Games Like Graveyard Keeper

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Crafting 20.9%, Management 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Medieval 11%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel-art loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding a medieval tavern scratches the same 'run a weird old-world workplace' itch as Graveyard Keeper.

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Crafting 27.9%, Sandbox 17%, Management 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes a quaint life-sim structure with eerie folklore, shopkeeping, crafting, and NPC schedules in a way that feels very close to Graveyard Keeper's offbeat village routine.

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Crafting 20%, Agriculture 19.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, RPG 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the nearest overall template of daily quests, resource loops, town relationships, and incremental building, this is the obvious cousin, just much less morbid.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Crafting 37.9%, Management 15.2%, Medieval 13.6%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Running a medieval workshop, experimenting with ingredients, and optimizing production captures the alchemy-and-business side of Graveyard Keeper extremely well.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Crafting 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%, Agriculture 21.1% ★, RPG 12.7%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a fantasy pixel-art life sim packed with crafting, questing, and base improvement for players who liked Graveyard Keeper's RPG-heavy side.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 23.4%, Agriculture 19.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed top-down progression, resource conversion, and town-building focus make it a gentler but very familiar follow-up.

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Management 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Medieval 11%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is another medieval management sim full of politics, production chains, and dark humor, only you're running a smithy instead of a graveyard.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 34.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Agriculture 8.3% ★, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its compulsive gather-craft-expand tech-tree loop mirrors the most addictive progression elements of Graveyard Keeper.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Crafting 33.2%, Agriculture 17.6% ★, RPG 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its commission-driven crafting grind, town NPC quests, and constant workshop upgrades echo Graveyard Keeper's satisfying chore-to-progress loop.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 28.9%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, RPG 16.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Fantasy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs repetitive but rewarding resource runs with shop management and upgrades, creating a similar cycle of labor, profit, and expansion.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 40.5%, Pixel Graphics 23.4%, RPG 13.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Diagnosing townsfolk, gathering ingredients, and upgrading your practice delivers a similar 'use crafting to serve a strange community' rhythm.

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Management 44.8%, Dark Humor 24.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Gore 13.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its macabre resource-management loop and gleefully unethical business premise make it one of the closest tonal matches on Steam.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Dark Humor 41%, Building 32.9%, Fantasy 8%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cute-dark presentation, ritualized daily maintenance, and building up a bizarre community in a way Graveyard Keeper fans often appreciate.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Crafting 35.3%, Sandbox 21%, Building 19.2%, RPG 11.7%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Portia, it centers on crafting stations, commissions, and town progression, with even more systems and a strong sense of being the local fixer.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Crafting 33.4%, Sandbox 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Building 15.9%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more toward exploration and survival, but the top-down crafting, building, and steady upgrade loop make it a solid mechanical match.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Crafting 29.4%, Management 28.1%, Building 20.3%, Story Rich 6.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: While softer in tone, it shares the unusual combination of death-themed management, upgrading your workspace, and helping a memorable cast move on.

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Management 20.2%, Crafting 19.3%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, RPG 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the different theme, its structure of gathering by day and managing a business by night feels surprisingly close to Graveyard Keeper's work cycle.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 28.7%, Building 14%, Agriculture 12% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Medieval 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: If the medieval setting, crafting, and building out your own operation mattered most, this offers a deeper first-person take on that lifestyle sim fantasy.

Experience the old-school charm of classic farming games with the suburban gothic atmosphere of certain 90's TV shows, along with contemporary game mechanics. Farming, crafting, combat, romantic relationships and mysterious events await!

Why similar: Agriculture 30.7% ★, RPG 23%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This dark farming-life sim blends cozy routines with sinister undercurrents in a way that will appeal to fans of Graveyard Keeper's unsettling charm.

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Crafting 48.7%, Management 20.5%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Story Rich 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Managing an unconventional hospitality business through gathering, crafting, and layout upgrades hits a lot of the same sim-management pleasures.

Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?

Why similar: Crafting 29.2%, Sandbox 19.6%, Management 16.3%, Medieval 14.8%, RPG 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval sandbox RPG mixes survival, crafting, and life-sim routines for players who want more freedom but a similar rustic vibe.

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Crafting 32.8%, Management 23.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Stocking, crafting, and optimizing a medieval fantasy shop channels the economic and production-management side of Graveyard Keeper.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Management 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Medieval 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its feudal-era economy and layered production management will click if you enjoyed Graveyard Keeper's logistics and medieval atmosphere more than its story.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Crafting 32.3%, Management 22.2%, Sandbox 21.4%, RPG 12%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses more on colony building, yet its medieval setting, production chains, and construction-heavy progression overlap with Graveyard Keeper's management appeal.

Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33.8%, Management 31.5%, RPG 14.9%, Dark 9.9%, Fantasy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is more strategy-focused, but its villain-protagonist humor and fantasy workplace management give it some of the same mischievous appeal.

Murder rpg set in the small town of Lakeview Valley. Become the most popular home-owner or succumb to your dark desires. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.7%, Sandbox 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, RPG 18.2%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its farming-life-sim framework hides a much darker, more morally twisted game world that matches Graveyard Keeper's taste for the unsettling.

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.

Why similar: Management 34.1%, Pixel Graphics 27.3%, RPG 16.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Story Rich 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art time management, stat grinding, and constant optimization scratch a similar compulsive routine-driven progression itch.

Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 21.9%, RPG 17.3%, Building 16.4%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Running a supernatural bathhouse while helping odd locals captures the same 'strange job in a strange town' energy from a lighter angle.

You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.

Why similar: Crafting 39.8%, Management 18.4%, RPG 15.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Fantasy 7%

Why You'll Like It: Managing ingredient stock, brewing valuable potions, and building a fantasy business makes it a good fit for players who loved Graveyard Keeper's craft-for-profit loop.

A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?

Why similar: Agriculture 21.2% ★, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, RPG 9.4%

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 55.1%, Simulation 28.8%, 2D 9.3%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Why similar: Management 32%, Simulation 20.8%, RPG 20.2%, Sandbox 7.1%, Medieval 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Running a fantasy store through stocking, pricing, and expansion taps into the same small-business management fantasy, though with less polish.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Management 21.1%, Medieval 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, RPG 13.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 32.7%, Building 20.4%, Medieval 16.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Simulation 12.7%

Grind for resources, manage your own fantasy village, create and equip your heroes and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper.

Why similar: Crafting 30.8%, Management 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 3.5%

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Story Rich 19.8%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 10.3%, 2D 9.3%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Crafting 27.3%, Agriculture 21.6% ★, Management 17.9%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.5%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, Indie 18.3%, Singleplayer 2%

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Crafting 38.9%, Pixel Graphics 26.5%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, RPG 5.6%

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Building 24.5%, Medieval 23.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Fantasy 6.8%

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: RPG 36.3%, Simulation 22.3%, Management 14.3%, Adventure 9%, Indie 6.6%

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, RPG 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 9.5%

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Management 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Building 14.2%, RPG 13.7%

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Management 37.9%, Crafting 33.5%, Simulation 15.1%, RPG 6.6%, Indie 4.9%

Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.5%, Management 21.9%, Building 15.4%, RPG 14.5%, Simulation 14%

From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!

Why similar: Management 24.1%, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 18.6%, RPG 11.6%, Simulation 11.2%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Crafting 28.6%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.

Why similar: Management 42.3%, Pixel Graphics 33.5%, Simulation 18.9%, 2D 5.2%

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 41.9%, Dark Humor 22.6%, Simulation 19.3%, Indie 9.3%, 2D 4.2%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue!

Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Agriculture 26.7% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Building 11.5%, Management 8.2%

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 37.6%, Building 23.4%, Simulation 20.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Management 17.6%, Building 12.7%, Medieval 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 63.5%, Singleplayer 13.5%, Adventure 12.5%, 2D 10.5%

Shoppe Keep returns bigger and better than ever! Build your business empire and defend it from thieves. Explore the open-world in single-player or with up to 4 players online. Renovate and design your store, cook, fish, hunt for products, charm customers, evolve the town, and make your millions.

Why similar: Management 27.6%, Sandbox 24.5%, Building 18.3%, Medieval 16.7%, RPG 12.9%

Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.

Why similar: Management 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Medieval 17.4%, RPG 16.9%, Simulation 13.6%

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 26.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Medieval 15.9%, 2D 3.5%

Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!

Why similar: Crafting 27.4%, Management 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 7.2%

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Simulation 27.7%, Dark 19.9%, Mystery 15.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 10.5%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 50.4%, RPG 25.1%, Adventure 5.6%, Indie 5.6%, Fantasy 4.3%

Welcome to Kingsgrave, a dark fantasy adventure RPG. Gain more power and obtain new combat skills as you explore the fractured land, slay foes created by plague, solve puzzles and rebuild villages. Reclaim your realm!

Why similar: Building 22.7%, Medieval 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, RPG 15.9%, Dark 8.9%