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 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Medieval 11.2%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying loop of gathering resources, crafting goods, upgrading workstations, and running a medieval business one day at a time.

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 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, RPG 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark fairy-tale tone, life-sim structure, shop management, and long-form village progression make it one of the closest matches to Graveyard Keeper's strange cozy 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 19.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, RPG 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter in tone, it shares the addictive daily routine of crafting, questing, building up property, and getting to know a quirky town.

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 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Medieval 11%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a medieval smithy, balancing production chains, and dealing with demanding locals feels very close to Graveyard Keeper's workshop-heavy progression.

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 37.7%, Management 15.3%, Medieval 13.6%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tactile joy of medieval production, experimentation, and serving customers through a focused crafting-and-shopkeeping loop.

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 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Running a workshop, fulfilling commissions, automating production, and expanding your homestead gives it a very similar long-term progression feel.

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 27.4%, Agriculture 21.8% ★, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends fantasy-town life, farming, crafting, and RPG progression in a way that feels like a brighter cousin to Graveyard Keeper.

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 23.5%, Agriculture 19.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a relaxed town-building life sim with top-down visuals, resource loops, and steady progression that scratches a similar management itch.

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 40.8%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, RPG 13.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its cycle of gathering ingredients, crafting remedies, improving your tools, and helping a small community mirrors Graveyard Keeper's quest-and-craft rhythm.

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 41.3%, Building 32.9%, Fantasy 7.8%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The darkly cute presentation, base management, ritual systems, and morally dubious leadership make it a natural fit for fans of Graveyard Keeper's humor.

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 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 28.2%, RPG 17%, Simulation 10.1%, Fantasy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of gathering materials through combat and then monetizing them through shop management echoes Graveyard Keeper's work-for-upgrades structure.

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 29.3%, Management 28.3%, Building 20.1%, Story Rich 6.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though gentler in tone, its blend of crafting, management, character quests, and death-centered themes makes it a strong emotional counterpart.

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 34.4%, Pixel Graphics 26.9%, RPG 16.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Story Rich 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same humorously grim tone and optimization-heavy time-management structure, even if the setting is very different.

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 35.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more streamlined take on the same compulsive resource-gathering and crafting-upgrade treadmill that makes Graveyard Keeper hard to put down.

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 34.5%, Sandbox 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Building 16.3%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly addictive loop of exploration, crafting, base expansion, and gradually unlocking more efficient production.

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 29.8%, Simulation 15.7%, Indie 6.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you loved the business side of Graveyard Keeper, this shopkeeping RPG offers the same joy of turning resources and loot into profit.

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 30.8% ★, RPG 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This farming-life sim has a much darker undercurrent than most cozy games, making it a good fit if you liked Graveyard Keeper's sinister small-town energy.

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 22.3%, Sandbox 21.4%, RPG 12.1%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses more on colony building, but the medieval setting and layered production chains should appeal to Graveyard Keeper's management fans.

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 23.3%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval shop management, supply planning, and handcrafted production chains align closely with Graveyard Keeper's economic side.

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 14.1%, Agriculture 12.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Medieval 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval crafting, building, and settlement progression provide a more immersive but similarly methodical work-sim experience.

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 32.8%, Building 20.3%, Medieval 16.4%, Crafting 14%, Simulation 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Building and optimizing a medieval business from the ground up offers a similarly compulsive management and expansion loop.

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 30.9%, Management 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes fantasy management, progression, and resource handling in a compact format that should click if you liked Graveyard Keeper's grind.

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 30.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Building 12.6%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down sandbox structure, crafting depth, settlement building, and automation-friendly progression make it a great systems-driven alternative.

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 42.2%, Dark Humor 23%, Gore 13.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Violent 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The macabre humor and running-a-business-through-horrible-means premise make it a strong tonal match for Graveyard Keeper's gleeful bad taste.

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: Management 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Crafting 19.6%, Agriculture 12.8% ★, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is less thematically similar, but its excellent day-night progression, business management, and upgrade loop can scratch the same compulsive itch.

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 21.3%, Medieval 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, RPG 13.7%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval setting and constant stream of messy moral choices capture some of the same bleakly funny decision-making energy.

