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11 Lazy Bear Games is the independent studio developing Graveyard Keeper 2. The team is best known for the 2018 original Graveyard Keeper, the title the sequel directly continues, and has worked together on management and simulation projects for more than a decade. Lazy Bear is the developer credit on every public Graveyard Keeper 2 announcement; tinyBuild handles publishing. For a wider tour of how this fits into the game, see the overview.
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33 Studio Profile
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55 FieldDetailStudio nameLazy Bear GamesFounded2010 (as GameJam Studio); renamed Lazy Bear Games in April 2015HeadquartersVilnius, Lithuania (originally St. Petersburg, Russia)FoundersNikita Kulaga and Sviatoslav CherkasovRole on this gameDeveloper of Graveyard Keeper 2Notable partnerstinyBuild, Uroboros Games, Riot Forge
66 Notable Games
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88 The titles below are the studio's full publicly released roster, with Graveyard Keeper 2 listed as the upcoming entry. The catalog leans toward management and life-sim hybrids.
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1010 YearTitleNotes2016Punch ClubBoxing-management sim with branching storylines.2018Graveyard KeeperMedieval cemetery-management sim. The studio's biggest commercial success.2019Swag and SorceryCompact fantasy management game centered on a small adventurers' workshop.2023Punch Club 2: Fast ForwardSequel to the studio's debut, returning to boxing management.2024Bandle Tale: A League of Legends StoryCozy crafting title in the League of Legends universe, made with Riot Forge.TBA 2026Graveyard Keeper 2Direct sequel adding town defense and a kingdom-wide zombie apocalypse to cemetery management.
1111 Studio History
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1313 The team first formed in 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia, under the name GameJam Studio, founded by Nikita Kulaga and Sviatoslav Cherkasov. The early years were spent on small experimental projects and game jam-style work. In April 2015 the studio rebranded to Lazy Bear Games, the name it has used ever since. Punch Club followed in 2016 as the studio's first major commercial release, with Graveyard Keeper arriving two years later as a much larger and longer-tailed title. The studio later relocated, and its headquarters is now in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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1515 Graveyard Keeper Lineage
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17-Graveyard Keeper, released in 2018, is the studio's biggest commercial hit. Aggregate estimates of lifetime Steam sales place the original between roughly 800,000 and 2 million copies, well above anything else in the back catalog. The original was supported with four expansions between 2019 and 2021: Breaking Dead, Stranger Sins, Game of Crone, and Better Save Soul, each adding new questlines and systems to the base sim. Reporting tied to the sequel's announcement put the original's lifetime sales across all platforms at over four million units, a figure that includes PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch combined.
17+Graveyard Keeper, released in 2018, is the studio's biggest commercial hit, selling well above anything else in the back catalog. The original was supported with four expansions between 2019 and 2021: Breaking Dead, Stranger Sins, Game of Crone, and Better Save Soul, each adding new questlines and systems to the base sim. Reporting tied to the sequel's announcement put the original's lifetime sales across all platforms at over four million units, a figure that includes PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch combined.
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1919 Graveyard Keeper 2 is the direct sequel. It carries forward the cemetery-management foundation and the studio's signature dark comedy, then expands the scope with production automation and a kingdom-scale undead threat. DLC content from the first game is not assumed to carry over.
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2323 The studio's most consistent external relationship is with tinyBuild, the publisher behind Punch Club, Graveyard Keeper, and Graveyard Keeper 2. The two have collaborated repeatedly across nearly a decade. Lazy Bear has also worked with Uroboros Games on smaller projects, and partnered with Riot Forge on Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story in 2024, the only roster entry tied to an outside intellectual property.
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2727 Several aspects of Lazy Bear's work on Graveyard Keeper 2 remain unconfirmed and should not be treated as known.
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2929 The size of the team currently working on Graveyard Keeper 2When development on the sequel formally beganWhich engine and toolchain the sequel usesTotal development time from prototype to releaseWhether any additional projects are in development alongside the sequel