Graveyard Keeper
Graveyard Keeper
Game
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Graveyard Keeper 2
Developer Lazy Bear Games
The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that's deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever! From the Steam store page
1,092 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
658 positive · 316 negative
95% range 65–70%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 658 | 316 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 29 | 19 | 52 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
3,535 of 4,555 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
63% recommend · 290 yes, 172 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 462 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (7,034 of 9,320 positive).
Players praise the improved gameplay and QoL over the first game, but note it still lacks some features. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the late-game pacing, automation restrictions, and reliance on zombies. [4][5][6] Several posters allege the use of undisclosed AI art in cutscenes, which they find disappointing. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [6]
tl;dr: Game about automating stardew valley with zombies, punches you in the face for having too many zombies. This is one of those would be a not unless you like hating yourself. First half of the game, GK1 with QoL improvements. A solid start. Second half? Terrible. Who the hell thought these mechanics were a good idea on a game like this? This screams someone ignoring feedback from play testers. If there were …
- [7]
Ai is being used blatantly for the ingame art. This is already bad in itself but, on top of this, it is absolutly not disclosed anywhere on the front page.
- [1]
For now, it looks stable, smooth and fluid. Some needed QoL has been added, and some is still painfully missing, such as moving buildings after placing them, this is especially annoying when now extensions and expansions to them can be added, making your workyard need frequent organising. The voice acting is pretty solid, but I turned it off, as I preffer the game more chill, however the mumbling voiceover …
- [4]
I enjoyed this game a lot. There are things about it that are very flawed though, I think focusing the game so hard on zombies as opposed to the first game and then putting so many restrictions on them was a bad call in my opinion, but I think there are some number that could be moved around to perhaps make the experience better, the core underneath is good. Ultimately though I did not have a good time after the …
- [2]
A really good and well-executed sequel with great new features and improvements to existing mechanics. Edit: I played the Demo for 12h
Summarised from 34 of the 565 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
63% of the 462 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Graveyard Keeper 2. The complaint that keeps coming up: late-game pacing and automation feel rushed or flawed. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 1,092 · most liked firstFor now, it looks stable, smooth and fluid. Some needed QoL has been added, and some is still painfully missing, such as moving buildings after placing them, this is especially annoying when now extensions and expansions to them can be added, making your workyard need frequent organising. The voice acting is pretty solid, but I turned it off, as I preffer the game more chill, however the mumbling voiceover specifically in the tutorial is not great due to that one looter that saves you, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: Game about automating stardew valley with zombies, punches you in the face for having too many zombies. This is one of those would be a not unless you like hating yourself. First half of the game, GK1 with QoL improvements. A solid start. Second half? Terrible. Who the hell thought these mechanics were a good idea on a game like this? This screams someone ignoring feedback from play testers. If there were any. The new combat minigame using hordes of zombies is interesting, but the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hope to eventually replace this review with a positive one as I do think this game is better than the original in a lot of ways and I have been having fun with it, but there's some technical and QoL issues that are badly kneecapping it and leading to a very frustrating transition into the late game. And for some reason, a lot of indie devs have been saying reviews are a great place for feedback, so here it goes. Edit 1: Some points have been removed from the review due to being fixed. Edit…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the first game so it kills me to not recommend this one. The first game was tedious to the point it was borderline enjoyable at times, but this one crosses into grueling territory. It's the small things, really, all of which could be easily fixed with a couple patches, most of which hover around production. My biggest gripe is with the automated/time based production, like ovens and furnaces. In the first game, you could craft huge batches of iron bars, let's say, and collect them all…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. I need to craft a specific item for a quest 2. To craft the item, I need a specific tool 3. To craft the tool, I need specific materials 4. I gather the materials, which takes a while 5. I might even craft the tool 6. By now, I’ve definitely forgotten why I crafted the tool in the first place 7. I stand around for a bit and do something completely different I love this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who loved the first Graveyard Keeper and played it all the way through at least 3 times, I was out of my mind to find out they were making a sequel. I downloaded the demo, preordered the game on sale, the whole 9. I liked the demo very much and was excited for launch today. While it's nice to be back in this familiar world, I can't get over some of the choices they made. There are things that are significant step backs from the first game and many choices feel like artificially…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ai is being used blatantly for the ingame art. This is already bad in itself but, on top of this, it is absolutly not disclosed anywhere on the front page.