the mortuary assistant one of 2022s best horror games has launched on nintendo switchafter launching on steam and the epic games store in august of last year the mortuary assistant quickly became a favorite of streamers for its ability to well scare the unliving crap out of them for their viewers entertainment take heed this scary game is genuinely terrifying unlike publisher dreadxps other horror game the wariowareinspired spookware which also just launched on switchthe mortuary assistant is about a young apprentice mortician named rebecca owens whose first night river fields mortuary becomes a lot more morbid and upsetting than she was probably expecting instead of simply grappling with cold and pasty corpses the protagonist is confronted by all manner of malevolent spirits as well as her own figurative demons in a desperate struggle to survive until morningfrom a gameplay perspective your night begins by completing mundane and unsettling depending on your tolerance for this sort of stuff tasks as someone with a mild phobia of the dead the relatively menial assignment of embalming a body was extremely disarming when i last played and so when shit really started to hit the fan i was already in an incredibly vulnerable state this made the genuinely startling jump scares and disturbing monster designs that much more effective at creeping me the hell outthe mortuary assistant has its issues its pretty short a little rough in design and graphics and marred by the occasional glitch but it nails the atmosphere and momenttomoment experience so magnificently that im willing to forgive a lot from it wrote my fellow gr horror hound joel franey in his writeup from last yearyou can pick up the mortuary assistant on the switch eshop for 2499 if you darefor more frightful delights check out our guide to the best horror games