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Platforms and Release
September 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Corrected the Nintendo store-listing negative, added the publisher launch-announcement storefront list, added console download sizes and the full eleven-board rating set, and date-stamped the remaining unconfirmed items
Graveyard Keeper 2 launches on 22 September 2026 across PC and four consoles. The date was announced on 26 August 2026 alongside a release-date trailer, and pre-orders opened the same day on the Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox storefronts. See the overview and the Getting Started guide for a pre-release checklist. Detailed PC specs live on the System Requirements page.
All five targets were confirmed at the reveal by Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild as a single coordinated launch.
Platform | Notes |
|---|---|
PC | Store page live with App ID 4358690. Windows only, with no Mac or Linux build listed. Releases 22 September 2026, with pre-purchase open. The publisher's launch announcement also names the Epic Games Store and GOG as launch storefronts, though no product page had appeared on either as of 13 September 2026 |
PlayStation 5 | Same 22 September date as PC, with the console unlock at 17:00 UTC. A live product page opened alongside pre-orders, with immediate payment taken at purchase |
PlayStation 4 | Named in the publisher's launch announcement. No PlayStation 4 product entry exists on the storefront as of 13 September 2026, where only a PlayStation 5 version is listed |
Xbox Series X and Series S | Marked as optimised for Series X and Series S. Pre-orders open. Unlock at 17:00 UTC |
Xbox One | Named in the publisher's launch announcement, and the storefront's own Play With line lists Xbox One alongside Series X and Series S. The console capability flag on the same product covers both the eighth and ninth console generations |
Nintendo Switch | Committed alongside the newer hardware. The official site links an eShop product page, and the launch announcement lists a pre-order on Nintendo Switch |
Nintendo Switch 2 | Native Switch 2 release. The official site links a separate eShop product page for it |
Mobile, Mac, Linux | Not part of any announced lineup |
The publisher's launch announcement of 26 August 2026 lists a wider set of platforms and storefronts than the live store pages currently carry. Both are first-party, and both are recorded here rather than merged.
Claim | Publisher announcement | Storefront state on 13 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|
PC storefronts | Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG | Only the Steam page is live. A catalogue search returns the original game and its expansions but no sequel entry on GOG |
PlayStation | PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 | One PlayStation 5 product, described on the page as the PS5 Version |
Xbox | Xbox Series X and Series S plus Xbox One | Series X and Series S optimisation declared. The storefront also lists Xbox One under Play With |
Nintendo | Switch and Switch 2, with pre-orders open | Both eShop product pages are linked from the official site |
Treat the announcement as the publisher's stated intent and the storefront state as what can be bought today. Where they disagree, this wiki records both rather than picking one.
Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
April 9, 2026 | Reveal at the [[triple-i-initiative-reveal | Triple-I Initiative Reveal]]. Announcement trailer released and the store page goes live with App ID 4358690 |
April 9, 2026 | Five-platform lineup published. The original Graveyard Keeper offered free-to-keep as a launch promotion | |
April 9 to 13, 2026 | Free-to-keep window for the original game, which drew renewed attention to it ahead of the sequel | |
First week of reveal | Approximately 400,000 wishlists accumulated, over 120,000 in the first twelve hours alone. The sequel reached around number 110 on the most-anticipated list | |
May 20, 2026 | First developer log, on the zombie workforce | |
June 16, 2026 | Second developer log, on The Town | |
July 30, 2026 | Third developer log, on the art and visual rebuild | |
August 26, 2026 | Release date announced as 22 September 2026, during the Future Games Show at gamescom 2026 in Cologne. A release-date trailer went up the same day and pre-orders opened | |
September 2, 2026 | Fourth developer log, on the wider world and the story, updated again on 7 September | |
September 22, 2026 | Scheduled release across PC and consoles. The console listings put the unlock at 17:00 UTC |
The full index of official posts is on Developer Logs. No demo, no public playtest and no hands-on preview event has been held at any point before launch, checked on 13 September 2026 against the store pages, the community hub, the official site and the publisher's launch announcement.
Both a minimum and a recommended specification are published on the storefront. Minimum targets a 720p experience; recommended targets 1080p. See the dedicated System Requirements page for the full breakdown and unconfirmed-details list.
Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
Operating System | Windows 10, 64-bit | Windows 10, 64-bit |
Processor | Intel Core i3-4160 or AMD FX-8320 | Intel Core i5-4670K or AMD FX-8350 |
Memory | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
Graphics | GeForce GT 640 (1 GB) or Radeon HD 7750 or Iris Pro Graphics 580 | GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB) or Radeon HD 7850 (2 GB) |
DirectX | Version 12 | Version 12 |
Storage | 2 GB available space | 2 GB available space |
Target Resolution | 720p | 1080p |
The PC storefront lists eleven supported languages at launch and breaks them out by support type. All eleven cover interface text and subtitles. English is the only language listed with full audio support, so the other ten are text-only at launch.
Language | Group |
|---|---|
English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Turkish | European |
Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil) | Iberian and Brazilian variants |
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese | East Asian |
Feature | State on the PC listing |
|---|---|
Players | Single-player. No co-op, versus or online mode is declared |
Achievements | Declared |
Cloud saves | Declared on the PC storefront. Transfer between PC and consoles is not described |
Controller support | Full controller support, with DualShock and DualSense pads both listed |
Audio | Stereo |
Accessibility | Two options are declared: custom volume controls, and playable without timed input |
Family Sharing | Enabled, so the library copy can be shared with linked accounts |
Handheld verification | No compatibility rating was published for Valve's handheld as of 13 September 2026 |
The store page also carries twenty community tags, the most descriptive of which are Sandbox, Building, Capitalism, Agriculture, Medieval, Crafting, Automation, Pixel Graphics, Dark Comedy, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Farming Sim and Life Sim. The storefront's own genre fields are Adventure, Role Playing and Simulation. The console listings file it differently again: as Role Playing, Action and Adventure, and Simulation on Xbox, and as Strategy, Simulation and Role Playing Games on PlayStation.
