# Dearly: Cozy Cemetery — Gentle restoration story game

> Gentle restoration story game (iPhone/iPad app by Birol Aksu.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dearly-cozy-cemetery/id6804414342 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Birol Aksu](https://appshunter.io/developer/729548908)
- Category: Games, Casual, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 201 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-11

## What is Dearly?

Dearly is a gentle cemetery-keeping game about restoring forgotten names, tending quiet places, and guiding kind little ghosts home.

Take over a small, overgrown ground and bring it back one grave at a time. Reveal the people who rest there, gather the donations left by visitors, plant flowers, light lanterns, and open the path to the next distinct place.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Restore graves and return every resident’s name
• Gather kind donations and grow your grounds at your own pace
• Guide friendly ghosts home beneath the lanterns
• Keep flowers, ponds, cottages, and memorial spaces
• Follow quiet family stories in the Memorial Book
• Travel through distinct grounds, including returning seasonal places
• Discover twenty authored grounds, each laid out in its own way, across the permanent road, a free chapter of six new grounds, the Twilight Paths chapter, and the returning year
• Join Hallowtide from October 24 to November 2 without streak pressure or paid catch-up
• Play in portrait on iPhone, or in portrait and landscape on iPad

GENTLE BY DESIGN

Dearly has no ads, no energy timer, no competitive ladder, and no punishment for taking time away. Offline progress is capped kindly, seasonal progress is preserved, and everything important can be played for free.

OPTIONAL ACCOUNT

Play as a guest on one device, or use Sign in with Apple or email to protect your grounds with cloud backup. Account deletion is available inside Settings.

FREE TO PLAY

Dearly is free to play. There are no ads, energy purchases, paid skips, or purchasable currency. Seven optional purchases support the game, and every one is permanent; none is consumable. Six are cosmetic: three supporter tiers, each with its own garden statue and a thank-you in the credits; two small decoration sets; and a four-season visual theme. The seventh is Twilight Paths, a story chapter of two further grounds. None speeds up, shortens, or gates the free journey. Twilight Paths' two grounds, like every chapter in the Memorial Book, add to donations once remembered (up to 10% more across both), and the free journey is priced to keep the same pace without them.

A little cemetery, kept with love.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Candlelight Supporter Pack | $1.99 | one-time |
| Turning Seasons Theme | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Dearly safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Dearly.

## Is Dearly legit?

Dearly: Cozy Cemetery appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dearly is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-06

Version 1.3 is a quiet, generous update to the grounds.

• A new free chapter of six grounds: Millbrook, Quincewood, Mossdell, Heatherfell, Hopwick and Gentianrise, each with its own residents and stories. The road now reaches twenty grounds.
• A newly painted map of the whole country road, with every destination on it.
• Most grounds have been relaid with a shape of their own, and each new ground has a headstone of its own.
• Gravestones are repainted to settle softly into the grass.
• Residents written by hand for every ground, each with their own small life story to uncover as you restore their graves.
• The Twilight Paths chapter is now available: Alderwake Grove and Starling Vale, two further grounds with their own residents and stories.
• Optional supporter tiers and two small theme packs. Every purchase is permanent and none speeds up or gates the free journey.
• New decorations for your grounds, and a frame of pressed ivy you can lay around an entry in the Memorial Book.
• A second Lanternlight ring with gentle new habits to choose.
• Gentler dusk visits: sit on the bench until dusk and let the rest of the afternoon pass.
• Ghosts and mourners move with more life as they wander the paths.
• Buttons answer the moment you touch them, haptics are calmer, and the Care sign glows softly when something is waiting.
• Smoother first steps. An account is optional, and you can play as a guest from the start.
• Seasonal grounds stay open once you have walked them.
• Accessibility improvements throughout.

Thank you for keeping these quiet places with us.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-08

Version 1.1 adds two optional permanent cosmetic purchases: the Candlelight Supporter Pack, with its exclusive Marble Angel, and the Turning Seasons Theme, with four selectable atmospheres and matching decorations. Natural seasons and the full free journey remain unchanged. Restore Purchases is available in Settings, with improved cross-device and refund reconciliation.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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