Graveyard Keeper

Grindy ass game with an okay story. Makes you want to keep playing by expanding the skill tree and managing many things at once.

I've only played a little of stardew valley and this game was very much inspired by it. I gotta say though, this game kept me hooked much longer than stardew valley did. Once you get your teeth sinked into this game, you start to taste how bland it is, which sucks since I really enjoyed how it started out. If you want to have fun for about 20 hours, then definitely give it a go.

its a fun little cycle game you can fidget too. just, mind your blue experience lol. one of my biggest background games when my adhd starts going nuts.

It's a really unique game and really good but there are some problems that ruin the fun... Firstly, if it's your first time playing you're gonna spent literally over 40 hours like i did just to get to the ending cuz its a bit grindy and theres SO MUCH waiting if you mess up on which day you gotta do your task/talk to somebody. There was SO much googling stuff. Secondly, the ending, it's nice, i love it, it's cute but theres nothing after... you get kicked to the main menu and if you go back to the save you're put back where you last saved which was VERY far from the ending cuz i was meditating to pass the time in game... I wish there was something AFTER reuniting with your wife, it feels really UNFINISHED. So I personally wouldn't reccomend but wouldn't not reccomend this game. Third, it is kind of worth the price, I just feel like there was more thought about the paycheck than focusing on the quality and spirit of the game...

Amazing and interactive game . Once you overcome the confusion in the beginning, things will slowly fall in place for you. one of the better cozy sims i have played

Funny, mechanics are easy, just an all around enjoyable game.

realy fun, but sometimes had to look up stuff.

Fun at time, but some of the mechanics are really grindy.

Absolutely love this game! Super fun but also relaxing. Sometimes you have too much on your plate tho so I suggest keeping a list of all the materials you need for tasks.

Such a great game. It is very task and exploration based, which I love. If you're a person who loves making to do lists, then this game is for you. It has such great aspects that were expanded on very well. I look forward to seeing what this game dev does next for this game or future games.

One of the best games I've ever played honestly. It's a fresh take on the "farming" and "Stardew Valley" type genre. Not much on the character relations part, which is perfect for me. More focus on crafting and leveling up. Not a lot of intense combat, and no real way to LOSE the game. Just craft, and raise the dead! Great game with a lot of humorous writing. Would recommend!

I want to love this game. I really do. The art style is amazing, the story is interesting, the controls feel very good.

It's the progression system, you get DRIP fed the story, it also overwhelms you with all these tasks, techniques, and just constant things you need to get done, but not enough guidance to get things done. Imagine, every time you're looking forward to the next day to get a new objective to complete only to find that you are one step away, and you have to wait another 7 days to get it back, when that time comes, you're given one sentence of information and now 3 MORE tasks to complete.

You can see how much time I've put into this, and I've felt I've barely scratched the surface, done basically next to nothing, and have a bunch of items that you can collect but have no clue what they are even used for. I wish this was streamlined or at the very least given more of a better objective system because as it stands, it's a gorgeous, and interesting looking game but it becomes more of a chore with very little reward.

While I like a lot of aspects of Graveyard Keeper, including that you aren't required to follow a "go to sleep at 2 am or suffer" system, I ultimately got exhausted of running around and trying to figure out what ingredient I needed to make something, only to discover that to one ingredient I sometimes required new equipment that requires other ingredients, etc. It got exhausting how there was rarely ever an easy way of doing anything, and how vague instructions were. This means I could go around for hours thinking I was making the right thing, only find myself blocked from progress because I hadn't made the right piece of equipment first. I know I could look it up, but honestly I don't want to use a walkthrough for a game just to be able to play it in its base form. This type of vagueness was intentional, and it's not something I enjoy but your mileage may vary.

I was really surprised how little I enjoyed this game.

It came highly recommended as something I would like. I was expecting it to be a grindy craft simulator, when after 5 hours in the game it seems much more like a scavenger hunt. If not for guides online I wouldn't have even bothered lasting 5 hours. People tell you they need a thing and then you hunt down the one thing to it's hidden spot over and over.

