主人公の受信したメールから、周囲の人々や葬儀社をめぐる情勢をうかがい知ることができる。ゲーム性は非常に薄く、パート数自体も少ないため、メールを読まずに進めてしまえば15分ほどで完了できる。ただPVの通り、死体を直截に描写しているため苦手な方もいると思う。
あまりにささやかな小篇で、定価を知ったときは驚いた位…。（別媒体で配布されてることもあるので是非見てほしい）

　主人公チャーリーは大学を出て葬儀社に就職したばかり。彼女の職場ローズ＆ドーター社は小さな職場だが、社長エイミーの誠実で温かな営業姿勢もあり、顧客からの信頼は厚い。霊柩車のドライバー マシューはやや過激なジョークを好むものの根は実直な男だ。また、親友ジェンはかつての学友で、今はロンドン病理博物館で剥製に囲まれて暮らしている。

　上記のようなチャーリーを取り巻く人々は、ゲーム中実際には登場しない。
　死体安置所ではチャーリーは一人遺体と向き合うだけだ。

　このゲームでは、メールチェック、遺体の処置（主にエンバーミング）、葬式の三つのフェーズを繰り返す。
遺体の処置はチャーリーの重要な職務だが、ゲーム内ではテロップの指示に従ってドラッグしたりアイテムを使用するだけだ。（ともかくこれは"Mortician Simulator"ではない）
処置が終わると、故人を納めた棺あるいは壺は会場に運ばれ、（ほとんどは）大勢の弔問客を迎えることになる。チャーリーもまた、服を改めて参列し「顧客」に挨拶をする。
　こうして見るとやはりこのゲームの重点はテキストだ。親友・同僚からのメール、上司から転送される遺族からのお礼、死の業界で働く人向けのメールマガジン、葬儀に参列した人々の会話。どこにも劇的で特別なものはないけれど、それぞれに確かな人格を見、身近な誰かを思い浮かべてしまう。特に好きなものを初めの方からあげると、

• （マシューからのメール）：なぜ葬儀社に就職したのか？実は若い頃交通事故で亡くなった友人がいて、友人の葬式に来るまで向かう途中事故に遭いかけて…と書いたけどこの話は特に関係ない。
  
• （会場が寒いことに同意して）：彼女（故人）が編んでくれたセーターが今ここにあればいいのに。
  
• （携帯型ゲームをしている子供）：*ハミング*

どうなの？と言われそうなものもあげたが、思い返しても好き。敬意と静粛と日常がごたっと混ざった独特の風味がある。


葬儀をめぐる業界話の末、効率・利益を重視する巨大企業からの脱却というストーリーはかなりシンプルだけど、収まりが良く希望も残る。積極的に買って!!とは言えないが良作。

As soon as I saw this game, I got excited and really wanted to have it.
The graphics look beautiful and I had very high expectations.

This emotional yet so beautiful game gives you the insight of what it's like to be a mortician.
Death is a touchy subject, But it has always interested me.
The music was fitting and stunning.
The characters in the game treated the dead with respect, and everything was perfectly explained.

I was excited to play this, but the beginning of the game felt like a repetitive tutorial.
You read your emails, prepare the bodies for cremation or embalming, Show respect to their loved ones and move on to the next.
The game won't let you make mistakes, won't let you prepare the bodies on your own, You have to follow each step the game tells you too.

Suddenly I entered a different room, I thought by myself “finally, This is where the game is really going to start”.
Sadly, That was the end of the game! I was super disappointed.
You got to be kidding me... I'm flabbergasted.

They could have done so much more with this game.
I wish I was able to do the make up too, The clothing, The music, preparing on my own, decorate the room, react to the loved ones etc.

This game is not even an hour long, neither is it worth €14,99

This is an interesting and gentle look into the mortuary and funeral industry. However, its gentleness also holds a bit of a drawback in that it remains somewhat superficial because it feels like a tutorial instead of a full game.

The families of the deceased in the game give you instructions on what to do with the body, and the game allows you only to do that. Although some moral choices are presented, you only really get to make the choice in your own mind; the game doesn't let you do anything different. For instance, one family instructs you to do a traditional burial even though the deceased wanted cremation. You have no choice but to prepare the body for traditional burial.

Even once you know what to do for each case, the game continues to pause every action screen to tell you what to do, whether you want it to or not. This cannot be turned off.

From the hype this game was receiving, I was under the impression that it was a longer, choose-your-own-adventure style game with consequences for your actions; I would have liked to see the outcomes of different paths. To my greater disappointment, about a third of the game is spent reading emails - one thread of which is factoids about death customs, one of which is a co-worker complaining and telling stories about work or asking if you want food, one of which is a sister (?) whose dialogue is gratingly annoying, and one is requests from the funeral home owner. You cannot reply to any of these, except for an "auto-reply" of "ok, I'll do it!" or "sure thing!" to the home director.

From a technical standpoint, this game is well-made and clean, with a nice colour and design scheme and a good soundtrack. However, its downfalls are very little storyline/action flexibility, and a very short play time (I finished in just over an hour). I do feel like $17.49 was very steep for what is essentially a minigame/tutorial with a single playthrough. With no variation in storyline or endings, I won't play again.

I bought this game as a soft coping mechanism shortly after the passing of a loved one. Please understand this is also my first review. It didn't take long to finish the game and I guess some people might be miffed about that, but it was beautiful. It helped me understand the processes after death, and in a small way deal with the whole thing. I love this game and its developers for that simple fact. To the devs, thank you.

Wow.

As someone who works at a funeral home, I was really interested to see what Laundry Bear had up their sleeves. The answer: barely anything.

