Graveyard Keeper

This game is fun and there are a lot of clear cut goals that you can tackle methodically. Nothing in this game happens quickly so more often than not it will teach you patience of some sort. Generally with these type of sim games you expect it to get easier to do tasks, but not so much in this game. I think the biggest downfall is that nothing ever becomes convenient. You can't build something that makes it so you can carry more things around. You always have to travel on foot absolutely everywhere. At some point I didn't see the point in continuing. It is a fun game in the short term, but in the long term it becomes an incredible slog. If you just want a quick fix then this is the game for you, but I wouldn't reccomend this if you want something to sink your teeth into.

I honestly can't think of a witty title to give this review so I'll be blunt. This game is garbage, an over the top grind machine with a pathetic joke ending. I tried a friend's copy after he told me of the games state because I didn't believe him, 40+ hours later and I realized he was understating things. Boring repetitive actions, a slog of a tech tree, lack of teased content such as the town, and an anticlimactic ending with a stupid dlc joke. Don't believe me? Look it up on youtube! Tiny Build and Lazy Bear do not deserve any of the cash the received for this tripe.

Sadly as many other gamers have pointed out this game is an unfinished mess, including the DLC. The first 20-40 hours are somewhat playable even if someone repetitive and grindy, but clearly the endgame is unfinished. Firstly the obligatory dungeon exploration is as advertised, clearly tacked on by the devs who found their content was lacking, the dungeon is not fun and presents no real challenge, and once it's done, it's done, there is no replay-ability to it. In addition to this the endgame crafting gets to the point where automation is impossible, your zombie farms always lose an amount of seeds which makes you have to constantly have to keep farming things manually. Ultimately once your items have ranks the game has no ability to automate crafting whether it's the marble crafting for your graveyard or cooking for the tavern events. The DLC does make the game far more playable, but this game is not worth playing.

First off, the black dots up there are lying to you. There are no ethical dilemmas in the game, the corpses are a resource to be used. There are no consequences of eating the flesh of the dead or grinding their bones and cutting out fat to make candles. In fact there is no other source of fat or meat, that you can collect. And draining blood and removing fat improves the corpses burial stat which is necesary to maintain a pretty graveyard. Secondly, stone is limited, later on stone is your most precious resource you need it for half of the work stations and unless you feel like getting fleeced by town vendors you better save that shit. Thirdly, go carpentry, then smithing, then masonry i had to restart my first game because i ran out of whetstone to sharpen my tool and a new one was 10 silver, which is a ridiculous price in the beggining. The game is fun despite the horrid grind, I had more fun with it after I began cheating in some basic items (like stone), and there is so much potential. The art is beautiful the music is pleasant and the world is well made and interesting. Now if they finish "The Town" which is different from the village you can visit, and add some extra QoL stuff the game will be completely worth it. As it is now I can't recommend it wholeheartedly.

Entertaining mix of exploration and crafting with a sprinkle of story, a handful of typos, a few bugs, frequent screen stuttering and enough teasers to content that, you'll later realise, didn't make it into the release. However, other than the questionable decision to release the game in this rough state, this dev team has impressed me so far.