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: GK1 better. Graveyard Keeper 2, while not specifically worthy of a refund, feels like a chore. I unironically shut off the game several times to do irl chores and work as a better way of spending my free time instead of playing this. GK2 is a game about managing a town full of annoying manbabies with 0 personality traits besides being infuriating, boring and straight up punchable. From the bottom of my heart all the characters are horrible, writing is boring and the story is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sard! Today I've already had a talking donkey give me corpses, I drained them of blood and fat, buried them in shabby graves, commited identity fraud, harassed the locals in my local village and slowly went insane whilst having conversations with a talking skull - then I booted up Graveyard Keeper 2, which is like the first game, only bigger in scope and has voice acting. 9/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The unskippeable cutscenes look horrendous, like AI Slop. No idea why they don't have proper art when the rest of the game looks decent. Or why you still can't skip them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've seen some mixed reviews for the game, so I wanted to say my piece, even if it's into the void. (FYI, this will talk about gameplay, not the story. I feel your opinion on the story of Graveyard Keeper is based HEAVILY on who you are and how tolerant you are to unskippable cutscenes. Personally, I love the story and writing, but I get like 80% of my enjoyment from the gameplay) Graveyard Keeper was one of the best games I have ever played. I only found out about this sequel a week or so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the first game and the gameplay in this one is good but two issues: 1st. My game got soft locked due to a bug with the crematorium. Hoping for a patch to fix this. 2nd. They clearly used AI to generate the art for their cutscenes. It’s jarring to see terrible ChatGPT comic style art jammed into a game that looks, mostly, lovely between cut scenes. The devs should be disclosing this up front for everyone. Disappointing to see such dishonesty. You can decide for yourself if it’s…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally, a game that doesn't force me to go on dates, pick favorite colors or talk to villagers about their feelings. Here, if someone has a problem, you just cut out their brain, extract their fat to fix their skull rating and throw them onto a logging sawmill forever. Highly therapeutic. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was looking forward to this game, It's sad to see that the devs succumb to the alure of this horrible AI monster looming over all of us. Looks like the artists who did cut scenes have either been under too much time pressure or lost confidence in their capability to create, either way, I would be ashamed. Just the mental gymnastics you'd have to do, to trace something just to hide what it really is, and then think you're not doing something wrong. and the gall to place those right after cut…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesn't know what it wants to be. On the one hand, it's about building automation using lots of zombies as workers, and collecting as much faith points as possible to spend on almost everything in the game for some reason. (honestly, too many things have a faith cost) Then you get punished for having lots of zombies by severely limiting how much faith you can generate. Oh sure, there's a PR campaign you can run repeatedly to temporarily raise your limit of zombies before you get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was really sure this review will be positive and for the first 15-20h of the game I had tons of fun. I just thought that I'll wait just a little bit longer to make sure the experience stays the same... and it suddenly changed when the factory mechanic came into play. Let me start by saying that this game has serious identity crisis and doesn't know what it wants to be at its' core, because it's "jack of all trades and master of none". Graveyard Keeper is just the title of the game, not the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looked like ai, found out that they have admitted to using ai elsewhere but said not here which i highly doubt after seeing the game more. ♥♥♥♥ them
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I genuinely regret buying this game. Maybe it'll improve in the future, but at the moment I honestly have no idea what the game developers were thinking. I wasn't the biggest fan of the first game as I felt it was unfocused and there was too much forced tedium involved. This game improves on some things while making others worse. If you're thinking about buying it, I'd instead just keep an eye on it and see what improves because these developers do not have a track record of listening to their…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As many others have said, the first two thirds of the game are really good. Then the giant stack of pain points just builds and builds. - Farming prioritises the weakest seeds you have for some reason, which means if you accidentally leave 4 bad seeds in, it will pollute your entire farm. - no compost automation - Constantly having to empty farm of useless stuff - Town vendors treating tiered items as completely different to one another, so to upgrade from tier 1 to 2 can take Tier 1 grape…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As far as resource management games go, this is one of the most tedious I've ever played. Which