Graveyard Keeper

I liked how this game started out... but end game is not great. It's unfinished... Spoiler alert... there is no town to get to. The whole premise just kind of peters out and you have a lot of materials and nothing to really do with them. I imagine the DLCS take care of some of this, but for the price it should be it's own finished game.

The game seems like it would be brilliant.
But keep screen jumping, tried changing nivida settings and has no effect. And if switch to fullscreen it makes my monitor go into standby mode. So totally unplayable.

Eh, I'd recommend it. If you can get this on sale I call it an easy buy.

Fun with neat art and rewarding progression. Might have my favorite aesthetic of any of these kinds of games...
That said, some of the characters fall flat. I'm hard pressed to remember any of them, honestly. Also, it can be hard to figure out how to do a lot of things.

I can't speak on any of the DLC because there's just too many packs and I wouldn't know where to start with picking them up. Maybe you can pick them up in a bundle on sale.

Words cannot begin to describe how this game makes me feel. It's addictive in the worst way imaginable. If you make the mistake of getting all the DLC packs like I did, you'll get hopelessly lost in the labyrinth of the frustratingly slow grind. It only takes an hour before the insurmountable need to complete tasks overwhelms all of your senses, and that's when you know you're trapped.

10/10, not for the weak.

dlcs too pricey dont get until on sale but good game.

Delightfully weird, like a twisted, but still fun version of a farming/crafting game. I like the visual style and am finding the game to be high in engaging content. It can be annoying in that there are lots of places where you need B before you can get A, and then you discover to get B you need C.

A game where you have to keep track of things and think for yourself more than usual (that's something I personally like :D)

If you love micro managing and unlocking recipes to get better at embalming while running a farm. It is a definite ADHD scratch and I lose hours playing this game. Stardew Valley 2.0 with dark humor, I love it.

Love cozy type games? Love zombies? Then you'll love Graveyard Keeper. This game provides a great story with the DLC added lots of useful content, as well as everything you love about cozy games. Farming, Capitalism, Small Business Growth! Did I forget to mention ZOMBIES? You'll love the characters, the story, and your trip through a strange world all to find your way back home.

Ever wanted to know what its like to be a shady graveyard keeper who may or may not sell corpse flesh to unsuspecting townsfolk? Whos bestest friend in the whole wide world is a talking skull? Who has a weird relationship with a talking communist donkey? Look no further! This is the game for you!

Addicting crafting game. It pulls you in a dozen directions at once which is overwhelming at the start but quickly turns into a nice comfy grind where you can switch tasks as you please. Beautiful art and an interesting map to explore as well.

You'll be disappointed if you're looking for an alternative farming game like goth Stardew Valley (which I was).
From a open-world farm building perspective, there are not a lot of designing options, i.e. I can't really design my own land and choose what to do with it. There are some farming and crafting options, but within very narrowly confined spaces.
From a quest-based game perspective, there are not enough prompters, and you are often at a loss as to what to do. And for such a big map, the walking speed is sooooooo slooooooow! It takes forever to go from the farm to the lighthouse or anywhere else.
But, if your goal is to play a quest game with lots of crafting and farming and burying on the side, then this is your go to game. The controls are easy also, and you don't die from hunger or anything ,so not a steep learning curve.

I'm a bit of a brainlet, I'll admit. Maybe I just started really inefficiently but for once I can say that is through little fault of my own because there is no guidance in this game! Which may or may not be a flaw depending on how you play games, but doesn't make it very easy to get into imo.

At first, I didn't mind the running around everywhere, and once I could get the teleport stone it made my life considerably easier, but I just can't find it in my spirit to continue on playing this game when you either need to have a notebook beside you or some insanely wrinkley brain so you can remember everything your supposed to do while you run the length of a football field.

You know what would be awesome? Every chest links to every crafting bench. No more, oops! I need nails! time to run across an entire field to get them, but silly me, also needed planks of wood and some iron fittings, and my dumbass has forgotten nails.

