I've tried really hard to enjoy this game, to the point where I've done three separate playthroughs - two vanilla, one modded. It just feels more like a chore than enjoyable, even when modded to try to streamline things. It's such a cool concept for a darker spooky farming sim, but it falls short in almost every way.

Many of the mechanics feel cobbled together or afterthoughts - like combat/dungeon crawling, technology points, and upgrading crafting stations for a few examples. Why doesn't the upgrade for the Stone Cutter 2 just apply over top of the existing Stone Cutter 1 I had been using for the first half of the game? Dungeon crawling feels so clunky, you have to clear every enemy from a floor before you can progress. Blue tech points are extremely difficult to earn early game, and even late game it feels tiresome since you have to go out of your way to earn them (whereas Red/Green points are passively earned). Many skills in the tree need these points so it's inevitable that you'll have to sit in the Church basement farming them (or grinding out and then recycling dozens of Stone grave fences). Earning Faith is incredibly bottlenecked due to being restricted to one sermon per week, and many recipes/studies require massive amounts of them.

And oh my god the ITEMS never end and there is nowhere to store them all - good luck if you don't have a storage expansion mod! Some of the items bafflingly don't even stack (or stack in odd numbers), you could end up with a whole chest full of single intestines or brains, while the bones and blood stack neatly. The game doesn't really give the best explanation for what each item does either, it could really use a better in-game tutorial or info window. I don't think most players would know how to get Acid for one of the story quests without looking it up online for example.

I could go on, but in summary progression is slow and confusing. I often forget that the name of the game is "Graveyard Keeper" because I am doing everything but taking care of the graveyard most days due to running around farming, fermenting, fishing, fetch questing, etc. while managing 100 tabs in my browser that I use to look up what every item does or how to craft something.

Sorry farming sim enthusiasts, you're better off going back to Stardew Valley or Fields of Mistria.

Difficult to enjoy, unbearably boring chores game. The "quests" are just webs of figuring out 12 different steps on how to get an item for an npc that you had 3 bland dialogues since the beginning of the game. There's zero motivation to play this. Graphics and animations are average, writing is mediocre, the gameplay is just constant forgetting/relearning item requirements to proceed the story/world. Repetitive tasks, slow feeling of character progression, "doesn't get easier with time" loop... Wiki page pretty much required to keep open on the second display.
Expected a comfy stardew alt with a twist, got an unfulfilling chores tickbox game.

I have completed the game's story and have no desire to go back to get achievements nor try the DLCs.

- Love the art style.
- The music and audio design in general are good.
- The best part was getting to know the characters and seeing the completion of their stories. I saw most of the connections coming a mile away but one did manage to catch me by surprise. They're all endearingly annoying and I like that.

- The game pauses when the window is not in focus.

- The progression is awfully paced. There's too much to keep track of and do during the mid point. And when at the end game all you're doing is waiting about for the day of the week that the NPC you need to speak turns up.
Example: Speak to Astrologer, he asks for an item. Give him item, he says come back in a week. Come back, he asks for the same item but gold quality. Do so and come back in another week. During this, if you do not have the means to make the item quickly (or look it up and have it at the ready) you could end up waiting an additional in-game week because you did not had it over same day. It's awful because at that point there was nothing else to do in the game. No need to earn money. Can't progress the story of other character's because it hinges on completing this one first. And because the game pauses when tabbed out you can't even do something else and let it pass time on its own. Have to use up energy, sleep and repeat to rapidly speed up time's progression.

- There is so much useless content.
Example: You can start making zombies near the end of early game to automate stuff. And there are a lot of ways to improve their efficiency, but there's no point in doing any of that. You're so busy that they'll get the jobs done quicker than you can keep up with anyway. The alchemy went mostly unused besides for making health and speed potions.

- The dungeon and fishing were annoying.
You can tell that they were both heavily Stardew Valley inspired. Except for the dungeon requiring you to kill all enemies to progress to the next floor. I wouldn't have minded that if the floors were linear. So much time was wasted backtracking in order to find a dead end room and kill everything. I ended up using a notepad to draw the layouts of the place so I knew which way to go.
The fishing minigame is the same as SV but controls slightly worse. Even with the best fishing rod it makes no difference to the ease of it.

In the end, I completed it for the sake of doing so. Most of my time with this was spend either bored or frustrated/annoyed. And this is coming from a guy who loves farming sims, management games and darker tones.

Just because you make a self referential joke about missing/hyped/mentioned content being sold as DLC instead of being in the base game, does not make doing so alright. What a way to ruin the credit scene.