The Grounds-Keeper

Death retired. The lawn didn't.

After an eternity of reaping, the Grim Reaper has hung up the scythe for something gentler: keeping the parish graveyard. The Groundskeeper is a cozy, spooky chore game about tending moonlit cemeteries, one plot at a time — and about the spirits who notice someone finally cares.

Tend the grounds

Ghost Mower  — glide through long, overgrown grass and leave neat, short turf behind you.

Spray & Brush — scrub moss, lichen and soot from weathered headstones with a bottle of holy water until every name reads again.

Leaf Basket  — draw drifts of autumn leaves into your wicker basket and haul them to the compost bin.

Flowerbeds — pull out the dead stalks, soak the soil, and watch rows of snapdragons burst into bloom.

Hedge Shears — clip scraggly bushes, snip by snip, into one of five spooky designs.

Fifteen plots, three grounds

Work your way from The Old Yard , a crooked little village churchyard, through the long rows of Chapel Row , to the windswept crypts of Crypt Hill . New chores arrive gently as you go, and every visit lays the plot out fresh — headstones, trees, flowerbeds and hedges are never in quite the same place twice.

The dead have stories

Finish a plot and linger a while: a spirit may rise at a grave to talk. Twenty ghosts wait to be met — some funny, some sad, a few deeply unsettling — and every conversation is kept in your Ghost Journal . Replay plots to find them all.

Grow your craft

Earn Grave Coins for every chore and spend them on [b]ten upgrades[/b]: wider mower decks, a stronger spray, a deeper basket, faster boots, and gardening gear for the flowerbeds.

Adopt [b]spirit companions[/b] — a ghost cat, a crypt bat, a faithful hound, a grave wolf, a churchyard serpent and a spirit tiger — who follow you around the grounds.

Chain chores into a streak for bonus bounties.

Or race the clock

Time Challenge mode turns every plot into a speed run, with Bronze, Silver and Gold targets, best times, and medal rewards to chase.

Features

Cute and spooky sometric art, warm lantern light and a moonlit night sky that changes with each ground

A gentle music-box waltz written to sit behind you for hours

A guided training plot that teaches every tool

39 Steam achievements

Cozy and relaxing — no fail states, no timers unless you want them