This game is by the same developers of The Enigma Machine, so you can expect things to get pretty weird! Spoilers The ending of the game seems to suggest a link to The Enigma Machine and that this may actually be a prequel. You can check out a gameplay video of The Enigma Machine here: ua-cam.com/video/9x7LHy3-qx4/v-deo.html Edit: The dev has confirmed the events in Mothered take place before The Enigma Machine. Would highly recommend checking it out to learn more of Liana's story! Edit 3: A secret sequel to Mothered has now been released, Mothered: Home. You can check out a gameplay video of it here: ua-cam.com/video/C_C490Ihqz4/v-deo.html
Spoiler Yeah, I think this may be Red's origin story! There's also a line in The Enigma Machine where Red says: "I myself used to be an Enigma Machine. An Android, with my own body!" Edit: Just spoke to the dev and they confirmed this is Red's origin story. Kinda makes me feel like even more of an A-hole for how I treated Red in The Enigma Machine!
@@AlphaBetaGamer "red" in "mothered" on the end credits screen is brighter than the rest of the word. plus the whole thing is red instead of blue like the similarly styled screens in the game
The part of Liana saying "mom" is so terrifying and beautiful! How she croaks the word out because she has not spoken in a long time. This game is art.
That awful disconnect between the comfort of morning with warm lighting and birds and the unsettling things that follow at night is great at keeping you off center, that's for sure.
For me, it gives the impression of a family waking up one morning greeting each other and enjoying hearing the birds The only difference being that they're all robots
1:14:35 > "You haven't seen the way it moves around the house with such determination toward its objective." I wonder if this is how NPCs see human player in all the games :)
There are so many red flags in this game. Really good job on the "creepy" / "wtf is going on" feeling. I am personally annoyed with the lack of choice but at the same time it does add to the creep factor of possibly being a helpless - ( or feeling hopeless and helpless to resist ) - little girl....
I saw some confusion in the comments, so i thought I'd clear things up ✌🥰 There are 4 entities at play inside the player character, first off! You, the player, are what they call the Angel, or just Angel, later on. The physical components of the character is Liana, who is the biological component of the body, the core, which is the representative of the real Liana, and the AI or Interface, which is the pilot of the body where Angel and the core cannot act. As a whole, all 4 components act as 'Liana', but the real Liana is dead. A little girl dies to unknown cause and the father tries to bring her back by putting machines and AI into her corpse, potentially even reviving her brain, in which case she still lost all/most her memories due to it losing all neurological activity. Think having to restart your phone as normal sleep and a hard reset being total neurological shut down. Your phone can still function as a phone, but it has nothing of what you put on it anymore. The dad sends her to live with mom who follows a script meant to help 'Liana' to remember herself and to develope her brain/AI, but as 'Liana' starts to clash with what her AI wants for her, it starts breaking beaking integral structures have been compromised. Due to this, 'Liana' starts to take more control. As 'Liana' is taking control, the AI is desperate for structure but since it has been broken, it can only grasp at things that should be assured to work. The AI starts to seek out mother, as father told 'Liana' to listen to her mother. 'Liana' is forced to comply with this, though it doesn't seem that she herself despises the thought of being with her mom either. The relentless chase that 'Liana' then gives, starts to terrify her mother who continues to try to run from her and to reassure the brother that it will be okay. 'Liana' finds mom and as she's being told off, is desperate to communicate but can only say "mom" given some strain. This causes the mother more panic and she admits to 'Liana' that she is not the real daughter. This, coming from mother, breaks the AI of directive, now knowing that it is not what it was manufactured to be. The AI, free of structure, begins to be personified. 'Liana' starts to lash out due to frustration over how she's being forced to live, not that she wants to die but that she doesnt want to live so restrictedly due to her AI forcing her around and scaring the people around her. In one life, she tries to end it by attacking her mom, but ends up being killed instead, as the AI forces her to comply to her mother's demands. In later lives, she spends them gaining more information in order to find a way to end the cycle. As she does, she unearths that she is a cyborg, though moreso leaning towards android, and that her family has been through this time and time again. As she gains access to the cellar basement, she finds long sprawling corridors which are not properly mapped out and/or put heavy restrictions on so that she struggles to make way. 'Liana' breaks through the restrictions, though, and finds her way to an area underground near the barn. This area has a terminal and a large pile of ash, the ash being of old models of herself that have failed. This unlocks more of her memories. The AI, core & Liana, or the concept of Liana, unify with Angel and each other, becoming it's own entity at last. 'Liana' builds a staircase from her own cremations to escape the cellar and, still carrying the bushel of apples, comes to her dad who is dropping off a new 'Liana'. Dad recognizes this and that this version is different and begins to drive her somewhere. In the car, he goes over a lot of what was discussed but then is alluded to give her a nicname. The nicname is Red, I assume after the bushel of red apples, and is to reoccur in Enigma Machine, which this game is a prequel of
I didn't want to add this to the comment itself, as it's more theory as well as plot irrelevant, but I don't think the brother is dead. Red is able to commune with the idea of Liana and is able to reclaim the memories of her former self, but she is never seen genuinely communing with the dead. I think that as the family had to deal with all the 'Liana's, the brother became more and more of a recluse, as he was obviously very close with the real Liana. It's very stressful for him to have to deal with Red as it's basically Liana haunting him without even knowing who he is
For those who haven't played the game, ABG made it shorter (thanks to many cuts) than it is in reality. 1h30 seems long but you can spend even more time on it : *SPOILER :* The game doesn't hold your hand and you really have to be killed a few times before finally discovering the truth, when and where to hide on Friday by restarting your life as a new doll. I managed to do it on the fourth week. Some people will find it tedious, but it's also really clever since the player represents the mind of Liana, which still exists and learn from her past experiences. A very disturbing but great game. I really recommend it and would like to know the next part of the story.
@Wimpleton Duck Had to redo the game just for you :) You can talk to him again on Friday Night, when Mother and Father are arguing. He says : "Don't mind those two. This happens every week. It's like they're living in different worlds entirely." Also, there is indeed no way to see your brother in the game...
