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 wha...
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 discover new alchemy ingredients -- which may or may not poison a whole bunch of nearby villagers.
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Graveyard Keeper is a good game, with an unnecessary amount of grind that never gets easier.
Even as you progress the upgrades you get do not speed things up too much, there is no way to travel fast around the map other than little shortcuts or TP stone which has a cooldown. The biggest problem with the game for me is lack of transport for items that you need a lot of. Not to mention items on the ground never despawn which cause problems later on if you accidentally cut a tree in town and now have to drag it all the way to your house.
This game has the potential to be better than stardew valley since there is far more in this game to do, however, it needs a good bit of quality of life updates.
This is a fantastic game but it needs a lot of time invested in it as it is a slow builder and the learning curve is very steep without using the wiki.
Transported back to the mediaeval ages and given the role of a graveyard keeper,the player has to learn the ropes fast in order to survive and thrive in this world and try and get back to his own time.
The humour is very dark and would certainly put many people off, I'd maybe recommend watching a few let's play videos online before committing to buy. But at the heart it is a life RPG where you can do a variety of things from working, farming, crafting, trading, making friends, alchemy, fishing etc.
I highly recommend buying both DLCs as these add quite a bit to the game.
The graphics are nicely suited to the style: simple 2D but nicely rendered. The sounds are atmospheric but don't expect any voices or fantastic sounds. The gameplay is simple to control, I use the keyboard and mouse. The game runs flawlessly on both my Ubuntu and Debian systems.
Different enough to Stardew Valley to make it worth your while purchasing if you enjoy one then you will probably enjoy the other. I just wish that the manual/tutorials were more explanatory.
I've had this wishlisted for awhile and finally pulled the trigger on it. A great cozy game with a significant amount of depth. The humour is enjoyable and the story is interesting. It takes a bit of an investment to get things going without a complete hands-on experience, however once you do, the game really becomes less about managing inputs and more about experimenting and finding new, fun ways to play.
The basic idea of this game, being like "Stardew Valley", but with running a graveyard, AND helping out with turning things like witch-hunting into capitalism? Not a bad idea, for a game, that's a mix between business management and action RPG!
However, the unfortunate news is, it's far too slow paced, it's too confusing, and for effort? I believe that it's not worth your money.
Want a better game, for $19.99? You can buy a BETTER video game. Otherwise? With that much money, I'd be more satisfied, with SPENDING it on a third-party game controller!
So graveyard keeper is a fun little game with pixel Art graphics that has a whole new world to explore,
but it has its quirks. E.g. you get quests along the way to meet certain people, but the game itself has no help like an almanac or indicator when a certain NPC is available. It might tell you once, but if you miss it you are left to ask the wiki.
Then there are many tasks that are fun at first, but become dull over time. Like getting lots, stones, Iron Ore. But there is a Solution: Buy Breaking Dead DLC. In a similar fashion Alchemy is very important - you can distill, mill or mix certain items into powders, solutions or concentrates. But you have to remember what turns into which - so with 3 outcomes and like 40 items, that is quite a thing todo. Or you have a zombie that remembers, what you did at least once, whilst the game will not tell you what you have not done yet. Fun times. You might want to look for a cheat sheet the first time.
The Inventory is very limited (16 or 20 slots), but there is a solution to this problem: _Buy_ Game of Crone DLC. After a certain time you get offered bags and it will help your constant lack of inventory space.
It is infuriation - the game clearly shows that it can do better. E.g. if you plant seeds and use a simple bronze fertilizer - the next time it will remember it and you can do press 4x E to use the fertilizer and then plant the seeds. But only if you use a simple setup. Doing things more complicated like using bronze fertilizer + silver quality fertilizer + seed won´t get properly remembered and you get a inventory select war if you want to keep it up. I did enjoy planting, but I did not enjoy having to do the inventory clicking. Many in-game workstations have a queue - you can add multiple items to the queue and change the quantity later. But not for forges, stoves or food preparation. Or multiple quality recipies.
The lack of (intentioal) lack of QoL features adds over time and makes parts dull.
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