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The Mothering

Explore an abandoned orphanage as you uncover the dark secrets it holds in this love letter to early 2010's horror games.

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Insanctum Games
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Insanctum Games
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About the Game

Everyone needs a mother.

After receiving a desperate letter from his estranged sister, Elias Vale travels to the abandoned Alderheim Orphanage in search of her missing son.

The orphanage has stood empty for decades.

Its candles are still burning.

Its halls echo with conversations from the past, and somewhere within the darkness, a child is calling Elias by another name.

The Mothering is a first-person psychological horror game inspired by classic survival horror experiences such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Explore a decaying orphanage, uncover its history through handwritten notes and fragmented memories, solve grounded environmental puzzles, and survive the dangers still wandering its halls.

Features

  • Explore a dark, atmospheric orphanage and the ancient chambers beneath it

  • Piece together the story through through flashbacks and journals as it reveals a dark past

  • Solve immersive puzzles rooted in the history and machinery of the building

  • Hide, escape, and survive

  • Zero Jumpscares, just pure horror and tension

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