@@arturob5306 He did explore it, at 1:19:42 These texts appear in the distance but you can only see them when you're on the "critical path" towards the ending. 36:18 and 1:19:42 are both on Thursday Night.
what is the tell for figuring out that mother is not "feeling unwell in her room" on thursday morning? that you can find her in the orchard shed. is it just trial and error on multiple playthroughs?
you wonder if the girl was abused by her mum when she was alive. look at the way she says "now's our chance. kill her". conflicting love and hate within. She feels like she has no voice to talk. She was forced to eat dirt, but can now say No. it's a real treasure trove
Wow. This was well-executed. Especially finding out what happened to Liana and her "core". I was thinking so many theories (Cloning, "Ghost in a Shell", human trafficking and brain lobotomies) and how the father was so hopeful in "reviving" his daughter. As for the son and mother.... I really felt sorry for them because they were repeatedly traumatized and they were losing their mental health. Liana's soul merging with the terminal was creepy, but she wanted to know what happened and why. Pretty cool sci-fi horror game that kept me on the edge of my seat. Thanks for sharing and playing it! :)
@@panetierbread3510 same. As i see it - merging Lianas "core" (brain? consciousness?) with her new cyborg body changes her irreversibly. They cant get old Liana back. SHE IS DEAD. Lianas core in new body + interaface = new intity. Mother cant accept it. Father can and does. Sorry if my english is bad - i am not native english speaker.
Oh my. What a game, what a treat. The roller-coaster of being scared, realizing you are the one scaring others and different realizations are so well done. I especially like, how the poor graphics and voices are explained by, perhaps, the imperfect machinery (mom does say, that main character probably sees them differently). Kinda wish we got to see our 'angel' at least ones. Developer was really teasing with those mirrors.
The mother saying I hope you never have to find out what that is when showing you the barn, to the end when you reach the barn and she says I knew you would find your way here eventually. She hoped the daughter wouldn't have to be killed, but in the end knew she would eventually find it and have to be killed anyways. Also nice touch with the barn burning Sunday night, old body was being taken care of.
They wanted to have her very much, and the only way was using AI and the brain of the deceased girl, that they, indeed, further in time, had to kill other times (but the statue in the graveyard is regarded as the first time her died). Somehow she was alive, and somehow something else (enigma) was inside her too. So when machine gets broken by confusing information from the environment, the conflicts break character into two or three or four (Liana, Angel, Core and Interface). They all seem to be different things conflicting. What was not clear for me is why it goes so bad when her objective is to bee with her mother and what contamination (in thee exterior) means.
@@salsichalivre5401 From my understanding, the mother is creeped out by the daughter's conduct as it's obedience and determination are quite different from how Liana really was. She mentions something about her determination and hints how the real one was different in one part of the dialogue in one part. Also, at some point it's core objective and the commands started to present conflict, with the AI favoring the main one and being able to disobey some orders, which she shouldn't be able to and made the mother freak out even more. Last but not least, it also seems that, just as the mother looks artificial to the AI, she looks just as creepy to the mother. I think that was mentioned in the barn scene with the knife when she says something like "I may look as unnatural to you as you seem to me". The sad thing is that, having the daughter's "real core", Liana was actually there in a way, not understanding why she was doing things that she didn't want to and not aware of any of her "creepy behaviour" as well as not understanding the rejection coming from her mother, who also suspects that there might be something left from her daughter there but isn't able to deal with her in her current state regardless of that. Anyway, that's what I got from the video, I hope that it helped and sorry if something isn't clear, English isn't my first language.
This was genuinely amazing. I loved the themes of breaking away from your programming and life objectives; a core facet of life is not truly knowing where you'll end up at the end of it. Thanks for showcasing this wonderful game and major props to the devs at Enigma Studio.
1:27:27 Terminal:”how do we know we’re on the right path?” “Liana”: “we don’t.” Terminal:”Will we ever know?” “Liana”: “We will when we reach the end.”
Wow. I've never seen a game like that. I got the things weren't quite right when mother asked to sleep outside. But I thought there was something wrong with her, not the girl. Brother's phrase about the food was pretty creepy. When I saw the sculpture in the graveyard I completely got it. I'm glad father didn't abandon the girl.
Well, Liana's sculpture might also suggest that her parents are ready to bury her when she dies, but that's obviously not true after you discover the things that are happening at the end.
Can't believe this hasn't already been played by other people, this is a real gem of a game and I'm only halfway through lol. No jumpscares but stuff like the "you can't go to sleep with someone in your room" are so scary
I wonder if we as the protag are supposed to be a kid or just "programmed" / drugged or some thing into thinking we're one. Or may be we are just really short. *shrug*
Simply mind-blowing, as expected from Enigma Studio. The plot, the atmosphere, the concept itself, all of them are executed in such a great way, and to find out it's also connected to The Enigma Machine? I am speechless.
Well, this was not what I expected, and I love that. I'm seriously not sure who I felt sorrier for by the end, the mother and brother, or the player character. Although Dad seems to not mind the end results for some reason...
0:42 I never want to hear the phrase "it took a lot out of you" in the context of surgery, bevause it makes me wonder how much exactly did they take out of me without putting it back.
If it's something pretending to be me it's pretending to be me really badly, judging by the fact they don't let "me" even look at "myself" in the mirror.
The atmosphere sounds, music.... you can almost taste the mood. Damn good job on that in my opinion. For being so unnerving and unforgettable, ... just amazing audio.
A lot of horror games I can kinda zone out and just seem to know when something will happen next. But this one...I didn't want to miss a single detail because the progression was so well done.