To play through the game, it took me all of 40 minutes from start to finish. FORTY MINUTES. And in those 40 minutes, I did literally EVERYTHING you could do. I read all the emails. I talked to every family member. I prepped every body whether it be for a traditional service or a cremation. All of this while having my hand held like a rambuctious 2 year walking through a parking lot with his overprotective helicopter parent.

You can't make any mistakes during prep. The game literally has a giant bar at the top telling you what to do EVERY SINGLE TIME. And if you try to go off book? Nothing happens. You literally can't fail.

Oh, and the entire message of the "story"? Corporations are EVIL! Like that hasn't been rehashed in about 1,000 new games every year.

All in all, you play a very tiny part in each of these funeral services. You don't take a hearse and go pick up any of these bodies. You don't help guide these digital families through the arrangement process. You don't work with cemeteries or churches or local florists or anything. You just do a quick embalm/cremation and wander around at the visitation, listening to people vaguely talk about their loved one before moving on to the next one.

I can't recommend this game even a little bit, even if it's free. It has no gameplay value, much less replayability value. And I'm sorry if this review seems a bit longer than the game itself. I had quite a bit of extra time to kill...

I got this in the Conquer COVID-19 Humble Bundle so I am happy to have bought this bundle regardless of the quality of the games. This is one of the few games that I didn't already own. Sadly, it feels more like a prototype for a game, than an actual game. There isn't even enough here to call it a Virtual Novel.

I finished the game in a little less than 50 minutes. I was going very slow as well, reading everything possible. Somehow I missed how to play graveyard sweeper for 100% achievement.

The main problem with this game is that the actions are very repetitive and, not only that, but they are always guided. You're not even allowed to mess up or have to remember how to do them. That would be fine if the gameplay somehow expanded, but it really doesn't. You repeat the same few types of actions until the very end.

The only interesting thing is reading some of the tidbits from the e-mails. Unfortunately, they are too short. There are some moral issues presented, but that is all that is done here. They are presented. You never actually have to deal with them in any meaningful way. The only choice you ever have is whether to do a particular job or do a different one if you feel uncomfortable with that one. You're presented with a moral dilemma, but you're not presented with a choice on dealing with that dilemma, it's either do the job one way or do something else entirely.

Still, I did enjoy reading about some of these issues. It really makes you think. Unfortunately, you'd have to do your own research to find out more about them. There just isn't enough here other than presenting issues that you may not have thought of before. Then the whole thing ends rather abruptly, where your character made a choice ... but you certainly didn't.

Rate 5/10. Just buy the Conquer COVID 19 Bundle. It's for a good cause.

BepInExとXUnityAutoTranslatorで日本語に自動翻訳が可能です。

A cute game, more a reflection about death than an actual game. I liked it but i wish it lasted a bit more and it had a bit more variety. It's so short i've finished it without all the cards popping up..

I'm so torn. The topic of this game is really dear to me, but this game just doesn't cut it.
If you don't follow Caitlin Doughty and Ask A Mortician on YouTube, I recommend it - This game could be an interactive biography for her career.

That being said, I really wish this game was better. It plays out more like a student game design project, just getting the feel of how to put something together, and maybe that's what it is, an experiment... but if that's the case it should not even be $9 on sale.

First, the good:
The story is the soul of the game, and it is endearing and the art style is cute.
I really like how it does walk you through some of the more sensative and potentially unpleasant ideas about death-care that most of us don't even know or think about. In part, this is an educational game that covers some of the more basic points of how bodies are embalmed and alternative options that are emerging in the death-care industry.

It also touches on a problem that is happening where huge corporations are pretty much just screwing over grieving families. Education is important and this is a clever way of helping people find out more about their options.

But then, there's the disappointing side:
As people have said, this "game" is atrociously monotonous and repeditive. Maybe that's the way life is in a funeral home. I'm sure it's not all games, but this was sold to me as a video game, and I really hoped for some sort of game involved.

The biggest problem with the monotony is that each body you care for, is exactly the same. The story surrounding their death is a little different each time, but there is literally no escalation in skill or challenge or even learning in the "game" portion of this game. You just do the same thing every time.

The story plays out through reading your emails everyday. Which is also monotonous. The story itself is compelling but it is rushed (Really, you went from everything's fine to being swallowed by a huge corporate shark in 2 days.)

I think there's about 7 funerals. Each time, you find yourself reading emails, then you prepare the body then you go do some arbitrary and pointless clicking in the funeral parlour. You just click on people and objects to hear what they say and trigger the end of the funeral. There's no options to respond to grief, maintain the funeral, or anything. I'd at least like to be able to comfort greiving family members with multiple choice options, of which are of varying degrees of effectiveness, as a learning moment. Then you repeat everything 7 times when suddenly bam! The end of the game!

I played this game for 78 minutes according to Steam, and at least 18 of those minutes was me putzing around doing other things on the internet while the game was just sitting there. The full price of this game is $14.99... which is just barely more expensive than a movie ticket to a movie that is twice as long.


In the end, I do appreciate this game and what it tries to do. Maybe it is monotonous but the people who produced it are on a mission to educate people about their options, and how things in the funeral industry work. I am a big supporter of this mission, and I suppose of only a few people play this game and come away knowing more about their afterdeath care, then mission accomlished. I just hope that it's not going to leave most people worrying more about how they feel ripped off than the lesson intended.

From start to end the game lasted 43 minutes total before the end. This game is way over priced, even with the 20% off sale. It's hardly even a game considering you can't make any mistakes and there is nothing that you are doing aside from reading the emails and doing exactly what it tells you to do. There could have been so much done with this like some of the older operation style games but this definitely wasn't worth it.