You slowly unlock things you can theoretically grind, but most resources are so scarce you are better off juggling buying something, crafting the bought thing, and then repeating until you have the capital to just buy whatever you want. You then have the money to skip the crafting step. The problem is your skill progression, which again just sets you up for more scavenger hunting, as that's how you unlock skills.

I don't enjoy the scavenger hunt to progress style game. I was expecting more of a craft and battle game.

Great game that swallowed me for a whole week. The humor is peak and characters are cool and alive. Gameplay itself reminds Stardew Valley with dark comedy.

Such a fun game, I've literally played for hours on and on and haven't gotten bored! There's always something you can work towards and if you get sick of one quest, you can just move onto another one!

If you want a darker story with witty humor, a LOT to do, and a Stardew like energy system, you will love this game. I still have yet to beat it as I tend to wander off key to every DLC before even trying to finish the main quest. It's fun, dark, but all around a fantastic play. Great way to enjoy your time!

this is trully one of the best games that i have ever played. it is fantastic from all points of views. i have enjoyed it for many hours, and i recomend it if you like games like stardew vallye

As much as I came in open minded on this, around 10 hours I started doing some googling on "when would Graveyard Keeper become fun" and I was lucky to find a lot of similar questions out there.

It just isn't fun for me. It's not Stardew Valley, despite the format. Stardew Valley is rich with content, and it all feels semi-purposeful. This game is a total grind-fest, and after 10 hours into the game I was seeing so little progress. The dopamine release is very restricted in this game, the rewards are small, few, and far between.

While the lack of hand-holding could be seen as a drawback, I actually didn't hate it. For example, the mystery of understanding the days of the week - kind of cool! Makes me feel like I'm using my brain. Unfortunately, having to wait for days to pass before I can trigger the smallest amount of story does not make for a fun experience.

I don't really see DLC (which there appears to be a lot of) resolving this. It's a formula issue. Either you do Stardew Valley or better, otherwise pick a different genre. Or if you're going to go for it, at least try and stand out with something besides theme. You need some new mechanics that really scratch an itch.

Sadly, I was left itchless for the entire time I spent.

This is not a perfect game, there are a ton of flaws and jankiness but I can't help but love this game.
It's definitely a 7/10 but it's MY 7/10.

This game was super fun. I bought the DLC a little later than I would have liked, but nonetheless they added many more hours putting me over 100 hours total. I loved figuring out the crafting pathways and the story was entertaining. I really enjoyed the music and the pixel art is gorgeous. I could have kept playing to completely fill up the graveyard and unlock all the achievements, but I really wanted to see the story ending!
All in all, definitely recommend for farming/crafting sim lovers. :)

if you like farm sims but want something new i definitely recommend this game. it has a great levelling system and resources are rare/work-intensive enough that you dont feel like you're swimming in infinite money/stone/wood/etc. dungeon combat is solid and feels appropriately difficult. the gameplay loop is really rewarding and diverse enough that you do different sets of tasks every day - if anything it can sometimes feel like there is too much to do.

this game best played with the wiki open, since there is a lot of stuff the game doesnt explain and can be difficult to figure out by yourself without some guidance. there are multiple times i hit a wall with a quest because i didn't realise i had to do something super specific, which was frustrating sometimes. Overall though this is a great game and is a very welcome addition to the "farming sim" genre

Extremely fun concept, very engaging game. Really loving the story and dialogue options, the crafting is very entertaining. The theme is dark medieval gothic with a big catholic influence, what more can you love? Some of the mechanics are a bit cumbersome as far as alchemy and embalming go, but otherwise it's been very fun.

Great mechanics and humour. Stardew Valley with more dead stuff

Really liked this game, enjoyed the goofy 'voices' and dark humor. It was fun all the way through and the end felt satisfying.

I got this game at the recommendation of a co-worker, and its been great. If you like Stardew Valley then you will probably like this game as it has similar vibes. My only issue with it, was that i didn't feel it explain how to do things very well.

Graveyard Keeper Review: 5/5 Stars

Graveyard Keeper took everything I loved about Stardew Valley and added its own quirky, dark twist—and honestly, I think it’s even better. From the moment I found myself in this odd medieval world, running a crumbling graveyard with nothing but a shovel and some questionable ethics, I was hooked. It’s got the same open-ended, do-what-you-want vibe as Stardew Valley, but with a more offbeat and hilariously morbid sense of humor. Managing corpses, upgrading your graveyard, and crafting all sorts of strange items? It’s weird, and I love every minute of it.