30 mins in and my theory so far us that wE, Liana actually died and now we're some cyborg corpse thing but we look kinda fucked up so no mirrors, also the transitions on when it says *monday evening* or smthng is probably smthng in our system telling us the time. also when smthng happens we tell ourselves wut happend like *mother is very proud of what u did* or smthng that could be the robotic side telling the brain or vice versa, also the fact that we eat dirt and *ingest its nutrients* is also a thing.. also we never had to use the bathroom. and just lil subtle hints on us actually being dead and probably being a cyborg thing edit: i was spot on
Just imagine talking to someone who is very obviously dead, but a mechanical implant in their brain is making them talk and behave robotically like a puppet
*TLDR: For me I felt blocking the mirrors was because the machine seeing itself would cause programming conflicts. Like, Liana still thought she existed. She only existed as a core within the machine though. Which is a conflict with both her and the machine's sense of self because neither are who they believe/understand themselves to be.* 👇 More explanation below 👇 For instance, when you look at your reflection you see yourself through your OWN eyes. You can't physically see yourself through anyone (or "anything") else's eyes. But Liana is only a core, so what would she see reflected in the mirror? Can a core even visualize itself at all? As far as the machine goes, a machine or programming can't comprehend it's own reflection the way sentient things can. Like Alexa & Siri can't say "oh hey, that's me I'm seeing in the mirror." So an AI type robot would process it's reflection as it does any other object, not necessarily as "itself." Putting all of this together -- Liana doesn't have a physical body, so the machine would be the thing reflected in the mirror. However, Liana is still sentient right? Her core is stuck within. So she'd be possibly seeing a body that didn't belong to her, while the machine simultaneously isn't able to process that it's looking at itself. That would have to be confusing since she and the machine are intertwined (they require each other in order to function). And I took it as, that's not something the programming was equipped to handle. The "confusion" of a reflection would glitch the system, cause a meltdown or whatever.
All I know is those apple trees wouldn’t grow next to the ocean in the salt spray and especially with the land flooding like that they would be dead in a few days even if it was fresh water.
I don't remember the last time a video game (whether in walkthrough format or when actually played) made me cry. This one did. I expected this to be one of those PS1 style games, but the graphics were surprisingly good, especially the outside - stunningly beautiful. The twist in the middle was kind of predictable, but everything that came after turned out to be horribly relatable.
I truly love the concept of this game 💯 It's a story about a mother suffering from post traumatic stress disorder over the lost of her daughter named Liana, who was severely sick and in and out the hospitals all the time. The painful hospital stays as mother and father watched her daughter slowing drift away into death's hands drove mother into a deep depression, so the father is optimistically "trying" to keep the family together. He figures he can help mother cope with the lost by building a narrative for the family, but here is where things haven't been working out for them for a long while now - and mother just ain't having it. She's growing tired of playing along with false feelings of love for (if haven't noticed) an android interjected with the memories of their late daughter Liana. I also came to conclusion that there's also the possibility mother my have even harmed her REAL daughter some kind of way, because there are certain moments in the game, like Liana's brother tells her she's being fed dirt; mother's deattached demeanour indicates she can stand to look at Liana, and that she does not really seem to be close with her child/ren; she never wants to be seen walking alongside Liana in their home or outside. She even had the por girl sleep out on the dirt path of the house's roadside, I also assume in hopes a car would run over her. And keeps all the mirrors boarded up, constantly reminding Liana, 'It's for your own good...' Wow! 😬 "Bro, what a loving mother..." Lol All jokes aside, this is a great game, I'd advised anyone if you accidentally stumbled upon this treasure as I have - check it out. The story plot is WICKED!
soo the real liana is already dead and her father trying to resurrect her by using some kind of liana's core and make a robot that have personality like real liana by using that core? but the mother scared about the robot and pretend that it is her daughter. is that right?
From what I understand it's a continuous process. Android Liana spends a week with her mother, gets "killed", the father spends a week fixing and upgrading the AI, then it's the mothers house again and so on. We don't know how many times this happened, but you can tell that the mother is being annoyed with this process. The father on the other hand is determined to keep going.
I usually come here out of curiosity for the game, but this one is like a kick to the gut. I remember people I used to trust abusing me inside my room, they told me that it is all for my good and that they love me, and I didn't know I was abused until I reach 18. I never had the chance to rebel.
Wow! This was much better than I thought it would be! I was expecting a typical "flick on the light switches so your creepy mother doesn't kill you" scenario. But this was really mysterious, disturbing, and fascinating! All in such a simple setting too. Great game!
Towards the end of the game is even more scary . At first its just a creepy mother , then she isn't scary at all and you feel like a total predator ! So you feel like the daughter in the beginning, and towards the end you feel like the "Thing".
Wow what a journey. This is a rare gem of a game that really make you think about the human condition, love, loss, and grief. Thank you ABG for playing this for us!
... bruh. No lie. I was straight glued to the screen the entire time. Because for once, the weird schtit happening on screen ACTUALLY kind of got explained... And was still really weird and cool. I wouldn't even remotely call this game scary, but it has all the hallmarks of a proper eerie experience... And I wasn't even the one playing!
I like to think that every time announcement is Liana suddenly stopping and just staring idly. Hence why Mother starts to grow more scared and emotionally erratic.
15:40 "You cannot sleep when someone is in your room" I don't think I've ever seen a more masterful way of instilling foreboding than that single, simple sentence. Just amazing.
The daughter is a robot and the dad keep replace her + that why she only eat same food can’t understand a lot of things and I kind think the brother is dead,the only one that okay is the dad the mom is kind off too like she always scared the new kid but the dad keep make the new one that make the wife depressed because it never be the same
I haven't finished the video yet but if it weren't for the music cues, I wouldn't have figured this game to be a psychological horror at all. It honestly seems more like an android family doing their best to imitate their creators, while also coming to grips with the injury of their daughter. It's both sad and a bit endearing.
Already, Liana's parents are a bit strange; an uneasy feeling. What's up with mother!? 10:04 Two places at once? Thirty-two min in & this game is really WEIRD! But I'm too far in to stop or turn back.
Such a cool concept. One of the things I like the most is that, in a way, Liana’s situation kind of contextualizes why the game literally looks the way it does, all odd and fake looking.
Another low graphic game i think i can play this on my potato(maybe not :( it looks good)thanks for uploading :) i played many games on my potato because of u
@@gooeykit6074 thank you, but sometimes I just see morning, afternoon, evening and night going by. It is how it is. I think I suffer lesser just letting it pass by instead of struggling wanting to get better.