It's so... grindy.... I'm sure automation is awesome, but 8 hours in and I'm not even close to getting a singular dude to help me out, and I'm getting tired of running around doing everything alone, especially when I have a frankly minuscule amount of energy to work with when in comparison to the sheer amount of work that needs to be done. I think my most repeated action in this game is going to bed. I'd love to make some food that gives me a substantial amount of energy, BUT I NEED A FUCKING STATION TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EXTRACT WATER FROM A BUCKET.

Speaking of stations, why are there so many? And why are they so goddamn asanine sometimes in what you can craft at them? Like really? I haven't figured out how to pour water from a bucket???????? That's literally my biggest gripe. Fuck the water in this game.

I'm sure this game is great. I was really excited to play it. Just devastated tbh that it requires the same amount of mental power and effort as raising a child (probably idk I don't have kids).

Similar to stardew valley, but deviates so much from the first hour that it creates such a unique experience. The gameplay loop is extremely fun and immersion is almost never ruined with sleep being optional (for the most part). The dialogue and the story were really the cherry on top.

Farming sim with decent storyline and gameplay mechanics! Not too bad for a casual/achievement hunter type gamer

This game is amazing. Similar to Stardew Valley in a sense but with a morbid twist. Kinda grindy but engaging, so it doesn't get stale at all. Upgrading and developing skills is fun but there is a steep learning curve. You need to pay attention to the skills your choosing as some require other skills first and it might bottleneck you a bit. Otherwise great story with the DLC and tons of fun. Story doesn't deviate from the story ark so there's not multiple endings or anything but I've played this about 3 times through because it is just that fun. Happy Grave-digging!

At first, there are some interesting mechanics and the lore is kind of funny in the good way. After some hours, the game just becomes repetitive, and boring.

There are parts of the game that feel unfinished, or bad implemented. For example, you can get a pass to "explore" a part of the map, and at the end a f** lightning strikes killing you, losing the pass, and the time you spent to get it.

I wouldn't recommend it, heavily overrated.

the pixelart coziness of Stardew Valley, with a more gothic flare. the trailer showing the Keeper throwing a body into the river sold me. the gameplay loop is fun. but the grind is real. i put in ~500hrs

Byť se může tvářit jako Stardew valley, tak zdání klame. Výborná atmosférická hříčka o hrobníkovi, který se najednou octl ve středověku a chce se dostat nazpět. Jen tak jaksi v průběhu hraní nejspíš zapomenete, že chcete zpět. Ten svět vás pohltí.

I have played ~18 hours on computer and ~15 hours on the Switch. To me, this game is not worth the headache. They do not make anything clear in the game so you have to constantly look up how to get certain things which is very frustrating. I feel that every video game should have some sort of explanation IN the game on how to do/collect things. Whether it be an in-game help menu, or just clearer objectives/NPC explanations.

This game feels aimless at times, and there are moments when it feels like what you are doing is very silly. Like for example, I have to save up all my money in order to buy something that makes it a little bit easier to make money. Compared to Stardew Valley this game is extremely lacking due to its repetitiveness and I feel like i wasted the 30+ hours I spent trying to understand and like this game.

I really wanted to enjoy this game as the idea for it is very different and fun, it just missed the mark for me unfortunately.

It looks simple but is actually an incredibly complex game. It's terrible at explaining what you need to do to advance so you will be spending a lot of time googling for answers. But even with that it's still a very fun game if you're willing to put some time in.

A deeply insightful work of creative genius, absolutely brimming with fun story telling, characterization, and mechanics. One of the smartest games I've ever played.

