The Mortuary Assistant sees you navigating occult rituals and unveiling a town’s haunting past while just trying to do your embalming work late at night.
You’ve recently gotten your degree in mortuary sciences and have taken on a gig as an apprentice at River Fields Mortuary. You’ve done a few months of work with the Mortician, so you have a good idea how to care for these bodies. At least, everyone else seems to think so, since they’ve left you at the Mortuary all by yourself to work tonight. Spending the night with corpses seems eerie enough already, but you also seem to be under demonic possession this fine evening. And all sorts of disturbing things are coming to visit you whether you like it or not.
The game sees you trying to go about your work while increasingly frightening things happen. The work alone is pretty unsettling, as the embalming process involves some tasks I really didn’t want to see in first person. Doing this stuff alone had me on-edge as I played. Having to do that while ever-smirking creatures stare at me, or apparitions wander the halls, makes things somehow even worse. It was to the point where I had to walk away from the game a few times to get my heart rate back in check. Juggling all this while trying to figure out the nature of your haunting, the secrets of this place and the town, doing your work, and completing rituals makes for some tense work. Work often interrupted by something that is bound to make you scream when you’re wound so tight.
The Mortuary Assistant isn’t over after a single nightmarish session, as you’ll need to complete it multiple times in order to see its story all the way through. I’m not sure I have the fortitude to keep at it, but if you want something that will leave you shaking with fright, this game will do it.
The Mortuary Assistant is available now on Steam.
DISCLOSURE – The Mortuary Assistant has been made in connection with horror website Dread XP, a site which our Editor-in-Chief freelances for. This has in no way affected our decision to cover the title.
