Graveyard Keeper

wow i didn't make a review for this yet. i usually commit myself pretty throughly with videogames but this one got so boring i just couldn't anymore man. progress and events happen at a snail's pace and usually the quests boil down to "go to NPC, give him thing so that he gives you other thing to give NPC2 so that they can give you quest item". it has a lot of cool potential in it, but as the trailer for the sequel is rolling around i see it still hasn't been used.

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This is one where I wished there was just a 'mixed' review. There's a lot to like here, solid premise, a decent gameplay loop in the beginning, with a kind of okayish story and unfortunate endgame. Pretty solid quest and grow things fare of a game. Which is alright in the beginning. The zombie mechanics are fun if not entirely well thought out (strange that work efficiency doesn't apply to movement speed, etc) Towards the end of the game things kind of go off the rails a bit. There are technologies you can invest in in the tech tree that just aren't at all worthwhile. There are a lot of things that you could do that just make no sense to, and the story kind of wraps up with a 'welp you won!' sort of ending. Decent way to sink some hours into but, the flaws slightly outweigh the pros imo

Amazing chill game!! I happily spent 80+ hours dissecting corpses and digging graves! Also I: -built workbenches -crafted items -cooked -practiced alchemy -preached in church -created my own army of zombie workers -built a camp -and ran my own tavern!!!! 10/10!

Was in search for a game similar to Stardew thought this might scratch that itch, but between the terrible week cycle and the egregious amount of content locked behind dlcs I can't recommend. You can talk to only one of the 7 important npcs per week and only on a specific day so mid game be ready to spend 5-6 hours talking to one person skipping 3 days talking to someone else and then skipping 4 days constantly. Some of the mechanics like zombies seem cool to use but after you gain access to them you'll probably be too tired or far enough that there's no point in using them. Don't get me started with the story or npcs, be ready to be hooked immediately by the opener and cast, just for that that mystery and curiosity to fall flat quickly with no pay off by time you finish the game. Just save yourself some time and play another save of Stardew.

1、肝度太高了，十分枯燥。 2、战斗系统和装备系统都十分简陋，打怪没有打击感。 3、可以做的事情少，和NPC的交互也少，不能自由组队，也不能自由恋爱，没有沉浸感。 4、地图太小了，来来去去就那几个地方。NPC不断描绘小镇怎么怎么样，结果这个游戏根本没有小镇，主打一个画饼忽悠。 5、作者喜欢用剧情杀秒杀玩家，不安好心。拿到小镇通行证去小镇，结果作者直接一个雷把玩家秒杀掉。他完全可以不把玩家劈死的，掉点血或者触发剧情吓退玩家就可以了，但作者偏不。一次就算了，作者还要来第二次。作者自己发布的任务让玩家去找地下室的老蛇，要给他钥匙，结果进去地牢又一次剧情杀秒杀玩家，直接让玩家死，十分恶心。 6、整个游戏给人的感觉就是不断收集、制作物品，给NPC打工，主角就像个工具人一样，为了推主线而推主线，还肝得要死。

I'll start this review by giving my rating and then explaining what this game did well and what I hope the sequel will improve on. I give this game a 9.5/10 as we know no game can be perfect, but the problems I have with this game caused my rating to drop from a 9.9 to a 9.5. Lets start with the positives first. - Art Style: The pixel art in this game is really well done and makes this game look closer to 3d than I expected from a pixel art game of this genre. - Music: The music in this game amazing and quite relaxing to listen to. - Story: The story in this game is entertaining and more comical than serious from an alcoholic talking skull with amnesia to a cultist that misreads a summoning spell and summons a chicken. There are plenty of pop culture references from other games and movies like The Witcher, Tomb Raider, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. Though there is one specific problem with the story I'll address in the negatives section. - Gameplay: The most important part of this game is how it plays, I like how compared to something like Stardew Valley where you have to sleep every night in this game you can stay up all the time doing whatever as long as you constantly replenish your energy and sleep is only needed for saving and progressing the story at certain parts. Depending on if you have the DLCs or not more mechanics will be added such as building and upgrading a refugee camp, and running a tavern with events you run. The most important mechanics in this game is taking apart bodies and burying them in your graveyard for both money and graveyard quality, and the second is when you open the church you can start doing sermons every week which grant you faith which is used for a lot of different things in the game and gives you money. Lets now discuss the problems with the game and there are a few as much as I love this game. - The Grind: This game is a bell curve of grind in the early to mid game but once you start reaching the end the grind skyrockets to an absurd level even when automating most things with zombies there is a point where you'll spend tens of hours just to have a good graveyard. - The Bugs/Stuttering: This game has a massive stuttering problem when walking around this is a well known problem where you need a mod to help the problem, As for the bugs the one I ran into the most is whenever I'd start a craft on a bench my character would just walk into the bench instead of working on it the only way I could resolve it was to save via sleeping and reload my save but it was so common it became irritating especially with the amount of manual crafting you have to do. - Bodies: The amount of bodies you get in an in game week is 5 if you keep supplying the donkey with carrots, it took me over 10 hours straight of passing time meditating to get enough resources for my bodies to get a high quality graveyard and there is no way to increase body amount you can only increase organ quality which doesn't help much in the end game for perfect bodies. - The Crafting Storage Problem: When you craft on benches especially alchemy tables you have to manually find the ingredient you want to process multiple times because its only 1 per process and when you have multiple storage containers you have to constantly scroll to find a single ingredient every time you want to make 1 resource. I hope in the sequel they either add the ability to increase the mount you want to make or a search bar to find it easier without scrolling many times. - The Explanation Problem: When you're a new player there is no direction on what you should start to do or who to talk to when starting questlines after the tutorial it's pretty much figure it out until you reach mid game where you can always look at your npc tab to see what you should work on. - The Ending: If you have the Better Save Soul DLC there's an extra scene to the ending of the game which I won't spoil however seeing the end prior to the BSS DLC coming out and after it came out all it did was add a few extra lines of dialogue so you don't really miss much in terms of the ending unfortunately. As I said it's a really good game and I recommend it for everyone to at least try out if you don't want to invest on getting the DLC immediately that's perfectly fine I don't believe not having them will ruin your experience I believe you'd have the same amount of fun just fewer mechanics and story. If you can't afford it at the moment I'd wait for a sale from what I've seen it goes on sale fairly frequently. Anyways Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk and hope you enjoy this game as I have.