Games Like 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 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art village life combines crafting, shops, relationships, exploration, and generations of townsfolk in a similarly quirky fantasy sandbox.

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%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Medieval 11%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: You build up a medieval tavern through resource gathering, brewing, cooking, crafting, and serving an evolving cast of customers.

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 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Medieval 11%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval blacksmith-shop simulation has comparable production chains, customer requests, staff management, and humorous period flavor.

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 38.2%, Management 15%, Medieval 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Running an alchemy business through ingredient gathering, experimentation, crafting, and morally ambiguous customer requests closely matches Graveyard Keeper's work-focused loop.

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 41.1%, Dark Humor 23%, Gore 13.6%, Simulation 13%, Violent 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its gleefully macabre business-management premise—turning murder victims into clothing and meals—captures Graveyard Keeper's darkly comic ethics especially well.

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 20.4%, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 18%, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same addictive rhythm of improving a property, crafting tools and goods, befriending villagers, and uncovering a town's secrets.

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%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Rapid-fire harvesting, crafting, building, skill unlocks, and land expansion make it a strong fit for players who enjoy Graveyard Keeper's progression loops.

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 23.3%, Agriculture 19.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxed pixel-art builder centers on reconstructing a town, gathering materials, completing resident requests, and customizing your daily routine.

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 39%, Building 31.5%, Fantasy 7.7%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cute-but-sinister cult management, resource production, base building, and questionable rituals echo Graveyard Keeper's mixture of cozy labor and black comedy.

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 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, RPG 13%, Adventure 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: From the same developers, it combines resource gathering, equipment crafting, shop management, and sending adventurers out to support your business.

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 34.2%, Sandbox 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Building 16.4%, Adventure 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its underground pixel sandbox offers extensive mining, crafting, building, farming, and base improvement, though with a heavier exploration focus.

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: Pixel Graphics 29%, Management 28.1%, RPG 17.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Fantasy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Balancing dungeon expeditions for loot with running and upgrading a fantasy shop provides a similarly rewarding work-and-exploration routine.

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 33.1%, Agriculture 17.6% ★, RPG 13%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: You inherit a workshop and spend your days fulfilling commissions, processing materials, upgrading equipment, and becoming part of a lively town.

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 26.7%, Pixel Graphics 22.1%, Agriculture 21.5% ★, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs farming, crafting, town relationships, quests, and magical character progression in a denser fantasy take on the life-sim formula.

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 40.4%, Pixel Graphics 23.4%, RPG 13.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: As a town alchemist, you forage for ingredients, brew remedies, upgrade your workspace, and build relationships with a charming pixel-art community.

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%, Building 14.5%, Agriculture 12.1% ★, Medieval 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the medieval gathering, crafting, building, farming, and community-management side of Graveyard Keeper into a first-person open world.

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 48.8%, Management 20%, RPG 13.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Story Rich 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing and decorating a series of inns while gathering supplies and satisfying guests offers a similarly cozy, comedic business-sim appeal.

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 29.9%, Sandbox 20%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Building 12.7%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art sandbox lets you gather, craft, build a settlement, recruit colonists, and explore dangerous procedural worlds at your own pace.

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 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Medieval 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate medieval household and village management emphasizes production chains, social roles, resources, and gradual settlement growth.

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 20.8%, Management 19.9%, Crafting 19.2%, Agriculture 12.4% ★, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Alternating between gathering resources in the field and expanding a restaurant creates a polished management loop with plenty of charming characters.

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 37.7%, Management 28.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Indie 6.7%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This classic shopkeeping RPG combines dungeon-sourced inventory, pricing decisions, customer interactions, and lighthearted fantasy business management.

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: Medieval 21%, Management 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, RPG 13.8%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art medieval court, resource juggling, difficult petitions, and bleakly funny choices will appeal to players who enjoy Graveyard Keeper's narrative tone.