The game has two flaws: First, menuing is inefficient and inconsistent, requiring too many clicks and too much attention to navigate. Second, endgame resources are balanced poorly, creating bottlenecks around certain goals, e.g. ash only comes from bodies, and you never get more than one body per day, so it takes 12 days to make one top tier graveyard column. These bottlenecks may be intentional to encourage meditation, though. :ohm:

Played this game in 2020, I got pretty far on my Switch, but I never finished. I did have a lot of fun. I'm happy to be trying this again on PC, there are still things I have to look up as a lot isn't explained. Be ready for trial and error. My suggestion, keep a note book, take your time, the map is pretty expansive but not crazy, harvest meat from the first few dead bodies until you can sell them, take advantage of the teleport stones, Pressing [ i ] opens your inventory, explore your "Technologies" and the different branches within. Most importantly have fun. :)

Beginning was hard to get into. Middle was fun. Late game turned into a grind fest. Pick up quest, then wait a week to talk the the guy who will only show up on one day. Talk to him and he sends you to another that you have to wait a week for. Repeat. Seriously, the game gives chinese free to play games a run for their money.

Since it asked for an update on my review. It got worse near the end. Much worse. Most of my time was staring at a black screen while meditating time away. When I finally beat the game, I believe I set a new world record for the time it takes to exit the game and click uninstall. This developer earned a spot on my ignore developer list (click the gear icon on their page and click add to ignore).

Good humor and atmosphere

I love exploring and learning, but the game refuses to teach you anything.
Hey go defeat some slimes, but I won't tell you how to attack.
Hey you need to research asap, but I won't tell you how to get all the required resources.
Hey you can use zombies for labor, but I won't tell you how to get zombies.
Hey go dig up this grave. Which one? Dunno, I will never repeat it and not keep track of it.

Every time you start having fun, you realize it's because you aren't doing any progress.
How does one progress? Google it, or keep guessing for in game WEEKS

Nice story, easy to play but need a little open graveyard wiki to make it fun.

Good Stardew-like game but with a darker theme. While the farming isn't as pushed as with Stardew or similar games, the crafting experience is a lot more developed with unlocks and science grinding.

This game is grindier than most, but to me, personally, it was easier than stuff like Stardew since the game gives you clear quests objectives with an actual ending. There are a few mods out there, some of which can help you move faster or reduce some of the grind if it's too much for you, because I do think the game is fun and interesting.

There's so much to discover and do in this game, I can easily play it for consecutive hours on a row. It lets you play at your pace, which I find refreshing as most games nowadays can be so time sensitive/ anxiety inducing. Highly recommend it if your looking for something to relax and explore the world.

Good game with lots to do. Eventually it starts to get grindy, but by then you should have zombies to help ease the burden. A little confusing on how to do most things... there isn't great guidance throughout, but some things are able to be figures out on your own eventually (some things I had to look up bc after 28 hours I still haven't figured them out.)

Love the game. It is more in depth than I was expecting it to be. I am enjoying it very much.

Very good, better with mods

I played this game for more than 50 hours. I expected to be somewhat like stardew valley or other games like that, but this game has none of the freedom of casual RPGs like stardew valley.

The plot is linear, every play of the game will be almost the exact same save for the endless amount of time spent trying to figure out how to progress a character story or waiting for the week system to pass. It seemed cool at first, like the stardew valley holidays, but its every day. For some quests if you have nothing else to do but wait a week for a single person to reappear, and it gets exhausting. By the end of the game, I was literally begging for it to end.
I feel completely unsatisfied after playing this game. No personal development, no candid interactions with any important NPCs, I hate the "relationship" system because its just a measure of how far you are through linear quest based story, with no other purpose for raising relationship other than to finish the goddamn game.
I like the games graphics, it has cool art and unique mechanics, but by god the world is full of nothing but tedious tasks that lose their flavor after you figure out how they actually work.
With games like this i expect to have to look stuff up to find out how to get certain things done, but the things I had to look up were rediculous. Things that should be noted in the NPC quest menu often weren't there, and you had to wander around doing whatever until you could either meet with them and discover a box over their head, or until you make the goddamn beer and burgers for the inquisitor.

