A Mortician's Tale

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A Mortician's Tale
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Developer(s) Laundry Bear Games
Publisher(s) Laundry Bear Games
Director(s) Gabby DaRienzo
Designer(s) Gabby DaRienzo
Programmer(s) Andrew Carvalho
Artist(s)
  • Gabby DaRienzo
  • Jacquelin de Leon
Writer(s) Kaitlin Tremblay
Composer(s) Halina Heron
Engine Unity
Platform(s) macOS, Windows, iOS
Release
  • macOS, Windows
  • 18 October 2017
  • iOS
  • 22 November 2018
Genre(s) Management
Mode(s) Single-player

A Mortician's Tale is a management video game developed by Laundry Bear Games. Players take control of a mortician working in a funeral home. The game was released for Windows and macOS in October 2017. [1]

Contents

Gameplay

A Mortician's Tale is a management video game in which the player takes control of Charlie, who has just started work as a mortician at a funeral home. [2] [3] [1]

Development and Release

A Mortician's Tale was developed by Canadian indie game studio Laundry Bear Games. [3] Inspiration for the game came from author and mortician Caitlin Doughty and death acceptance organization The Order of the Good Death. [4]

The game was released for Windows and macOS on 18 October 2017. [3] The game is currently available on Steam, itch.io, Apple's App Store, and Humble Bundle. [1]

Reception

A Mortician's Tale was received positively by critics. [7] [8] [6] Polygon ranked it 50th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017. [9] The game was nominated for "Game, Special Class" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards, [10] [11] and for the Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival Competition Awards. [12] [1]

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