Combat
Combat in Graveyard Keeper 2 is a significant expansion over the original. Where the first game mostly treated fights as an afterthought, the sequel puts frontline action against zombies at the centre of its gameplay pitch.
Core Elements
Crafted weapons and armour. Players build and upgrade the gear their party takes into fights.
Party recruitment. Fighters can be sent to the frontlines against waves of zombies rather than the graveyard keeper tackling everything solo.
Strategic layer. Combat sits alongside management and automation rather than replacing them; dispatching a party is a resource allocation decision.
Tone Shift
The combat expansion is part of what Lazy Bear has called a broader gameplay scope. The original Graveyard Keeper was a management sim that happened to have corpses; Graveyard Keeper 2 is a management sim that has to hold a frontline while it works.
