Developer Lazy Bear Games and publisher tinyBuild announced Graveyard Keeper 2, and to mark the reveal the studio made the 2018 predecessor free on PlayStation, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC until April 13, 2026, and the offer requires no playstation plus subscription to claim.
The free release places players in the role of a medieval graveyard keeper, asking them to build and manage a cemetery, gather materials, craft items, and expand into side ventures, while confronting ethically dubious choices about how to use bodies and resources.
The game description frames Graveyard Keeper as an intentionally inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim, focused on the spirit of capitalism and cost cutting, while also presenting a love story, and it includes quests, dungeons, alchemy ingredients, and opportunities to sell processed materials.
Players can explore surrounding areas for resources, take proper quests, and venture into dungeons to find new alchemy components that may have risky effects on nearby villagers, according to the game summary.
Directory Update And Wider Free Games Landscape
A separate directory tracking free games was updated on April 11 and added Graveyard Keeper alongside titles such as LivingForest and eWorlds, as reported in the directory update.
The directory notes that free games appear across multiple storefronts, with Steam, the Epic Games Store, Fanatical, Indiegala, and Itch.io regularly giving away titles, and Amazon Luna offering Prime subscribers a selection they can permanently keep.
The update also highlights that PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass continue to add new games for subscribers, and it underscores that PS Plus Essential offerings last a month so players must add them before they expire.
The March roundup in the directory listed 13 free games revealed that month with varying expiration dates, and it named several titles and windows, including Heavy Rain starting on April 15, Vampire Crawlers on April 21, Final Fantasy 4 on April 7, and Barbie Horse Trails on April 2.
The directory further listed other March reveals such as Escape Up, Crimson Loop, Dog's Walts, Ze Gunner, Ferret Quest, 4Spicchi, Bird Watching Simulator, and Grove, and it also linked to coverage of PS Plus Essential and games leaving Xbox Game Pass in April.
