Games like Mother (EarthBound)

Mother (EarthBound): first released 1989 by Ape.

In the series: Mother (1989), EarthBound (1994), Mother 3 (2006).

25 games inspired by Mother (EarthBound)

• A Spring Meal: Food-collecting browser RPG.
• Athenian Rhapsody: Indie RPG about friendliness and bullet-hell dodging.
• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Free parody JRPG shared only from the studio's own site.
• Citizens of Earth: Comedic RPG pitched as an EarthBound successor.
• Cubenen Gardens: Befriend: RPG about Michael's quest to befriend a bear.
• Dragon Fantasy: Book I: 8-bit JRPG that copies Dragon Quest's mechanics with EarthBound-style humor.
• Dreamed Away: Cute pixel-art RPG with a dark story.
• Grimm's Hollow: Spooky freeware RPG about searching the afterlife for a brother.
• Halloween Hack (EarthBound ROM hack): A dark EarthBound hack by the future creator of Undertale, with a new story and boss fights.
• Imagination Heights: Turn-based browser RPG about kids on an imagination-fueled adventure.
• Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: RPG Maker dream adventure with EarthBound and Yume Nikki influences.
• Knuckle Sandwich: EarthBound-style RPG where battles are played as microgames.
• LISA: The Painful: Bleak post-apocalyptic side-scrolling RPG with EarthBound-style combat.
• MagiCats! in: Rousalie and the Infinite Sadness: Turn-based RPG about magical cats.
• Moonchild: Turn-based RPG about four children saving the world from aliens.
• MOTHER: Encore: Fan remake of the first Mother in EarthBound's engine style.
• Oddity: Long-running fan Mother 4 project reworked into an original EarthBound-style RPG; still unreleased.
• Omori: Kickstarted psychological horror RPG drawing on EarthBound.
• She Dreams Elsewhere: Surreal adventure RPG about dreams and reality.
• Soma Spirits: Rebalance: Choice-driven JRPG, first of a duology.
• Space Funeral: Surreal freeware RPG Maker parody by thecatamites.
• The Adventures of Green Guy!: RPG inspired by EarthBound and Zelda.
• Undertale: Kickstarted RPG inspired by Mother/EarthBound.
• Yes Noterday: Quirky EarthBound-inspired RPG.
• YIIK: A Postmodern RPG: Surreal 1999-set RPG openly modeled on EarthBound.