If you want a time sink, I'd say this is one of the better ones out there, but I feel empty after playing this. I feel so unconnected to the characters because all they would ever say to me was "give me this" and "i have this relationship with another person". I get the point is it's an undesired isekai, but you could at least have the NPCs be something other than tedious quest givers.

Sorry devs, I can tell a lot of work went into this, and I did enjoy parts of it, but ending it drained my soul.

Great game to prevent Alzheimer's. You keep a lot of things in the head :)
And good for nerves. No rush, no pressure.
And a LOT of fun :)

This was a fun but also difficult game for me. The most difficult part was figuring out the altering corpse quality stuff. Hurt my brain. Constantly taking out different intestines, brains, and hearts only to be worse or back where I started. LOL, not my thing. I looked through several youtube videos and typed up guides to try and figure it out.
Another hard thing was quest tracking and losing my place. Being able to track a quest on the screen would have been a plus. Same with when losing my place. I would be crafting an item and completely forget what I was crafting it for, because I have like several quests going. Then all the quests chain into each other. You can't do this, this, or this without talking to this person in 6 days LOL.
Anyways, I started playing a while back, had a hard time, and came back to it recently and beat it. The story had me curious and I enjoyed the humor that came along with it. I love farming, cooking, and fishing (although I despise fishing games, I wish some games would give you a checkbox if you don't want to play that way).
Somewhat of a similar vibe to SDV, but it is NOT SDV.

good game well played, YOGYAKARTA tetap ISTIMEWA

Graveyard Keeper is funny, charming and addictive.

It has a mild replayability since it has a pretty heavy linearity to the storyline and not a huge amount of wiggle room for branching out from completing certain tasks in a certain order to continue the questlines.

It can be very satisfying to level up the tech tree, upgrade your work yard, optimise your resources and farming, but starts off very grindy and the days go by very quickly which can feel stressful.

If I had to highlight two bits of essential advice that the game won't tell you up front:

Dont use up your first simple iron parts you salvage from inside your cellar on random shit, use them to make the furnace (so you can melt iron, make an anvil, and then be able to replenish simple iron parts) If you use them up before doing this, you'll need to purchase more from the blacksmith just to progress further which isnt the end of the world but it is hard to make money in the early game so will set you back hugely.

And the second bit, buy the dang teleport stone from Horadric. You buy it once and use it forever, it is game-changing for making the constant running around the game manageable when you can just jump across the place to a list of locations (as long as you have visited them once before) in a few clicks instead of spending two in game days walking there just to miss the timing of the person you're trying to visit or the time of day you needed to be there to trigger an event.

A not so essential bit of advice but still something I find helps, you can get blue tech points from crafting stone grave fences. Its grindy, but with just a bit of a grind you can unlock a bunch of tech tree items way sooner (and cheaper) than if you rely on just organs and books.

I absolutely loved this game, I don't understand any of the negative comments about it, it's not grindy in comparison to other titles of the same genre. In fact, the other titles in the genre don't have the hilarious and engaging story that Graveyard Keeper has. This game doesn't hand hold, you do have to figure things out on your own but I enjoyed that, you can use the wiki to make it easier on yourself but I didn't do that except once or twice, it's really NOT needed to play and enjoy the game. I highly recommend the DLC's as well, I would suggest buying them all then starting the game so you can progress along in the story whilst getting boosts from completing DLC parts. The DLC's aren't necessary to enjoy the base game but I definitely thought they were a great addition and added to the fun. Graveyard Keeper is a finished and polished game that I highly recommend.

good pixel graphic style game very complex and a ton to do

It's fun to play Lost the do creating the Zombie Army was really fun

Great game. I love how you can choose to play it at your own pace, either juggling loads of things going on at once, or taking it more slowly and casually. I did 97 hours including all the DLCs, which is a lot more than I was expecting (but I'm a slow player). My one criticism is that some of the mechanics could have done with a better tutorial or signposting from NPCs. A few things had little or no explanation and seemed very unintuitive, so I ended up looking them up online. Mostly on the DLCs.

