Comparison

Graveyard Empire vs Crystal Lab

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

Crystal Lab

Features
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Your next laboratory starts with a tap. Crystal Lab is an idle clicker game where you mine crystals, upgrade equipment, and build a growing jewelry collection. Start small, unlock automatic production, and work your way through five laboratories, each with its own style and tools. Tap to collect raw crystals and decide how to spend them: improve your mining equipment or polish them to buy jewelry. Complete matching sets to earn permanent production bonuses. There is always a new goal to work toward: • Upgrade equipment to increase your earnings per tap and automatic production. • Complete daily missions, open chests, and gather fragments to discover jewelry. • Take on the daily Mining Rush: 30 seconds to keep up your tapping pace and multiply your reward. • Collect sapphire, emerald, amethyst, citrine, and ruby jewelry. • Earn offline progress based on your automatic production. Play at your own pace, plan your upgrades, and turn a small crystal lab into a thriving mining operation.

Screenshots

Graveyard Empire4 screens
Crystal Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Crystal Lab at every 2 weeks against Graveyard Empire's every 2 months. Graveyard Empire's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 10 one-off in-app purchases and Crystal Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, Crystal Lab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Graveyard Empire versus Crystal Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGraveyard EmpireCrystal Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (172 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings172 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer24 HIT Riga SIARichard Menezes

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Graveyard Empire

One-time10
  • 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
  • Business Pass Premium$19.99
  • Safe of Gems$59.99
  • Truck of Gems$114.99
1 purchases

Crystal Lab

One-time1
  • Remover anúncios$1.99

Questions

Is Graveyard Empire free?
Graveyard Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crystal Lab free?
Crystal Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Graveyard Empire or Crystal Lab have ads?
Both Graveyard Empire and Crystal Lab show ads.
Which is updated more often, Graveyard Empire or Crystal Lab?
Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, and Crystal Lab every 2 weeks. Most recently, Graveyard Empire was updated on October 30, 2026 and Crystal Lab on October 28, 2026.

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