Graveyard Keeper 2
everything confirmed before launch
Lazy Bear Games’ cemetery-management sequel swaps the original’s bench grind for an automated zombie workforce, and opens the Town the first game kept locked. Here is what the storefronts and the developers actually state — and what is still unannounced.
- Lazy Bear Games
- Developer
- Sep 22, 2026
- Launch
- PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch
- Platforms
- Single-player
- Multiplayer
What actually changes from the first game
Four loops carry the sequel. Each is described by the developers or visible in the pre-release demo — none of it is extrapolated from the 2018 game.
A zombie workforce
Zombies no longer just operate workbenches. They staff semi-automatic machines in underground factories, provided minimum working conditions are met, and each one levels separately. The catch is corruption: red skulls, a liability in the first game, are what let a zombie here develop better skills.
Rebuilding The Town
The Town was a legendary locked location in 2018. It is playable now — largely abandoned and overrun — and you restore it district by district with housing, cafés, shops and infrastructure. The better supplied your Town, the better the corpses you receive.
Crafting, alchemy and the Tech Tree
Raw harvest still feeds a production chain, but the Tech Tree now unlocks graveyard modules — tombs, benches, columbariums, monuments and graves — and gates the machines that make refined goods worth selling.
An army to lead
Combat is the newest pillar: towers, fortifications, crafted armour and weapons, and undead troops to arm and train. The developers frame the endgame as holding districts rather than clearing them once.
Every page on this site
Nineteen pages, split into launch logistics, play guides, and the systems and controversy questions. Every claim carries the source it came from.
Release Date
The September 22, 2026 launch date and the exact unlock moment PlayStation publishes.
Read on →LaunchPlatforms
All five storefronts the official site links, and what each one actually states.
Read on →LaunchSwitch
Both Nintendo listings, the file sizes, and Nintendo’s own Switch 2 verdict.
Read on →LaunchDemo
Which storefronts carry a demo and which do not, checked store by store.
Read on →LaunchPrice
The $24.99 list price, the 20% pre-order discount and the sauna bonus.
Read on →LaunchPC Specs
The exact Windows minimum and recommended specs Steam publishes.
Read on →LaunchPS5
The PlayStation concept page, DualSense vibration support and the pre-order items.
Read on →GuidesBeginner Guide
The opening route: escape the district, first burial, Graveyard Quality 10.
Read on →GuidesTips & Tricks
Corpse sorting, food and firewood, Milestones and the planning mistakes to avoid.
Read on →GuidesZombies
Zombie workers on underground machines, corruption, and why red skulls matter now.
Read on →GuidesFaith
Sermons on wrath day, and the three systems faith pays for: research, zombies and Perks.
Read on →GuidesIron
Where the ore boulders are, both smelting routes, and which figures are community wiki data.
Read on →GuidesAlchemy
The table and its tiers, the published formulas, the reagent pools and the zombie brewers.
Read on →GuidesGratitude
The weekly Town bar, every source the material names, and the reported resell trick.
Read on →GuidesJack
The Workshop Foreman’s quest line: the Defense Power gate, the Purge fight and the conveyors it unlocks.
Read on →GuidesFactory
The underground factory: unlocking conveyors, clearing rubble, and the line that fills commerce orders.
Read on →GuidesWriting Desk
The 24-recipe bench, its build cost, and the Book writing ladder that decides what it will write.
Read on →GuidesGraveyard Layout
Grave, columbarium, monument and bench tiers, how the rating stacks, and the build order one fan wiki recommends.
Read on →GuidesFactory Layout
Conveyor arrows, how the stations line up, and the one iron-line layout the material records.
Read on →GuidesTown Orders
Pride-day acceptance, the 22 supply box kinds, urgent versus regular counting and the warehouse basement hand-in.
Read on →GuidesMastery
The five work branches, the rusty-to-steel tool ladder, and why the Iron gate is usually a toolbar problem.
Read on →GuidesThe Town
District-by-district restoration and the corpse-quality loop it feeds.
Read on →GuidesQuality Fertilizer
What the crafting chain is documented to contain, and which values stay unpublished.
Read on →GuidesReanimation Liquid
Buy it for 7 silver or brew it from runes: what each Resurrection Table raise costs.
Read on →GuidesGreen Scrolls
House-repair payouts, and the Lust-day hand-in that raises the Likes ceiling.
Read on →GuidesSmithy
The Factory station versus the Town shop: unlock path, build cost and how it is fed.
Read on →GuidesHerbert
The guard captain’s Love Novel chain, its sewer battle and the faith quest after it.