I've almost forgotten, how Black Mirror creeped me out in a way, sometimes I could not feel well. This one has a moral: NEVER MESS WITH MOTHER... ...nature...
I feel like this game is a creative way to turn lack of development experience into a feature. Was it just easier to put tape over the mirror than to implement reflections? Who knows!
i think its more about the appearance of the character. like they didnt want it to see itself and cause a memory leak? at least thats my interpretation
This is reeeeally good, and I was honestly hoping the Spoilers: ... core stuff would work out, and the soul inside the core would be able to take control and the mom and brother could live together with her/it
I’m 44 minutes in, and this is so sad.. I read the comments which kind of spoilered to me what’s going on, but not everything so I’m pretty confused. I wonder what happened to the little girl, she seems to be some kind of robot.. oh dang. She seems to still be in there. Oh that’s so sad!!
the music reminds me so much of the compositions that Klein (this great experimental artist) have made. very ominous and eerie yet familiar. if anyone likes the journey this music takes you on, I’d recommend her Lifetime album for sure.
This game is by the same developers of The Enigma Machine, so you can expect things to get pretty weird!
Spoilers
The ending of the game seems to suggest a link to The Enigma Machine and that this may actually be a prequel. You can check out a gameplay video of The Enigma Machine here: ua-cam.com/video/9x7LHy3-qx4/v-deo.html
Edit: The dev has confirmed the events in Mothered take place before The Enigma Machine. Would highly recommend checking it out to learn more of Liana's story!
Edit 3: A secret sequel to Mothered has now been released, Mothered: Home. You can check out a gameplay video of it here: ua-cam.com/video/C_C490Ihqz4/v-deo.html
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So I assumed this is the story of red? funny the father didn't named it angel
Spoiler
Yeah, I think this may be Red's origin story!
There's also a line in The Enigma Machine where Red says:
"I myself used to be an Enigma Machine. An Android, with my own body!"
Edit: Just spoke to the dev and they confirmed this is Red's origin story. Kinda makes me feel like even more of an A-hole for how I treated Red in The Enigma Machine!
@@AlphaBetaGamer Cool ! I hope we get more story about Red in Echostasis
@@AlphaBetaGamer Poor thing never caught a break...
@@AlphaBetaGamer "red" in "mothered" on the end credits screen is brighter than the rest of the word. plus the whole thing is red instead of blue like the similarly styled screens in the game
"You cannot sleep with someone in your room" that startled me
Yah, I actually paused the video for a while. Holy crap.
Time stamp?
That has to be hands down, one of the most genius ways of scaring the player I've seen, its so subtle and so effective, jesus...
lmao Same
@@Thrownblock 15:35
I love the dialogue noises. Bwoop woop bwoop
Woop WAAP Wuup Woop WAAP wuup wOOp WaAp
Reminds me of okami
It's an especially satisfying sound. Woop woop woop WHOP woop
Oh fuck I just started the video and I just CAN'T 😂😂😂 it makes me burst in laughter every few second 😂
They seen the word, i can sense they coming
The part of Liana saying "mom" is so terrifying and beautiful! How she croaks the word out because she has not spoken in a long time. This game is art.
scary man\horror\psy screamer=look at me On the page
scary man\horror\psy screamer-
ua-cam.com/video/nDHWqRdgQMY/v-deo.html
When? When was it?? I lost track
@@asleepyanarchy8281 around 58:37
when she is trying to call out for her mom, the build up is amazing
Just imagine watching your dead daughter wandering around your house being propelled by some disturbing machine
That awful disconnect between the comfort of morning with warm lighting and birds and the unsettling things that follow at night is great at keeping you off center, that's for sure.
For me, it gives the impression of a family waking up one morning greeting each other and enjoying hearing the birds
The only difference being that they're all robots
1:14:35
> "You haven't seen the way it moves around the house with such determination toward its objective."
I wonder if this is how NPCs see human player in all the games :)
Mindless entities fearful of something that has a will of its own
I'm convinced some people in my life are NPCs.
I kept thinking the glitch in her dress was a 🔪
Same!
Lol they need to reskin the character model to fix it.
@@GruntledGaming pretty sure they did it on purpose
There are so many red flags in this game. Really good job on the "creepy" / "wtf is going on" feeling. I am personally annoyed with the lack of choice but at the same time it does add to the creep factor of possibly being a helpless - ( or feeling hopeless and helpless to resist ) - little girl....
It's just a weight painting issue. A vertice from the dress has been weight painted on a finger accidentally.
This feels like a fever dream, a very bad and uncomfortable fever dream
I saw some confusion in the comments, so i thought I'd clear things up ✌🥰
There are 4 entities at play inside the player character, first off! You, the player, are what they call the Angel, or just Angel, later on. The physical components of the character is Liana, who is the biological component of the body, the core, which is the representative of the real Liana, and the AI or Interface, which is the pilot of the body where Angel and the core cannot act. As a whole, all 4 components act as 'Liana', but the real Liana is dead.
A little girl dies to unknown cause and the father tries to bring her back by putting machines and AI into her corpse, potentially even reviving her brain, in which case she still lost all/most her memories due to it losing all neurological activity. Think having to restart your phone as normal sleep and a hard reset being total neurological shut down. Your phone can still function as a phone, but it has nothing of what you put on it anymore.
The dad sends her to live with mom who follows a script meant to help 'Liana' to remember herself and to develope her brain/AI, but as 'Liana' starts to clash with what her AI wants for her, it starts breaking beaking integral structures have been compromised. Due to this, 'Liana' starts to take more control.
As 'Liana' is taking control, the AI is desperate for structure but since it has been broken, it can only grasp at things that should be assured to work. The AI starts to seek out mother, as father told 'Liana' to listen to her mother. 'Liana' is forced to comply with this, though it doesn't seem that she herself despises the thought of being with her mom either. The relentless chase that 'Liana' then gives, starts to terrify her mother who continues to try to run from her and to reassure the brother that it will be okay. 'Liana' finds mom and as she's being told off, is desperate to communicate but can only say "mom" given some strain. This causes the mother more panic and she admits to 'Liana' that she is not the real daughter. This, coming from mother, breaks the AI of directive, now knowing that it is not what it was manufactured to be. The AI, free of structure, begins to be personified.
