Graveyard Keeper 2 Price and Pre-Order Bonuses Explained

Graveyard Keeper 2 has refreshingly simple pricing: one edition, one discount window, one pre-order bonus. Here is exactly what it cost, what pre-order buyers got, and what the price looks like now that the game is out.

How much does Graveyard Keeper 2 cost?

The pre-purchase promotion ran until September 22, 2026 — launch day. The game now lists at $24.99 on Steam (verified September 23, 2026); regional prices on the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo stores follow their normal conversion patterns, and the discount structure was the same everywhere.

For context, that launch price sits at the premium end for the genre: the original Graveyard Keeper launched at $19.99 in 2018 but has since been bundled and discounted to a few dollars in sales. If you are patient rather than eager, history says the sequel will eventually discount too — but no post-launch discount schedule has been announced.

What was included with a pre-order?

Two items, per the official store listings:

1. A personal sauna — a bonus building placed outside your house. Per the developers’ official FAQ, it sits to the left of your base, over the bridge — and the bridge only becomes repairable as you progress through the game, so the sauna arrives on the story’s schedule, not yours. The listings do not detail any gameplay effect, and this page long treated it as a prestige item — but Update 1.009 (October 6, 2026) fixed a bug where the sauna’s bonus “permanently reduc[ed] the energy food restores after the buff expired,” official confirmation that the sauna carries a temporary food-energy buff. It is more than cosmetic.
2. An exclusive outfit for your character, with the design varying by platform — each storefront carried its own variant. To claim it, unlock the ‘Suit Up!’ technology, build a Dresser in your home, and change clothes there — the official FAQ’s instructions.

Pre-ordering also simply locked the 20% discount; there were no tiered editions. The game launched on September 22, 2026 on every platform.

Was pre-ordering worth it?

Honest answer: it depends on your appetite for risk, and this wiki will not pretend otherwise. The window closed at launch on September 22, 2026, so this is now a retrospective — how the math looked, and what to know if you did pre-order.

The case for it: the discount plus bonuses were real value if you were buying at launch anyway, and the developer’s track record is strong — the first game holds a “Very Positive” rating across more than 50,000 Steam reviews, and the sequel’s reception metrics (500,000 wishlists in nine days, 23,000+ first-day pre-orders) were unusually healthy for the price of a mid-size indie.

How the “wait for reviews” question resolved: the main reason to wait was that the full game had no review record before launch. That reason expired on launch day: as of October 22, 2026, the full game’s Steam listing holds a “Mostly Positive” rating, with about 77% of roughly 4,000 user reviews positive — it opened at “Very Positive” during launch week and has settled lower as the review base grew past 3,000 (the developers’ own September 24 announcement cited 84% positive alongside 400,000 copies sold). The demo’s signal held up alongside it (88% of roughly 665 reviews as of September 22, 2026). If you waited, the cost was the discount: the game now lists at $24.99, and no post-launch sale has been announced.

Pre-ordered and don’t see your bonuses?

A day-one hotfix (released September 22, 2026, per the official announcement) fixed an issue that, in some cases, prevented pre-order content from appearing in existing save files. If your sauna or outfit is missing, make sure the game is updated to the latest version and check again.

And if you are still weighing the purchase, you can check whether your hardware is ready in system requirements — the specs are so low that most machines are.