The Mortuary Assistant

The Mortuary Assistant is a 2022 horror game developed by DarkStone Digital and published by DreadXP. Set in 1998 in a small town in Connecticut, players control a newly hired assistant at a haunted mortuary. Players control Rebecca, an assistant at a mortuary who embalms corpses under the watch of her boss, Raymond. Players must engage in the mundane aspects of this job while avoiding demonic possession in the haunted mortuary. Players must correctly identify which corpses are possessed, the demon possessing them, and perform the correct exorcism to survive. This process is timed, as indicated by a set of Post-It notes to show the progress of the demon possessing Rebecca. It has multiple endings, and a new ending was added in July 2023. The story is procedurally generated, but the game remembers which vignettes the player has seen and shows different ones in each playthrough. Brian Clarke developed The Mortuary Assistant himself, based in Connecticut. They also included it in a list of top horror games.Polygon called it "a little clunky" and said the puzzles can be confusing, but they felt it "delivers a fun set of scares" while being a satisfying simulation.Bloody Disgusting praised the game's content but said they encountered many technical issues.