r/GraveyardKeeper

I loved GK1, played it a ton. I'm not looking to rain on anyones parade. But i feel the need to express my own dissapointment.

Whilst I acknowledge that GK2 sure feels bigger, everything also feels... slightly worse. Including most of the new systems.

The combat is repetitive and honestly not very challangeing. I have lost missions, but that is always because I skip out on healing and throw away my life trying to solo the waves, creating challanges for myself.

Unlooking townfolks quickly turns from a fun and interesting mechanic into a proper chore. 20 Building kits, 10 wood kits and 6 furniture kits and repeat untill you develop insanity IRL.

Same with raising zombies. Interesting for a minute and then it turns into a uninteresting grind where corpses are churned into the cremator in search for the ideal organs.

And then we have the perksystem. Initially I found it very refreshing, but I soon got frustrated realising I early midgame had 999 of red, green and blue currencies. I also had the feeling like atleast some of my talents did nothing. This was later confirmed here on reddit. Half of them are literaly not linked to anything in the code, they are just a pointsink with zero benefits.

I suspect from the discussions here the developers had to make compromises and development was cut short. And goddamn does it play that way.

TLDR: I can see the DNA of a solid game I would really enjoy. But it feels rushed, flawed and with systems that does not do what they say they do and other aspects of the game that feels underbalanced or abandoned halfway through. I honestly can not recommend it as is.

At first the battles were fun...ish. But doing them back and forth is such a slog. You gotta wait down the timer, gotta secure the points til the end or else you lose. The introduction of the fat and spitter zombies really bogs it down too and I have no way to kill those things faster since I have no access to steel.

At this point I wouldn't mind installing a mod that just skips the battle overall..it's just not fun.

70 hours in and I just discovered, that there is a hole to drop off bodies, so that you don’t have to pick it up manually 🤡

It crashes every hour. It's actually getting worse as I get deeper into the game, I think because of things like lots of zombies and the factory. It's a shame because I loved the first game and I don't have a PC any more so this was the only way I was going to be able to play it.

Seriously the entire town order thing is useless. Midgame, sure. Maybe, but late game?

I tried to build it up. First I tried to design a factory like in factorio. But I noticed the conveyers are the power consumer. So, I just kept conveyers at the very bottom to make iron ingots, bricks and glass and let it flow into a chest. I played around a bit more, but mostly setttled on hand fed work stations. I'd have an assembly bench or a smithy with 2 conveyers and 2 chests feeding in and either a chest or a conveyer with a supply station flowing out. energy cost (after the patch) 4 or 5.

But never did any town orders with it. Instead I made building materials. Enough to build up the town, but if I would do another run, I would recommend focusing on the workshops and stalls instead of the houses. especially the furniture maker and the builder are pure gold. because they sell the simple and advanced kits. iron and wooden kits, as well as stone, marble and sculputre kits are easily made at the bottom of the factory.

that gives you all the materials to build up the town. and then? how do you get town favor? well, by trading with the workshops. at level 3 each workshop can give you 50 favor per week. and you can sell really easy to get stuff there. the blacksmith gives you 30 favor just for 20 advanced and 20 simple iron details. you can craft these in like 1-2 minutes. the iron will be provided by your smithy in the basement. the veggi stand accepts lots of grain and veggetables from your garden and gives better favor then Herm. The apothecary gives great favor for insense and candles.

but the best part? they sell what they give favor for. so if you are willing to take a monetary loss (the paint merchant would like to compensate you), you can just buy theirs and sell it right back until the favor is all absorbed. you can even do it one item at a time back and forth, if you want to minimize the loss. time stands still in the merchant menu anyway. so no need to rush.

I personally decided to stop being a tycoon and be a humble graveyard keeper. and with my 1000 rating graveyard, which is still not finished, I get 2-3 gold per sermon. So the monetary loss from trading with the townspeople is just a drop in the bucket if it means I have time for operations, embalming and tombstone crafting.