GK2 Guide

Graveyard Keeper 2 Combat

Find available fights, see what each encounter requires, prepare before entering, and follow the combat progression.

This page is not a combat mechanics essay and not a list of names. It answers the four questions players actually arrive with: which encounters exist, what each one asks for before it will start, what it opens up afterwards, and where the next one comes from. Every answer below is read from the production game data behind this site, so where the game records nothing the page says so instead of inventing a strategy.

What are you trying to do?

Find a fightSee every encounter and what it requiresPrepare for a fightCheck what you need before enteringI'm stuckFind why an encounter will not start

Find a fight

The game ships 17 encounters that the site treats as separate fights. Search them by name, by the area they sit in, or by the quest that leads to them.

Showing 17 of 17 encounters

What fight comes next?

The game records no official fight number, so the order below is the order of the quests the game links to each encounter. Tick the fights you have finished and the page points at the earliest one left.

Nothing here reads a save file, and no tick leaves this browser. Tick a fight and the page will narrow down what is left.

  1. Central Districts Purge: Part I
  2. Closing the Eastern Floodgate: Part I
  3. Closing the Eastern Floodgate: Part II
  4. Eastern Districts: Active Scouting
  5. Eastern Districts Purge
  6. Battle at the Lake
  7. Closing the Western Floodgate
  8. Market Square Purge
  9. Central Districts Purge: Part II
  10. Break Through to the Port
  11. Sewer Brawl I
  12. Sewer Brawl II
  13. Operation POTATO: Part I
  14. Operation POTATO: Part II
  15. Break Through to the Bathhouse Basement
  16. Final Battle
  17. Sewerena (The Sewer Arena)

0 of 17 encounters ticked off

Ticked fights are the ones you marked yourself. The game records no official fight order, so this page never claims an encounter is "current" from its own data.

Prepare for a fight

Pick an encounter and the page splits what you need into the quests it is attached to, the encounter that has to come first, and the checks the game itself performs before a fight may start.

Pick an encounter above and the page lists what the game records before it will start.

This page lists what the game records. It does not recommend weapons, armor or perks, because the data holds no per-encounter weakness, resistance or damage relation to base a recommendation on.

Why isn't this fight available?

Pick the encounter that will not start. The page lists everything the game requires before it, and with ticks it shows what is still missing.

Pick the encounter that will not start. The page lists what the game records before it.

Combat progression

Encounters grouped by the quest the game links to them, earliest quest first. That is progression, not a fight number: the game ships no official fight order, so none is invented here.

Select a fight to see its requirements.

Hope It Doesn't go South

5 encounters

Plaza Battle

3 encounters

Street Battles

1 encounter

First... Sludge?

1 encounter

Battles in the Sewers

2 encounters

Dirt Rights

2 encounters

Steamy Royal

1 encounter

The Last Battle

1 encounter

Encounter rows the game attaches to no published quest are listed here without an order.

How combat works here

Only what the game data and the published encounters support. Where the data stops, this section stops.

How encounters start

An encounter begins either from a battle camp menu, at a battle camp in the world, or from a story event. Each encounter on this page lists which of the three the game records for it.

How the game decides you may fight

Before a fight starts, the game runs the same short list of checks for every encounter: a sword equipped, body armor equipped, no more than one item carried overhead, the encounter unlocked in its camp menu, and a minimum defence power. The value differs per encounter and is listed with each fight.

What happens after a fight

A won fight pays out its victory rewards and can hand the progression on to the next quest or the next encounter in the same chain. Rewards and follow-ups are listed per encounter.

What this page cannot tell you

Enemy behaviour, attack patterns, damage numbers, resistances and phases are not in the published combat data. That is why there is no tactics section here: any "stay behind the enemy" advice would be written from nothing.

Fight locations

Where the published encounters sit, as the map projection records them. Encounter rows without a drawn world position are listed without a pin rather than placed at a guessed spot.

Open the interactive map
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  • On the world map
  • On the world map
  • On the world map
  • On the world map
  • Inside a dungeon
  • Inside a dungeon
  • On the world map
  • On the world map
  • Inside a dungeon
  • On the world map
  • Inside a dungeon

The map shows the same encounters on the world map together with the camps and vendors around them.

Common combat problems

The reasons players come to this page, and where each one is actually answered.

  • I can't start a fight

    The game runs a fixed start check before every fight. Open the encounter under "Why isn't this fight available?" and the page lists which check is still open.

    Answer it

  • I can't reach the encounter

    Some encounters sit inside a location you may not have opened yet. The location section and the quests linked to the encounter show where it is and what opens it.

    Answer it

  • I don't know what fight comes next

    Tick the fights you have finished. The page then points at the earliest encounter left in the game's own quest order.

    Answer it

  • A previous fight isn't marked complete

    Follow-up encounters are chained, so a later one stays closed while an earlier one is open. The encounter page lists the one it follows.

    Answer it

  • I want to prepare before fighting

    Preparation splits into the quests linked to the encounter, the encounter that has to come first, and the start checks the game performs.

    Answer it

  • I finished the fight but progression didn't continue

    The encounter page lists what the fight hands on: the next quest, the next encounter in the chain, or nothing when the data records no follow-up.

    Answer it

Where this page's answers come from

Every encounter name, quest link, reward, start check and follow-up below is projected from the production game database behind this site, and the encounter identities are the published ones, so the runtime fight rows the game merges into one fight stay one page here.

Related pages

Combat answers which encounter to fight and what it needs. The walkthrough answers the longer route behind it, and the quest, item and map pages answer the individual steps.

See the progression pathQuestsItemsVendorsNPCsInteractive Map