Mother 4

About

Mother 4 is a fan-made role-playing game that serves as an unofficial sequel to Mother 3. You play as Aaron, a teenager who teams up with his friends to tour the United States and investigate Rift Shells. These mysterious artifacts grant powerful PSI abilities but attract dangerous attention. The group faces strange foes while trying to uncover who is manipulating events behind the scenes. You explore small towns and difficult dungeons alongside allies like the mechanic Maggie and the magician Trisme. This project stands out because it carries the specific tone of the EarthBound series without being an official Nintendo release. It follows a previous attempt that rebranded as the game Oddity, making this version the current fan favorite. Players on PC, Mac, and Linux can dive into a story about uncovering secrets while battling an entity that bends reality. The community has praised how well it captures the charm of the original games while telling its own tale about friendship and hidden powers.

Storyline

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 odds against our heroes, just to harness the power of the Rift Shells for an absolute yet unknown purpose... But there's nothing to worry about with your friends behind your back, right?