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The graveyard is the title system of Graveyard Keeper 2 and the economic base everything else is built on. Lazy Bear Games has confirmed that its core idea is unchanged from the first game, that it has gained a new layer of management on top, and that it sits outside the walls of The Town rather than inside the settlement the player is rebuilding.

Where It Sits

The June 2026 developer log placed the cemetery in a peaceful, attractive area outside the city walls, next to the Keeper's base. The developers made a point of it: restoring The Town is one job, but the player is not forced to live in it. The Graveyard is one of the areas the game names on its location banner, alongside the Garden, the Astrologer's Tower, the underground Town Workshop and the Port Area district. The full catalogue is on Locations.

The Green Skull Rating

The official screenshots show how graveyard quality is scored. Each individual grave carries a floating green skull value, which can be positive or negative, and the area banner carries an overall green skull rating that the plot sums to.

The scoring rules behind those numbers have not been published. What is clear is that this green rating is a separate axis from the red skull corruption the player chases on corpses, which is covered on Zombies.

Graveyard Modules

The clearest new mechanic on the cemetery side is modular expansion driven by the Technology Tree. Unlocking a module lets the player place it on the plot, and each module provides space for a different class of object.

Alongside the modules the sequel adds a wider set of new grave designs and decorations, so a cemetery can be laid out and styled rather than just filled. Placement uses the same grid build mode as the rest of the game, described on Buildings and Construction.

Corpse Supply and Quality

Burial duty has not gone anywhere. The developers confirmed that the Keeper still buries townsfolk who reach the end of their journey, and tied the supply directly to the rebuild.

• The larger The Town grows, the more corpses arrive.

• The better supplied and more prosperous, and therefore more sinful, the settlement becomes, the better those corpses are.

• Better corpses carry more skulls, which feeds the corruption economy described on Zombies.

That loop is the reason Town Restoration is not a side project. Improving residents' lives is, in the game's blackly comic logic, a way of improving the raw material.

What the Graveyard Screenshot Shows

The published graveyard capture is set in the rain and shows the plot part way through development. A large columned mausoleum stands at the northern edge, beyond a paved forecourt. An angel statue, stone benches, a numbered stone column and several headstone styles are already placed. The player is mid-interaction with a wooden grave surround, with an on-screen prompt bound to the F key. Several plots are bare earth without a marker, and those are the ones carrying negative values.

Not Yet Disclosed

• How the green skull score is calculated per grave or per decoration

• Whether the rating gates anything, and if so what

• The full module list and their unlock costs on the Technology Tree

• Body preparation steps, autopsy tools or embalming stations as discrete mechanics

• Whether corpses can be refused, stored or held in reserve

• Any cap on graveyard size