How to Save in Grayeyard Keeper

With Graveyard Keeper becoming temporarily free on Steam and PlayStation 5, more players than ever can fulfill their dreams of running a dodgy medieval cemetery. However, it is not at first clear how to save progress, and players trying to exit the game are told that unsaved progress will be lost. To avoid all that hard work digging, chopping, and repairing going to waste, players can save in Graveyard Keeper by going to bed.

How To Save Progress In Graveyard Keeper

To save in Graveyard Keeper, players need to go to sleep in their bed, and upon waking up, there will be a book and quill icon to show that progress has been saved.

This is similar to other cozy games like Stardew Valley, but the great thing about Graveyard Keeper is that players can go to bed whenever they like and can sleep for short periods instead of the entire night. In fact, for the purpose of saving before logging off, players can instantly press the wake-up button and barely lose any time in the day when they pick up.

There don't appear to be any auto-saves, so make sure you always sleep before exiting the game.

Where To Find Your House & Bed?

During the tutorial, players are led to their graveyard and the locked church. The bed is not in the church, but instead in the player's home, which can be seen to the northeast on the map, titled Sweet Home.

Enter, and the bed is in the left-most room of the house.

Do You Need To Sleep In Graveyard Keeper?

Other than saving the game, sleeping in Graveyard Keeper also restores energy, depicted by the blue bar. Players can sleep for as long as they like to fully restore their energy. Otherwise, they can sleep and wake up whenever they like, with the time of the day shown by the moving sun and moon in the top left.

Later on in the game, players may have enough food to barely need to sleep at all, as food and drink also restore energy.

What Happens If You Die?

For those thinking about constantly sleeping to save their progress in case they die, don't worry, there are no penalties for death in this morbid game. Even without saving, you will simply spawn in your bed with all your items and a full health bar.

Essentially, death is a teleport and heal in Graveyard Keeper, and some players even use it this way. The only time lost is getting back to where you died if it's somewhere worth returning to.

That being said, it's still good to save frequently in case of the game crashing or similar issues.