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The Graveyard cover art

The Graveyard

Tale of Tales · 2009-03-09

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 19, 2021 (Android), TBD (iOS), Mar 21, 2008 (Linux), Mar 21, 2008 (Mac), Mar 21, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Graveyard is a very short computer game. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with poetry and storytelling but without words.

The Graveyard is an Indie and Simulation game released in 2009, priced at $4.99, with Mixed reviews from 632 reviews and an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners.

1
playing now
61%
positive of 632 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

The Graveyard is a computer art game developed by Belgian developer Tale of Tales in which the player assumes the role of an elderly woman walking through a graveyard to a bench.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 49,684 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 632 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2013-03-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162026Week of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Jul 2012Jul 2025Jul 2012 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2012 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2013 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2013 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2013 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2014 — avg 3 · peak 6Jul 2014 — avg 3 · peak 7Nov 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 4Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 4Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 3Nov 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2025 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2025 — avg 1 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Jul 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$1.242015-01-012025-10-062015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-05 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-11-02 — best price $4.992016-02-12 — best price $4.992016-05-18 — best price $1.992016-06-23 — best price $2.492016-09-08 — best price $3.742016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-06-23 — best price $2.492017-09-07 — best price $1.242017-11-16 — best price $2.492017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $1.242018-05-10 — best price $4.242018-06-22 — best price $3.742018-10-30 — best price $1.692018-12-20 — best price $2.492019-05-10 — best price $3.942019-06-25 — best price $2.492019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $4.992020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-03-17 — best price $4.992020-04-08 — best price $4.992020-04-28 — best price $4.992020-05-12 — best price $3.662020-05-25 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-11-01 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-05-08 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

10312026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 7 pageviews2026-06-08 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-16 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 12 pageviews2026-06-24 — 103 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-02 — 18 pageviews2026-07-06 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-26 — 6 pageviews2026-07-30 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 6 pageviews2026-08-07 — 9 pageviews2026-08-11 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-19 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 3 pageviews2026-09-04 — 7 pageviews2026-09-08 — 14 pageviews2026-09-12 — 9 pageviews2026-09-16 — 7 pageviews2026-09-20 — 7 pageviews2026-09-24 — 5 pageviews2026-09-28 — 19 pageviews2026-10-02 — 15 pageviews2026-10-06 — 3 pageviews2026-10-10 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English Dutch English

Player tags

AnimeFunnyIndieMemesShortHorrorSimulationAtmosphericSingleplayerPsychological

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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