What sets Graveyard Keeper apart for me is its storytelling and depth. While Stardew has its heartfelt, small-town charm, this game leans fully into dark comedy and existential questions. It’s not afraid to make fun of itself or the genre, and that adds a layer of intrigue that kept me invested. Every character I met—from the talking skull Gerry who loves a drink to the bishop who’s more concerned with his reputation than faith—brought their own ridiculousness and secrets. The world felt alive, not in a warm and fuzzy way, but in a “what kind of bizarre adventure am I going to stumble into today?” way.

The game play is full of the same satisfying loops: farming, crafting, and managing resources, but with way more complexity. You’re not just growing crops—you’re embalming bodies, cooking up questionable potions, and holding sermons at your church for some extra cash. It’s like Stardew Valley, but with a deliciously dark edge that makes it more unpredictable and, for me, more exciting. If you’re into cozy sims with a twist and you’re ready to embrace a little morbid humor, Graveyard Keeper is an easy 5 out of 5 stars. It’s the perfect mix of weird, strategic, and oddly relaxing.

Absolutely love the story and the world building. The mechanics and the overall connection of craftable items is also great. Only thing couldve been improved upon was the speed of progression. At times it felt slow. Would like to see more games from this developer.

Perfect cozy/spooky game! you have a lot of grinding/gathering at first but still keeps you sucked in.

I've played this game too much. I have to take breaks because it's so grindy and a bit of of an issue to figure out what to do without guides that I get headaches. That said I can't stop playing. The plot is so cool and every time I think I know where it's going it goes deeper that it makes the 5 hours it took me to craft a cogwheel worth it.

I wouldn't recommend this game if you aren't the type of person who enjoys games based around crafting items to upgrade things to craft better items. It's insanely slow paced and the plot makes it feel like you have to rush but you can dive into any quest you like and work on it, it doesn't punish you for letting things fall to the waist side.

Some quick tips to new players:

- buy the teleporter for 2 silver from the barkeep ASAP it'll save you a TON of walking
- use their website guide because the game explanations are long winded and you can only hear it once
- You're going to be tempted to study everything as soon as you can. ALWAYS eat cake or grape pies before you study things, you'll get extra blue points for everything you study.

I hope you all like it!

Deeply frustrating and boring game to play. Seems like the background storyline is very interesting which is why I've played for so long, but the gameplay itself is very monotonous - all you're doing is crafting one thing to craft another thing to craft something else to now HOPEFULLY get the item you've been looking for since forever. There's a relatively unimportant item (ink) I've been trying to get since day 1, I'm now on day 100 and don't think I'm anywhere close. Explanations are very poor, often when you need an item for a quest it'll tell you which crafting table you need, but with no idea how to get that, and you need to do a bunch of unrelated stuff to then stumble across it. Most of the quest I'd just given up on and hope it eventually makes sense. The actual graveyard bit of it is such a tiny part its barely relevant. The reviews are good so I guess if all you want is a crafting game with very little else get this? But I really wouldn't recommend it.

This game has mastered the "relaxing" part of relaxing games genre.
- no daily chores to keep tracks of
- no calendar that would make you miss yearly events
- NPCs can always be found in same place
- multiple ways to achieve objectives, up to player preference
- no forced sleep, sleep whenever and however long you want!
It never feels like you're rushed to do anything but at the same time there are so many different things you can do it's easy to spend many more hours in game than you planned.

I've played this game for far longer than 12 hours. I started out with just the app on my iPad and then I found out about the desktop version. I'm not very good at desktop gaming, but my brother has more experience with it than I do, so I went to him. He told me to get an Xbox controller, and play it that way. Once you get the controller setup right, it's more fun on desktop than it was in the app.

Ok, so after having played through the game and completed it (without DLCs) here's my two cents.

TL;DR - fun game that is severely flawed and undercooked. I was very excited in the beginning of the game, a bit exhausted in the middle, and disappointed at the end.

