| Route | Price now | What you get | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam — The Grave Deal bundle | $23.18 (−36%) | Graveyard Keeper 2 plus the 2018 original | Priced off a Graveyard Keeper sale that ends 28 September |
| Steam — game on its own | $24.99 | Graveyard Keeper 2 only | Costs $1.81 more than the bundle above |
| Xbox (US) | $24.99 | Xbox One and Series X|S | Not on Game Pass; no download size published |
| Nintendo eShop (US) | $24.99 | Switch and Switch 2, 1 GB | No demo left to test performance with |
| PlayStation Store (US) | Not shown signed-out | PS4 and PS5 cross-buy | You have to sign in to see the price |
| Virtwave key | Out of stock when we checked | Global Steam key | Our pre-order allocation sold through at launch |
The Graveyard Keeper 2 price is $24.99 now that the pre-order window has closed — but the cheapest way to buy it on Steam is not to buy it on its own. The Grave Deal bundle pairs it with the 2018 original for $23.18, which is $1.81 less than the sequel alone, because Graveyard Keeper is 80% off until 28 September and the bundle knocks a further 20% off the pair. We checked that on the store page this morning, and it is the single most useful thing on this page.
Graveyard Keeper 2 price after launch: what each store charges
Every storefront snapped back to the same number on Tuesday. Steam, Xbox and Nintendo all list $24.99, and the 20% pre-purchase promotion that ran until launch has been removed from each of them. Sony still does not show a price to signed-out visitors, so PlayStation buyers have to log in to compare. There is still only one edition — no Deluxe appeared at launch, and no season pass has been announced.
The Grave Deal: why the bundle undercuts the game
| Line | Amount | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Graveyard Keeper 2 | $24.99 | Full price — no launch discount |
| Graveyard Keeper (2018) | $3.99 | Special promotion, 80% off $19.99, ends 28 September |
| Subtotal | $28.98 | Both games at their current prices |
| Bundle discount | −20% | Applied by The Grave Deal on top of the sale price |
| You pay | $23.18 | Shown on Steam as −36% off the $35.98 list |
Steam only charges you for what you do not already own, so the bundle is not a trap if the 2018 game is already in your library — it simply deducts it. If you own neither, you are paying $1.81 less than the sequel costs alone and getting a well-reviewed 2018 game for free. We have not seen a cheaper legitimate route to the sequel anywhere since launch. The same inversion holds outside the US: on the UK store we read £20.67 for the bundle against £22.49 for the sequel alone. If you top up with balance rather than paying by card, our £10 Steam wallet codes stack to cover it, and the Steam store country and currency guide explains why a wallet code has to match the region your account is set to.
How long the $23.18 lasts
The Steam page for the original carries the line “SPECIAL PROMOTION! Offer ends September 28”, and that promotion is what makes the arithmetic work. When it expires, the original goes back towards $19.99 and the bundle price rises with it — at full list the same pair would cost $28.78 after the 20% bundle discount, which is more than the sequel on its own. So the window is five days from today, not a permanent feature of the store.
What actually changed on launch day
| What we said on 19 September | What happened | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Unlock at 17:00 UTC on 22 September | tinyBuild posted “Graveyard Keeper 2 is OUT NOW” at 17:02 UTC | Held |
| One edition only, no Deluxe | Still one edition on every storefront | Held |
| $24.99 after the promotion ends | Steam, Xbox and Nintendo all list $24.99 | Held |
| Pre-order bonus is a sauna plus an outfit | Correct, but the outfit is platform-specific — different on each store | Needed a correction |
| A free demo is live on Steam | The demo was delisted at launch; its page now redirects to the Steam home page | No longer true |
| No pre-load window worth planning around | No pre-load was announced; the download is still 4 GB on PC | Held |
The 17:00 UTC unlock held
When we wrote this page on 19 September, the PlayStation Store was the only storefront that committed to a clock — 17:00 UTC — and we flagged everything else as an expectation. It landed: the publisher announcement went up at 17:02 UTC on 22 September. Worth remembering next time a Steam page shows you a countdown and no hour: Valve’s 10am Pacific slot is a reliable guess for this kind of release, even when nobody writes it down.