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 21.7%, RPG 17.5%, Building 16.4%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a bathhouse for spirits and helping townsfolk gives it a quirky supernatural-community feel that overlaps nicely with Graveyard Keeper.

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 21.5% ★, Management 18%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.6%

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%, Management 24.1%, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on processing ingredients, optimizing production, and fulfilling fantasy orders taps into the same workshop-management appeal.

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 21.2%, Agriculture 21.1% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, RPG 9.4%

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 29.9%, Agriculture 26.7% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Building 11.4%, Management 8.3%

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 38.6%, Crafting 32.6%, Simulation 15.3%, RPG 6.5%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Crafting goods, managing workers, and fulfilling market demand gives it a similarly lighthearted production-sim core.

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 54.8%, Simulation 29%, 2D 9.4%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Rebel against your legacy in this farming action roguelite. Tend your spooky farm by day & defend your crops from enemies at night! Upgrade Voltaire, youngest son of Dracula, with devious new abilities & discover dozens of new plants to cultivate. Send dad a message: a vegan life is no missed steak!

Why similar: RPG 52.2%, Simulation 36.7%, 2D 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of dark comedy, farming, crafting, and base defense makes it a good pick if you want another playful gothic management game.

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 41.7%, Story Rich 20.1%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 9.3%

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 28.7%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Management 20.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Medieval 12%, Building 12%

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 41.5%, Dark Humor 22.9%, Simulation 19.3%, Indie 9.5%, 2D 4.2%

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 26.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Medieval 15.8%, 2D 3.5%

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 39.6%, Pixel Graphics 26.5%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.9%, RPG 5.7%

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

Why similar: Management 38.1%, Building 23.4%, Simulation 20.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Indie 2%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Simulation 51%, Pixel Graphics 28.4%, Indie 18.6%, Singleplayer 2%

Corpse Keeper is a very challenging action-strategy roguelite. You'll need to lead a squad of three corpses to explore the grim and dark medieval world within limited time, build a powerful army of the living dead, and finally kill the demon lurking in the deep end of the cathedral.

Why similar: Medieval 52.2%, Dark 23%, Fantasy 16.4%, Singleplayer 8.4%

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 45.2%, Medieval 31.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Adventure 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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%, RPG 25.4%, Indie 5.7%, Adventure 5.6%, Fantasy 4.3%

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 21.7%, Management 14.2%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 6.6%

You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Dark 34%, Mystery 27.6%, Simulation 25.3%, Singleplayer 8.6%, Adventure 4.5%

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Crafting 21.4%, Management 19.3%, Sandbox 18.8%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Building 14.1%

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 63.3%, Singleplayer 13.5%, Adventure 12.6%, 2D 10.6%

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 25.4%, Medieval 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Fantasy 7%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Management 22%, Medieval 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Dark Humor 16.4%, RPG 11.2%

Manage a haunted funeral service as a priest in a cursed forest. Bury or cremate the dead, perform exorcisms, fend off demonic possessions, and quiet restless souls. Survive terrifying encounters, maintain sanity, and experience the pinnacle of horror simulation in The Unholy Priest!

Why similar: Management 51.9%, Simulation 29.1%, Dark 15.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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 24.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Simulation 10.4%

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 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Medieval 17.4%, RPG 17%, Simulation 13.5%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Management 47.7%, Simulation 18.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, 2D 6.6%, Adventure 6.4%

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Management 30.7%, Sandbox 29.8%, Building 24%, Simulation 15.5%

Use necromancy to smash villages, scare townsfolk, and generally cause a ruckus.

Why similar: Dark Humor 45%, Pixel Graphics 35.6%, Violent 8.7%, 2D 6.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Management 27%, Building 26.6%, Sandbox 24%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Plague: London 1665 is an RPG with pixel art graphics set in 1665's during the Bubonic Plague outbreak in overcrowded and polluted London. As a body collector, graveyard keeper, and family provider, avoid the disease while clearing the streets. Will you survive the outbreak or become another victim?

Why similar: RPG 37%, Simulation 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.1%, Adventure 6.4%, 2D 6%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Humor 32.1%, Pixel Graphics 23.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Mystery 8.4%, Story Rich 7.4%