Graveyard Keeper 2 Announced — With an Army of the Undead and City Restoration
Announcing trailer for Graveyard Keeper 2.
Publisher tinyBuild and studio Lazy Bear Games presented Graveyard Keeper 2. No release date has been set yet.
To mark the announcement the devs are handing out the original — the first Graveyard Keeper is free for PC (Steam) and consoles for a limited time. If you missed it before, now's a decent moment to grab it.
This sequel takes the original's oddball ideas and expands them. You're the Grand Inquisitor — the cemetery is only the opening act. Soon enough you’re overseeing an entire town: patching up buildings, juggling trade and resources (yes, taxes exist here), and trying not to get overrun by the undead. I mean, who doesn't like a bit of municipal reconstruction under apocalyptic pressure?
Gameplay mixes base-building vibes with darker comedy. You arrange graves, scavenge materials, and repurpose corpses into contraptions. Automation is pushed forward: undead laborers do the heavy lifting while you tinker with systems to keep things running and, ideally, profitable. Think management sim with a grim sense of humor, e.g., conveyor belts that shuttle bones to whatever enterprise needs them.
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There’s also a combat side. You’ll build fortifications, forge weapons, and direct an army of the dead into fights — sort of like commanding a workforce that occasionally needs a morale boost (or a new skull). The stated objective: stanch the zombie outbreak and defend the realm. No pressure.
NPCs in the town matter. Locals hand out quests; their petty dramas can be monetized if you’re ruthless enough. Restore a bakery, send zombies to haul rubble, turn civic chaos into an enterprise — the game encourages creative exploitation, in a grim, tongue-in-cheek way.
The city in Graveyard Keeper 2 can be restored on PC (Steam), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch with Russian text translation.