Read on →GuidesBioreactor
Five Wheat into one Zombie Power, and the Assembly bench recipes that spend it.
Read on →GuidesHypno Device
Bought uncharged from Gunter, charged with Faith, spent at the PR Machine to raise the zombie cap.
Read on →GuidesFishing
Six spots, 22 fish and three baits, with the bite, reel and restock rules marked unconfirmed.
Read on →GuidesSteel
No ore and no recipe: the Royal Foundry quest chain, the Bishop’s 1 Silver ingots and the Steel Smithing gate.
Read on →SystemsMultiplayer
Single-player on every storefront, and what co-op would take to appear.
Read on →SystemsReview
A pre-launch buying call, plus where the embargoed reviews will land.
Read on →SystemsAI Assets
A neutral record of the AI-asset claims, what the developer has said, and what is unknown.
Read on →Graveyard Keeper 2 quick answers
When does Graveyard Keeper 2 come out?
September 22, 2026. Steam, the PlayStation Store, the Xbox Store and both Nintendo eShop listings carry that date. The PlayStation listing gives the unlock moment as 9/22/2026 05:00 PM UTC.
What platforms is Graveyard Keeper 2 on?
PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Those are the five storefronts linked from graveyardkeeper2.com. No Mac or Linux build is listed on Steam.
Does Graveyard Keeper 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
No. Every storefront lists it as single-player only: Steam carries no multiplayer categories, Xbox lists "Single player", PlayStation lists one player, and Nintendo lists a single system. The original game was single-player as well.
How much does Graveyard Keeper 2 cost?
Steam shows $24.99 with a 20% pre-order discount to $19.99, and the same $19.99 appears on the Xbox pre-order bundle and both Nintendo listings. The PlayStation Store listing publishes no numeric price, so treat any PS5 figure you see elsewhere as unconfirmed.
Is there a Graveyard Keeper 2 demo?
It depends on the platform. Steam registers a separate demo application, and the PlayStation concept page lists a separate demo product whose store state is ambiguous. Neither Xbox nor Nintendo has a demo listing, and no storefront states whether demo progress carries into the full game.
Is Graveyard Keeper 2 on Game Pass?
Not announced. The Xbox product page carries no Game Pass badge and no "included with Game Pass" wording. That is an absence of an announcement, not a denial.
Start with the release facts
If you only need one answer before launch, it is the date, the platforms and the price. Those three pages carry every figure the storefronts publish, each with the source it came from.
Where these facts come from
Every entry below is labelled by what it is: a developer or publisher source, a platform store listing, a press report, a video, or a fan-maintained page. Fan pages are used for terminology, and where one is the only record of a number, that number is written as community wiki data, unconfirmed, with the date it was last checked.
- Store listing Graveyard Keeper 2 on Steam (app 4358690) — The most detailed platform listing: 11 interface languages, single-player only, full controller support with DualShock and DualSense entries, Steam Cloud, Achievements, Family Sharing, and the Windows minimum and recommended specifications.
- Official graveyardkeeper2.com — official game site — Carries the launch date and links exactly five storefronts: PlayStation, Steam, Microsoft Store, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. It does not link Epic or GOG, and publishes no price.
- Store listing PlayStation Store — Graveyard Keeper 2 (concept 10018528) — PS5 listing read 2026-09-16. Shows a 9/22/2026 05:00 PM UTC release instant, 1 player, offline play, DualSense vibration support, the ESRB Teen descriptors, and both pre-order items: a personal sauna and an exclusive outfit. No numeric price is rendered.
- Store listing Nintendo eShop US — Graveyard Keeper 2 (Switch) — Read 2026-09-16, re-read 2026-10-30. On sale now: released 9/22/26 and listed at $24.99 USD on 2026-10-30, with the $19.99 pre-order discount having ended at launch; 792 MB, single system, TV/tabletop/handheld, ESRB Teen. Carries the Switch 2 compatibility verdict "Supported – Game behavior is consistent with Nintendo Switch". Tagged Action, Simulation, Pixel art and Voiced characters.
- Fan page gk2guide.wiki — Graveyard Keeper 2 Walkthrough: Progression Order — A pre-launch fan page that is explicit about the limits of what exists: it states there is no published step-by-step walkthrough and that any site claiming one before September 22 is guessing. Its four-stage framing (graveyard, automation, Town, army) is a reading of the developers’ own descriptions rather than datamined structure.
- Press report Game8 — Graveyard Keeper 2 Release Date and Time — Updated 2026-08-26. Independently lists PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 for the September 22, 2026 date, and shows the Steam, PlayStation and Xbox storefronts as live while the two Nintendo entries were still wishlist-only at that time.