Graveyard Keeper
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Graveyard Keeper is an adventure developed by Lazy Bear Games, released 15 August 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. It currently starts at $3.99 at WinGameStore. The main story takes about 39 hrs to finish.
What Graveyard Keeper is
Graveyard Keeper is an adventure game developed by Lazy Bear Games and released in 2018. It was published by tinyBuild. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Graveyard Keeper is a 2018 graveyard-themed management simulation video game developed by independent Russian indie game studio Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild. It follows an ordinary man who was transported to another world with a medieval-fantasy setting and assumes the task of tending for the village's graveyard while looking for a way back home. The game's alpha version was released for Windows in May 2018, followed by the regular release for Windows and Xbox One later that year. Versions for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 were released on June 27, 2019. It was released in Japan on February 6, 2020.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, business, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 125 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Graveyard Keeper holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 107 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 39 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel core i5, 1.5 GHz and up, 4 GB RAM and 1 Gb dedicated video card, shader model 3.0+. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at WinGameStore, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Graveyard Keeper launched on 15 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Graveyard Keeper yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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