Oddity (video game)
Oddity is an upcoming role-playing video game. Its development was first announced in 2008 as "Mother 4", an unofficial fan game in the "Mother" series. Over the course of development, the game removed its ties to the series and rebranded as its own entity in early 2020. It has no set release date. Gameplay. The game takes place in Pleiades, a fictional country based on the United States, during the early 1970s, as a boy named Travis Fields leaves his town of Belring to join three other characters, Meryl, Floyd, and Leo, to uncover the mystery  surrounding the "Modern Men". Its music and visuals are similar in style to the "Mother" series. Development. Near the end of its development, "Mother" series creator Shigesato Itoi announced that "Mother 3" (2006) would be the last entry in the series. While fans of the series pressured Nintendo for a sequel, the company was not interested and in March 2008, fans announced that they would be developing their own entry as "Mother 4". In a preview of the game, "Kotaku" described the fangame as visually stunning and true to the series, from its environment design to music, with a new  nine-track soundtrack. The game was originally expected for release in late 2014, but was delayed several times. In 2015, the development team consisted of eight members working part-time, on a voluntary basis without compensation. "Mother 4" was planned as a standalone game, with no emulator required, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux at no cost. In 2017, the team announced that the title was no longer a fan game, and in 2020, they rebranded the game as "Oddity" with no formal relation to the "Mother" series. It has no set release date.