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 21%, Management 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Medieval 11%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Graveyard Keeper’s pixel-art medieval routine of gathering resources, crafting goods, upgrading a business, and optimizing daily management loops.

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 28%, Sandbox 17%, Management 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, RPG 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its life-sim structure mixes shopkeeping, crafting, exploration, and a quirky darker fantasy edge that feels very close to Graveyard Keeper’s offbeat village life.

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 18.9%, Management 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Medieval 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is another medieval management sim built around running a workshop, juggling townsfolk demands, and making story choices with messy consequences.

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 38%, Management 15.2%, Medieval 13.5%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Graveyard Keeper, it turns medieval labor into an addictive production-and-profit loop with experimentation, commerce, and a slightly dubious vibe.

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 20.6%, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 18%, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying cycle of gathering, crafting, relationship-building, and steadily improving your land and tools, just with a lighter tone.

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 40.9%, Building 32.9%, Fantasy 8%, Adventure 6.4%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of cute-dark humor, base management, resource collection, and cult maintenance scratches a similar itch for macabre but playful progression.

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 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, RPG 16.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Fantasy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dungeon-looting with shopkeeping and item economics, echoing Graveyard Keeper’s balance of adventure, production, and small-town progression.

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 42%, Dark Humor 22.8%, Gore 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Violent 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great thematic match if you loved the morbid humor, since it turns corpse-adjacent resource processing into a grimly funny management sim.

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 27%, Pixel Graphics 21.9%, Agriculture 21.6% ★, RPG 13.2%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting, quest-heavy town life, crafting systems, and farm-building structure make it one of the closest cozy alternatives mechanically.

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 32.9%, Management 23%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Running a medieval fantasy shop through crafting, stocking, and expansion makes it a strong fit for Graveyard Keeper’s business-management 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 19.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same relaxing satisfaction of gathering materials, completing requests, and steadily building up a town around simple daily systems.

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 35.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick for players who mainly loved Graveyard Keeper’s constant resource gathering, crafting unlocks, and compulsive automation upgrades.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: RPG 37.2%, Management 29.4%, Simulation 15.9%, Indie 6.8%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The loop of sourcing goods, managing inventory, setting prices, and growing a fantasy business feels very aligned with Graveyard Keeper’s merchant side.

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: Beneath its farming-sim surface is a much darker and stranger small-town life sim, making it a strong tonal companion to Graveyard Keeper.

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 23.3%, RPG 13.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its daily routine of foraging, crafting remedies, helping townsfolk, and upgrading your workspace fits the same task-driven progression loop.

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 20.6%, Medieval 16.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Simulation 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was turning a medieval workplace into a smoothly running business, this is a clean management-focused alternative.

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 more heartfelt than cynical, it similarly turns death-related themes into a management-and-crafting game built around routines and meaningful upgrades.

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 16.2%, Medieval 14.8%, RPG 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into survival, but its medieval sandbox, life-sim structure, and town-building freedom make it a natural next step.

Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Why similar: Crafting 25.1%, Management 23.7%, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on automating magical production chains and refining materials into profitable output overlaps nicely with Graveyard Keeper’s crafting optimization.

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 29.2%, Building 14.2%, Agriculture 12.1% ★, Medieval 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Building a life from the ground up in a medieval world through crafting, construction, and routine management hits many of the same notes.

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 22.1%, Sandbox 21.4%, RPG 12.1%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger fit if you especially enjoyed the medieval building and logistics side and want a deeper colony-style expansion of that idea.

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 19.2%, Management 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Medieval 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: The medieval setting and focus on production chains, land use, and economic management make it a good match for the sim-heavy side of Graveyard Keeper.

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%, Medieval 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, RPG 13.7%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval setting and constant pressure to balance resources, favors, and morally uncomfortable choices echo Graveyard Keeper’s narrative flavor.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Crafting 30.2%, Sandbox 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Building 12.6%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel sandbox emphasizes crafting, base growth, automation, and NPC work assignment in ways Graveyard Keeper fans often appreciate.

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 33.3%, Agriculture 17.6% ★, RPG 12.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its workshop-driven progression, commissions, crafting trees, and town relationships give a similar feeling of growing a business through daily labor.

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 33.9%, Management 31.4%, RPG 14.9%, Dark 9.8%, Fantasy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Managing monsters and traps from the villain’s side captures some of the same black humor and antihero fantasy, even if it is more strategy-focused.

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 34.3%, Sandbox 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Building 16.3%, Adventure 3.3%

FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Management 22.6%, RPG 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Simulation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes shop management, upgrades, and satirical storytelling in a way that appeals to players who liked Graveyard Keeper’s capitalist absurdity.

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 20.6%, Management 20.2%, Crafting 19.3%, Agriculture 12.5% ★, RPG 9.6%

Crossroads Inn, a real-time management sim, unfolds in Delcrys' unique fantasy realm. Construct and oversee your inn, delight traveling heroes, and achieve renowned status for your services across the kingdom.

Why similar: Crafting 41%, Sandbox 22.9%, Management 22.6%, RPG 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the appeal of running a medieval establishment while handling staff, supplies, guests, and story events in a grounded fantasy world.

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 15.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, RPG 9.3%

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Why similar: Medieval 28.5%, Simulation 18%, RPG 16.3%, Management 15.8%, Sandbox 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval economic sandbox lets you run businesses, navigate social systems, and pursue profit through both respectable and shady means.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Crafting 40.5%, Management 26.6%, RPG 15.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though more abstract, it shares the appeal of learning opaque systems, managing grim resources, and embracing a darkly transgressive progression loop.

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 41.8%, Story Rich 19.8%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 10.3%, 2D 9.3%

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 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 3.5%

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 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Building 14.2%, RPG 13.7%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Simulation 51%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, Indie 18.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 41.8%, Dark Humor 22.5%, Simulation 19.6%, Indie 9.3%, 2D 4.3%

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 28.7%, 2D 9.3%, Singleplayer 6.9%

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 27.4%, Agriculture 21.5% ★, Management 17.8%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 39.3%, Pixel Graphics 26.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, RPG 5.7%

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 63.4%, Singleplayer 13.6%, Adventure 12.5%, 2D 10.5%

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 35.8%, Simulation 21.9%, Management 13.9%, Adventure 8.9%, Indie 6.5%

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Management 24.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Simulation 10.4%

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%

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 14.1%

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 42.2%, Pixel Graphics 33.7%, Simulation 19%, 2D 5.2%

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 17.5%, Building 12.7%, Medieval 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%

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%

Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?

Why similar: Crafting 30.1%, Management 27.7%, Medieval 21.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Fantasy 5.4%

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 32.4%, Pixel Graphics 26.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Medieval 15.8%, 2D 3.4%

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 50.1%, RPG 25.2%, Adventure 5.8%, Indie 5.5%, Fantasy 4.4%

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 32.1%, Simulation 20.9%, RPG 20.4%, Sandbox 7.1%, Medieval 6%

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 17.4%, Building 16.4%, Management 15%, Simulation 13.3%

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 27.5%, Sandbox 24.5%, Building 18.3%, Medieval 16.8%, RPG 12.9%

An absurd backyard bomb-building simulator. Raise funds, plan your approach, hunt down rare parts, and assemble your atomic masterpiece while staying calm and avoiding suspicion from nosy neighbors and federal agents.

Why similar: Crafting 35.6%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 13%, Management 11.4%

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%, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 18.6%, RPG 11.7%, Simulation 11.1%

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%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Medieval 16.8%, RPG 15.9%, Dark 8.9%

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 20.4%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Story Rich 4.7%