Current Events > Graveyard Keeper - Kinda glad I gave it another chance.

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I originally bought it on PC in like 2018 or something. I was looking for a Stardew Valley replacement. After a few hours of playing it then I was confused and not feeling it. Some of the systems were a little weird too and it put me off (looking at you red and white skulls.)

I rebought it on the Switch a few weeks ago and started playing again. I'm really enjoying it. I expected Stardew and it kind of is Stardew but it's also much deeper in parts and much simpler in others. There is a TON of stuff to do but this game doesn't punish you for not getting around to things right away which I appreciate. There's no seasons and the days of the week only matter in very minor ways. If you have a quest to deliver X product you don't have to worry about it not being the proper season to grow that product which is super nice.

Don't look for this game to be a farming sim though. While there is farming the main thing you work on is managing your church and graveyard. There is a mine (in GK it's a dungeon) but it isn't important and you don't need to go in to farm certain materials.

The biggest plus for me compared to Stardew is not having to give gifts to people all the time and watch their friendship meters rise. I hated that part of Stardew.

The humor is a little offbeat. Like the donkey who brings you corpses is a communist who gets mad at you for playing into the capitalist system and goes on strike at one point. One of the DLCs has you helping him with a revolution. It's not a political statement or anything so don't worry about that.

I only had the zombie automation DLC on the Switch version but bought the other 2 they have yesterday. For some reason the soul catching DLC isn't on the Switch that I saw. The zombie automation DLC is almost required.

Trailer: Be warned it's a long one though at a little over 3 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8bmTKIkag

why does it have such poor reviews?

refmon posted...

why does it have such poor reviews?

Good question. I never looked at them before. I just looked some up and some of the negative ones have some solid points. Some of the issues I see reported, like it being a grind to craft certain things, have been fixed by the one DLC i mentioned with the zombie automation.

Crafting can be a little deep. you have to chop wood to turn it into logs, turn those logs into 2 or 3 different things, and each of those things then has a few different other ones that branch off of it. The zombie automation helps this a lot. The game is very simple in some regards but overly complicated in others so it does feel a tad uneven.

Steam reviews are "very positive" though which is nice.

It doesn't have the bright, warm charm that Stardew has which can probably be off-putting to some.

I had a lot of fun with it. Noticed that the dlcs are pretty cheap on a psn sale right now. I'm thinking about checking it out

I'm not sure how all the DLC works on PC versus console. Steam has 3 listed but none of them appear to be the zombie automation one that I bought on the Switch.

PC also has one called Better Save Soul that I didn't see on the Switch.