THE GOOD:
- Art style
- Satisfying core gameplay loop - there's always something to strive for, and you keep chasing new goals. Dopamine hits hard.

THE MEH:
- Story, characters and writing in general

THE BAD:
- Game is unplayable without wiki or outside tutorials: some things in game are VERY poorly explained or not explained whatsoever. But the worst part is that in some cases the game straight up lies to you about certain mechanics (like how advertising will boost your sales)
- Unbalanced arc of the game (pacing) - in the beginning you're overwhelmed with too many tasks and possibilities, while in endgame you're just idling waiting for good roll on RNG to get the item you need, drowning in resources that you do not need any more.
- Economy is completely unbalanced - the only real way to make money you will need is thought the merchant quest line. And other quests require items where you might be tempted (or required!) to set up whole production chains to craft an item that is useful for that one quest and then you will never look at it again as profits are nothing compared to what merchant brings, and the effort is MUCH higher. (I've heard that DLCs balance it out, but frankly I'm not spending more money on this game)
- Not setting expectations right - Nothing stops you from wasting what little money you have on start, and yet that money is SUPER important as most activities you assume will earn you money are actually money drains until mid-game (such as farming). Quest givers will give you quests early in game that seem basic but are actually completely locked out behind other quests or far-up the tech tree.
- Some items or crafting stations that would we useful in early game or mid-game are locked behind tech-tree progress or quests that come so late in the game that after obtaining them the items are completely useless (looking at you specifically, wheat mill)
- The whole alchemy part of the game. There are so many ingredients and possible combinations that discovering the recipes on your own is completely tedious and implausible. Some ingredients are quite rare and difficult to find, yet used in several important recipes. Even if they kept to just the basic 8 elements for crafting that are in the game there'd be 336 or so combinations to try out, but no they introduced 10 additional ingredients. Sometimes the color of the thing you want to make is the clue on one of the ingredients - great that narrows it down to 168 possible combinations, IF it doesn't use one of the other special ingredients. But sometimes the color isn't the clue at all, so you can;t count on it. And often there is no sense to it - add toxic solution to create flavor enhances? Really? The amount of game hours and grinding for rare ingredients you'd need to do is crazy.
- Randomness - SOME materials are super rare and depend on very low chances of being dropped, apart from a bit you're guaranteed to get in dungeon. If you waste gold for example on crafting nice windows, good luck mining for hours of real-life time for a chance for gold nugget to drop. I haven't gotten a single gold nugget from mining in my whole 50h of gameplay.
- Stupidity - some things are just plain stupid and not thought out or feel unfinished. The only way to get onion rings recipe is if you by chance go to the tavern with onions in your inventory. BUT only bronze quality onions. If you have better ones, the dialogue won't trigger. You also can end up whit super high-level stuff that you can't sell. Some graveyard recipes call for silver-star marble carvings. If you get "unlucky" and produce gold-star ones, you might as well destroy them. Apart from 3 that you need for the quest, the rest are completely useless as no one will buy them.
- Inconsistency - some crafting stations can be upgraded to a higher level, while others can not.

Anyway, I really wish that they put more thought into polishing the gameplay of the core game before they pumped out bunch of DLCs that somewhat fix the flaws

Tried this game after friend recommended it, i liked the game and its theme at first but the game got too grindy and confusing later on , it was clear to me what i was supposed to do but i had no idea how , i wanted to play this game without opening any guides so i tried exploring everything else that was available to me after i got locked out of those things as well i tried looking up guides on what to do next ... well just knowing what lies ahead of me i thought it was better to just quit the game.

You save every time you sleep which is how you recover energy. Crafting, farming, mining, a little bit of fighting, money making. Unfortunately, you can't move a machine once you place it down, you need to destroy it and rebuild it which loses you a few resources (somewhat minimal).

fun and addicting, slow to start but once you understand you can do whatever in whatever order it really starts to come together.

Wilx100% (Jan 18, 2023) - This game was so unique and fun too. I bought every single DLC that it had to offer. I would 1000% recommend you play this game. The fighting is clunky but fun, you can automate your farm later on, the concept is SUPER unique (sorry I keep using the same word lol). Like just thinking about it is giving me and itch to play more, but I already 100% complete the games so I got nothing left to do :( I would buy more DLC for this game in a heart beat. The only thing that was super annoying was the wood/stone gathering but it does get better late game with automation. I would rate this game a 9.5/10.

