MOTHER
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 466 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1448 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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About the game
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia/Amd, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has gone on sale 2 times in the 6 years tracked here, most recently in October 2022. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 207 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, When the Darkness comes (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
More about MOTHER
This site sampled 344 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026.
What players say
There are 15 nights in the game, and up until night 10 it was almost perfect for me-well-paced, with superb atmosphere. Starting from night 10, however, things get chaotic. In particular, night 10 and 14 (if I remember correctly) are the classic "survive x minutes" segments where the gameplay essentially reduces to a loop: 1. the monster spawns 2. it grabs one of your kids 3. you find the monster and drive it off 4...
2 more reviews
The most corrupted thing that i saw in my entire life. Shtty graphics, corrupted textures, great story that you can't understand, locked to 30 fps, menu doesn't work, sounds are blasting as hell. At the end of the game two things happen, your eyes bleed and you cannot hear anymore. Overall... AWESOME GAME! 9/10
absolutely beautiful horror game, i 100% recommend. kayla ily, kyle never speak to me again oh my god he made me so mad why is he taking the toys out after i just put them away ts had me on my last nerves with him.
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Cite this score
MOTHER scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1381980/motherReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.