Released Sep 22, 2026
Take charge as the Grand Inquisitor: restore the Town, run a medieval graveyard, and automate production with undead workers. Craft, trade, fortify the city, and lead a zombie army while turning local problems into profit.
Your journey
Learn the opening loop, early priorities, basic crafting, graveyard management, and the systems worth unlocking first.
OpenBurials, resource gathering, workstation flow, and how to turn your first hours into a stable production setup.
OpenSet up undead workers, automate production chains, and scale repetitive jobs so you can focus on quests and expansion.
OpenRebuild and fortify the Town, craft equipment, train your undead army, and prepare for zombie battles.
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AI art, mods, and community discussion around Graveyard Keeper 2.
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Using AI assistants with Graveyard Keeper 2 guides—verify against wiki data.
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Graveyard Keeper 2 alchemy guide: formulation bench, green scroll, melted fat, reanimation liquid, and common recipes.
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Graveyard Keeper 2 autopsy guide: white and red skulls, organs, burial certificates, cremation, and resurrection prep.
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Where to play GK2: Steam, GOG, consoles, Steam Deck, and mobile status.
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Where to play Graveyard Keeper 2: storefronts, Steam Deck, GOG DRM-free, and mobile status.
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Graveyard Keeper 2 beginner guide: Inquisition Base setup, tools, food, graveyard, church, and early tech points.
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Graveyard Keeper 2 town battles: liberation days, sewers, wave defense, barricades, and zombie squads.
Graveyard Keeper 2 is a single-player adventure, RPG, simulation, and automation game by Lazy Bear Games. You manage a medieval graveyard, gather resources and human remains, build machinery, automate production, and expand for profit.
Beyond cemetery management, the sequel makes you the Grand Inquisitor: rebuild the Town, complete local quests, fortify it against the undead, craft equipment, and command a zombie army in battle. The tone stays darkly comic, grotesque, and deliberately unhinged.
Full coverage of release news, platform availability, online features, gameplay systems, walkthroughs, AI community topics, player opinions, and purchase options.
Deep dives beyond the eight homepage walkthroughs—factory automation, iron economy, sanity, town battles, and full progression tips.
Ore routes, smelting, and keeping your factory fed with ingots.
graveyard keeper 2 iron, mining, smelting
Order queues, zombie suppliers, and scaling crafted goods.
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Silver, certificates, and steady income from sermons and trade.
graveyard keeper 2 gold, money, economy
Building, metallurgy, farming, anatomy, and alchemy branches.
graveyard keeper 2 tech tree, blueprints
Skulls, organs, cremation, and resurrection prep.
graveyard keeper 2 autopsy, burial certificate
Bronze, clay, copper, iron, and stone farming spots.
graveyard keeper 2 materials, bronze, clay
Purple energy drain, grim work, sleep, and beer recovery.
graveyard keeper 2 sanity, insanity
District liberation, sewers, barricades, and zombie squads.
graveyard keeper 2 combat, town battles
Mid-to-late game priorities after automation unlocks.
graveyard keeper 2 tips, progression
First-day checklist before you branch into specialists.
graveyard keeper 2 beginner guide
Potions, runes, and bench upgrades tied to Faith.
graveyard keeper 2 alchemy
Perks, collars, storms, and hands-free production.
graveyard keeper 2 zombie, undead labor
Production orders, queues, and clearing supplier bottlenecks.
graveyard keeper 2 orders, factory
Ore pits, zombie mines, and iron mine throughput.
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Zombie mastery perks and PR when you exceed town tolerance.
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Revive corpses and craft the hypno device for workers.
graveyard keeper 2 resurrection, hypno device
Steel ingots, smithy upgrades, and advanced tools.
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Base planning, chest grids, and warehouse logistics.
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Common softlocks and checklist fixes when quests stall.
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Eight essential walkthroughs covering early progression, tech trees, corpse management, automation, materials, fishing, sanity, and Town battles—each with actionable steps you can follow in-game.
A practical starting route for new Keepers: early crafting, tool upgrades, food, graveyard work, and progression gates like Mastery and Tech Points.
Set up basic production at the Inquisition Base—Sawhorse, Chopping Spot, and Woodworking Workbench I for logs, boards, and planks.
Upgrade beyond Rusty tools when you can; Bronze, Iron, and Steel tools raise Mastery for mining, farming, building, and fishing.
Establish a food loop: Wheat through the Millstone into Flour, then Dough and Bread for repeatable Energy.
Progress graveyard and Church work alongside NPC quests—burials, Theology, and Sermons feed money, Faith, and later unlocks.
Move repetitive jobs to Zombie Assistants when available so the Keeper can quest, explore, and push Town liberation.
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Major branches, workstations, tools, weapons, and recipes—use this to see what unlocks your next graveyard, economy, or combat milestone.
Woodworking Workbench I, Stonemason's Workbench, Potter's Wheel, Simple Chest, Zombie Supplier Station.
Furnaces, Anvils, Hardening Bucket, Bronze and Iron gear, military equipment, barricades.
Compost Pile, Millstone, garden upgrades, Spinning Wheel, Weaving Loom.
Autopsy Table, Crematorium, Laboratory, Distillation Cube, graveyard expansion, Resurrection Table.
Formulation bench, potions, and rune crafting tied to Faith and corpse by-products.