Great Game. Started playing it on mobile before it became no longer compatible with mobile devices. The new contact adds tons of character to the game! 100% reccomend.

I've played this game first on my PS4, where I have spent many many more hours than on PC. Although the subject of this game seems a bit funny, it really is such a humerous game. I bought it again on PC and it is as much fun as on PS4. With the expansions (totally recommended) this game is even better. The storyline is well written and the artstyle suits this game. If you enjoy playing games like Stardew Valley, you'll probably enjoy this game too.

While I may still keep playing, I feel now's a good time to write a review, because I've just realized the only reason I'm still playing is for completion's sake.

This isn't really a game about a graveyard keeper. This is a graveyard-themed crafting simulator, except crafting isn't fun. You just build things at random so you can build more things, but you never fully relize what these things are really for.

And it does feel like the game wants me to do everythigng except graveyard keeping. Don't exepect it to have any story that has anything to do with graveyards, either. The game begins on a transgressive note (one of the first things you're asked to do is to carve out a piece of meat from a dead human body so you can make burgers with it), so you would be justified to expect it to have something to say about the nature of life, death and our relationship with those two. It does not.

"Tedious" is a word that comes to my mind a lot when playing. There's so much to do, yet so little guidance, and so many red herrings. It's like the game is actively trying to spite you by making you pay attention to the wrong things, so you have to learn everything by trial and error, rather than by the virtue of having figured something out. Things that look important, aren't. Things that are important, are hidden away. One of my friends played this game before me, and told me they just couldn't find a way to collect the blue experience points. Turns out there are many ways to do that, but I found them all by accident. I'd never guess one of best ways is to make grave decorations, of all things.

It feels like every time I manage to get something done, the goalpost is moved. I keep building things so I can build more things, but never get anything tangibly useful actually built. At one point an NPC came in and said "nice graveyard, now give me three statues". Sounds like a nice regular progression at first, except at that point I was a few skills in the tech tree away from being able to make any kind of statue, let alone the kind the NPC wanted. That's a very easy way to make one's achievements feel insignificant.

As for the whole transgressive angle, this game only does the cheap kind. E.g. there's a clearly psychopathic inquisitor who likes to torture women, and the game will make you help him out, because it can. Everyone is evil, no one is likeable, and I'm supposed to play along, and then the game has the nerve to tell me I'm a bad person because of things that are clearly out of the main character's control. It makes me suspect that once I do get through the main plotline, it's going to tell me "LOL your character could never go back home, why did you even bother". Well, game, for the sake of the journey, that's why, so why are you making the journey feel miserable?

I get that what's tedious for one person may feel soothing for another, but I do play tedious games sometimes ("Viscera Cleanup Detail" comes to my mind for some reason), and I still happen to find "Graveyard Keeper" pointless and lowkey uncomfortable.

I really like Graveyard Keeper. It's going to get compared to Stardew Valley and be considered its darker cousin, but I think it does enough to set itself apart. The variety of things to do is great, as is the darkly funny way you can reanimate the dead to serve as automatons (or just use their organs for research and/or profit). The tech tree also provides a great reason to continue forward, and like SdV, it's fun to build intricately carved fancy marble tombstones and remember back to the time I struggled to build a cross out of sticks.

I’m reminded of two obstacles. One is that everything feels just a little bit too far away from one another - the quarry is a bit of a hike, fishing spots aren’t especially convenient, and some of the objectives are oddly placed. No doubt some of these menial tasks can be simplified by having zombies do the labor for me, but this brings me to the other obstacle - needing faith, which you can only get once a week. Unlike the other resources, which I can ramp up reasonably quickly, it feels like the game is drip-feeding me faith with no easy way to find a workaround or ramp it up considerably, and since I can only hold church services once a week, the days in between began to feel like filler. Some of this can be resolved by the DLC, which also adds a lot more to do in the days between, but until then, I'll next return to this game when I want something a little gritty with a tech tree.