'Liana' starts to lash out due to frustration over how she's being forced to live, not that she wants to die but that she doesnt want to live so restrictedly due to her AI forcing her around and scaring the people around her.
In one life, she tries to end it by attacking her mom, but ends up being killed instead, as the AI forces her to comply to her mother's demands. In later lives, she spends them gaining more information in order to find a way to end the cycle. As she does, she unearths that she is a cyborg, though moreso leaning towards android, and that her family has been through this time and time again.
As she gains access to the cellar basement, she finds long sprawling corridors which are not properly mapped out and/or put heavy restrictions on so that she struggles to make way. 'Liana' breaks through the restrictions, though, and finds her way to an area underground near the barn. This area has a terminal and a large pile of ash, the ash being of old models of herself that have failed. This unlocks more of her memories.
The AI, core & Liana, or the concept of Liana, unify with Angel and each other, becoming it's own entity at last. 'Liana' builds a staircase from her own cremations to escape the cellar and, still carrying the bushel of apples, comes to her dad who is dropping off a new 'Liana'. Dad recognizes this and that this version is different and begins to drive her somewhere. In the car, he goes over a lot of what was discussed but then is alluded to give her a nicname. The nicname is Red, I assume after the bushel of red apples, and is to reoccur in Enigma Machine, which this game is a prequel of
I didn't want to add this to the comment itself, as it's more theory as well as plot irrelevant, but I don't think the brother is dead. Red is able to commune with the idea of Liana and is able to reclaim the memories of her former self, but she is never seen genuinely communing with the dead. I think that as the family had to deal with all the 'Liana's, the brother became more and more of a recluse, as he was obviously very close with the real Liana. It's very stressful for him to have to deal with Red as it's basically Liana haunting him without even knowing who he is
@@gooeykit6074 Thank you for this explanation, this made Mothered make a lot more sense to me!
Alright, then can you explain how there's multiple mothers? How the mother's animations are that of a robot? How the world glitches up?
Duos mio, muchas gracias no tienes ni idea de lo dificil que es entender la trama de manera correcta al no poder entender al 100% el idioma :)
@@AlphaZeroX96 puede ser una falla en la misma programacion, desde la persepcion del mundo a ver dos entidades sin estar ayi, puede ser.
"Love, Mom X"
What happened to the previous nine moms?
She ate them
Nutrients. Her favourite.
Dad downright divorced them
That's a lot of halves of the estate to take in the divorce.
You know the surgery took a toll on you when your father starts speaking and all you hear is: "Wuup duh wup duh wup duh wuup duh duh!"
For those who haven't played the game, ABG made it shorter (thanks to many cuts) than it is in reality. 1h30 seems long but you can spend even more time on it :
*SPOILER :*
The game doesn't hold your hand and you really have to be killed a few times before finally discovering the truth, when and where to hide on Friday by restarting your life as a new doll. I managed to do it on the fourth week. Some people will find it tedious, but it's also really clever since the player represents the mind of Liana, which still exists and learn from her past experiences.
A very disturbing but great game. I really recommend it and would like to know the next part of the story.
@Wimpleton Duck Had to redo the game just for you :)
You can talk to him again on Friday Night, when Mother and Father are arguing.
He says : "Don't mind those two. This happens every week. It's like they're living in different worlds entirely."
Also, there is indeed no way to see your brother in the game...
@@Vallandriel ABG missed some text at 36:18 , he never went to go explore it. Were you able to on your playthrough?
@@arturob5306 He did explore it, at 1:19:42
These texts appear in the distance but you can only see them when you're on the "critical path" towards the ending.
36:18 and 1:19:42 are both on Thursday Night.
what is the tell for figuring out that mother is not "feeling unwell in her room" on thursday morning? that you can find her in the orchard shed. is it just trial and error on multiple playthroughs?
you wonder if the girl was abused by her mum when she was alive. look at the way she says "now's our chance. kill her". conflicting love and hate within. She feels like she has no voice to talk. She was forced to eat dirt, but can now say No. it's a real treasure trove
Wow. This was well-executed. Especially finding out what happened to Liana and her "core". I was thinking so many theories (Cloning, "Ghost in a Shell", human trafficking and brain lobotomies) and how the father was so hopeful in "reviving" his daughter. As for the son and mother.... I really felt sorry for them because they were repeatedly traumatized and they were losing their mental health. Liana's soul merging with the terminal was creepy, but she wanted to know what happened and why. Pretty cool sci-fi horror game that kept me on the edge of my seat. Thanks for sharing and playing it! :)
100% agree
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So maybe im confused but what exactly happened to Liana and her core? Did they never fully merge with "angel"?
@@arturob5306 it seems to become another entity entirely, and at the end the father seems to acknowledge it by giving them a new name
@@panetierbread3510 same. As i see it - merging Lianas "core" (brain? consciousness?) with her new cyborg body changes her irreversibly. They cant get old Liana back. SHE IS DEAD. Lianas core in new body + interaface = new intity. Mother cant accept it. Father can and does. Sorry if my english is bad - i am not native english speaker.
That Mother gives Me some "I Feel Fantastic" vibes.
reminds me of those out of bounds areas on old games
The way she moves is very creepy, like an animatronic doll. Imagine sleeping with that in the corner of your room
“Hey hey hey”
Omg yes!!!!
I'm uncomfortable 😂
Oh my. What a game, what a treat.
The roller-coaster of being scared, realizing you are the one scaring others and different realizations are so well done.
I especially like, how the poor graphics and voices are explained by, perhaps, the imperfect machinery (mom does say, that main character probably sees them differently).
Kinda wish we got to see our 'angel' at least ones. Developer was really teasing with those mirrors.