is a shame cuz I love the art style and humor. But the core of the game is "How tedious can we make it for the player." to the point where I have an abundance of iron, but I cannot do anything with it because I spent faith unlocking fast travel points instead of paying to claim achievements I've did such as "smelt x iron bars" so I can increase mastery to actually work with it. ZOMBIES: The zombie…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It honestly doesn't seem that much different from the first game, which I loved playing when I was younger, the new level system sucks and the faith currency makes gameplay so much slower for no reason. If I need to level something up to progress, I shouldn't have to wait 2 in-game weeks to get enough faith to level up. I'll still wind up only needing the thing I leveled up for, for a day or two, then I have to wait another 2 weeks to get more faith. Also, the devs stated they didn't use…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really good and well-executed sequel with great new features and improvements to existing mechanics. Edit: I played the Demo for 12h
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the game so far. It reminds me of stardew valley but with no women? Which sucks as I am a female and like to play as a female. Hopefully they fix that issue. I also think they could make more of the characters interactive. There are plenty walking around but you can not speak or interact with them. It was just released so I expect they will update everything but I like where it is headed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're on the fence I'd say buy GK1 first and play that. GK2 does nothing to shake up the first game's formula and this is both it's strength and weakness. If you don't like the first game the second does absolutely nothing to change that. The Good: Durability system was removed. Most NPC's no longer have a daily schedule and are always available. The teleportation system was dramatically fleshed out, there's dramatically more options to make way for shortcuts. The prayer system isn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Currently the game is so full of bugs many aspects are unplayable or broken. My garden zombie automation only works half the time with the Vineyard 100% not working. Now I have encountered a game breaking bug with the battle when it spawns me in a location I cannot move out from and am unable to win even with cheating. My game is now over because I cannot progress any further and my auto saves do not go back far enough to make the decision to fight the battles in a different order.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cant prove it but the game looks like its using undisclosed ai art in some capacity
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turns out running a graveyard is actually pretty fun. Who would've thought
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played 133 hours of Graveyard Keeper 1. I bought all the DLC, I 100%'d the game, I got all the achievements. I was salivating at the idea of a sequel with a better UI, better mechanic integration, and more wacky writing. Then it came out that one of the lead devs is very pro-AI. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I really hate that we're in an age where I have to think about things like this. I really wanted to play this game to 100%. But I can't give money to people who support genAI. Don't reward that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the game for the most part. I know you're thinking why the bad review then? Well, because the factory is incredibly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid. I did the vast majority of the game enjoying it for what it was. Slight grind, loads of fun. Towards the end game factory is no longer optional. You cannot skate by with the basic resources and a tad bit of advanced resources being automated..... there are STRICTLY pieces of materials that NEED to be factory built. I have no idea why a zombie can do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →played it briefly without realizing they had undisclosed AI artwork in all of their cutscenes, and frankly I am disappointed, I thoroughly enjoyed the first game, hoping this second one would grow on the works of the first game, however, I am refunding it due to the undisclosed AI artwork. Bin the AI artwork, and pay actual artists to do the work. it will improve the game dramatically.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean, one banner in the steam profile of the game says "Manage. Grind. Automate!" and yeah you have to grind. But it is pretty cool, if you played the first graveyard keeper you will like this too, it feels like a more polished version and it is a story sequel. I have a feeling that you can spent many many hours in that game so I would love when a Co-Op update would come and play with friends together. Some quality of life update would be nice too, but there are mods for that already. Great…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed this game a lot. There are things about it that are very flawed though, I think focusing the game so hard on zombies as opposed to the first game and then putting so many restrictions on them was a bad call in my opinion, but I think there are some number that could be moved around to perhaps make the experience better, the core underneath is good. Ultimately though I did not have a good time after the transition into the later parts of the game but basically everything pre election I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every other negative review already mentions this, so I'll get straight to the point: having to babysit your timed crafting stations instead of being able to go and do other things is an absolutely bonkers design decision that makes the game, in my opinion, basically unplayable. Exhausting. There's also just an absurd amount of running around between your various crafting "bases", carrying materials around because you can only really afford to carry what you're using right at the moment due…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You lower your insanity by drinking – a realistic feature, because as you keep playing, you'll start drinking too. I've had lots to say about the first game. The sequel starts strong, looks like the devs have learned from all of their mistakes! Well... You start playing what feels like a great, finished game, and then gradually, you start seeing the parts, where they had to rush the development to get the game out. The game is basically split into two parts, where the gameplay changes – the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What are ya guys opinion on Graveyard Keeper 2?. Really had fun with the first one, but the developer seems like he's really into AI, and this steamheader just looks like horrible AI... Anyone has any opinion on it? :)
neutral · AI labelView post →loved the first game. unfortunately, in GK2, generative AI has been blatantly used (tracing counts!) for the cutscene art, promotional material, and trailer scripting, potentially also several in-game assets. sucks because the gameplay loop is clearly much better than the first game, and the first 2 hours have been fun, but each AI generated cutscene image that pops up massively detracts from the pros of this game. no AI disclosure on the game is very surprising. anyone with any amount of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having a good time with the game. A definitive improvement in terms of gameplay mechanics/systems, progression, and quality of life compared to the first game. Addressing the elephant of the room - it's impossible to say for sure of course but it seems like the development studio has use AI-Gen for cutscenes and the cover art. While I'm personally not a hardliner against the use of AI-assisted work, I am vehemently against dishonesty, and I think it reflects poorly on the developers to not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Few hours in and loving it so far, however prepare to start Googling answers to figure things out because certain tutorials in this game are terrible. Like for example, I had no idea what the purple bar in the Energy section was supposed to represent because the game never told me. Looking it up, I figured out it was an insanity bar, but the game doesn't tell you how you're supposed to lower it and it affects you within a few hours of playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, this feels more like Graveyard Keeper 1.5 rather than a sequel. Even with the better the graphics, additional voice acting, and stronger "isekai" storyline, this entry lacks a lot of the QoL improvements I was hoping to find in this second attempt at making the exact same game. For example, adding in the ability for chests to share resources among the different areas of your base would cut down on the tedium of moving stacks of basic materials around massively. The interface…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like management? And by management I mean managing 20 different interwoven things, where the things become more things? Exponential things, where you forget where you even started with the things? If you do, then play this! I love the original GK, and I never thought there would be a sequel. To be honest, I wasn't very excited when it was announced because I would've preferred more updates to the original, but I'm happy to say those feelings were totally wrong because I played the demo…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first game I played a bit and lost interest after ~30 hours. It wasn't bad, but it just became tedious and there are better games in the same category. This looks like it will end in the same way. It's does not feel like a game release. It feels like early access. The game is extremely grindy and disrespectful of your time. Not even for some game design reason. Just for "why not?". It was someone's first idea after pondering the problem for 30 seconds and then it had to be made exactly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the game so far. Not a fan of the voice acting so it's nice that you can switch to mumbling. please fix the timed production buildings. micro managing them is tedious.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →farming sim. Restoring and managing the graveyard is fun, slowly building up not only your base but the town as well was great. However, the pacing and systems are flawed, they feel like they are in EA. About 35% of the gametime was wasted due to lacking QoL and unreasonable friction. The week system felt like roadblocks sandbagging your progression, most of them made little to no sense and were simply limiting your gameplay. The actual graveyard lost focus, as you'd rather get any kind of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Next Week on XBOX - CONTROL Resonant, Dune: Awakening, EA Sports FC 27, Graveyard Keeper 2, Alien Breed 35th Anniversary, and more! Read here: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished the game so I think I can finally give my opinion. *Disclamer* I've played with me wife in familly mode/offline I've completed the game in about 45 hrs, however steam does not account for the offline time. *Disclamer* Overall the game is a solid improvement over the 1st part. Gameplay, animation, sound design, writing, everything was improved. The core gameplay loop is solid but.... At some point in the game, you will start noticing, that the game is more and more heavily leaning…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Already much better than the first game, looks fantastic and gameplay is much smoother, its also not repetitive like the first game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reminder that the Graveyard Keeper 2 dev is all in on genAI. Keep seeing cozy game lists advertising that one lately. Pushing the theft machine isn't cozy and never will be.
