Graveyard Keeper

The worst thing about this game is that it does not care enough to explain things comprehensively. So if you don't use the games wiki you will get lost. Especially with the quests. If you manage to look over this issue you gonna have a pleasant, time consuming game. It also gives you a great opportunity to train your focusing skills because sheer amount of stuff to do. I catched myself multiple times abandoning one task for another just to forget what wanted to do originally.

This is a hard game for me to recommend. I don't think the core gameplay and concept is bad. I'm a sucker for simple farming games since Harvest Moon on the N64 or Stardew Valley. So adding in a morbid element of corpse maintenance with graveyard upkeep is a nice twist to things. It has a pretty simple farming setup, where some crops can have various qualities. You can then sell crops to some NPC's. You can also perform autopsies on the corpses you get, and make them better corpses through swapping body parts and embalming to make your graveyard look nicer. Plus you can cut down trees, and harvest stones to upgrade workshops around your house, or make tombstones for your graveyard. I think where things really start to fall off for me is the side characters and the story. Unless if I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any side missions, everything is ultimately tied to the main story, so if for whatever reason you don't want to help the inquisitor hunt down and burn witches. Too bad. You gotta do it. And even if you do finish all of the character quests, the ending just feels flat? Like the whole story is the fact that your character got isekaied to this world, and you're trying to fix a portal to go back home. But when you do fix the portal you just don't? And then you get kicked to credits and back to the main menu. The DLC's don't really clarify things. I could probably sit down and give a more through breakdown of the story and try to guess what they were trying to do, but I don't think that'd help with a quick review. I think my issue with it, is that when you're forced to do things you like with things you don't like, the entire experience becomes 'meh' in my mind. Ultimately though, the game's 20 bucks, and it got over a hundred hours out of me, so take that as you will.