Graveyard Keeper

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7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 169 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 33 out of 169
  3. Negative: 28 out of 169

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  1. Mandulum
    Nov 19, 2021
    7
    Who knew tending a graveyard could be so fun? Making money is a pain until very late in the game, and creating anything is even more of one, but I definitely enjoyed my time with this one.

    Date Completed: 2021-11-19
    Playtime: 56h
    Enjoyment: 7/10
    Recommendation: It's pretty fun. Some things are a pain but otherwise worth the time.
  2. Nekellor_Met
    Aug 1, 2020
    7
    Оценю вместе с дополнением. Очень много гринда, даже больше предыдущей игры компании. Но та любовь с которой разрабы подошли к отрисовки, музыке, юмору и сюжеты почти полностью прощает прошлый огрех
  3. vikingfenn
    Nov 30, 2018
    7
    A solid game in its own right, but Stardew Valley is superior in many ways. It could use a bit more tutorial and explanation of what is going on.
  4. PrincessRose
    Jul 15, 2021
    5
    This game is alright, it's interesting and unique, quite addictive, not too bad to begin with but let down by slow overly grindy game play. It ends up feeling a bit too tedious. It feels like they trying to do whatever they can to waste your time in the most unfun ways imaginable. The character is so slow, everything is slow about this game. Most of the time I have no idea what I am doing,This game is alright, it's interesting and unique, quite addictive, not too bad to begin with but let down by slow overly grindy game play. It ends up feeling a bit too tedious. It feels like they trying to do whatever they can to waste your time in the most unfun ways imaginable. The character is so slow, everything is slow about this game. Most of the time I have no idea what I am doing, the game feels all over the place.
    It lacks QoL improvements such as if you forget what items are needed to make something there is no tool tip you have to go back to the station or look up wiki. It's also horrible that you can't skip to the day you want and have to wait before you can go hand in a quest to a a character that only appears on a certain day.

    The game has a lot of things that aren't obvious and you have to be psychic to figure it out yourself. And that to me shows how flawed this game is. Quests can also be very vague.
    When you play this game you need so many tabs open.

    Also there are things you can't sell and end up with too much of such as honey.

    I usually love crafting games and don't mind a bit of grind, but not when I feel theres not much else to it.
    Got so sick of forgetting something and having to slowly walk back for the millionth time.

    Can't stand this tedium for another second so watched the game ending and glad I didn't waste my time playing anymore as ending was terrible and not worth the torture of playing this game.
    This is a very average, borderline bad game can't recommend it, does not deserve a score higher than 5.    … Expand
  5. Galvelde
    Nov 19, 2018
    6
    An interesting twist on a farming sim. When compared to similar Stardew Valley, the game has better controls and more pleasing graphics. Crafting is interesting even although it becomes a tedious chore and the game feels unrewarding after the first couple of hours.
  6. tekkeli37
    Jan 14, 2023
    6
    -Too many grinds
    -Boring story
    +The gameplay is very cumbersome, but it has its fun side
  7. Nasus
    Jul 6, 2020
    7
    i recommend playing it , nearly all the problems got solved in the dlc'es now its not graindy and slow like before , THIS GAME IS NOT A STARDOWVALLY copy ; this game about gravekeeping and alcamy and surgaring , this game focus is not on plants and soclizing with npcs

    pros -good artstyle -good music -good dialog and humor in it -creative ideas -addictive and time consuming -good    i recommend playing it , nearly all the problems got solved in the dlc'es now its not graindy and slow like before , THIS GAME IS NOT A STARDOWVALLY copy ; this game about gravekeeping and alcamy and surgaring , this game focus is not on plants and soclizing with npcs

    pros

    -good artstyle
    -good music
    -good dialog and humor in it
    -creative ideas
    -addictive and time consuming
    -good tech tree

    cons
    -unplayable without wiki this game is just huge and need alot of reading to know what to do

    -missions are a mess , u dont know what to do ,when and where , there is alot of missions that need onther missions so while u are doing one mission u feel like u are handicaped by other mission that
    need separt tech trees , u need to plan all of it alot without a tool of planning ,

    -npc's are just dead u cant intract with them they have no feelings u cant give gifts or make friends the problem in this game the u just feel LONLEY

    -the map is quite small

    summary
    this game is fun to play and injoyable but sometimes it gets frostarting planning everthing and doing alot of things at the same time and searching in wiki to know what to do all the time becasue there is no help from the game whatsoever    … Expand
  8. coagvla
    May 13, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graveyard Keeper is a really grindy game. Even with the zombie workers you have to spend a lot of time for not rewarded quests. Story is not interensting and cringe. But it has a beautiful art style. If you love Stardew Valley and play something grindy i recommend it.… Expand
  9. Tabbou
    Feb 14, 2022
    6
    Pas cher et grande durée de vie

    Mais si vous comptez finir le mode histoire, plusieurs choses à savoir Les - : -Déplacements du personnage lent, trop lent -Beaucoup de farming et pas d'automatisation (hors DLC) -Des quêtes que l'on ne peux faire que certains jours, il va souvent falloir attendre avant d'avancer -Trop de choses à crafter vis différents moyens, c'est le principe du    Pas cher et grande durée de vie

    Mais si vous comptez finir le mode histoire, plusieurs choses à savoir
    Les - :
    -Déplacements du personnage lent, trop lent
    -Beaucoup de farming et pas d'automatisation (hors DLC)
    -Des quêtes que l'on ne peux faire que certains jours, il va souvent falloir attendre avant d'avancer
    -Trop de choses à crafter vis différents moyens, c'est le principe du jeu, mais là c'est abusé
    -Certains persos secondaires avec une barre d'amitié qui restera à 0
    -Nombres d'actions possible par le héro très limité (on ne peux courir, ni sauter, parer, faire des roulades, lancer des objets etc...)

    Les + :
    -Un univers glauque mais sympa
    -PNJ avec une histoire et personnalité unique
    -L'humour bien présent
    -Si vous aimez farmer et crafter vous allez être servi
    -Un côté addictif, on a toujours quelque chose à faire    … Expand
  10. I_am_Nekellor
    Jul 21, 2022
    7
    7/10. Лучшая игра от Lazy Bear. Куча гринда, но хорошая история и отличная адаптация Stardew Valley.
  11. korku
    Nov 15, 2022
    7
    Stardew valley but in the cemetery.Nice idea. The gameplay is pretty good, but I can't say the same for the missions and progress.

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69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Eurogamer Italy
    Oct 23, 2018
    70
    Graveyard Keeper adds an interesting theme to the successful Stardew Valley genre. Unfortunately it also adds some inconvenient UI and UX issues and an atmosphere that fails to really involve the player.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 26, 2018
    73
    Early on, it’s not that burdensome to personally lug around materials and process them into useful things, but as the technology marches on, you’ll have to do more and more menial tasks to make that new sword or casket that you need. [Issue#232, p.70]
  3. GRYOnline.pl
    Sep 25, 2018
    70
    The overall quality of Graveyard Keeper is satisfactory. Of the 50 hours of gameplay, 40 were really cool; all this morbid fun was really interesting, even if the game could use some polish and a better balance.
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