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The Mortuary Assistant

DarkStone Digital · DreadXP · 2022-08-02

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 20, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 02, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

100
playing now
92%
positive of 8.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2,519
twitch viewers (latest)
79/100
IGDB user rating (46 ratings)
5h
to beat · rushed 5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

100 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

The Mortuary Assistant is a 2022 American horror game developed by DarkStone Digital and published by DreadXP. Set in 1998 in a small town in Connecticut, players control a newly hired assistant at a haunted mortuary.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 100 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 556 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~70/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,716 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 174k–392k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,721 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2025-09-29) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 8 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20222026Week of 2022-08-01: 1,538 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 406 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

11292026-08-07 00:00 — 52 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 58 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 73 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 55 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 45 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 41 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 53 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 78 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 44 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 50 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 49 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 39 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 42 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 81 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 25 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 56 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 73 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 53 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 67 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 78 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 60 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 53 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 87 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 100 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$14.992022-08-022026-08-172022-08-02 — best price $22.492022-10-25 — best price $21.242022-11-01 — best price $24.992022-11-29 — best price $24.992023-01-05 — best price $24.992023-03-23 — best price $24.992023-07-13 — best price $24.992023-10-27 — best price $24.992023-11-21 — best price $18.742023-12-21 — best price $16.742024-01-12 — best price $24.992024-02-05 — best price $24.992024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-04-25 — best price $24.992024-05-21 — best price $24.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-07-29 — best price $24.992024-09-02 — best price $24.992024-11-04 — best price $24.992024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-08-09 — best price $24.992025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-11-03 — best price $24.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-02-18 — best price $24.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-08-17 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2931202026-05-30 — 293 pageviews2026-06-02 — 205 pageviews2026-06-05 — 228 pageviews2026-06-08 — 267 pageviews2026-06-11 — 164 pageviews2026-06-14 — 197 pageviews2026-06-17 — 157 pageviews2026-06-20 — 231 pageviews2026-06-23 — 196 pageviews2026-06-26 — 148 pageviews2026-06-29 — 191 pageviews2026-07-02 — 167 pageviews2026-07-05 — 228 pageviews2026-07-08 — 172 pageviews2026-07-11 — 150 pageviews2026-07-14 — 161 pageviews2026-07-17 — 231 pageviews2026-07-20 — 170 pageviews2026-07-23 — 171 pageviews2026-07-26 — 209 pageviews2026-07-29 — 165 pageviews2026-08-01 — 173 pageviews2026-08-04 — 167 pageviews2026-08-07 — 153 pageviews2026-08-10 — 195 pageviews2026-08-13 — 140 pageviews2026-08-16 — 177 pageviews2026-08-19 — 169 pageviews2026-08-22 — 160 pageviews2026-08-25 — 167 pageviews2026-08-26 — 120 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
89%
earned "My First Body"
21%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,8793%25
PS5 (PlayStation)1,28212%26
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)4244%25
PS4 (PlayStation)14313%26
Switch (Nintendo)210%0

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

Player tags

3DDarkIndieDemonsHorrorMysterySurrealAdventureSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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