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
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

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[]

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[]

  1. ^ Weber, Rachel (2 March 2017). "'A Mortician's Tale': Inside a Death-Positive Video Game". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c 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. ^ "A Mortician's Tale for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b Rowen, Nic (22 October 2017). "Review: A Mortician's Tale". Destructoid. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  6. ^ a b Donlan, Christian (19 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". Eurogamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  7. ^ a b Warr, Philippa (18 October 2017). "A Mortician's Tale review". PC Gamer. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  8. ^ Polygon staff (18 December 2017). "The 50 best games of 2017". Polygon. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ Whitney, Kayla (22 March 2018). "Complete list of 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards Winners". AXS. Retrieved 22 March 2018.

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