Fun with a cool story. Definitely got me in the Halloween mood

Its fun , as reference its stardew valley like . but with its own flavor and less punishing but more complex in other ways . more in managing your graveyard and farming starts similar but mid game is autormated mostly

Graveyard Keeper is crack on top of speed on top of heroin. The gameplay loop just won't let go, which is very peculiar because it's the most basic game loop one could design. You're basically just running around, pressing buttons and waiting for the bar to fill all the way up. Somehow this is not only compelling, but one of the most addictive games I've ever played. And I've finished Nioh for just that reason, because I absolutely hated that game otherwise. This is the power of hooking a person on a well designed and gratifying loop. And then by the end of the game you realize that you've just been running in a hamster wheel for over 100 hours. Suddenly the existential dread sets in. What the hell are you doing with your life?

Besides all that Graveyard Keeper offers a very charming presentation. A sadly very nonsensical and for no reason vague overarching story, which however fleshes the characters out quite well by the end of the game. Doing quests for them in the main story is delightful. They're well written and witty, of course having a good dose of dark humor and satire.

Now, I can't really say the same for the DLCs. Game of Crone goes nowhere with its story. Better Save Soul is just kinda meh at best. And Stranger Sins is just outright infuriating. It's just a bunch of cut-scenes that you get through a series of increasingly more and more frustrating fetch quests with over a dozen of MacGuffins of all shapes and sizes. There's absolutely nothing interesting about it. And it's certainly not worth the hassle. I really couldn't give a rat's a** about what happened 200 years ago. So, for the lore lovers only. Personally there's very few franchises I was ever invested in the lore of, such as the Dark Souls series, Dune and Disco Elysium. To me the lore is either really good, or I won't bother with it. Also, just smacking it over your head is the worst way to present it next to putting it into secondary sources. Dark Souls uses visual story telling a lot for instance, and that's how it won me over.

Now, gameplay wise the DLCs range from great to awful as well. The included DLC: Breaking Dead is essential. Trust me. You want to set up your zombie labor force as soon as you get the chance. I mostly went with 6 or 7 skulls for most of them. The work efficiency doesn't matter that much for the majority of things, as you won't have the time to keep an eye on everything. There's just too much to do.

However, if you want to create a 26 white skull zombie which pushes their efficiency beyond 50%, then Better Save Soul comes to the rescue. Its primary game mechanic is impractical. Basically you get harmed souls that you need to heal, then you put them into the soul portal and get gratitude points... which max out at 130. Souls decay naturally overtime, so you need to put them in the Ghost Buster traps which meaningfully slow their decay. The points are then used to have literal ghosts perform labor for you... Yeah, this contradicts with the zombie mechanic. And I have no clue why it's even in the game. Especially considering it costs A LOT of gratitude to do simple tasks. I suppose not everything can be automated with zombies, but it's much more pragmatic to just do it yourself at that point instead of begging your imaginary friends to do it.

Perhaps restarting zombie workers would make it more practical, but no. There's no logic as to where the soul conduits or whatever they're called in game are placed. Sometimes they have their own dedicated spot. Other times they take up valuable real estate. They're simply unusable at the Vineyard, as you'd lose an entire zombie grape farm. Same deal for the Quarry if you decide to cut your rocks there. You'll need 3 stockpiles for iron and 3 stockpiles for stone and marble, and a stone cutter. This leaves no space for the conduit. The game in general has bizarre placement rules. Some (zombie) facilities are placed in general areas. Some others get their own dedicated spots. It's really weird.

So, the aforementioned DLC would be pretty useless gameplay wise were it not for the sin shards that you get from cleansing souls. They let the keeper upgrade most organs to 3 white skulls. This lets you create super zombies that are extremely efficient, which is crucial for mining as it's very slow otherwise. Also depending on what you want to focus in the game, that too. Putting these treasures into a grave is ill advised as the higher level graveyard will just net you more money during sermons. And it's not even that noticeable even at close to 1000 quality. So you can basically just stop once you reach the quality of 200 to progress the Bishop's story.