@@greennmiles4517 I tried, it's not possible. :(
I'm pretty sure the "angel" is you, the player.
late reply, but if you play the sequel to this game, "The Enigma Machine", you may be able to put together what Angel more or less looks like.
I like that 29:04 looks like a simple graphical glitch.....until you find out later of course
The mother saying I hope you never have to find out what that is when showing you the barn, to the end when you reach the barn and she says I knew you would find your way here eventually. She hoped the daughter wouldn't have to be killed, but in the end knew she would eventually find it and have to be killed anyways. Also nice touch with the barn burning Sunday night, old body was being taken care of.
They wanted to have her very much, and the only way was using AI and the brain of the deceased girl, that they, indeed, further in time, had to kill other times (but the statue in the graveyard is regarded as the first time her died). Somehow she was alive, and somehow something else (enigma) was inside her too. So when machine gets broken by confusing information from the environment, the conflicts break character into two or three or four (Liana, Angel, Core and Interface). They all seem to be different things conflicting. What was not clear for me is why it goes so bad when her objective is to bee with her mother and what contamination (in thee exterior) means.
@@salsichalivre5401 From my understanding, the mother is creeped out by the daughter's conduct as it's obedience and determination are quite different from how Liana really was. She mentions something about her determination and hints how the real one was different in one part of the dialogue in one part. Also, at some point it's core objective and the commands started to present conflict, with the AI favoring the main one and being able to disobey some orders, which she shouldn't be able to and made the mother freak out even more. Last but not least, it also seems that, just as the mother looks artificial to the AI, she looks just as creepy to the mother. I think that was mentioned in the barn scene with the knife when she says something like "I may look as unnatural to you as you seem to me". The sad thing is that, having the daughter's "real core", Liana was actually there in a way, not understanding why she was doing things that she didn't want to and not aware of any of her "creepy behaviour" as well as not understanding the rejection coming from her mother, who also suspects that there might be something left from her daughter there but isn't able to deal with her in her current state regardless of that.
Anyway, that's what I got from the video, I hope that it helped and sorry if something isn't clear, English isn't my first language.
the daughter wanted to kill her also. some sort of....hate left over from a previous life?
24:30 mother: "we'll be picking apples"
game's music: *slams piano keys*
ikr i was fucked up
@@user-ne3sy4xl2z Mad Tribe
This was genuinely amazing. I loved the themes of breaking away from your programming and life objectives; a core facet of life is not truly knowing where you'll end up at the end of it. Thanks for showcasing this wonderful game and major props to the devs at Enigma Studio.
1:27:27
Terminal:”how do we know we’re on the right path?”
“Liana”: “we don’t.”
Terminal:”Will we ever know?”
“Liana”: “We will when we reach the end.”
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Wow. I've never seen a game like that. I got the things weren't quite right when mother asked to sleep outside. But I thought there was something wrong with her, not the girl. Brother's phrase about the food was pretty creepy. When I saw the sculpture in the graveyard I completely got it. I'm glad father didn't abandon the girl.
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Well, Liana's sculpture might also suggest that her parents are ready to bury her when she dies, but that's obviously not true after you discover the things that are happening at the end.
Can't believe this hasn't already been played by other people, this is a real gem of a game and I'm only halfway through lol. No jumpscares but stuff like the "you can't go to sleep with someone in your room" are so scary
no jumpscares? @23:51 made me jump RIGHT GOOD lmao
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It's either the protagonist is really small or the house is just built different
Yeah you're the size of a young kid in the game so everything looks a little bigger.
@@AlphaBetaGamer okay that makes more sense
I wonder if we as the protag are supposed to be a kid or just "programmed" / drugged or some thing into thinking we're one. Or may be we are just really short. *shrug*
From how it started out I didn't expect this game to have this much heart
Simply mind-blowing, as expected from Enigma Studio. The plot, the atmosphere, the concept itself, all of them are executed in such a great way, and to find out it's also connected to The Enigma Machine? I am speechless.
Well, this was not what I expected, and I love that. I'm seriously not sure who I felt sorrier for by the end, the mother and brother, or the player character. Although Dad seems to not mind the end results for some reason...
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The atmosphere in this game is absolutely wonderful, it has the feeling of living in an artificial dream world, i especially like the song at 16:55.
Wish this game's soundtrack was up somewhere, I really like that track
The whole game gives the impression of appearing fake
Dude ive been dying to find this soundtrack if you find it out pleaseeee lemme know
If y’all are still searching, here’s the full soundtrack of the game :)
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@@khostqqq omg you are a life saver tysm! been dying to find it
0:42 I never want to hear the phrase "it took a lot out of you" in the context of surgery, bevause it makes me wonder how much exactly did they take out of me without putting it back.
Is it even you coming back home or something that just pretends it's you?
If it's something pretending to be me it's pretending to be me really badly, judging by the fact they don't let "me" even look at "myself" in the mirror.
the lighting and weather effects are unreasonably good
The way mom speaks with her hand movements reminded me of that, *I feel fantastic hey hey hey.*
Glitchy VHS Horror is becoming my favorite video game aesthetic.
I want a film with exactly this kind of atmosphere. Also, I want this games soundtrack
Me too if you get it please send me
Coraline is sort of similar
The atmosphere sounds, music.... you can almost taste the mood. Damn good job on that in my opinion. For being so unnerving and unforgettable, ... just amazing audio.
Only I love when a horror game uses psychological horror instead of jumpscares and scripted chases?
using jumpscares to scare people is like tickling people's feet to make them laugh. it works and it sucks.
@@justaclock4768 dont even get me started on tickling the neck
Yes,ur the only one,ur so special
I don't mind scripted chases so much but jumpscares usually annoy me. There have been a few exceptions though.
Al sobrepasar los sustos basicos y ser psicologico, se vulve un Arte
If I fall asleep watching these after a couple melatonin there's like a 40% chance I dream of being in these games it rocks
Does it
Did it worked
It rocks!? I'd be scared shitless in a "dream" like this 😳
I’m fucking jealous of you.
how does that rock? Are you insane?
A lot of horror games I can kinda zone out and just seem to know when something will happen next. But this one...I didn't want to miss a single detail because the progression was so well done.
