6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Graveyard Keeper. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Graveyard Keeper.
Release Date: 08/08/2006, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for it's text-based appearance but for it's expansive scope, and intricately...
Release Date: 14/11/2022
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Flat Eye is a narrative strategy game where you run a gas station in the near future. Play is a matter of making money from customers by adding products and streamlining efficiency. But what really stands out here is the web of corporate and management...
Release Date: 07/12/2021
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator is a trading simulation game where you buy, sell, and trade organs in space. It's a fast-paced commerce game where you buy cheap and sell high. Of course, it stands out for its unsettling choice of commodity, but...
Release Date: 26/02/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you must also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines. Its quirky labyrinthine attention to detail is inviting for young players to try...
Release Date: 20/01/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Coming Soon: Mac and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies. It...
Release Date: 18/06/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Littlewood is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Here though, the twist is that the game is set after a grand adventure. You beat the boss, and...
27 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Graveyard Keeper. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Graveyard Keeper.
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play. Through their eyes, you see a web of fear,...
Release Date: 15/01/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
My Time At Portia is an adventure role-play game set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society. By gathering resources, crafting and building you slowly gain the tools to collect food, store...
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Spiritfarer is a boat-building exploration game. Unusually though, you play Stella, ferry master to the deceased and the boat you manage takes them to the next life.
Release Date: 18/10/2017
Out Now: PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
A Mortician's Tale is a management game where you play as a mortician, Charlie, working in a funeral home. As you play, you handle bodies of the deceased, including cleaning and beautifying them, as well as dealing with embalming and cremation. The dead...
Release Date: 07/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
I Am Dead is a puzzle game from the creators of Wilmot's Warehouse. You play a recently-deceased museum curator trying to avert a disaster from his home town of Shelmerston.
Release Date: 18/07/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming,...
Release Date: 27/02/2018
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
One Hour One Life is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away. Born as a baby into the care of anonymous other online players, you initially depend on them for food. Quickly growing, you...
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Potion Craft is a puzzle adventure game where you create potions in an ancient looking workshop to send you bottle around the map. You combine ingredients, fire and water to move your bottle along the map to the target location and brew a potion to help...
Release Date: 13/05/2021
Out Now: Android, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Hundred Days is a strategy game about making wine. You control every aspect of a new Winery, choose vines, learn how to grow them and when to harvest. You make decisions about the process with a simple interface that takes you through each day. It's a...
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels
You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Open World
The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening. You tend to a world and make it your own through fishing, growing, trading and making new friends. As you do an adventure emerges.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Concerned Ape’s Haunted Chocolatier is a strategy game from the creator of Stardew Valley. You explore a fantasy world gather ingredients to make different blends of chocolate that sell in your chocolate shop.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Witchbrook is a role play game that takes you through the highs and lows of school-life. You play a witch-in-training but it's not just about learning spells. The push and shove of student life at the magic school and town life are very much front and...
Release Date: 09/12/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
Wytchwood is an adventure in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. You are an old witch of the woods and must explore the countryside, collect magical ingredients and brew enchantments. That much is relatively common, here though, your role is to pass...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Pixels
Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world. The collecting, crafting and consuming requires you to tap buttons. It soon becomes apparent that you need to automate your work if you are to progress effectively....
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World and Weather
Wildflower is a narrative role-play game about a young witch and her life in a new town. Drawing on play developed in Tenderfoot Tactics, you talk to locals, solve problems, fight demons and witch hunters and commune with the forest spirits, forage,...
Release Date: 07/02/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
In The Stillness of the Wind you play an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm. Over the course of a few hours, no matter what your efforts, the farm falls apart as you learn about the woman’s family and have the chance to ruminate on her...
Release Date: 21/01/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle detective game where you run a plant shop. While you identify and sell new plants to your customers you discover and influence their interweaving lives. It's unusual because your power is in your knowledge of...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
Staxel is a strategy farming game. It looks like Minecraft and has block building tools that are similar. However, this is a farming game more like Stardew Valley rather than open-world adventure. There are no monsters or dangers you find in other...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 28/05/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Atomicrops is a farming game where you also have to defend your crops from mutant attackers. It sounds like a strange combination, but the shooting and the tending work well to counterbalance each other.
Release Date: 12/10/2015
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Extreme Exorcism is a running, jumping and fighting game set in a series of haunted locations. The graphics are retro but the gameplay has a novel twist. Each enemy ghost you hunt mimics your moves on previous lives.
Release Date: 18/06/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Football Chairman Pro is a simulation strategy game about running a football (soccer) club. The game has over two million downloads for its accurate and complex simulation of running a football club. This combines with a simple and clear interface to...
Release Date: 23/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spooky Chase is a running, jumping game where you play a ghost collecting a series of flags. However, each route you take to a flag is then followed by enemies when you go after the next one. You play each level multiple times to collect each flag, but...
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game about anthropomorphic animals. Before each match, you choose a commander from four factions and six units from a pool of twenty. You then use these units to build farms, lookouts and gather resources.
Release Date: 27/02/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire is a strategic action game where you play a vegan vampire defending his way of life against a bloodthirsty family. By day you plant and nurture crops on your ever-expanding farm. By night you then use them, alongside magical...
Release Date: 13/10/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum is a puzzle adventure where you are a cybernetic corporate agent working off a debt to get your life back. You play by breaking into corporations in different ways; go in guns blazing, manipulate time or use supernatural...
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