Game of Crone rewards the player with automated farming (in the same way as the zombie farms) and cooking which is done without player involvement other than whatever is in the storage. The camp's cook takes care of that. Most importantly though, by progressing the story the player gets bags that effectively serve as inventory upgrades. Since there's a lot of stuff in the game, this one is crucial and should be finished as soon as possible.

We've already discussed essential and useful. Now onto the absolutely pointless. Stranger Sins lets you run a tavern of your own which is redundant at best, as there's already a tavern in the village. Moreover all it does is two things: getting gold and upgrading it being a requirement for finishing those putrid fetch quests. By the time you get around to it you'll be swimming in gold, as there's two very reliable ways of making a fortune in this game which I won't spoil (the fun is figuring it out on you own). What's even the point? Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Another way to make money that's more trouble than it's worth. And I thought selling burgers and beer was a waste of my time. Now we're just scaling it up with more pointless busy work for no payoff. Neither mechanically, nor narratively. Seriously, don't even bother with it, Just trust me. Watch the cut-scenes on YT if you're that invested into the lore and save yourself both time and money.

Besides this there's also the dungeon which is obviously an afterthought, as with the best equipment, battle perks and potions you'll simply be unstoppable and clear the whole thing in a couple of hours. Inventory management is the primary concern here. The enemies are just mild inconveniences.

Now, do I recommend Graveyard Keeper? Absolutely. It's charming, often well written and incredibly engaging despite being basically a farming simulator akin to Stardew Valley. However, I never finished the latter and don't plan on doing so either. On the other hand I completed practically everything Graveyard has to offer beyond a couple dozen achievements that don't reflect on the game much. Some of them are fishing related and I couldn't care less about fishing. Every damn game has fishing in it, as it's the easiest mechanic to implement. So no.

Graveyard Keeper is basically a no nonsense Stardew Valley. So if you were indifferent to that game like I was, I suggest you give this one a try. And on the flip side, if you liked the latter, then you'll probably like this one even more. That of course depends on your tolerance for dark humor and satire. Sadly it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Dark humour and fun gameplay. Its a great little game. I've enjoyed all of the DLC as well as the main game. It isn't perfect, but it is fantastic.

Played this game on the Switch, bought it on the PC too because it was on sale for super cheap and one of the DLC is PC only.

It took me over 16 hours of playtime to discover there was fast travel. Wasted so much time walking from place to place because the default walking speed can only be compared to a one-legged cougar in a school zone.

Church-funded cannibalism was ok, I dumped the entire town's population into the river after harvesting their flesh before I eventually discovered cremation. After that I started burning the bodies after the organ harvesting. Much like real life, a communist donkey controls my every move.

5/5

I'm having the best time playing this game! There is so much to do, yet not overwhelming since few tasks so far have a "deadline." The pixel art is beautiful and the creative chatter of characters is entertaining! Very easy game to play and get lost in for hours at a time.

The controls are limited and often action items show the control key to use (typically "E") which makes it simple to remember controls and ease of playing the game itself. I would absolutely recommend this game especially for the morbid lover wanting something darker to play yet have the simplicity and relaxation of a "farm" sim, RPG. There is no doubt you will be sucked into the plot and your character: how to establish yourself as the new graveyard keeper who just wants to get home.

If I had to try to find something that could make this game even better it would be allowing the choice of gender of your character and more customization on your character's look.

I wanted to like this game but it is too annoying. I watched countless videos of others playing so I knew what I was in for but found myself incredibly bored. It is apparently possible to mess up so bad in the beginning that you can't recover from it, so be sure you know what you are doing.

The mechanics are interesting and there is some fun to be had but honestly this isn't a game I could see myself really digging into, pardon the pun. I put in 36 hours and haven't touched it in a very long time. I have no interest in returning.

If you liked Stardew Valley and don't mind a bit of gravedigging, Graveyard Keeper is worth a shot. The more I played, the more I got into it. Exploring the lore and completing hidden quests was a blast. The DLCs add a lot to the game, making it even better.

I suggest waiting for a sale to grab the DLCs or trying the base game first. It won't mess up your progress if you get the DLCs later.

Overall, Graveyard Keeper is a solid game. It mixes management, crafting, and a good story. I wish there were more games like this that blend story and crafting in this way. Give it a go if you're into that kind of thing!