We've gone full circle from when ABG was the MOTHER, who ended up shooting the kid
Haha, very true! I was very bad mom!
@@AlphaBetaGamer you did your best lmao
What game is that
@@Guav0_ it is called MOTHER
Father loves his lofi.
A true man of class.
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30 mins in and my theory so far us that wE, Liana actually died and now we're some cyborg corpse thing but we look kinda fucked up so no mirrors, also the transitions on when it says *monday evening* or smthng is probably smthng in our system telling us the time. also when smthng happens we tell ourselves wut happend like *mother is very proud of what u did* or smthng that could be the robotic side telling the brain or vice versa, also the fact that we eat dirt and *ingest its nutrients* is also a thing.. also we never had to use the bathroom. and just lil subtle hints on us actually being dead and probably being a cyborg thing
edit: i was spot on
Big brain
Just imagine talking to someone who is very obviously dead, but a mechanical implant in their brain is making them talk and behave robotically like a puppet
*TLDR: For me I felt blocking the mirrors was because the machine seeing itself would cause programming conflicts. Like, Liana still thought she existed. She only existed as a core within the machine though. Which is a conflict with both her and the machine's sense of self because neither are who they believe/understand themselves to be.*
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For instance, when you look at your reflection you see yourself through your OWN eyes. You can't physically see yourself through anyone (or "anything") else's eyes. But Liana is only a core, so what would she see reflected in the mirror? Can a core even visualize itself at all?
As far as the machine goes, a machine or programming can't comprehend it's own reflection the way sentient things can. Like Alexa & Siri can't say "oh hey, that's me I'm seeing in the mirror." So an AI type robot would process it's reflection as it does any other object, not necessarily as "itself."
Putting all of this together -- Liana doesn't have a physical body, so the machine would be the thing reflected in the mirror. However, Liana is still sentient right? Her core is stuck within. So she'd be possibly seeing a body that didn't belong to her, while the machine simultaneously isn't able to process that it's looking at itself. That would have to be confusing since she and the machine are intertwined (they require each other in order to function).
And I took it as, that's not something the programming was equipped to handle. The "confusion" of a reflection would glitch the system, cause a meltdown or whatever.
I thought the father was pretending to be the mother, getting ready bto kill her
All I know is those apple trees wouldn’t grow next to the ocean in the salt spray and especially with the land flooding like that they would be dead in a few days even if it was fresh water.
Ahh yes nutrients. My favorite!
Mama's special recipe!
Delicious dirt flavor! Yay!
Ground flavored earth, what a delicacy
15:40 was beyond terrifying...
Only just finished watching The Radio Station and we got another spooky one already 😃
Aye same lol the radio station was truly good but yeah very terrifying hey I read that poem I'm still alive uhh damn
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I don't remember the last time a video game (whether in walkthrough format or when actually played) made me cry. This one did.
I expected this to be one of those PS1 style games, but the graphics were surprisingly good, especially the outside - stunningly beautiful.
The twist in the middle was kind of predictable, but everything that came after turned out to be horribly relatable.
I truly love the concept of this game 💯
It's a story about a mother suffering from post traumatic stress disorder over the lost of her daughter named Liana, who was severely sick and in and out the hospitals all the time. The painful hospital stays as mother and father watched her daughter slowing drift away into death's hands drove mother into a deep depression, so the father is optimistically "trying" to keep the family together. He figures he can help mother cope with the lost by building a narrative for the family, but here is where things haven't been working out for them for a long while now - and mother just ain't having it.
She's growing tired of playing along with false feelings of love for (if haven't noticed) an android interjected with the memories of their late daughter Liana.
I also came to conclusion that there's also the possibility mother my have even harmed her REAL daughter some kind of way, because there are certain moments in the game, like Liana's brother tells her she's being fed dirt; mother's deattached demeanour indicates she can stand to look at Liana, and that she does not really seem to be close with her child/ren; she never wants to be seen walking alongside Liana in their home or outside. She even had the por girl sleep out on the dirt path of the house's roadside, I also assume in hopes a car would run over her. And keeps all the mirrors boarded up, constantly reminding Liana, 'It's for your own good...'
Wow! 😬
"Bro, what a loving mother..." Lol
All jokes aside, this is a great game, I'd advised anyone if you accidentally stumbled upon this treasure as I have - check it out. The story plot is WICKED!
the mother shows little hesitation in stabbing her over and over in the barn also. perhaps ther was more.....
soo the real liana is already dead and her father trying to resurrect her by using some kind of liana's core and make a robot that have personality like real liana by using that core? but the mother scared about the robot and pretend that it is her daughter. is that right?
From what I understand it's a continuous process. Android Liana spends a week with her mother, gets "killed", the father spends a week fixing and upgrading the AI, then it's the mothers house again and so on. We don't know how many times this happened, but you can tell that the mother is being annoyed with this process. The father on the other hand is determined to keep going.
Mom is just jealous that even if she practices robot dance all the time for a competition, her robot daughter is better at it than she will ever be.
I was expecting shlock and instead got hit with a really enthralling story with banger music. Great stuff.
One of the creepiest games I've seen in a while, it's probably going to give me nightmares
I definitely want a soundtrack playlist of this game, I am in love with the melodies.
Especially the transition music
I love how the game's graphics is on a fine line between good and bad
I usually come here out of curiosity for the game, but this one is like a kick to the gut. I remember people I used to trust abusing me inside my room, they told me that it is all for my good and that they love me, and I didn't know I was abused until I reach 18. I never had the chance to rebel.
That's really terrifying
This game is so unbelievably good, I found myself tearing up when mother was talking to the Shell or whoever we are in the barn.
The creepy feeling that I get for this game is unnerving.
Wow! This was much better than I thought it would be! I was expecting a typical "flick on the light switches so your creepy mother doesn't kill you" scenario. But this was really mysterious, disturbing, and fascinating! All in such a simple setting too. Great game!
Towards the end of the game is even more scary . At first its just a creepy mother , then she isn't scary at all and you feel like a total predator ! So you feel like the daughter in the beginning, and towards the end you feel like the "Thing".
