Graveyard Keeper 2: Sequel Announced with Trailer

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:25:00 -0400
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On April 9, Lazy Bear Games announced its "crafting RPG" Graveyard Keeper 2 with a trailer—the first footage also popped up during the Triple-i livestream. The video doesn’t give an exact release date, but it does pin the launch window to 2026.

Quick Facts

Developer

Lazy Bear Games

Publisher

tinyBuild

Platforms

PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X/S · Switch · Switch 2

Release

TBA

PEGI

-

Modes

Singleplayer

Languages

English · Multi (subs)

Price

-

Monetization

-

Free saving

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Graveyard Keeper is a small phenomenon. Its 2D visuals barely look better than something off a 40-year-old Commodore Amiga, and yet the game still turned into a serious indie hit. According to SteamSpy, somewhere between 1 and 2 million Steam users own the graveyard management sim by now.

I played it back in 2018, the year it came out, and the thing that really sold me was its morbid, offbeat sense of humor. The weird little "voice acting" alone was hilarious, and it’s no surprise a few other indie games later borrowed the idea.

When a game is this successful, a sequel is the obvious next move. Still, Graveyard Keeper 2 took almost eight years to become official, which is exactly why fans are reacting with even more excitement now.

Graveyard Keeper 2 blows up the original concept

I caught the news during the Triple-i livestream mentioned above, which aired on YouTube on April 9. That’s where the announcement trailer for Graveyard Keeper 2 premiered (see below). At just under 1:20, it wasn’t exactly a full breakdown, but it still got across the biggest changes coming to this undertaker-flavored world.

An attack on the town you painstakingly rebuilt. (Graveyard Keeper 2)

The biggest thing that stood out was how much wider the sequel’s scope seems to be. The first game focused mostly on graveyard management, crafting, and dungeon trips. This follow-up adds a larger town, a zombie threat at the center of the story, and proper battles against an undead army—as you can see in the image above.

More town-building, defense, and combat

Honestly, the whole thing has a much more militarized vibe this time around. You build towers and fortifications, craft weapons and armor, and send your own undead troops into battle. That also makes the town a much bigger part of the core loop. The original leaned more toward the graveyard, the church, village life, crafting chains, and standalone questlines. The sequel, by contrast, is all about rebuilding the town and turning the worries of its residents into a profitable system, at least according to Lazy Bear Games.

Automation also seems set to play a much bigger role in Graveyard Keeper 2. That side of the game was already there in the first entry and its DLCs Breaking Dead and Better Save Soul, where zombie workers and zombie workstations mattered quite a bit. This sequel, though, is pushing that idea far more openly as one of its central pillars.

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