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White and Red Skulls, organs, Burial Certificates, cremation, resurrection, and Anatomy Mastery for clean extractions.
Prepared corpses raise Graveyard Level; completed burials award Burial Certificates tradable for money.
Also grants a certificate plus Ash and Salt—Ash feeds Ink production later.
Corpse + Reanimation Liquid + Faith + Zombie Collar; Red Skulls set how many Perks the worker can take.
Reported Mastery gates: Skin 1, Bone 2, Skull 3, Brain 8, Heart 9, Guts 11—low skill risks Surgeon's Error.
Sell to Januarius at the Village tavern for Silver Coins.
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Create Zombie Assistants, assign production or combat roles, and scale automated queues with Supplier Stations.
Follow the main quest for your first assistants and access to the Resurrection Lab behind the Morgue.
Prepare corpses with vital organs intact; more Red Skulls mean more Zombie Perk slots.
Use the Resurrection Table with Reanimation Liquid and a Zombie Collar—Faith is consumed.
Resurrect during storm/lightning conditions; Prayer for Storms helps later.
Equip Mastery gear, assign workbenches or Supplier Stations, and queue orders for hands-free production.
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Dependable early and mid-game sources for Bronze, Clay, Copper, Iron, and Stone that often block construction.
Bronze Scrap from clearing debris and barrels in Inquisition Base, Church, Factory, and Vineyard Basement.
Dig deposits southeast of the Inquisition Base with a Shovel.
Unlimited node west of the Garden beside the intro fishing pond.
Ore around Inquisition outskirts, Forest, and Swamp—smelt to Ingots.
Widespread; unlimited pile south of the Keeper's home near the Mine cliff.
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Farming Mastery, rods, bait, and reel timing—why some fish stay locked until gear improves.
Reach Farming Mastery 1+ and bring the right rod to a spot.
Match bait to local fish—some base pond species bite without bait.
When the yellow exclamation appears, hold reel to pull the fish in.
When the mark vanishes, tap reel instead of holding so the fish does not run.
Release reel while the fish fights—red line tension snaps the line.
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Insanity shrinks usable Energy—what raises it and how to recover before graveyard work stalls.
Purple Insanity on the Energy bar reduces effective Energy for work.
Autopsies, graves, exhumation, and corpse crafting raise Insanity.
Pushing past exhaustion accelerates Insanity—marathon sessions hurt efficiency.
Sleep clears Insanity when truly exhausted; nap-only sleep may not.
Buy from Januarius at the tavern for a direct Insanity drop.
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Liberate districts on schedule, fight in sewers off-day, and use barricades plus zombie squads.
Town battles fire on a fixed weekday in districts—not separate arenas.
Repeatable combat most days when the main battle is not active.
Wave defense—undead attack from multiple directions.
Advance on multiple fronts and capture control points.
Barricades, towers, zombie fighters, or lead squads with your banner.
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Players search for Graveyard Keeper 2 release date, demo access, and which storefronts carry the sequel on day one. Our release hub tracks the September 2026 launch on PC and consoles, plus early access history and trailer breakdowns when you need context before buying.
If you only want a taste of district rebuilding and undead automation, start with the demo guide, then compare save transfer rules against the full game on Steam or GOG.
Availability queries spike around Graveyard Keeper 2 Steam Deck verification, console listings, and rumored mobile ports. We maintain separate pages for PC specs, handheld performance, and each major console so you can match hardware to the version you own.
Cross-save and crossplay questions belong in connectivity—do not assume feature parity between Steam, GOG, and console builds until patch notes confirm it.
Graveyard Keeper 2 is marketed as a single-player management sim with town combat—not a live-service MMO. Searches for multiplayer, co-op, crossplay, and cross-save still deserve clear answers because Steam forums and Reddit repeat outdated rumors after every update.
Use our connectivity cluster when explaining offline play on GOG, Steam client requirements, and why shared campaigns are uncommon in this genre unless officially added.
Google Trends US data (late September 2026) ranks Graveyard Keeper 2 zombie, iron, factory, orders, mine, mastery, resurrection, layout, hypno, steel, PR, warehouse, and zombie mine among the fastest-growing queries. We added dedicated English pages for each phrase so you land on-topic instead of a generic hub.
Rising item queries—green scroll, paint, alcohol, flax—point to our item database entries, while systems like choir, nun, jewelry table, beehive, and dynamite have mechanic guides linked from the wiki hub.
Core SEO demand sits on mechanic keywords: Graveyard Keeper 2 zombies, factory orders, iron mining, faith generation, and alchemy formulation. These systems interconnect—corpse quality feeds resurrection, zombies feed factories, and factories feed town liberation gear.
Our guide hub links beginner routes, tech trees, and specialty pages (donkey logistics, writing desk books, gem farming) so you can jump straight to the bottleneck you hit in-game.
Purchase-intent keywords include Graveyard Keeper 2 review, worth it, price, preorder bonus, and safe key sellers. Compare critic and player sentiment on our review page, then cross-check regional pricing on the price guide before checkout.
Avoid unauthorized key marketplaces—stick to Steam, GOG, or platform stores linked from the purchase hub.
Every major US and global search phrase on this wiki—zombies, factory, orders, mine, steel, hypno, and more.
Quick answers to the most common questions about Graveyard Keeper 2.
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