Graveyard Keeper 2 Achievements Guide: All 38 Listed and Ranked by Rarity

Graveyard Keeper 2 launched with 38 achievements on Steam, and thirty-one days in, the global stats already sketch the whole difficulty curve: 96% of players have started the story, seven in ten have won their first battle, about half have smelted a hundred bronze ingots — and the completionist tail stretches from five percent to twenty. This guide lists every achievement with its unlock condition and live global rate, then reads what the curve tells you about where the game slows down. It pairs naturally with the beginner guide: aim your first week at the cheap early milestones and the rest of the ladder follows.

One patch note matters for this list: Update 1.006 (September 25) made demo-save milestones unlock Steam achievements retroactively in the full game. If you carried a demo save into launch week and your early milestones never popped, install the update, load your save, and check the list again.

Story and world achievements

The narrative spine. Most unlock passively as you play; the hidden five sit at the end of this table because Steam publishes no descriptions for them.

Three names worth flagging for series fans: Januarius and Jully (the “same person” achievement — the sequel’s humor is intact), The Other Keeper (the story is set eight years after the first game, and the developers hint the new keeper is “not exactly the same Keeper”), and the hidden romance-flavored trio, which hints relationship arcs exist this time. The characters guide tracks who returns from the first game.

Production and skill achievements

The crafting ladder — and the cleanest data on where the game gets hard.

The smelting ladder is the cleanest production wall in the data: about 53% of players have smelted 100 bronze ingots, and 54% have gone on to 100 iron. That is your first real grind gate, and the intended answer runs through the automation loop: zombie-run factories, not hand-smelting. Stroke of Genius is the other quiet signal — Inspirations are the sequel’s progression currency, and 150 of them is a mid-game achievement of its own.

Graveyard and faith achievements

The old-school keeper’s set — burial, sermons, and cemetery quality.

Cemetery quality reaching 200 is the clearest confirmation that grave decoration and layout still compound into a tracked score — the town restoration guide covers the graveyard modules (tombs, benches, columbaries, monuments) that feed it.

Combat and town achievements

The liberation campaign, from first blood to a fully rebuilt city.

Read this table as the game’s structure: First Blood (72%) → first town order (58%) → town recovery begins (51%) → South Town cleared (33%) → everything rebuilt (13%). That is the district-by-district campaign in five numbers, with Necromancer reminding you the army doing the liberating is homegrown — fifty resurrections means the morgue and the front line are the same supply chain. See zombies: workers and army for how that pipeline works.

What the rarity curve tells you

Three takeaways from thirty-one days of data:

• The early game is generous. Twenty achievements already sit above 30% thirty-one days in — the opening story beats, the first sermon, the first battle, and the first 100-dish and 100-crop marks among them.
• The mid-game wall is iron. About 53% of players have smelted 100 bronze ingots, and 54% have turned that into 100 iron. If you stall there, you are stalling exactly where everyone stalls.
• Completion is a marathon, not a skill test. Nothing here demands frame-perfect play; the rare set is volume — 50 burials, 50 resurrections, 100 bottles, every house, every stall. The bodies and morgue guide is where most of those counters tick.

One caveat that matters for hunters: the game ties key activities to designated days of the week — city battles, certain NPC mechanics, and (per their achievements) the concert and the elections. There is no confirmed missable yet, but showing up late to a calendar event can cost you an in-game week, so the calendar, not reflexes, is the achievement hunter’s real enemy.