Definitely a fun game to play during my down time. Some fun characters with silly dialogue, the crafting is decent, though there were just a few times I had to look something up. It’s a great game if you want to just relax and pick it up here and there.

don't get this for a quick and tight indie game. God this game is so bloated. it does NOT have to be this long. it keeps trying to do EVERYTHING. cooking, health, stamina, wood working, ADVANCED wood working, then masonry, DIFFERENT masonry, going into fishing, and then ALCHEMY - that's NOT ALL!!! You have to manage a tech tree with 3 different point trackers, along with all the quests!! I'm not evening tending the actual GRAVES because the 'plot' keeps me moving everywhere else! Then the zombies! who HURT your game play because they take your tech points! There is SO MUCH BLOAT. I would never recommend this, it's got so much shit going on I don't even have an idea of what the hell to progress so it makes the whole game screech to a grind when i have to go back and grind over and over again to barely advance one quest - I'm not even clear on which quest is the main one. the bishop? insiquitor? the astronomer? all of them at one? is there morality?? this game has no idea what it wants you to focus on, or what you SHOULD focus on. omg and then the dungeon.... there shouldn't be any possible way to soft lock yourself in a game today... it's all too much. im going to keep playing to see if it gets better, but i can't say to buy this to anyone at all because the grind for the first FIFTEEN HOURS is mind-rottingly boring.

Funny, there are some bugs, not polished and grindy. It's not a game for everyone, but really fun. A LOT of stuff to do.

evil stardew


grindier, missing some quality of life, and a little hard/slow to find things to progress. fun as grindy chill out stardew. love juggling all the different chores

If Stardew Valley had a grindier, more confusing, 'darker' sibling.

At first it was fun. Addictive even. But like I said - super grindy and confusing. You'd be pulling up multiple tabs of google/wiki/reddit bc the game isn't very helpful *at all* in providing info. And whenever you wanna do something, you can't bc you gotta do something first, and before you can do *that* thing, you gotta do some other thing as well, and then some other thing before *that* - and it all needs some researching. Yet somehow, you just can't stop playing! There's so many things to do.

But after a while, playing started to feel like a chore until eventually it was just like "I can't fucking wait to break free from the clutches of this goddamn game." So I did, and simply resorted to youtube for the ending. Apparently, the ending is sooo unsatisfying as well. Many others echo this sentiment.

I'm just pissed that I wasted 60+ hours on this game. It's just not a game that's worth starting/playing.

tl;dr Mods solve basically all issues I have. Overall had an okay time playing, but wouldn't recommend it because the game feels like it's actively trying to be frustrating whenever you start to enjoy a part of it.

There's no decisions to make in this game, either you do the thing to complete a quest or you're just locked out of it. Graveyard Keeper has a lot of fun mechanics on its own, but every time you start to enjoy something it either becomes useless or it forces you into doing something you don't care for. Every part of this game feels like a different developer had an idea and decided 'oh this will be fun!', and then every future developer forgot about that mechanic and it's instantly obsolete after using it for that 1 item you can only get with it.

The biggest example is how there's entire characters, who's only purpose is to tell you 1 thing and then go back to being decoration. They might as well not exist, and be replaced with a letter or book you find.

Want to be a farmer? Your crops sell for pennies.
Want to focus on the graveyard? It's obsolete after day 50. The money doesn't scale for some reason, so it becomes a waste of time even burying corpses. It'd be so easy to give you more money as you upgrade the church imo.
Want to focus on being a priest? The best prayer you learn is the 2nd prayer you unlock, and then there's nothing to improve.
Want to decorate? Your building space is incredibly limited for (afaik) no real reason. You also can't move any items after placing them, and when you start you (obviously) have no idea what the later items will look like and either have a terrible looking layout or continuously remove + rebuild items.
Want to enjoy the story? It's somehow much too serious, and constantly making fun of itself. It's a kinda fun and interesting story overall, but whenever you get into it they make some joke about how serious it is and send you to do a random errand. The story becomes inconsistent because of the DLC too, the biggest part is how you desperately need an Aristocrat but for some reason can't ask the aristocrat refugees you've spend weeks helping out. Every quest is hard locked behind other quests. You can't ignore mrs charm, because literally every other quest will eventually lead back to her. There's no choices to make.
Want to fish? For some reason that's a mechanic you get introduced to once and then can forget about aside from 1 quest.

