Graveyard Keeper

The premise of Graveyard Keeper is of the most unique of just about any sim game out there, and this no-frills Switch port makes it portable for the first time. There really isn’t much that needs to be added impressively robust graveyard management game, but it would have been nice if the game took advantage of the Joy-Con rumble feature.

Part of the enjoyment of this type of games lies in discovering how various systems work and interact with each other and there’s a large amount of that in Graveyard Keeper. But there’s also a lack of properly relaying needed information and a tendency of stalling one’s ability to progress out of the blue, which can be quite disheartening. Too many times I wanted to head on over to a wiki to find out just where I could buy one damned item I needed for a quest and couldn’t figure out how to build myself. Where moments earlier I was diligently harvesting, crafting and studying things with broad ...