History VideoGame / TheMortuaryAssistant

* BrokenBird: Rebecca starts off as one, and her traumatic backstory is expanded upon throughout the game. [[spoiler: Her mother was a drug addict who died of an overdose. Then as a teenager, Rebecca ran away from home and became addicted to heroin. However, she overdosed as well one night and wound up at the bottom of a steep drop. Her father found her, but slipped and fell while trying to rescue her, causing his own death. Rebecca has blamed herself for his death ever since. While attending her state-appointed rehab, she attempted suicide but survived. Throughout the night, the demon repeatedly plays on Rebecca's belief that she deserved to die instead of her father.]]

* MindRape: The Demon’s modus operandi, while it can’t physically harm anyone, [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession at least not without a vessel,]]]] it can create Delusions of Rebecca’s past to torment her.

** The House of Delver: This ending was added in June 2023 after the game's release: [[spoiler: This is obtained by reaching the basement and finding Vallery's coffin, but instead taking her mark and burning the correct demon's body with it, then replacing a fuse and getting some bolt cutters to free Vallery. The possessed Vallery mocks Rebecca's stupidity and attacks her, only to be rescued by Raymond. Vallery attacks Raymond and rips open his shirt, exposing a symbolic tattoo on his chest. Vallery escapes. Rebecca apologizes, but she and Raymond argue. She leaves, and then Raymond heads deeper into the basement to find a possessed woman shackled to a wall. Raymond removes his shirt, cuts a piece of flesh from the woman, and repairs the sigil on his chest while the demon taunts him.]]

* NonActionBigBad: {{Averted}}. The Demon almost never makes a direct appearance and can't harm Rebecca like the Woman in White can, but due to its hallucinations that slowly drive Rebecca insane so it can possess her, it's just as dangerous.

Rebecca Owens gets invited to the River Fields Mortuary by Raymond Delver as part of her internship. However, after her first handling of the bodies, Rebecca suddenly gets called back in the middle of the night to take a sudden late night job at the mortuary. There's a grave reason as to why: one of the bodies has a demon that imprinted on her with the intent to take control, and Rebecca must go through the procedures to embalm, bind, and cremate the demon. It won't be easy however, the entity is slowly taking hold of Rebecca throughout, and will subjecting her to various {{Hallucinations}} of corpses, monsters, and glimpses of the past.

* HatesTheirParent: Implied, at least with Rebecca's mother. [[spoiler:When reliving how she found her mother's body in a Delusion, Rebecca spats "You stupid bitch!" at her mother's corpse. This makes sense when you learn that her mother was an addict who died of a drug overdose, and Rebecca probably feels some lingering resentment towards her for this incident.]]

* SurpriseSantaEncounter: In the Holiday update, one of the bodies Rebecca can embalm is old St. Nick himself

* SpannerInTheWorks: Since every shift in ''The Mortuary Assistant'' is timed, the faster you get at embalming, the more time you have for demon hunting. [[spoiler:An update to the game helpfully randomizes the location of your embalming tools after you complete your first shift, forcing you to learn their locations all over again every shift thereafter. The in-game explanation is that Zoey, the resident DitzySecretary, has become an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom because she can't understand Raymond's instructions for restocking things, and he keeps mispronouncing her name.]]

* SirSwearsALot: The demon entities threaten their victims with gruesome ways to kill them, along with ''many'' curse words.

* AgentScully: Raymond comes off as one during Rebecca's first day or the tutorial when signs of a haunting are evident, such as attributing the window slamming due to poor latches, bottles thrown being blamed on poorly stored chemicals acting up. Averted on the following first night where he shows that he is aware of the existence of demons and immediately informs Rebecca of the danger she is facing and gives her tips and the tools needed to help her survive the night.

* Humanoid Abomination: Despite being human in shape, the Mimic is very obviously not a person, with its white, stone-like skin, lidless eyes, exposed teeth with black gums, and a tendency to [[StealthHiBye appear out of thin air]].

* Humanoid Abomination: Despite being human in shape, the Demon is very obviously not a person, with its white, stone-like skin, lidless eyes, exposed teeth with black gums, and a tendency to [[StealthHiBye appear out of thin air]].

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: During the cellar Delusion, the Demon hides among the various statues present during it, moving only when Rebecca gets to close to it.

* SanityMeter: The demon will slowly possess Rebecca throughout her shift, [[{{Hallucinations}} subjecting her to various delusions and nightmarish sequences]] to speed up that process. While not directly measured, Rebecca is advised to check how far the possession has gone by scribbling in her notepad; different scribbles for each sanity level.

* StealthHiBye: The Demon frequently appears out of nowhere and disappears when looked at with alarming frequency.

'''''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295920/The_Mortuary_Assistant/ The Mortuary Assistant]]''''' is a Horror Game developed by indie developer [=DarkStone=] Digital and released in August 2nd, 2022

!!''The Mortuary Assistant'' provides the following tropes:

** Bad Ending: Either burn the wrong body or used the incorrect sigils. [[spoiler:[[HopeSpot At first it plays out like a Standard/Good Ending]], except Rebecca is eerily calm, with her comment on "waiting for so long" cluing both you and Raymond that the DemonicPossession is successful, followed by the demon subjecting him to a psychokinetic death.]]
** Basement Ending: Getting into the basement hatch outside the mortuary by unlocking it with a stored away key. [[spoiler:Typing the code "197044", given by several Delusion sequences (The blood bucket sequence with "____44" on the wall, the Rebecca pointing to a "1970" photo in the mirror, etc), into the keypad hidden in a cabinet to obtain the key to the lock. In the basement you find Raymond's journals that detail his experience with demons, including all the knowledge he obtain to be rid of them. One detail includes how the very next door featuring a live possessed woman named Vallery as the source for the blood. The following morning (after a successful banishing) has Rebecca call out the old man for effectively imprisoning a live human in the basement, who reaffirms his decision is for the sake of preventing further death, recounting his memories of seeing similar possessed getting degraded until they're dealt with.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Since every shift in ''Mortuary Assistant'' is timed, the faster you get at embalming, the more time you have for demon hunting. [[spoiler:A recent update to the game helpfully randomizes the location of your embalming tools after you complete your first shift, forcing you to learn their locations all over again every shift thereafter. The in-game explanation is that Zoey, the resident DitzySecretary, has become an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom because she can't understand Raymond's instructions for restocking things, and he keeps mispronouncing her name.]]