10 Video Games That Let You Be Incredible Criminals

3. Graveyard Keeper

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Lazy Bear Games

An argument could be made that any form of archaeology is technically the robbing of graves, all the way down to paleontology.

But few games really involve legit body-snatching of dead folk, outside of a cut scene in anything based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. But if you're into digging up corpses and butchering them for parts and also enjoy a good bit of Stardew Valley - well then I have fantastic news for you: Graveyard Keeper exists!

In Graveyard Keeper you play as a bearded man from the present who gets teleported to a medieval realm where he must work as a mortician and church groundskeeper. So really, it's kind of like an isekai anime where you become a necromancer.

Did I say necromancer? I sure as hell did, friend! That's because not only can you carve up these dead bodies for parts to use in machines, food (gross!), or even y'know...bury them like you're supposed to - but you can also use alchemy to revive them as zombies.

Why would you want zombies? Because imagine Stardew Valley, but you have mindless slaves to do all the tedious work for you, that's why.

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Author of Escort (Eternal Press, 2015), co-founder of Nic3Ntertainment, and developer behind The Sickle Upon Sekigahara (2020). Currently freelancing as a game developer and history consultant. Also tends to travel the eastern U.S. doing courses on History, Writing, and Japanese Poetry. You can find his portfolio at www.richardcshaffer.com.