A Mortician's Tale
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)…
A Mortician's Tale is an adventure developed by Laundry Bear Games, released 18 October 2017 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 1.5 hrs to finish.
What A Mortician's Tale is
A Mortician's Tale is an adventure game developed by Laundry Bear Games and released in 2017. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 3 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
A Mortician's Tale holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM and DirectX 9c. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
A Mortician's Tale launched on 18 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead and Assassin's Creed Origins. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for A Mortician's Tale yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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