The sequel to Lazy Bear Games’ medieval cemetery sim is live on every platform it was announced for. You play as the Grand Inquisitor, a character lifted out of the first game’s supporting cast, and the job now covers far more than digging graves: you sort corpses, restore an abandoned Town district by district, staff underground factories with zombies, and hold off attacks on what you have built.
Quick answer: Graveyard Keeper 2 released on September 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC for $24.99 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2. A free demo is available.
Graveyard Keeper 2 platforms and price
The list price is $24.99 across storefronts. A 20 percent pre-purchase discount brought that to $19.99, and that window closed at launch. Console pre-orders carried two bonus items, a personal sauna and an exclusive Grand Inquisitor outfit. You can buy the PC version directly from the Graveyard Keeper 2 Steam page, which also bundles the 2018 original at a discount.
| Platform | Status |
|---|---|
| PC (Steam) | Out now, $24.99 |
| PC (GOG) | Out now |
| PS4 and PS5 | Out now, single concept listing |
| Xbox One and Series X|S | Out now |
| Nintendo Switch | $24.99, 792 MB download |
| Nintendo Switch 2 | Separate eShop listing |
Steam shows no version for Mac or Linux. Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, and Nintendo Switch Online do not include the game, while the developer FAQ still listed an Epic Games Store edition as planned rather than available. Nintendo marks the Switch release as “Supported” on Switch 2, indicating that it operates the same way as the original Switch version.
Core gameplay systems in Graveyard Keeper 2
Four loops carry the game, and they feed each other. The graveyard produces materials and faith, the Town produces demand and better bodies, the zombies produce goods without your input, and combat protects all of it. Between those systems sits the same grotesque cast the series is known for, including a talking skull and a donkey with opinions about its own dignity.
The launch trailer runs through the full loop in under two minutes, from the first corpse delivery to a fully upgraded production yard.
Graveyard management, farming, and fishing
Bodies arrive by donkey cart and pile up as unburied corpses until you process them. At the autopsy table you strip out parts such as intestines before burial, then raise the plot’s value with tombstones and fences. Graves can also be exhumed later if you need the body back. Alongside that, you plant crops in garden beds and fish at the river, both gated by mastery levels, so wheat seed stays locked until your mastery reaches 2.
Rebuilding the Town
The Town was a locked location in the first game. Here it is playable, abandoned, and overrun, and you rebuild it one district at a time with housing, shops, and infrastructure. Merchant stalls are the visible early layer, covering a Vegetable Stand, Tailor, Furniture Maker, and Alchemist. The payoff is circular: the better supplied the Town is, the better the corpses that get sent your way.
Zombie workers and factory automation
Zombies are no longer limited to standing at workbenches. Each one is a named unit with its own character sheet covering perks, organs, and equipment, and each levels separately as it works. Give one a Steel Pickaxe, crafted at the Steel Anvil for a Mastery bonus, and it mines for you. Perks specialize them further, as with Excavator, which speeds up digging through clay and sand.
As long as the minimum working conditions are satisfied, this workforce can operate semi-automatic machinery in underground factories. Production uses assembly benches, smithies, and workbench add-ons—including the auto-hammer, spinning wheel, drill press, press, and grindstone—with conveyor belts carrying materials from one station to the next. The completed products are used for Town Warehouse requests such as Supply Fabric.
Warehouse orders can only be accepted on specific days. If the panel refuses your delivery, the order window is closed rather than the goods being wrong.
Corruption provides the major change to the established formula. In the first game, red skulls offered no benefit, but here they allow zombies to gain more advanced skills; consequently, a workforce becomes more capable as its condition deteriorates.
Town defense and combat
The newest major pillar is combat, which follows a tower-defense direction. Build towers and fortifications, make armor and weapons, and equip and train undead soldiers to protect territory from successive waves of attacking troops. You also fight directly by swinging melee weapons and casting area-of-effect spells: red circles indicate incoming damage, while blue circles identify your own. The objective is to retain districts over time instead of simply finishing one encounter.
Voiceover Mode: Switching between spoken dialogue and mumbling
Dialogue has full English voice acting, but you can turn it back into the series’ retro gibberish if you prefer. Open the pause menu and find the Voiceover Mode setting, then switch it from “Voice over” to “Mumbling.” The change takes effect on the next line of dialogue, so the donkey and the talking skull will start mumbling instead of speaking. English is the only language with full audio; the other ten supported interface languages use subtitles.
Graveyard Keeper 2 PC system requirements
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 x64 or higher | Windows 10 x64 or higher |
| Processor | Intel Core i3 (13th gen) or similar | Intel Core i5 (13th gen) or similar |
| Memory | 6 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| Graphics | GeForce GTX 1650 or similar | GeForce RTX 3060 or similar |
| DirectX | Version 12 | Version 12 |
| Storage | 4 GB available space | 4 GB available space |
A 64-bit processor and operating system are required in both cases. The 4 GB install size is small enough that storage is unlikely to be the blocker on any modern machine.
Demo, achievements, and single-player support
A free demo is available, and Steam registers it as a separate application rather than a mode inside the main game. Links for every platform are collected on the official Graveyard Keeper 2 site.
- Single-player only, on every storefront, with no co-op or multiplayer mode
- 38 Steam achievements, plus Steam Cloud and Family Sharing
- 11 interface languages, with full audio in English only
- ESRB rated Teen
- DualSense vibration support on PS5
Anyone coming from the 2018 original will recognize the rhythm of the day even if almost every system around it has been widened. The grind that used to be yours now belongs to a workforce you assembled from the people you buried, and the reward for doing the job well is a Town that keeps sending you more work.
