Games like A Mortician's Tale
If A Mortician's Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are First Response, Life of Fly and Fragments of Him — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 →A Mortician's Tale is a short indie game released in 2017 by Laundry Bear Games, available for $9.99. Players take on the role of a mortician running a funeral home, engaging with body-preparation simulation, cremation, and embalming mechanics alongside email correspondence with clients. The game frames death as ordinary work rather than taboo subject. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with reviewers highlighting its quietly emotional storytelling and respectful handling of diverse identities. The title also offers educational insights into mortuary science and cultural sensitivity in funerary practices. Marked as playable on Steam Deck, the game has a Metacritic score of 78 and holds a 72% positive rating from over 1200 Steam reviews, appealing to those interested in narrative-driven games about grief and identity.
About A Mortician's Tale: A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
Players who liked A Mortician's Tale also play
Steam players who put hours into A Mortician's Tale 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.
First Response
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Top pick for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Welcome to your new job at the Extreme Containment Security Company! You've been selected by Malcolm Monaghan himself as the first subject in their brand new learning initiative! Upon your arrival, K.A.R.A. will guide you through the concepts of Cybersecurity and the important work you'll be doing!
Life of Fly
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Second-strongest match for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
Life of Fly features 12 short stories each revolving around the life and weird thoughts of another fly. Be prepared to experience some very unusual content, some interesting thoughts that go way beyond the normal life of a fly, and some entertaining short stories with a twist.
Fragments of Him
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Shares an emotional mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Third-strongest match for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
The Flood
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Ranked #4 for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
The Flood is a peaceful 5 minute narrative experience in which you pilot a little boat down a river. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes we should stop worrying about our destination and just enjoy the journey.
A Raven Monologue
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Ranked #6 for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
Tengami
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Ranked #7 for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
What's Your Gender?
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Ranked #8 for A Mortician's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
An antichamber inspired educational puzzle game, that allows you to simultaneously explore a non-euclidean maze and concepts and terms related to gender, identity and expression in a playful and reassuring manner.
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Lumino City
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
What Remains of Edith Finch
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
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.
Wunderdoktor
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Step into the role of the Wunderdoktor, a traveling doctor whose daily work is to cure rare and exotic diseases. Explore a world full of quackery, ghosts and addictive potions.
The Mortuary Assistant
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Minesweeper Classy
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Shares a contemplative mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
A modern and stylish take on a classic logic puzzle game. Play the classic minesweeper levels, beat unique level layouts and challenges, or create and share your own level designs. Features a ton of customization options.
Monument Valley
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Mortician's Tale.
Reviewers of A Mortician's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Mortician's Tale at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under A Mortician's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 A Mortician's Tale.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Mortician's Tale.
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 Casual with A Mortician's Tale.
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 with A Mortician's Tale.
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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Frequently asked about A Mortician's Tale
- Does A Mortician's Tale run on Steam Deck?
- A Mortician's Tale is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does A Mortician's Tale cost?
- A Mortician's Tale is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Mortician's Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Mortician's Tale are First Response, Life of Fly, Fragments of Him.
- Who developed A Mortician's Tale?
- A Mortician's Tale was developed by Laundry Bear Games.
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