negative · AI labelView post →Britain simulator I can definitely see where the devs improved from GK1. There’s a lot more guidance on wtf you’re meant to be doing, the skill tree is actually intertwined and forces you to actually do things and talk to people, the smaller map, the keeper moves quicker, so on so forth. The voice overs are also a really cute addition!! It is very heavy on the cutscenes for the start of the game, but they do go through the dialogue without you needing to manually press for the next line, so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every single action in this game turned into such a recursive nightmare loop that it turned into anxiety inducing psychological torture. An utter micro chore slog. I thought I would enjoy this as a Stardew Valley and Factorio fan, but I could not have been more wrong. I can't even remember the last time a game was this antagonistic to the player. It expects an eidetic memory and infinite patience for pointless grinding.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played and loved Graveyard Keeper, even buying it on multiple different platforms. This is not Graveyard Keeper. It has a couple of minor quality of life improvements, with faster movement speed, fast travel options etc. It starts out great. Feels like a proper sequel to the first but then you hit the mid game and suddenly you're playing an unintuitive automation game with no explanation. The weekly cycle that existed from the first game becomes a punitive slog, it made sense the first…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edit: Several progress blocking bugs exist that prevent you from completing story battles and thus unable to progress in the game. Strongly do not recommend this game at this time. It's clear it needs a good 6 more months of time in the oven. I Wish I Liked Graveyard Keeper 2 More I really wish I liked this game more. I loved the first Graveyard Keeper, although I certainly had my problems with it too. Unfortunately, many of those problems remain in GK2, while some new ones have been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First day playing and I must say it is pretty damn good. Starting off, I am relieved to say that the mechanics from the previous game transferred pretty well, and the new stuff and changes are fitting in just fine, although i will admit the mastery can be a bit of a standstill if you neglect the challenges. The city battles are pretty fun, although I've only done the first two, the strategy element of managing banners is a pretty neat feature. A lot of the new building and customization…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s easy to notice that the majority of positive reviews have barely an hour of gameplay. I’m here to tell you that this game runs like crap even on low settings. Barely 15 fps and it’s killing my eyes. Steamdeck verification really needs to be taken away.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to recommend it, because at it's core there is a good game, but I absolutely can't. The first game was an absolute nightmare to complete, and this one is the same. But worse of a slog. Sisyphus had an easier task. The start is good, you have your energy to manage but then they throw on some insanity that you build up due to doing either a lot of labor or picking bodies apart. But after 100 days of picking bodies apart, you'd imagine you'd be a little more numbed to it. Thankfully you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like downloading virtual heroin. It has a wildly varied game loop in which every square inch of the game world has something to do. You'll find your time and life draining away doing just one more thing, one more thing, until you're begging for mercy, with every task giving you the sense of progression in some form...which makes it that much harder to put down. And that's the rub. This is the type of game that is designed from the very first line of code to be pure liquid crack.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like Stardew Valley but with a darker side to it then this game is great for you Its also FREE on Steam right now, with Graveyard Keeper 2 just been announced store.steampowered.com/app/599140/G...
neutral · AI labelView post →I really want to like this game, but I just find it too disorganized and lacking the quality of life touches that would make this game shine. Keeping track of what you need to build X is my largest complaint about this game, it really needs a todo list. Like a checkmark next to each item I can click to add it to a shopping list of sorts. My desk is covered in sticky notes because I have to write down all the required mats for w.e I'm working on. If I don't write things down I end up having to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do enjoy this game, but I cannot recommend it If inconsistencies in game mechanics, contradictory information, and incredibly important features being hidden behind information you'll never find without Googling are things that will frustrate you, save yourself the stress and play something else. I put many hours into this game with the dream of eventually having a fully automated base, with zombies and machines working together in unison. The reality is that it's far more efficient to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once again they released an untested Beta with incredibly obvious bugs (some game breaking as of posting of this review), bad designs, non existant explanations of features, obviously missing content (Perks for zombies and players and spots in machines that do not have any function) and Issues that existed and annoyed in part 1, EIGHT YEARS AGO. Buy on sale in a couple of months, then check which mods to use to get an actually good game. This is a shameful display of greed, there´s no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Note: I did not play the first game. I can't recommend this game at the moment. Perhaps it's due to my lack of knowledge from the first game, but it feels like the game throws a plethora of systems at me without taking the time to explain enough for me to understand. The tutorials are lacking in details, which I would be alright with if they were accompanied by a more in-depth compendium of things to reference. I've spent my time scratching my head about things such as how to increase…
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