Stardew Valley is all effectively and good, however y’know what the farming life-sim style actually wants? Witch-burnings, inquisitions and a normal sense of dread. At least, that’s what I’m assuming was going by the heads of Punch Club builders Lazy Bear, as they set to work on their newest recreation, Graveyard Keeper. Set in a darkish fantasy world, you get to stomp round within the well-worn boots of a graveyard keeper, making an attempt to make ends meet in an ethically messy world, promoting human organs to native butchers and palling round with speaking skulls. It’s out at this time.
While it’s exhausting not to attract comparisons to different current farm em’ups, Graveyard Keeper seems to be to take a considerably extra gritty, pragmatic strategy to self-sustaining dwelling. While you are able to do slightly little bit of fishing and dungeon delving, you’ll additionally need to do most of your constructing for your self. You can’t simply ask somebody to throw you collectively a shack, however as an alternative have to cut timber, noticed them down into logs, and use these. There’s additionally a large know-how tree for unlocking new instruments required to reap and course of new sources. Gravekeeping appears a useless tiring racket.
While you’ll need to work slightly tougher than in different farming video games, there are some intriguing hooks right here. There’s speaking animals, floating skulls, pleasant undead and a narrative arc to observe as you construct your one-man empire of the deceased. There’s quests and moral dilemmas to wrangle by as effectively, together with having to cope with the Lord Inquisitor, who may object to you cavorting round with the dwelling useless or dabbling in alchemy. According to writer TinyBuild, it’s “also a love story”. Makes sense, actually – you possibly can’t spell ‘necromancer’ with out ‘romance’.
Graveyard Keeper is out today on Steam, GOG and Humble for £15.49/16.79/$20.