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 33.3%, Management 21.4%, Sandbox 20.9%, RPG 12.3%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building and sustaining a medieval colony, including its workshops, food stores, defenses, and burial needs, makes it a more strategic alternative.

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%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Management 19.4%, Building 14.3%, RPG 14%

Why You'll Like It: You gather ingredients, cook, run a restaurant, improve your business, and socialize in a pixel-art town with a similar day-to-day structure.

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Crafting 36.2%, Management 23.5%, Building 19.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Fantasy 5%

Why You'll Like It: This magical-school colony sim revolves around building specialized rooms, managing inhabitants, crafting supplies, and surviving supernatural problems.

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 25.4%, Medieval 24.3%, Pixel Graphics 22.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Fantasy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist pixel-art kingdom builder focuses on collecting resources, recruiting subjects, expanding infrastructure, and defending a medieval realm.

The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that's deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!

Why similar: Crafting 19.3%, Agriculture 15.4% ★, Sandbox 14%, Building 11.3%, Medieval 10%

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 36.2%, Simulation 21.6%, Management 13.6%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This grim survival-management RPG combines crafting, resource allocation, difficult moral choices, and character-driven medieval hardship.

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: Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Agriculture 21% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, RPG 9.3%

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Medieval 28.9%, RPG 15.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval economic sim lets you establish a dynasty through workshops, trade, production, social maneuvering, and morally flexible business decisions.

Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!

Why similar: Management 19.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Building 16.2%, Medieval 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy sandbox lets you meddle with villages and spread chaos through indirect, often darkly amusing manipulation rather than conventional heroics.

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 17.1%, Building 12.9%, Medieval 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%

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 41.6%, Story Rich 20%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 10.2%, 2D 9.2%

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 34.1%, Management 30.7%, RPG 15.2%, Dark 9.8%, Fantasy 7.3%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Pixel Graphics 23.4%, Crafting 21.1%, Indie 14%, Singleplayer 1.7%

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 15.8%, Medieval 15.1%, RPG 13.4%

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 39.2%, Pixel Graphics 26.9%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, RPG 5.8%

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 21.7% ★, Management 17.4%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 21.4%, Building 15.6%, RPG 14.8%, Simulation 13.9%

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 55.2%, Simulation 28.7%, 2D 9.2%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Welcome to Elderfield, a cozy horror RPG with hand-drawn art and dark lofi music. Manage your farm, befriend or romance the locals, investigate mysteries, decorate your home, fight terrifying creatures, fish, cook, seek the Old Gods, die in your sleep, and more... There's lots to do in Elderfield!

Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Agriculture 20.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, RPG 14.5%, Crafting 13.5%

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 32.6%, Pixel Graphics 26.9%, Medieval 15.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, 2D 3.3%

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 33.5%, Pixel Graphics 27.6%, RPG 17.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Story Rich 5.5%

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 49.7%, RPG 25.3%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 5.5%, Fantasy 4.6%

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 27.3%, Dark 19.9%, Mystery 16%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 10.7%

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%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Building 10.9%

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 42%, Dark Humor 22.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Indie 9.2%, 2D 4.3%

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 31.5%, Simulation 20.9%, RPG 20.8%, Sandbox 7.1%, Medieval 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 29.7%, Agriculture 26.8% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Building 11.7%, Management 8%

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 22.8%, Medieval 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, RPG 16%, Dark 8.7%

In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.

Why similar: Management 27%, Pixel Graphics 23.7%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Mystery 6.6%

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%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Simulation 10.4%

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 12.7%, 2D 10.4%

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 41.4%, Pixel Graphics 34.6%, Simulation 18.9%, 2D 5.1%

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 35.7%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 11.4%

Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

Why similar: Crafting 30.9%, Management 24.6%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Simulation 12%, Gore 5.3%

Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many questions. How far will you go to keep the grill running?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Dark Humor 16.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 14.7%, Adventure 6.7%

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 37.5%, Crafting 33.7%, Simulation 15%, RPG 6.8%, Indie 4.9%

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 27.6%, Management 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 7.3%