The combat is entertaining, but why am I fighting slimes, bats and spiders instead of ghosts or something more graveyard-y themed? It's required for 1 specific quest, and then completely ignored. Enemies don't respawn, and dying is a benefit, because you lose nothing and it saves you (ingame and out of game) time from not running back to your bed. You just die and teleport back there instantly.

Zombie automation is very fun, but there's no real automation for anything important things, so you still constantly have to deal with it.
You need to bring water + wheat to automate beer, since the zombie porter only supplies hops/ grapes.
You can only build 1 of each zombie brewery/ winery, so eventually they'll get backed up and you have to manually make alcohol.
You can't automate Booze.
Your zombies eventually run out of seeds (this is the most annoying part) so even if you're automating crops, you'll have to keep farming to upkeep seeds.

The interfaces are inconsistent and annoying too. You can only give 10 carrots to the crate per click, instead of just dumping your entire inventory, so you'll have to spam open + submit the crate to deposit all your carrots.
You can only set quantities by clicking 1 extra at a time, or making 'infinite'. If I want to make 200 firewood, that's me clicking 199 times.
You can deposit/ withdraw items from chests either by depositing literally every item in your inventory, or 1 item at a time.
You can't queue up any items with rarities, so to make a bunch of books/ wine/ whatever at higher tiers, you're clicking 5x per craft to set it up. What's the point? Just let me queue up 20 golden books using the recipe I clicked on at the start.
There's tons of un-deletable items you can't destroy, sell or get rid off aside from dumping them in a chest and hoping to forget about it.

I liked so many parts of this game, and I went into this expecting to like so much more, but there's no decisions to be made because nothing has consequences. Being a graveyard keeper is such a small part of the game, and absolutely useless towards the middle/ end of the game, where it turns into a tavern keeper or nail crate selling franchise instead, because you need so much money for progression.

I love games like this but and definitely had moments where I really enjoyed the gameplay but unfortunately there were too many strikes for me to want to keep playing. I wish the game integrated more information on how to get certain resources into the game play instead of having to go through the frustrating process googling on my own how to get science points or make oil etc. I also found the days to short so I am constantly racing the clock and have a billion things to do and never feel like I fully accomplish anything because I'm always racing to the next thing. Also, the item placement annoyed me to no end. Why can't I move a building once I've placed it without destroying it! Why are the placement options so limited! Placing buildings in the church basement in a pleasing, user friendly way feels like a puzzle with no answer and was ultimately my last straw.

Este jogo é stardew valley com o foco na história. O enredo é interessante e com tons de comédia, apesar de não contar com uma trilha sonora relevante, a progessão durante o jogo é muito satisfatória, desde que você tenha as dlcs.

This is a mixed review honestly, the game starts off great but really falls off near the end unfortunately. It has a great art style and a good soundtrack, the writing is above average, overall it's a chill and relaxing game.

The shortcomings it has are small but numerous, such as tasks becoming a slow and painful chore, poor UI such as workbenches not being able to bulk craft some recipes for no real reason, not being able to cancel crafts, e.t.c. It's a lot less sandboxy that what I expected, which was a letdown, as the Church turned out to be a disappointment in the way you can build inside.

Overall, decent game, not for everyone, but not bad... 6.5/10

This game was one of my favorites to 100%, the mechanics were great and intuitive. Overall I heavily recommend this game