A Mortician's Tale
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Developer(s) | Laundry Bear Games |
Publisher(s) | Laundry Bear Games |
Designer(s) | Gabby DaRienzo |
Programmer(s) | Andrew Carvalho |
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Writer(s) | Kaitlin Tremblay |
Composer(s) | Halina Heron |
Engine | Unity |
Platform(s) | macOS, Windows, iOS |
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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.
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
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Metacritic | PC: 78/100[4] |
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Destructoid | 8/10[5] |
Eurogamer | Recommended[6] |
PC Gamer (UK) | 82/100[7] |
A Mortician's Tale was received positively by critics.[6][7][5] Polygon ranked it 50th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017.[8] The game was nominated for "Game, Special Class" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards,[9][10] and for the Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival Competition Awards.[11]
References
- ^ Weber, Rachel (2 March 2017). "'A Mortician's Tale': Inside a Death-Positive Video Game". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ a b c Chan, Stephanie (16 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale dissects the stigma of death". VentureBeat. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ O'Connor, Alice (18 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale released". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ "A Mortician's Tale for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ a b Rowen, Nic (22 October 2017). "Review: A Mortician's Tale". Destructoid. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ a b Donlan, Christian (19 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". Eurogamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ a b Warr, Philippa (18 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". PC Gamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ Polygon staff (18 December 2017). "The 50 best games of 2017". Polygon. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ Whitney, Kayla (22 March 2018). "Complete list of 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards Winners". AXS. Retrieved 22 March 2018.