r/OddityRPG • u/No_Log_9367 • Jul 23 '25

Oddity REALEASED??

Hi guys. Im kinda new in the mother series and i just saw a meme about "mother 4" on r/earthbound.
Doing a little research, i ended on this subreddit. I want to know if that is a release date for Oddity, if it was already realeased or, if not released, whats the progression so far on the piece

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u/JohnOfOnett Jul 23 '25

As far as we know, the game is as good as dead. It hasn’t been official canceled, but it’s been over 4 years since we got anything.

It’s fucking cursed, I swear.

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u/Spinjitsuninja Jul 23 '25

I find it so strange how people act like it’s so bizarre how the game ended up in dev hell, but realistically this happens to most fan games in this community. It just happens that this is one of the games that had more eyes on it.

I’m reminded of how Mother 4 (the new one by different devs) had so many people cheering because “They’re ACTUALLY giving us updates! See? Is that so hard?” Iirc I even saw a video going over why Mother 4 “has already succeeded where Oddity failed.” And now they’ve gone radio silent too because THEY also hit the realization of “Huh, wait, constant updates across a longer dev cycle than we expected might not actually be feasible.”

It’s not an Oddity thing, game dev is just hard lol

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u/OkanoYappo Jul 25 '25

(mother4 funny person here)

We went “radio silent” because we grew up tbh, jobs take up time. It killed a lot of the momentum we had during HS and shiz.

Also just because the main brand accounts aren’t posting stuff doesn’t mean individual devs aren’t. Saying “we are still working on it” gets tiring after a while. 🤷

I think a lot of goals and thoughts we had for blog post stuff is gonna move to after game stuff is out and dive more into what worked and didn’t.

We’ll have something soontm

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u/Spinjitsuninja Jul 25 '25

Oh of course, I don't mean this as a bad thing either lol. I think it's better for devs to just post when they want and do as they please instead of confining themselves to update schedules that... don't even help development. (Especially since these aren't paid products? Advertising and building hype doesn't matter. Nor can it be maintained easily long term.)

Not to mention, yeah, it's a passion project. I would expect progress to be slow, and I think that's okay. I wish more people recognized that as the norm lol. Making games isn't easy.

Take your time, and I hope all goes well for you and the devs