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MOTHER

Anya Segarane · 2020-08-27

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 27, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

0
playing now
88%
positive of 463 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 37% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.3k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 463 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2022-10-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

DarkIndieShortCombatHorrorLinearModernThrillerStory RichPerma Death

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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