A Mortician's Tale
Laundry Bear Games · 2017 · Indie, Casual, Female Protagonist, Short, Singleplayer
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About A Mortician's Tale
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You run a funeral home as a new mortician, preparing bodies, attending services, and connecting with grieving families while learning the realities of the death industry. This intimate, story-driven game offers a thoughtful and surprisingly human look at mortality through Charlie's eyes, blending education, humor, and genuine emotional moments.
A Mortician's Tale takes about 1 hour to play. It's a short, but deeply meaningful experience.
A Mortician's Tale is a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. Take on the role of recent funeral direction graduate Charlie as she learns the ropes of the business and industry. Prepare the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attend their funerals and listen to their loved ones' stories, and interact with Charlie's coworkers, clients, and bosses.
A Mortician's Tale is an informative, honest, and sometimes humorous look at the current state of and the future of the western death industry.
Original soundtrack by Halina Heron.
A Mortician's Tale is a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. Take on the role of recent funeral direction graduate Charlie as she learns the ropes of the business and industry. Prepare the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attend their funerals and listen to their loved ones' stories, and interact with Charlie's coworkers, clients, and bosses.
A Mortician's Tale is an informative, honest, and sometimes humorous look at the current state of and the future of the western death industry.
Original soundtrack by Halina Heron.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
this game is way too short, yet it carries such a deep meaning.. loved how it explores death and its impact on the people left behind.3 found this helpful
Cute short game with a hefty price tag.
An adorable, short game that rolls through the basics of embalming and preparing a corpse.
A beautifully crafted and therapeutic look into the death industry and various approaches to how we treat the deceased. Explicitly pro-LGBT even if it's only in the background. Arguably a bit pricey for the length, but I'd say the care put into handling the subject justifies it. Read everything on the computer. That's where the real game is.
This is a very light recommend for me. I really enjoyed the concept, but the story is just way too short. For a $10 game, finishing everything in about an hour feels like a bit of a rip‑off. The idea behind it absolutely hits, and I wish they had built it out into something longer and more substantial. I also wish I could have done the cadaver’s makeup instead of leaving that to the other employees—it felt like a missed opportunity for more meaningful interaction. Overall, it’s an interesting concept with good intentions, but I just wanted more from it.
This is more a visual novel than a game, with some brief point and click sections. I beat the whole thing in 30 minutes. Now I didn't buy this specifically(I think I got it in a Humble Bundle) but $11.49 CAD for 30 minutes is a terrible value proposition. The game itself is bland. It tries to make some statements about the funeral industry and death but none of them particularly landed for me. You get a few cold emails from a cartoonishly evil CEO but the player character has zero personality, only responding in chipper "I'll get right to it!" auto-replies that are always friendly and professional. I feel like the least they could've done is write these little quips in a colder tone when the funeral home gets bought out. The closest thing to "gameplay" is preparing the bodies, which is basically more point and click, and managed to feel repetitive in a game that lasts half an hour. Honestly there is maybe 10 minutes of gameplay here, padded out by having to watch the main character slowly walk from station to station. I only played it for the trading cards. update: the best part of this game is the minesweeper clone you can play for an achievement
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