If your pre-order bonus is missing
Is Graveyard Keeper 2 any good? What the launch numbers say
Two numbers are worth separating. The review score is a genuine signal: “Very Positive” with 92% of the first 612 reviews positive is a strong opening day for a sequel to a game people argue about. The concurrent-player peak is a scale signal rather than a quality one — 50,119 at once puts it well clear of a niche release. Review counts move fast in the first week, so treat the 612 as a snapshot from this morning, not a settled figure: the store page header was still showing 553 a few minutes before Steam’s own review endpoint returned 612 for us, which is caching lag rather than a discrepancy.
“Rebuild, fortify, and defend The Town. Automate production. Lead an undead army — and for the love of Sard, keep that Graveyard looking good!”
— tinyBuild, from the “Graveyard Keeper 2 is OUT NOW” announcement, 22 September 2026
The demo is gone — what that means for your save
The free demo that ran from 14 September has been delisted. When we opened its Steam page on 23 September it no longer loads — the URL simply redirects to the Steam home page. That closes the “try before you buy” route this page recommended last week, and it is the main reason we have rewritten it.
- Demo saves carry over. The publisher confirmed in both the demo announcement and the launch post that a demo save file continues into the full game, so the hours you put in last week are not lost.
- If you played the demo and pre-ordered, apply the 22 September hotfix before you judge whether the bonus content is broken — carried-over saves are exactly the case it fixes.
- If you did not buy, there is no demo to fall back on now. The Steam refund rules are the safety net instead: two hours played, fourteen days.
- Refund terms changed at launch. Before Tuesday a pre-purchase could be cancelled at any time; now the ordinary two-hour, fourteen-day window applies from the moment you buy.
Graveyard Keeper 2 FAQs
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Rayyan covers console and PC gaming wallets for Virtwave, with deep specialism in PlayStation Network, Xbox, Razer Gold and Steam. He has been writing about digital gaming commerce since 2020.
Steam Deck, Family Sharing and what the store page actually supports
| Feature | Status | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Deck | Verified | All four of Valve’s checks passed — controls, glyphs, text legibility and default performance |
| Players | Single-player only | No co-op and no multiplayer of any kind |
| Family Sharing | Supported | A Steam family member can borrow your copy, though not while you are playing it |
| Steam Cloud | Supported | Saves follow you between a desktop and a Deck |
| Achievements | 38 | All present at launch |
| Controllers | Full support | Xbox pads natively; DualShock and DualSense are listed as USB only, not Bluetooth |
| Platforms | Windows only | No macOS or Linux build — Deck support comes through Proton |
The Family Sharing line is the quietly useful one. A Verified Deck rating plus Family Sharing means one $23.18 purchase can legitimately cover a handheld and a second person in the same household, just not simultaneously — our guide to Steam Families covers how the sharing rules and the member limit actually work.
Download size and PC requirements
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 x64 or higher | Windows 10 x64 or higher |
| Processor | Intel Core i3 (13 gen) or similar | Intel Core i5 (13 gen) or similar |
| Memory | 6 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| Graphics | GeForce GTX 1650 or similar | GeForce RTX 3060 or similar |
| DirectX | Version 12 | Version 12 |
| Storage | 4 GB available space | 4 GB available space |
Nintendo lists 1 GB on Switch and Switch 2; Microsoft and Sony still have not published sizes. A 4 GB PC download in a season of 100 GB shooters is worth saying out loud — this is a game you can install on a whim. The one oddity remains the CPU line: a 13th-generation Core i3 beside a 2019 GTX 1650 almost certainly describes instruction-set support rather than raw speed.
Do you need to play the first Graveyard Keeper?
No — but this week the question is academic, because the bundle hands it to you for less than the sequel costs on its own. The 2018 original puts you in the same world with a much tighter scope, and its three story expansions are self-contained additions to that game rather than anything the sequel needs.
We stock the expansions for the original as instant-delivery Steam keys: Graveyard Keeper — Stranger Sins, which adds the tavern and the brewing chain, and Graveyard Keeper — Game of Crone, which adds the refugee-camp storyline. Both were in stock when we checked on 23 September; Better Save Soul was not, so check before you count on it. All three need the 2018 base game on the same account — which is what the bundle gives you.
