Graveyard Keeper

Graveyard Keeper

Worth it · RPG · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$3.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.43/hr
Reviews▼
85% of 57,053
Critics
69 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
46.1h
To 100%
73.1h 1.6x the story
Achievements
125

Price and sales

Sales
74 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.99 April 2023
Sale every
33d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,674 now
Recent reviews
81% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
87% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

93% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

74 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 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 Anvil Saga ($12.99, scores 23).

More about Graveyard Keeper

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 March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,343 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds2 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Game was fun for the first 10 hours but then it got really grindy and tedious really fast. The game doesn't respect your time at all, felt more like free to play game with all the bottlenecks at that point than a real game
Single Sea RaiderNot recommendedafter 10h83 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
After 4 hours with graveyard keeper I kept asking myself... am I doing this game right? When does it get fun? I am still not sure if that question has an answer but I found myself having to force myself to play more, hoping that it gets better. It never did. The game was just dull. This is coming from someone who loves farming sims and cozy games.
ArathiusNot recommendedafter 3.7hOct 2026Read on Steam
120 ingame days later, and i only just played this like 3 rl days ago. I was skeptic of this game long before the GK2 announcement, As an SV player, this had been been recommended to me but I've always been intimidated of this game, and not because of the mature content (tho admittedly I did blanched even tho the title of this game speaks for itself), but the biggest reason that even though I bought this like 10...
NixxieRecommendedafter 25h11 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

Cite this score

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Graveyard Keeper scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/599140/graveyard-keeper
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics69
Players85
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 57,053 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperLazy Bear Games
PublishertinyBuild
GenreRPG
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements125