Adventure · August 15, 2018

Graveyard Keeper (2018)

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Graveyard Keeper is the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim of all time. Build and manage your own graveyard, and expand into other ventures, while finding shortcuts to cut costs. Use all the resources you can find. After all, this is a game about the spirit of capitalism, and doing whatever it takes to build a thriving business. And it’s also a love story. Face ethical dilemmas. Do you really want to spend money on that proper burger meat for the witch-burning festival, when you have so many resources lying around? Gather valuable materials and craft new items. Expand your Graveyard into a thriving business. Help yourself -- gather the valuable resources scattered across the surrounding areas, and explore what this land has to offer. Quests and corpses. These dead bodies don't need all those organs, do they? Why not grind them up and sell them to the local butcher? Or you can go on proper quests, you roleplayer. Explore mysterious dungeons. No medieval game would be complete without those! Take a trip into the unknown, and find discover new alchemy ingredients -- which may or may not poison a whole bunch of nearby villagers.

Adventure releases from 2018

73 Adventure titles launched in 2018 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume43.6k Steam reviewsTop 5% in Adventure
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 70%
Metacritic69/100Genre average 77 — top 86% of Adventure titles
Concurrent peak941 playersTop 5% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours34 h averageTop 10% for session depth among Adventure

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Pixel Graphics · 912
  • Crafting · 828
  • RPG · 718
  • Simulation · 595
  • Sandbox · 564
  • Management · 557
  • Indie · 490
  • Singleplayer · 465
  • Medieval · 427
  • Building · 406
  • Adventure · 400
  • Dark Humor · 338
  • Agriculture · 319
  • 2D · 282
  • Fantasy · 240

Peer Adventure titles

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Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 43.6k reviews

37.5k positive · 6.1k negative

Metacritic

69/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

4.7/10

Curator recommendations

36.8k

Peak concurrent players

941

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Polish

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“Fantastic art and music, and pitch-black comedic aesthetic.” Gaming Trend “Graveyard Keeper is a dark, challenging take on Stardew Valley” Polygon “Graveyard Keeper offers up a dark and macabre variation to the town management/farming simulator.” Xbox Game Reviews

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

34h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

11h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

125

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateAug 15, 2018
DeveloperLazy Bear Games
PublishertinyBuild
Base price$3.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons5 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

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