Being straight about our own shelf: our Graveyard Keeper 2 key listing showed out of stock when we loaded it on 23 September, because the pre-order allocation sold through at launch. If you want the game today, Steam’s own bundle is both the cheaper and the available option, and we would rather say that than send you to an empty page.
Which version to buy now
PC (Steam)
The bundle makes Steam cheaper than every console store while adding a second game, and Deck Verified plus Steam Cloud means the same purchase covers desk and handheld. The demo is gone, so the refund window is your safety net.
- $23.18 with the 2018 original included
- Steam Deck Verified, all four checks passed
- Family Sharing and Steam Cloud supported
- Bundle price depends on a sale ending 28 September
- Windows only — Deck runs it through Proton
- No demo left to try first
Nintendo Switch / Switch 2
A 1 GB management sim is close to an ideal Switch purchase and it runs on both generations. You now pay $24.99 for one game where Steam charges $23.18 for two, and there is no demo left to test performance on original Switch hardware.
- Only 1 GB
- Runs on Switch and Switch 2
- Sleep-mode play suits the loop
- $1.81 more than the Steam bundle, for one game instead of two
- Original Switch performance still unconfirmed
- No demo
PlayStation 4 / PS5
Cross-buy across PS4 and PS5 is real value if you own both, and Sony was the only store that published an unlock time before launch. It is still the least transparent listing: the price is hidden until you sign in.
- Cross-buy covers PS4 and PS5
- Published its unlock time when nobody else did
- DualSense support is native here
- Price hidden from signed-out visitors
- No download size published
- No bundle equivalent
Xbox One / Series X|S
Same $24.99, same single edition, still no Game Pass. The listing is the thinnest of the four — no download size, no demo, and the page is still titled as a pre-order bundle days after launch.
- Runs on Xbox One as well as Series X|S
- Same price as the other console stores
- Not on Game Pass
- No download size published
- Store page still labelled as a pre-order
Buy now, or wait for the first sale?
If you would rather hold out, our Steam sale dates for 2026 page has the confirmed calendar, and how to refund a game on Steam covers the two-hour rule properly now that it applies again. Activating a key from anywhere? Activating a game on Steam with a product key walks through the failure cases, and our Steam Families guide explains the sharing limits behind that Family Sharing badge. The next launches on the calendar: Kingdom Hearts Collection on 8 October, with a $45 gap between its console and Steam versions, and Planet Zoo 2 on 13 October at 14:00 UTC.
Sources & how we checked this
This page was first published on 19 September 2026 as a pre-release guide and rewritten on 23 September 2026, the day after launch. Every price above was read from the storefront itself in USD on 23 September; the review figures come from Steam’s own review endpoint queried the same morning; our own stock status was checked on virtwave.com with the store set to Poland. Where a storefront still publishes nothing — a PlayStation price for signed-out visitors, console download sizes — we say so instead of guessing.
- Graveyard Keeper 2 on Steam — the $24.99 price, the Very Positive review summary, Steam Deck Verified status, Family Sharing, the 38 achievements and the system requirements.
- The Grave Deal bundle on Steam — the $23.18 price and the −36% figure.
- Graveyard Keeper (2018) on Steam — the 80% promotion and its 28 September end date.
- “Graveyard Keeper 2 is OUT NOW”, tinyBuild, 22 September 2026 — the 17:02 UTC launch announcement and the confirmation that demo saves carry over.
- “Hotfix — Pre-order bonus content”, Lazy Bear Games, 22 September 2026 — the fix for pre-order content missing from existing saves.
- SteamDB player charts for Graveyard Keeper 2 — the 50,119 release-day concurrent peak, as carried in Steam’s own news feed.
- Graveyard Keeper 2 on Xbox and on Nintendo.com — the $24.99 post-launch prices and the 1 GB Switch download.
- Graveyard Keeper 2 on the PlayStation Store — the 17:00 UTC unlock time we checked before launch, and PS4/PS5 cross-buy.
- Steam Refund Policy — the two-hour, fourteen-day window that replaced the cancel-any-time pre-purchase rule at launch.
- Valve’s Steam Deck Verified criteria — what the four checks behind the Verified badge cover.
Corrections we made in this rewrite: the pre-order outfit is platform-specific rather than a single shared item, and the demo is no longer available. We still could not find a GOG or Epic listing for the sequel. How we work is set out in our editorial policy.