The reveal generated unusually fast wishlist signal. Two figures published by the developer and publisher have circulated in industry press in the days after the announcement.
Signal | Figure |
|---|---|
Steam wishlists, first 12 hours | Over 120,000 |
Steam wishlists, first week | Approximately 400,000 |
Steam most-anticipated rank in first week | Approximately #110 |
First game during the free-to-keep window | Renewed player interest reported |
Console wishlist totals from PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo storefronts are not part of those figures, so the cross-platform total is higher still.
Console listings carry rating marks from several boards. The Xbox store page displays an ESRB Teen mark with content descriptors; further board marks are recorded against the same product entry. Ratings on an unreleased game can be revised before launch. The PlayStation product page now displays the same ESRB descriptor set as the Xbox listing, checked on 13 September 2026.
Board | Mark | Descriptors |
|---|---|---|
ESRB | Teen | Violence, Blood, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs and Alcohol |
PEGI | 16 | Drugs |
USK | 12 | Fantasy violence, sexual innuendo, drugs, scary scenes, strong themes |
DJCTQ (Brazil) | 14 | Violence, sexual content, legal drugs, drugs |
Australian Classification | M | Drug references |
GRB (Korea) | 15 | Alcohol, tobacco and drugs |
IARC | 16 | Drugs |
PCBP | 16 | Violence, sex, drugs, fear, language |
TCA (Turkey) | R | Drugs, tobacco and alcohol, violence, sex, inappropriate language, horror |
CCC | 14 | None listed |
Microsoft | 16 | None listed |
The PC storefront carries its own, smaller declaration that does not match the console set: DEJUS 12, a German rating of 16, and IGRS 18. The two German figures differ because they are separate declarations filed with different bodies, not because one supersedes the other.
The PlayStation listing also carries the standard notice that online interactions are not rated by the ESRB. The game is listed as single-player on every platform.
Feature | Detail |
|---|---|
Players | Single-player on all five platforms |
Controller support | Full controller support on PC, covering DualShock and DualSense pads and the Steam Input API |
Family Sharing | Enabled on the PC listing |
PlayStation 5 | Offline play enabled; DualSense vibration supported |
Xbox Series X|S | Optimised for Series X|S; achievements and online service features declared |
Pricing | Published on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox; the figures differ by store and are broken out below |
Pre-orders opened on 26 August 2026, the same day the release date went public. The three storefronts that carry the game do not price it identically, so the figures below are listed per store rather than merged into a single number. All amounts are in United States dollars.
Storefront | Standard | Current | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
PC | 24.99 | 19.99 | A 20 percent pre-purchase promotion. The store page says the offer ends on 22 September |
Xbox | 24.99 | 19.99 | Carried on the pre-order bundle, which pairs the base game with the free bonus add-on. The base product entry still shows placeholder pricing |
PlayStation | 19.99 | 19.99 | Listed at 19.99 with no higher standard price shown anywhere on the page, and a lowest price in the last 30 days also given as 19.99 |
PlayStation Plus | 19.99 | 15.99 | A separate 20 percent subscriber reduction ending 22 September. This is a discount, not subscription inclusion |
Nintendo | Not published | Not published | The launch announcement lists a 24.99 pre-order on Nintendo Switch and the official site links both eShop pages, but no eShop price has been read directly |
All figures are in United States dollars and were checked on 13 September 2026. There is no edition split: the PC listing has one package group holding one package, and the console side has one base product plus a free bonus add-on. Full commercial detail is on Editions and Pre-Orders.
The game is not part of any subscription catalogue. The Xbox product entry lists no pass that includes it, and the PlayStation reduction is tied to a membership discount rather than to library access.
Two bonus items are attached to a pre-order on the storefronts that carry the game. The console listings describe them in identical wording.
Bonus | What It Is |
|---|---|
Sauna | A personal sauna building sited outside the player's house, framed as somewhere to recover after a long working day. |
Inquisitor outfit | An exclusive outfit for the player character, the newly appointed Grand Inquisitor. |
The studio has said the outfit a player receives depends on which platform they pre-order on. No storefront has named a specific outfit or described how the versions differ, so treat the per-platform variants as unconfirmed until one is shown.
The console catalogue publishes package sizes that the PC storefront does not.
Package | Size |
|---|---|
Base game, console package one | About 2.05 gigabytes |
Base game, console package two | About 2.11 gigabytes |
Pre-order bonus add-on | About 10.6 megabytes |
PC storage requirement | 2 gigabytes of available space, at both the minimum and the recommended tier |
The console figures are close enough to the PC requirement that the install is consistent across platforms. Storefront figures are pre-install minimums and can grow with a day-one patch.
As of 13 September 2026, checked against the three live storefront listings, the console catalogue entries and the official site, the following are still undisclosed.
Handheld compatibility verification for Valve's device. No rating is published on the store page.
Save transfer between PC and consoles. Cloud saves are declared on the PC listing, but no cross-platform transfer is described.
The achievement and trophy lists. Achievement support is declared on both the PC and Xbox listings; neither list has been published, and PlayStation trophy support is not stated.
A demo, hands-on event or open beta. None has been scheduled.
Nintendo eShop pricing, release time and pre-order bonus wording. Both eShop pages are linked from the official site but no price has been read from them.
An upgrade or migration path between the Switch and Switch 2 versions.
Console frame rate and resolution targets.
Day-one patch contents.