual
  • fantasy
  • shooter

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Ebenezer and the Invisible World (2023)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch l Playstation 5 PC Windows

Meet and unlock powerful Ghosts, each with their own stories and quests to complete. Explore Victorian-era London across multiple regions of the city and uncover the dark secrets of the Malthus family. Traverse the world in extraordinary ways with the help of Movement Ghosts, including trapeze artists Rose and Flossie Reed, mountaineer Victoria Peak, professor of time and space Haley Hall.


  • metroidvania
  • lore
  • scroller
  • hand-drawn
  • historical
  • action-adventure
  • alternate
  • atmospheric
  • replay-value
  • anime
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • controller-support

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Super Dark Deception (2022)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Death awaits you once again in Super Dark Deception, a fun 2D reimagining of the hit horror maze game, Dark Deception!


  • horror
  • runner
  • humor
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • lore
  • anime
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • retro
  • demons
  • rpg
  • arcade
  • cute

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Anglerfish (2022)

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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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