Graveyard Keeper
Last updated: 2025-04-17
- Relaxing gameplay with freedom of choice.
- Charming aesthetics create immersive atmosphere.
- DLCs significantly enhance and expand the experience.
- Unique, macabre concept with dark humor.
- Tedious grind and unclear guidance frustrate players.
- Inadequate tutorials and poor explanations.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 68%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 32%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 85%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 15%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 2842
- Negative points
- 2079
- Gameplay points
- 618
- Perf. points
- 56
- Rec. points
- 856
- Misc points
- 147
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Relaxing, engaging, and freedom of choice | The game offers a relaxing and engaging gameplay loop with freedom to progress at your own pace. Players appreciate the lack of strict time limits and the ability to explore various activities without pressure. The game is easy to pick up and play, offering a wealth of content that keeps players engaged for hours. | 74% |
| Charming aesthetics and immersive atmosphere | The game features excellent pixel art, immersive music, and a charming presentation. Reviewers consistently praise the detailed graphics, atmospheric sound design, and engaging story, making it a visually and aurally appealing experience. The game world is immersive and enjoyable. | 72% |
| DLCs enhance and expand experience | The DLCs significantly enhance the game by adding substantial content, expanding the story and lore, and introducing new mechanics. Reviewers highly recommend purchasing the DLCs to improve the overall experience and alleviate some of the base game's grind. The DLCs feel like a natural extension of the base game. | 22% |
| Unique take on Stardew Valley | The game is often compared to Stardew Valley, but with its own unique twists. Reviewers appreciate the engaging NPC interactions, intricate story, and the absence of strict time constraints found in similar games. The game offers a fresh take on the farming sim genre with a darker and more mature theme. | 21% |
| Enjoyable dark humor and story | The game features dark humor, witty dialogue, and a satirical tone that appeals to players who enjoy morbid and unconventional themes. The story is engaging and full of unexpected twists, with characters that are both funny and memorable. The game's humor is a strong positive. | 20% |
| Complex and rewarding progression system | The game features a complex tech tree and interconnected systems that require strategic thinking and problem-solving. Players appreciate the depth and customization options, as well as the sense of progression and achievement. The game rewards experimentation and independent discovery. | 17% |
| Unique and macabre gameplay concept | The game has a unique and macabre concept, such as managing a graveyard and using corpses for various purposes. Reviewers find the dark humor and unconventional mechanics to be both bizarre and strangely appealing. The game offers a fresh and interesting take on the farming genre with its morbid themes. | 17% |
| Diverse activities and deep systems | The game offers a wide variety of activities and systems, including farming, crafting, resource management, and dungeon exploration. Reviewers appreciate the depth and scope of the game, as well as the constant stream of tasks and goals to pursue. The game combines elements of multiple genres for a rich and varied experience. | 16% |
| Deep graveyard management mechanics | The game offers deep management mechanics, allowing players to optimize resources and transform a cemetery into a thriving business. Reviewers appreciate the unique twist on the farming game genre and the satisfaction of building and managing their own graveyard. The game combines resource management with dark humor and mystery. | 12% |
| Engaging story and interesting characters | The game features a well-written and engaging story with interesting characters and unexpected plot twists. Reviewers appreciate the world-building and the way the story unfolds through quests and interactions with NPCs. The game has high replayability due to multiple paths and secrets to discover. | 10% |
| Zombies automate tasks effectively | Zombies are helpful for automating tasks, as they don't need food or sleep and automatically deposit items into storage. Automation can be unlocked to alleviate repetitive gameplay while still allowing for graveyard creation and improvement. The Breaking Dead DLC adds zombies that can be used to automate tasks, saving time. | 5% |
| Addictive and immersive experience | The game simulates the experience of adapting to a new and unfamiliar situation, making it feel realistic and addictive. The developer intentionally created the game to make the player feel like they don't know what to do, mirroring the isekai premise. The game is highly addictive. | 4% |
| Morbid and unconventional activities | The game allows for activities such as digging up bodies, performing unlicensed surgery, extracting organs, and using skin for leather armor. Enjoyable dark humor aspects such as yanking skulls out of corpses and slicing their flesh up to trade before heaving the body in the river. The game includes embalming bodies, cooking up questionable potions, and holding sermons. | 4% |
| Stranger Sins DLC enhances gameplay | The Stranger Sins DLC deepens the story of the world and its characters. The Stranger Sins DLC allows the player to run a tavern and earn money. The tavern in the 'Stranger Sins' DLC greatly contributes to wealth accumulation. | 4% |
| Enjoyable exploration and progression | The reviewer accumulated almost 100 gold coins and bought everything from the NPCs. The reviewer found a teleport stone in the tavern, which is an essential item. The reviewer is enjoying exploring the game world and meeting strange characters. | 3% |