Press kit — A Mortician's Tale

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Awards and Recognition

• “Apple Editor’s Choice” — Apple, 2019

• "Finalist, Nuovo Award" — Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards, 2018

• "Honourable Mention, Excellence in Narrative" — Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards, 2018

• "Official Selection, Fantastic Arcade" Austin, Fall 2017

• "Official Selection, Double Fine's Day of the Devs" San Francisco, Fall 2016

• "Official Selection, Different Games Toronto" Toronto, Spring 2017

Selected Articles

• "One Of 2017's Best Games... It elicits dark feelings, but asks players to consider where those feelings came from and what makes them dark."
  — Cecilia D'Anastasio, Kotaku — One Of 2017's Best Games Is About Being A Mortician
  

• "One Of Polygon's Best Games of 2017 — The video game industry is built on the destruction of bodies of all kinds. How refreshing to play a game that asks you to care for them, even after their life has left."
  — Chris Plante, Polygon —The 50 best games of 2017
  

• "82/100 — An approachable and thought-provoking meditation on life’s only certainty."
  — Philippa Warr, PC Gamer — A Mortician's Tale Review
  

• "Recommended — This is a beautiful game. It scared me. It moved me. Most of all, it made me stop what I was doing and think."
  — Christian Donlan, Eurogamer — A Mortician's Tale Review
  

• "8/10 — [A Mortician's Tale] is a short game, only an hour or so long, but it leaves an impact far beyond its runtime. Give it a chance, and it might just change the way you think about death."
  — Nic Rowen, Destructoid — Review: A Mortician's Tale
  

• "[A Mortician's Tale] makes the end of life visible, and in doing so crafts one of the only meditations on death in videogames that feels authentic.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED — A Mortician's Tale might be the first game to really get death
  

• "[A Mortician's Tale] is a quiet meditation on what it's like to live when all that seems to surround you is death."
  — Caty McCarthy, USGamer — In A Mortician's Tale, Death Isn't the End of the World
  

• "That's the gift that Mortician's Tale provides: a space to experience death without pretense, or stigma, or the shame of being a walking reminder that we all become bodies on a gurney one day."
  — Jess Joho, Mashable — Indie game dares to talk about death in a way few others have
  

• "It’s welcoming and friendly, as though it’s inviting you to share in a reflective moment and to accept the realities of mortality without any judgment or shame."
  — Stephanie Chan, VentureBeat — A Mortician’s Tale dissects the stigma of death
  

• "This is a quietly understated and oddly beautiful tale of what happens when we die and what a mortician has to do to make sure the funeral process goes as smoothly as possible. It might seem an odd subject, but this is a labour of love on behalf of an industry that rarely gets much."
  — Louise Blain, GameMaster Magazine — IndieMaster: The Best of the Indie Scene

Request Press Copy

Contact us at contact@laundrybear.com to request a copy.

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Original Soundtrack
Available from Halina Heron's Bandcamp: hlnhrn.bandcamp.com/album/a-morticians-tale

About Laundry Bear Games

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Laundry Bear is a small, independent game studio based in Toronto, Canada. We love collaborating with friends to make colourful and emotionally-impactful video games. In 2017, we released our critically-acclaimed debut title A Mortician's Tale. We are currently working on our second game.

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