A Mortician's Tale

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.

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

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.[1][2]

Development and release

A Mortician's Tale was developed by Canadian indie game studio Laundry Bear Games.[2] Inspiration for the game came from author and mortician Caitlin Doughty and death acceptance organisation The Order of the Good Death.[3]

The game was released for Windows and macOS on 18 October 2017.[2]

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Destructoid8/10[4]
EurogamerRecommended[5]
PC Gamer (UK)82/100[6]

A Mortician's Tale was received positively by critics.[5][6][4] Polygon ranked it 50th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017.[7] The game was nominated for "Game, Special Class" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards,[8][9] and for the Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival Competition Awards.[10]

References
  1. Weber, Rachel (2 March 2017). "'A Mortician's Tale': Inside a Death-Positive Video Game". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  2. Chan, Stephanie (16 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale dissects the stigma of death". VentureBeat. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  3. O'Connor, Alice (18 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale released". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  4. Rowen, Nic (22 October 2017). "Review: A Mortician's Tale". Destructoid. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  5. Donlan, Christian (19 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". Eurogamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  6. Warr, Philippa (18 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". PC Gamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  7. Polygon staff (18 December 2017). "The 50 best games of 2017". Polygon. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  8. "Nominee List for 2017". National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers. 9 February 2018. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  9. "Horizon wins 7; Mario GOTY". National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers. 13 March 2018. Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  10. Whitney, Kayla (22 March 2018). "Complete list of 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards Winners". AXS. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
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