Graveyard Keeper: Better Save Soul

91 reviews criticize the story, including 26 that still recommend the DLC. Euric turns up at the morgue, the Keeper treats him with sin shards charged by six townspeople, and then he leaves, damaging things around town on his way out, while Smiler departs too. 52 reviews call the ending abrupt, unfinished or a cliffhanger. Several players assumed a quest had failed to trigger: one "looked online to see if I had missed a quest or NPC to continue the story", and another wrote "I had to double check online to make sure that was, indeed the ending." Three point to the missing seventh sin: "We healed 6/7 sins in the guy, and then he just leaves and breaks everything."

Beyond the ending, 13 reviews say it adds little or no lore about the wider world, and some say it retreads the theme of the townspeople's sins. One notes that "the base game already did that and in a much better way". The quest steps mostly come down to waiting for the right weekday and talking to someone, which one reviewer summarizes as "wait for X day, talk to X person". The reward at the end disappoints as well, "just some new colors for bedspreads/carpet", and the stained glass window built from the shards "doesn't increase your church's quality".

15 reviews like the story or its characters, praising its humor, Smiler's arc ("As for Smiler, I thought his story was very satisfying, way more than Euric's!") or the newcomers in general ("The new characters are well written and it's fun to interact with them.").

Price comes up in 53 reviews, nearly always to say the DLC is not worth full price or only worth buying on sale or in a bundle, and 19 of them are positive reviews that add that caveat. Several object that it costs the same as the larger Stranger Sins and Game of Crone: "Can't believe it's the same price as the others." Another reviewer writes "It is priced at half the base game, but provides nowhere near a fraction of its content." Those who name a fair price put it between $2 and $5. A few see the convenience features as paid shortcuts, noting that "$10 to make the game easier is something that freemium mobile games do".

"Better Save Soul is easily the black sheep of the DLC," one review writes. 52 rank it below Stranger Sins and Game of Crone, several of them written by players who say they love the base game and the other two. The comparison covers lore (the others dig into the ancient contract, the inquisition and the town's past), new systems (the others added the tavern and the refugee camp) and length. Two reviews rate it above Game of Crone: one prefers its story, and both say it pads less, since "this DLC has no artificial time sinks like the second one has".

Reviewers who timed it finished in 2 to 7 hours, some of that spent waiting for the right weekday. 46 reviews call it short or thin, and four dispute the 6 to 12 hours they say the DLC advertised ("It says 6 to 12 hours of gameplay."). Players on finished saves say they went through it quickly, since they already had every material the quests ask for.

Most of the 30 reviews that call parts of the DLC busywork mean the shard grind behind the organ table and the extra steps it adds to every body. Others object to the questline's pacing: of the few hours one reviewer spent, "a good chunk of that was just waiting for the days of the week to pass".

The soul chamber, organ table and remote crafting are poorly explained, according to 17 reviews, and several had to look things up. "Good luck understanding the mechanics without 20 different guides opened," one warns. Another describes "the way the mechanics are not told until after you've already had to use them". Some add that the base game explains little as well.

Bugs come up in 12 reviews, 7 of them written within a week of launch, when one reviewer wrote that "This DLC added a large amount of game breaking bugs" before updating the review to say it had become playable. Quest blockers are the most common kind: cleaning up the town too early ("I got locked out of finishing the quest because there is a point you'll need to clean some things in town"), a letter the bishop would not accept, a recipe from the witch that never arrived and a final step that would not trigger. Two later reviews say the organ table lost items ("fix the bug that keep send my precious organ into the fourth dimension"), and two report crashes or a collapsing framerate, one of them with save corruption.

9 reviews say the DLC upsets the game's balance. Its gravestones come early and cheap yet beat the base game's ("If i haven't even unlocked + 10 Marmor Grave Stones why can i build + 20 ones already for a cheapter price?!"), its faith prayer outclasses the old one, and the higher skull cap turns older goals like the 20-skull columbarium into wasted effort. One player shrugs this off, since "everyone who got to this point already has more than enough money anyway".