https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/17/17702466/graveyard-keeper-farming-sim-pc-xbox-one

Stardew Valley taught me something I would’ve never known about myself: I like farming sims. I love how they take me to another, more calming place. I appreciate how they combine a relaxing setting with small, fun tasks. But farming sims still feel incomplete — they tend to lack an interesting story to complement all the time I put into them. But Graveyard Keeper, a “medieval cemetery management sim” that has you tending a graveyard, fills in that gap without losing the charm of completing your personal to-do list.

The game’s familiar pixel-art visuals belie a much darker tone than Stardew Valley and the like right from the start. After a short and somewhat dark opening, you’re thrust into a dingy cemetery. Instead of being introduced to plucky townsfolk, you’re greeted by a talking skull, a ghost, a witch-burning inquisitor and several other shady folks. Your new home is a far cry from the idyllic settings of the game’s farming sim brethren — probably because you’re tending to a graveyard, not a homestead. Even compared to Stardew Valley’s magical undertones (and capitalist critique), Graveyard Keeper comes off like a creepy, fantastical outlier within the management sim genre.