21:55 Mother, are you feeling OK? Your framerate looks terrible.
It's just the jetlag.
The rain graphics on the street outside are amazing but everything else is ps1 styled lol I love it
The feeling of uneasiness is very strong in this game.
It's like a family of robots playing house
Wow what a journey. This is a rare gem of a game that really make you think about the human condition, love, loss, and grief. Thank you ABG for playing this for us!
... bruh. No lie. I was straight glued to the screen the entire time. Because for once, the weird schtit happening on screen ACTUALLY kind of got explained... And was still really weird and cool. I wouldn't even remotely call this game scary, but it has all the hallmarks of a proper eerie experience... And I wasn't even the one playing!
I like to think that every time announcement is Liana suddenly stopping and just staring idly. Hence why Mother starts to grow more scared and emotionally erratic.
You know it's real when your father speaks in shyguy.
15:40 "You cannot sleep when someone is in your room" I don't think I've ever seen a more masterful way of instilling foreboding than that single, simple sentence. Just amazing.
The girl : *had surgery*
Also the father : *proceeds to tell her to bring him the heavy box before he drives off*
Lol yeah I was wondering why no one else pointed this out lol
This piece of art perfectly depicts phycological horror
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Quite a tragic story to be honest
Would you please share with the rest of the class what you think the story is?
The daughter is a robot and the dad keep replace her + that why she only eat same food can’t understand a lot of things and I kind think the brother is dead,the only one that okay is the dad the mom is kind off too like she always scared the new kid but the dad keep make the new one that make the wife depressed because it never be the same
@@sunphin2610 Is the brothers body in his room?
It's based off the film A.I. which is 1000 times more tragic
@@artv4692 A.I. has an almost completely different plot, and it’s debatable but definitely still tragic.
I really enjoyed this one. Very sad, and quite creepy indeed. I need there to be more of this
For some reason, I keep returning to this video / game, it’s really interesting and weird in a good way
I haven't finished the video yet but if it weren't for the music cues, I wouldn't have figured this game to be a psychological horror at all.
It honestly seems more like an android family doing their best to imitate their creators, while also coming to grips with the injury of their daughter.
It's both sad and a bit endearing.
I absolutley love the UI and interface in this game
hello jacket
Already, Liana's parents are a bit strange; an uneasy feeling.
What's up with mother!? 10:04 Two places at once?
Thirty-two min in & this game is really WEIRD! But I'm too far in to stop or turn back.
Such a cool concept. One of the things I like the most is that, in a way, Liana’s situation kind of contextualizes why the game literally looks the way it does, all odd and fake looking.
Another low graphic game i think i can play this on my potato(maybe not :( it looks good)thanks for uploading :) i played many games on my potato because of u
You're welcome! Glad you like the games! PC gaming isn't just for supercomputers. You can have a lot of fun with a potato too! :)
@@AlphaBetaGamer They're called toasters guys. I love my toaster, helps me appreciate games from the 2000s and late 90s :)
I come to watch this game every time I am depressed. Been watching it every week since launch.
not kidding, I am here again
@@salsichalivre5401 i hope you feel better soon, since you said you watch this when depressed. Things get better, even if it's hard to look out for!
@@gooeykit6074 thank you, but sometimes I just see morning, afternoon, evening and night going by. It is how it is. I think I suffer lesser just letting it pass by instead of struggling wanting to get better.
i m here again
again
-this is MY wardrobe
-this is YOUR desk
Less than 7 minutes into the video and the fourth wall is already broken
not really
Im having nonstop goosebump, if we talking about house of ashes or this game, definetely i would pick this game.
I wish I had a computer to play it on, I only have my phone
These videos need more aprecciation, I love them. Short but amazing horror games, and this channel has them all! Love it💕
The music in the morning is the only thing that is wonderful to listen. 😄
"You always were a kidder, Steve"
6:18 ah yes, the neighbour's house burning. Nothing to worry about.
Believe me, I would feel the exact same way if it was my neighbours house. I would smile and laugh as I heard them screaming and crying😄
the barn, another liana burning up
_Sees mother_
I'm reminded of a Calvin and Hobbes panel...
This was brilliantly made.
Another gem.
I've almost forgotten, how Black Mirror creeped me out in a way, sometimes I could not feel well. This one has a moral: NEVER MESS WITH MOTHER...
...nature...
I feel like this game is a creative way to turn lack of development experience into a feature. Was it just easier to put tape over the mirror than to implement reflections? Who knows!
i think its more about the appearance of the character. like they didnt want it to see itself and cause a memory leak? at least thats my interpretation
for ps1 esque game the graphic is gorgeous
Those titles are so perfectly stylish
The music is on point.
This is reeeeally good, and I was honestly hoping the
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... core stuff would work out, and the soul inside the core would be able to take control and the mom and brother could live together with her/it
Such a good game. I felt tense during all the video.
I’m 44 minutes in, and this is so sad.. I read the comments which kind of spoilered to me what’s going on, but not everything so I’m pretty confused. I wonder what happened to the little girl, she seems to be some kind of robot.. oh dang. She seems to still be in there. Oh that’s so sad!!
The story is 10/10! Creepy and sad
this has to be one of my favorite games on your channel hands down!
Momma built like a Denver Broncos defensive lineman
15:42 omg my heart sank as soon as I read that lol
23:42 This fucking scare.
If only mother know how you felt. Or how smart you really are.
the music reminds me so much of the compositions that Klein (this great experimental artist) have made. very ominous and eerie yet familiar. if anyone likes the journey this music takes you on, I’d recommend her Lifetime album for sure.
Everytime i watch this creepy vid in rainy midnights i always having goosebumps
This game looks amazing
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If only it was available on consoles and not just PC
This is exactly like one of my dreams, The setting, the colour, and i'm just wondering endlessly, its not dark and not bright also, like a dim evening
Am I insane or does the house in this game look similar to the one in that weird game made to look like a virtual walkthrough of a house?
Probably a free unity asset