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A Mortician's Tale

Laundry Bear Games · 2017-10-18

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 18, 2017 (Mac), Oct 18, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 06, 2018 (iOS)

A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

0
playing now
72%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (17 ratings)
1.5h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

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.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 16% of 9,708 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 36k–86k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,433 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2020-06-09) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.492017-10-182026-03-262017-10-18 — best price $11.992017-12-21 — best price $9.742018-03-20 — best price $9.742018-05-24 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $7.492019-02-04 — best price $7.492019-05-13 — best price $9.992019-08-29 — best price $4.992019-10-28 — best price $6.492019-12-03 — best price $6.492020-01-10 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-05-02 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $2.492021-02-11 — best price $2.492021-05-01 — best price $9.992021-06-28 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $2.492021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-14 — best price $2.492022-05-06 — best price $2.492022-06-23 — best price $2.492022-09-07 — best price $3.992022-12-22 — best price $3.492023-06-29 — best price $3.992024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.492026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1812026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-04 — 14 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-22 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-01 — 8 pageviews2026-07-04 — 5 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-10 — 1 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 10 pageviews2026-07-22 — 1 pageviews2026-07-25 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

3
achievements tracked
50.1%
earned "Rest in Peace"
41.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,23470%3

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkIndieShortCasualLGBTQ+RelaxingStory RichAtmosphericExperimentalSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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