MOTHER
A downloadable game for Windows
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness.
You play as Mary, who has just recently lost her husband, and needs to take care of her two children by herself. Suffering from insomnia, you wake up each night and experience strange events. Soon enough you'll find that there are some secrets you can't escape from.
Protect your children at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
GAMEPLAY DESCRIPTION
Each night, you must go to sleep in order to progress. However, you can't sleep until your daily tasks are finished and your children are asleep. The objective is to survive without letting your children die.
Your main actions will be using a phone, using a gun, and interacting with objects in your environment.
The game is played with mouse and keyboard, and is published for Windows. It takes around 3 hours to finish.
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This is a passion project of mine that I've developed in my personal time while I was studying. Comments, feedback and reviews are greatly appreciated!
Art by
Thibaut Reimel - https://www.artstation.com/dc-thibaut-r
Adrien Di Giovanni - https://www.artstation.com/adriendigiovanni
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- FINAL RELEASE!Aug 13, 2020
- v1.21 - Small Update - Bug fixes & Store page polishAug 07, 2020
- v1.2 - Update - Gameplay Tweaks & Bug FixesAug 05, 2020
- v1.11 - Small Update - New Graphics OptionsAug 03, 2020
- INITIAL RELEASE!Aug 02, 2020
Comments
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hey, great game! The ambientation is great, it's really unnerving and the concept is very original, the monkey toy really creeped me out haha. Hope to see more games from you soon!
i cant run your game from itch.io.. i need help on running it
9-/10 This game was very original in the concept and in the gameplay, the first 7/8 nights really scared us out, we saw that you putted a lot of effort in making the game scary in the first half of the game, which is the best part in our opinion: the moving monkey, the lights that cut out while you sleep.
But it seems like half way through the game you gave up and made the game a little repetitive, the game was still really enjoyable though and very original compared to all the games in the website, which make this project one of the best ehat we ever played!
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Hi! I bought your game on Steam but I can't seem to run it and I am not alone with this issue. Apparently it has something to do with using Windows 11, but even using compatibility mode won't do. I really want to play your game but I'm unable to :(
If you still own it on steam, a fix for this is to right click on the game in your library then click on properties. That will open up a menu where you will see something titled Launch Options. Then you just need to paste this into launch options: cmd /c "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000 && %command%"
Afterwards you should be able to close that window and then be able to run the game. I had a similar issue.
You really have a talent. I have no words for the overall ambientation, specially the creepy and sad apartment where the game is set - just perfect. Definetly one of the best games of the genre I've played. Will be here supporting your future games, because this one was something else.
Even though only a few big youtubers played it, it is really unfortunate that it's still kind of underrated.
You have potencial, friend.
Not a bad game, but really slow paced. I am falling asleep irl. I have to take a break and walk around or something.
Back on the game. I go to sleep with all windows and vents boarded up. Wake up and within seconds the boy dies. What? Anyway, he seemed to be a problem child so, protect the girl. She doesn't seem to miss him either. Cat and mouse with the monster for too long. Story ends. Am I the monster? Then what did I kill? Why didn't I listen to the doctors text?Why is the funeral home texting me congratulating me about the funeral?
A creepy Atmospheric Game, Had me on edge the whole time.
Fantastic game! The audio really made the atmosphere quite unnerving, the jumpscares really got me and I was on edge pretty much the entire game. SO well done for a small indie project.
To anyone who's having issues launching the game, reply to my comment and I wills send a link to a video that fixed my launching issue (ty for the help dev!)
Hey, I'm having issues when launching, too. It won't even open when I click on the application, just a loading wheel, and then it stops.
try the steps shown in this video and it should work! It worked for me anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lul7DZcbB9A&t=50s
It worked! Thank you so much!
no problem!! I’m glad you’re able to play it, it’s a really creepy game!
this game
hey! I bought this game on steam and I can't get it to run. Every time I launch it the game crashes before it can actually open the game. Any idea how to fix this?
hey, the dev sent me this YouTube video and it fixed my problem, if you follow the steps it should fix it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lul7DZcbB9A&t=50s
Great horror game, horror and art really well done.
First game in my video.
Where can I find music from this game?
so late, but if you're talking about the piano bits that song should be 'Liebestraum No. 3 "Love Dream"' by Liszt
Thank you)
I bought the game on steam couldnt launch , bought it here and doesnt launch either idk what to do
omg im currently having the same issue
I think you have windows 11 bc I have the same problem
Windows 10, same here. Looked like a fun Mother's day thing, but nope
It might be an issue that you have missing redistributables which are needed to run the game.
You can try downloading these files and running the game again
I bought the game on steam and it hasn't worked on my windows 11 pc. I tried doing what you said up here but it didn't fix it. I refunded the game on steam and bought it on Itch but it still doesn't open.
Your mother
This game is so well done and the ending provides a lot of suprises. 10/10 would turn my flat into a fortress again. Take a look at the gameplay - worth every buck:
I liked this game a lot;
the laughing guy is anoyying but funny lmao
Had me engrossed from start to finish. Enjoyed a lot of the mechanics, Although the only reason I beat the game was because I managed to shoot the creature as he was carrying one of the kids thru a vent, forcing him to drop the child at the same time as his animation for entering the vent was active. This forced him to flee toward the nearest vent, but he was inside the wall already which ended up clipping him in the wall, making it more like shooting fish in a barrel. Good game overall though.
I enjoy scary games, but this is one of the best I've ever played. I have never screamed so much by a game. Had to force my friend to sit next to me on the second try. Made a couple of jumpscare compilations as proof:
and here Mother - Part 2Make more games like this!
Such a creative game! Really enjoyed it!
Poor Tommy, nice game, i liked it :) :P
I loved the game.
I'm hooked! Here's my first hour or so with my dumb face over it, the next section is recorded and I'll have it up soon!
This game is so creepy good job!
game looks amazing! cant wait to play. just purchased on steam!! Thanx
Had me spooked ! Such a great experience. I am seriously looking forward to any future projects coming out of this camp!
Just as a token of appreciacion, I created this: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_(MOTHER)
Your game was an amazing experience!
Im in love with this game. Thank you, great work! From Russia with love <3
I loved it!
This game uses ingenious ways of teaching the player the rules of the game and pairs a dense, oppressive atmosphere with an environment that refuses to let you feel safe.
All that mixed with near-perfect pacing had me feeling like the fumbling, distraught matriarch it wanted me to be.
There is one issue that I found (a friend I was watching found it also).
On Night 1, if you get up from sleeping after you've already dealt with the thing in the vents, the game seems to soft-lock with the kids forever standing by the powered-on TV.
This was experienced in the (current) Steam version of the game.
Glad you enjoyed it! Also thanks for informing me about the bug, I've managed to fix it in the latest build.
I made this a while ago, since the game deserves to be archived in the different sources and remembered. Hope you appreciate!
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_(MOTHER)
Gave it a go...
So did mary kill herself or the cops kill mary?
At the end, we only hear one gunshot and she dies only if one or both children are dead, so it would be logical to assume she kills herself since she failed as a mother...
I saw CJUGames play this and she died even with both of the kids alive. Unless you mean Tommy is dead, or if it changed since he taped it.
Very terrifying, great storytelling, cool concept 9/10
I started a playthrough of this. Hopefully I can actually get through it!! D:
4th part 😁
What a great game.Those jump scares got me every time.Great story line too.I am looking forward to more content from you.Very scary game 10/10
thats just incredible creppy, great work!!