Comparison

Graveyard Empire vs Digging a Graveyard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Graveyard Empire

Manage and expand your own cemetery in this offline strategy game. Upgrade burial grounds, hire staff, and serve both living families and supernatural beings. Defend your property from zombies and become an underworld empire tycoon.

Highlights
  • Cemetery management and expansion
  • Hire and manage staff
  • Serve living families and supernatural beings
  • Defend against zombies
  • Upgrade graves and crypts
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Dive into the world of non-stop fun, offline strategy games, and management of your own cemetery in Graveyard Empire: Funeral Games. You are the boss of this burial ground, and you can safely upgrade it to a luxurious cemetery with various hospitality items for the undead. Combine your management and undertaker skills and become an underworld empire tycoon by opening new locations, serving families and the dreaded undead, and hiring skilled staff. In Graveyard Empire: Offline Strategy Games you will meet a vampire, a walking skeleton, a legendary Frankenstein, and a charming succubus: give them the necessary favors and they will generously thank you with resources or protection from zombies. You have a huge range of actions that you can do: dig a new grave, put flowers on a monument, make a coffin, fight off the walking dead, and much more, demonstrate your tactics and strategy, and become the owner of a first-class cemetery. Download Graveyard Tycoon: Underworld Empire absolutely FREE and play right now! Idle Strategy Gameplay Easy to learn and accessible to everyone, the gameplay will give you a fun experience of managing the cemetery. Upgrade and Expand In our example of funeral games, you can upgrade anything from ordinary graves to entire crypts and expand your property by opening new locations. Expand the Staff Hire new assistants who will help you in the affairs of the undertaker and accelerate your becoming a tycoon. Great 3D Graphics Restrained dark colors and creepy decorations will immerse you in the atmosphere of the cemetery of the plague era. Offline Graveyard You can play anywhere and anytime, nothing will stop you from building your underworld empire and enjoying offline strategy games. Are you ready for the challenges that funeral games business manager face? You will have to cooperate with a succubus, calm a vampire, wake up Frankenstein, stop the walking dead, all so that families can mourn their loved ones in peace. Make important decisions to become the owner of the best graveyard in Graveyard Tycoon: Underworld Empire Manager and enjoy the offline strategy games experience to your heart's content.

About

Digging a Graveyard

Manage a dark cemetery as the graveyard taker. Build, dig, and expand your graveyard empire to become the ultimate cemetery manager.

Highlights
  • Graveyard management
  • Cemetery building
  • Empire expansion
  • Dark theme simulation
Features
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Become the graveyard taker and manage a dark cemetery. Build, dig, and expand your graveyard empire.

Screenshots

Graveyard Empire4 screens
Digging a Graveyard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Digging a Graveyard at 5.0 against Graveyard Empire's 4.5. Digging a Graveyard also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Graveyard Empire's advantage is ratings volume (150 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Graveyard Empire sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Digging a Graveyard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Digging a Graveyard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Graveyard Empire has 150 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, Digging a Graveyard every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Graveyard Empire versus Digging a Graveyard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGraveyard EmpireDigging a Graveyard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (150 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings150 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB289 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer24 HIT Riga SIATalha Abbasi

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Graveyard Empire

One-time12
  • Pile of Gems$2.99
  • Piggy Bank$3.99
  • Cemetery Manager Offer$3.99
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  • Business Pass Elite$7.99
  • Income Multiplier x1.5$9.99
  • Manager Necropolis$9.99
  • No Ads Offer$9.99
  • Case of Gems$19.99
  • Business Pass Premium$19.99
  • Income Multiplier x3$49.99
  • Safe of Gems$59.99
  • Truck of Gems$114.99
None

Digging a Graveyard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Graveyard Empire free?
Graveyard Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Digging a Graveyard free?
Digging a Graveyard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Graveyard Empire or Digging a Graveyard?
Digging a Graveyard is rated higher. Graveyard Empire averages 4.5 out of 5 from 150 ratings, while Digging a Graveyard averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Graveyard Empire or Digging a Graveyard have ads?
Both Graveyard Empire and Digging a Graveyard show ads.
Which is updated more often, Graveyard Empire or Digging a Graveyard?
Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, and Digging a Graveyard every 4 days. Most recently, Graveyard Empire was updated on September 27, 2026 and Digging a Graveyard on September 25, 2026.

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