- Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie
A Mortician's Tale is a narrative-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home—preparing the cadavers of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones' stories, and running the business.
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Contemporary, contemplative, intimate and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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PC GamerPhilippa WarrOct 201782/100An approachable and thought-provoking meditation on life's only certainty.
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EurogamerChristian DonlanOct 2017Death gets its moment in a clear-eyed and uplifting game about the funeral business.
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DestructoidNic RowenOct 20178/10Death shouldn't be something we don't talk about and the death business isn't something that should exist in the shadows. A Mortician's Tale provides an excellent way to join that conversation while shedding some light on a mysterious business that would prefer to stay cloaked in darkness. It's a short game, only an hour or so long, but it leaves an impact far beyond its runtime. Give it a chance, and it might just change the way you think about death.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
- Developer
- Laundry Bear Games
- Publisher
- Laundry Bear Games
- Released
- October 18, 2017
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 1 h rushed · 1.5 h main story · 1 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.6/10 from 19 ratings.
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