Graveyard Keeper 2 Guides
Every Graveyard Keeper 2 guide on this wiki, organized by system. Start with the beginner walkthrough if you're new; dive into a specific system when you hit its wall.
Guides
Beginner Guide
A complete Graveyard Keeper 2 beginner guide: bury your first corpse, meet Herbert, set up food and wood production, open the church, and start automating fast.
Tips & Tricks
The best Graveyard Keeper 2 tips: keep crafting queues running, build gathering circuits, extend your workday with food, harvest honey, and prep for battles early.
Layout Guide
Plan your Graveyard Keeper 2 layout: split the yard from zombie work areas, keep the alchemy lab near storage, and build your factory around conveyor chests.
Core Systems
Corpse Quality
How corpse quality works in Graveyard Keeper 2: white skulls measure burial quality, red skulls measure sins, and decorations must cover the white skull rating.
Zombies
How to make zombies in Graveyard Keeper 2: prepare a corpse with organs, Reanimation Liquid, Faith and a Zombie Collar, then assign them to workstations with the right tools.
Factory
Unlock the underground factory in Graveyard Keeper 2: enter from the Inquisition Base cellar, repair the Zombie Carousel, run belts and conveyor chests, and automate everything.
Town
Restore the Town in Graveyard Keeper 2: reclaim districts from hostile zombies in battle, rebuild homes and shops, earn gratitude, and milk the economy for profit.
Mastery
Mastery in Graveyard Keeper 2 gates crafting: five masteries — Building, Smithing, Farming, Book Writing and Anatomy — and tools only add so much. Here's how to raise them.
Perks
The perk tree in Graveyard Keeper 2 holds 68 talent perks bought with inspiration points, plus sermon blessings and food effects. Here's how to pick the best perks.
Crafting & Resources
Alchemy
Alchemy in Graveyard Keeper 2 runs on three rune colors: research an item, place runes in the alchemy station and stir. All 29 formulas and cheapest mixes, explained.
Tech Tree
Graveyard Keeper 2's tech tree uses red, green and blue tech points. Best early unlocks: Bronze Works, Gardening, Chopping and the Concept of Stone, Woodworking I.
Iron & Materials
How to get iron in Graveyard Keeper 2: nodes around your base need Metallurgy mastery 3 and a bronze pick, and zombie miners in the forest make it infinite.
Trophies
Platforms & Info
Multiplayer
Graveyard Keeper 2 has no official multiplayer or co-op — it's a single-player sim. Community mods on Nexus add experimental 2-player co-op. Here's the full status.
Switch
Graveyard Keeper 2 launched on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on September 22, 2026 for $24.99. Here's how both versions run and which one to buy.
PS5
Graveyard Keeper 2 launched on PS5 and PS4 on September 22, 2026 for $24.99, with a full trophy list. Early PS5 players reported rough performance — here's the state of it.
Xbox
Graveyard Keeper 2 launched on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One on September 22, 2026 for $24.99, optimized for Xbox with a 1000 gamerscore achievement list.
Review
Is Graveyard Keeper 2 good? Reviews call it a smart, confident sequel — 7/10 scores, warm Steam reviews, praise for automation, and caveats about grind and console performance.
AI Controversy
Players asked if Graveyard Keeper 2 uses AI-generated art. The developers say no: 'You may not believe me, but we're not using the AI in Graveyard Keeper 2.'