Graveyard Keeper
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 46.1h
- Value
- $0.09/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 Gb dedicated video card, shader model 3.0+, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2023. 73 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mr.Mine (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Travellers Rest ($17.99, scores 68).
69 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,324 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 8 years ago and 941 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
941 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is a great game! This game will inevitably be compared a lot to Stardew Valley, but it's actually quite different and better in many ways. Pros: 1. The pixel art is incredibly well done. The dynamic lighting and weather effects are amazing! SDV on the other hand, while charming in its own way, definitely feels more like "programmer art". 2. This game actually has a quite interesting storyline (more content...
The worst thing about this game is that it does not care enough to explain things comprehensively. So if you don't use the games wiki you will get lost. Especially with the quests. If you manage to look over this issue you gonna have a pleasant, time consuming game. It also gives you a great opportunity to train your focusing skills because sheer amount of stuff to do. I catched myself multiple times abandoning one...
Seeing that GK2 is about to drop, I decided to add my 2 cents. GK1 is enjoyable, and I really liked it. The mechanics are decent, the style and story are unique and interesting. Unfortunately, I simply stopped playing once I learned that the "city" you hear so much about is completely inaccessible. Devs: If this was intended to be DLC, leave it out until then, don't tease it to players throughout the whole game. If...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Graveyard Keeper scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/599140/graveyard-keeperThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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