📖 GK1 mechanic — applies to Graveyard Keeper (2018), not confirmed for GK2

DLC Overview: Stranger Sins, Game of Crone, Better Save Soul

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Graveyard Keeper received three paid DLC expansions after its August 2018 base-game launch, each adding 6–12 hours of content and extending a different axis of the base game. All three integrate into existing save files rather than requiring a new game, and all three extend the base tech tree and recipe pools. **Stranger Sins** (released November 2019, Steam App ID 1163770) is the first DLC and centers on tavern management. The key new feature is the Talking Skull — a tavern the player builds and operates in the basement of a structure in the village. Running the tavern involves stocking alcohol and food, hosting events (Rat Race and Stand-up Comedy), and managing supply chains from production to the bar crates. Stranger Sins adds substantial NPC backstory: previously silent NPCs like the Lumberjack, Beekeeper, and the Corey and Tress brothers gain voiced quests and full character arcs. The questline involves helping Gerry (the talking skull) reconstruct events from 200 years prior, revealing the history of the game world. On the mechanical side: Stranger Sins adds zombie porter automation for hauling alcohol from the production basement to the tavern crates; a vineyard that can be zombie-automated for passive wine income; new Stranger Sins quest items that integrate with the game's item taxonomy; and alternative fertilizer crafting routes via the Organ Workbench in the Souls Room (Boost Fertilizer I/II and Quality Fertilizer I/II, crafted from Peat + Hemp + Sin Shards + Ash). The DLC is rated Very Positive (80% of 409 reviews on Steam). **Game of Crone** (released October 27, 2020, Steam App ID 1430990; ported to consoles June 23, 2021) is the second DLC and shifts focus to a refugee camp storyline. The player develops a struggling refugee settlement into a fortified camp, defending it against external threats including a vampire terrorizing the village. New mechanics include: bag inventory expansion; new grave types, fences, and gravestones; teleportation scrolls for fast travel; and access to new vendors including a Cook NPC who sells additional recipe unlocks (Milk Processing for Cheese, Butter, and Cream of Mushroom Soup; advanced lentil dishes; patty recipes; jelly desserts — all extending the cooking tech tree). The DLC has three endings, each a cliff-hanger with associated perks, and the wiki recommends saving before building the watchtower at the Refugee Camp to enable all three to be seen. Game of Crone also adds the GoC Cooking Table — a dedicated station in the refugee camp for camp-specific recipes. Additional playtime estimate is 3–10 hours depending on existing game progress. **Better Save Soul** (released October 27, 2021, Steam App ID 1788370; not available on Nintendo Switch) is the third DLC and introduces the most mechanically novel feature of the three: remote craft control. This allows the player to manage workbench production queues directly from the world map without walking to each station — a significant quality-of-life upgrade for late-game players managing large zombie-automated factories. The DLC's storyline centers on Euric, a new NPC whose soul contains Sin Shards; the player helps remove them in exchange for the remote craft control system. This requires opening the Church's Corpse Hatch and beginning the Bowl quest from the Bishop. Better Save Soul also adds the Organ Workbench to the game (shared with Stranger Sins fertilizer crafting), which enables crafting of the Story quest item (1 Clean Paper + 2 Sin Shards + 5 Faith). The DLC adds a new area for the new workbenches and introduces the Prayer for Soul's Repose sermon (a new church sermon that scales faith and coin payout with quality level).

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• Fandom – Game of Crone
• Fandom – Better Save Soul
• Steam – Stranger Sins
• Steam – Game of Crone
• Steam – Better Save Soul