Bury the Debt

First-person cozy-spooky automation

Start with a shovel. End with a cemetery that runs itself.

PC / Steam In development

Skeleton workers carrying a floating purple coffin through the lantern-lit cemetery.

From hard work to hardly working

A little elbow grease.
A lot of skeletons.

Dig graves, bury coffins and collect Souls to repay Death. Turn your hard work into upgrades, hire a skeleton workforce, and watch a strange little cemetery start to run itself.

First-person shovel beside open graves under warm lantern light.

Get your hands dirty.

Dig the grave. Carry the coffin. Collect the Souls. Your first shift starts with you.

A glowing Soul and colorful rewards rising from a completed grave under the moon.

Make the work pay.

Turn burial rewards into upgrades and hire your first skeleton helpers.

Let the crew take over.

Skeletons dig, carry and collect as your cemetery becomes increasingly self-running.

See it in motion

A very unusual day job.

Gameplay trailer · 1:00

Actual gameplay. English titles, music and game sound; no spoken dialogue.Download trailer 13.5 MB

Trailer description & text

Start with manual digging, carrying and burial work. Collect rewards, hire skeleton helpers, and watch them take over. Repay Death at the soul well. Meet Whiskey, who enjoys bones, loses his head and steals from the staff. Grow a Moonbell, receive portal deliveries, and see the wider cemetery.

Dream job. No days off. No flesh either. Bury coffins. Collect the rewards. Nope. I’m not doing all of that. Hire some help. OOPS. They handle the work. Repay Death. Bones feed the good boy. Good boy pays in gold. Meet Whiskey. Good boy. Mostly. Wishlist on Steam.

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Hands-on cemetery work

First-person digging, coffin handling and resource collection.

A skeleton workforce

Workers gradually automate the jobs you started by hand.

Unusual deliveries

Coffins arrive through a magical portal. Business is lively.

A strange little world

Discover artifacts, grow Moonbells and meet a mischievous skeleton dog.

Whiskey the skeleton dog outside his kennel, with his own right eye amber and left eye blue.

Meet Whiskey

Good boy. Questionable colleague.

Every cemetery needs a companion. This one steals bones from the staff. Whiskey brings a little affection—and a little structural instability—to the workday.

A look around