Mother 4

Announced in 2020, Mother 4 is a fan game meant to be an unofficial sequel to Mother 3, from the EarthBound (Mother, in Japan) series. In the game, the player controls an American teenager boy named Aaron and…

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Role-playing (RPG) Comedy Fantasy Science fiction

Mother 4 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Mother 4 Development Team on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 25 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB

What Mother 4 is

Mother 4 was developed by Mother 4 Development Team. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LÖVE.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Three young men discover an unwelcome guest deep in the woods, and America is turned on its head! It's up to a small town teenager named Aaron to tour the United States in order to deal with the aftermath of that fateful meeting and uncover the story behind the "Rift Shells" - ancient artifacts of awesome PSI power and dubious origin. On his journey across podunk suburbia and impossible dungeons, he'll meet the overconfident mechanic Maggie, the reserved yet proficient Troy, the dense but kind hearted magician Trisme, along with many other loyal allies and oddball foes. They'll lift the veil of the untouchable entity pulling the earth's strings, capable of bending the rules and stacking the…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.