Games like The Mortuary Assistant
If The Mortuary Assistant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quest room, Clink and Gluua — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Mortuary Assistant is a 2022 first-person horror indie game by DarkStone Digital. Players take on the role of an apprentice mortician working at a funeral home, where they must learn embalming procedures while navigating a supernatural mystery involving demons. The game incorporates demon-possession mechanics, light management systems, and event-triggered scares that leverage peripheral vision. Players describe the atmosphere as bleak and tense, with reviewers highlighting the immersive and detailed embalming mechanics, high-quality voice acting and sound effects, a rich character-driven story with multiple endings, and subtle scares that outperform jump scares. It holds a 93% positive rating from 4,687 Steam reviews and is verified on Steam Deck.
About The Mortuary Assistant: Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Players who liked The Mortuary Assistant also play
Steam players who put hours into The Mortuary Assistant also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Quest room
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
The quest room is a location from which you need to get out by interacting with objects and using various clues. But be careful, you are not alone in this room.
Clink
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Gluua
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
first-person 1-4 multiplayer horror game. The game will allow players to take on the role of a spirit liberator who will be able to freely choose missions based on the difficulty and readiness they like or want to do. Players will encounter the supernatural and find the truth in that place.
Seroutte
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Ranked #4 for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Seroutte is a short atmospheric experimental horror dreamscape based on the developer's nightmares. It explores themes such as the loss of control, fear of the dark, and the paranoia found within the unknown.
Moonlight Motel
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Ranked #5 for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
A distant motel. A string of murders. Use your wits to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in this murder mystery job simulator. Welcome to the Moonlight Motel.
Visage
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Ranked #6 for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Eternal Haunt
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Ranked #7 for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
A first-person atmospheric survival horror game set in Old Japan. Explore the claustrophobic labyrinth of Yuki-Onna's home, stay warm, scavenge for items and avoid her ten ghost children. Puzzle solutions and haunting scares shift, making every playthrough unique. Can you endure the relentless cold?
Fuck You Witch
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Mortuary Assistant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Mortuary Assistant
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Resident Evil
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Graveyard Keeper
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Shares a dark mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Pathologic 3
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Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
A Mortician's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Mortuary Assistant.
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
What Remains of Edith Finch
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Infliction
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Cronos: The New Dawn
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Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
When Sirens Fall Silent
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Reviewers of The Mortuary Assistant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
When Sirens Fall Silent is a dark psychological thriller set in 1990s Italy. Play as Mila, a troubled policewoman drawn into a high-profile case of kidnappings and murders. As the case unravels you must not only save her from herself, but from being swallowed by a vortex of violence and confusion.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Mortuary Assistant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under The Mortuary Assistant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under The Mortuary Assistant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under The Mortuary Assistant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under The Mortuary Assistant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Mortuary Assistant.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under The Mortuary Assistant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Mortuary Assistant.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Mortuary Assistant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Mortuary Assistant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from DarkStone Digital
Other recommendable Steam games by DarkStone Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dread X Collection 5
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
The Subject
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
Our Secret Below
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Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Kohate
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Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Mortuary Assistant.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind The Mortuary Assistant. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mortuary Assistant.
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Frequently asked about The Mortuary Assistant
- Is The Mortuary Assistant verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Mortuary Assistant is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Mortuary Assistant cost?
- The Mortuary Assistant is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Mortuary Assistant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Mortuary Assistant are Quest room, Clink, Gluua.
- Who developed The Mortuary Assistant?
- The Mortuary Assistant was developed by DarkStone Digital and published by DreadXP.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Mortuary Assistant.
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