Fit check
Is Gold and Graves worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want recruitment to replace some enemy defeats
- Roguelike fans who enjoy deciding when to escape with collected resources
- Tactical players who prefer directing individual units and building combinations
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a low-pressure dungeon game may find the rising danger level and irreversible losses demanding
- Players wanting a fixed campaign may dislike runs built around extraction, changing resources, and deeper challenges
- Players who prefer direct character progression may not want to manage cards, relics, gold, and mercenaries together
Our take on Gold and Graves
The extraction structure makes timing part of every run: staying longer offers access to deeper challenges, but increases danger and puts collected resources at risk. This focus on deciding when to leave comes at the cost of a safer, uninterrupted dungeon push.
What is Gold and Graves?
Gold and Graves blends dungeon runs with tactical combat and resource decisions.
Players weaken hostile creatures, pay them in gold, and enlist them as mercenaries. Recruits can be positioned around the battlefield, assigned opponents, and ordered to relocate. Escaping successfully returns cards, relics, hired fighters, and other gathered materials to the village, allowing the deck and roster to grow. Unspent gold can generate interest. Each journey involves selecting routes and choosing the right time to retreat. Remaining underground increases the danger meter, leading to tougher monsters. Materials or allies left behind during a failed run are gone permanently. Advancing into deeper areas adds new challenges while cards, relics, and the mercenary group continue to develop.
How Gold and Graves plays
- 01Enemy recruitment
- Lowering an enemy's health creates an opportunity to offer gold and add that unit to the mercenary force.
- 02Battlefield commands
- Mercenaries can be assigned targets and movement positions during combat.
- 03Deck combinations
- Cards, relics, and recruited units can be combined to develop the expedition team.
- 04Dungeon extraction
- Leaving a dungeon preserves collected cards, relics, and mercenaries for later runs.
- 05Rising danger
- Remaining in a dungeon increases its danger level and brings stronger monsters.
Gold and Graves compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown focuses on positioning, attack-tile upgrades, skill choices, and deck construction around encounters with the Shogun. Gold and Graves adds enemy recruitment, battlefield commands for multiple mercenaries, village resource accumulation, and extraction decisions that preserve or lose expedition gains. Xenonauts centers on persistent soldiers, squad operations, alien defense, and recovering technology, while Gold and Graves uses recruited enemies and dungeon runs as its progression structure.
Gold and Graves: platforms & release
Is Gold and Graves worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want recruitment to replace some enemy defeats. Skip it if: players seeking a low-pressure dungeon game may find the rising danger level and irreversible losses demanding.
Where can I download Gold and Graves?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Gold and Graves's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Gold and Graves on?
Windows only.
