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You play Charlie, a new mortician who prepares the deceased, attends funerals and reads emails from colleagues. This short, quiet game treats death and grief with warmth and honesty.
What defines A Mortician's Tale:
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The closest matches for A Mortician's Tale are What Comes After, A Raven Monologue and Adios. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes A Mortician's Tale special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Best match
A short, gentle side-scrolling story adventure where you accompany Vivi on a train ride to the afterlife and back. It deals tenderly with grief, self-love and moving on.
94 % free
Accessible and relaxed
A short, experimental, wordless tale about a raven who cannot croak and his bond with the townspeople. Quietly told and atmospheric, with no combat or pressure.
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Linear, curated structure
A short, dialogue-driven experience in which a pig farmer does his morning chores while talking with the mob hitman sent to kill him. Quiet everyday tasks meet bittersweet conversations about friendship, guilt and loyalty.
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Linear, curated structure
A short kinetic novel with no choices about an elderly farmer with dementia and his wife. It tells a gentle, moving story about memory loss and aims to bring readers to tears.
93 % 3.99 €
Pure single-player experience
A very short art game in which you guide an old woman through a cemetery, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It feels like a walkable painting about mortality, with the chance that she dies during the visit.
93 % 12.99 €
Accessible and relaxed
A short romantic visual novel about a love story between two women in Victorian England, set among maids and music.
93 % 4.99 €
Accessible and relaxed
A small visual novel about brief bus rides and conversations with strangers you will meet only once and never see again.
92 %
Pure single-player experience
A short, story-driven visual novel set in summer 1968, where you babysit a lonely girl named Kimmy and gradually uncover the secrets of her mysterious family.
92 % 11.79 €
Cosy, great for unwinding
You run a small late-night ramen stall, serving a stream of customers and listening to their troubles while your own life carries unresolved questions. A quiet, narrative-driven indie game in a visual novel style.
92 % 7.99 €
Strong, story-driven narrative
An interactive adventure where you relive the ordinary life of a woman, with its joys, sorrows and growth. Watercolor art combined with rotoscoping gives this narrative journey a distinctive look.