YMMV / Mother (HorrorShopGames)

• Awesome Art: The in-game graphics are minimal pixel art, but many players praise the character portrait of the mother and the CG of her catching you as both being quite well-drawn, with the only complaint being that there wasn't more art like this in the game.
• Fridge Logic: The brothers are unable to capture deer because they're too fast and the boys have no weapons, but apparently mother didn't think to give them the electric saw blades in the basement to hunt with.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Once the mother begins to kill her children one by one, the game makes it especially creepy as it's obvious what she's doing, but doesn't comment on it until the very end—the boys don't even seem to notice anything is even wrong as their brothers go missing.
  • The night after the first brother goes missing has a moment where the protagonist is prompted to go to sleep, which the player has to do by shutting his eyes. As his eyes close you can see the mother slowly peeking around the doorway to your room. If you snap his eyes back open, she quickly ducks out of sight. You have to go to sleep with her secretly watching you.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The mother is portrayed as being sympathetic because she and her sons are starving and pushed to the brink, but a lot of players point out that she makes no effort at all to help her young sons hunt for food and just sits inside waiting for them to inevitably fail, despite her having at least a smidgen of a better chance since she's a grown adult. It's also pointed out how she's wasting food by feeding her sons to immediately kill them the next day. Additionally, she tells the protagonist that he'll have to forego eating since he's the oldest and his younger brothers need the food more... and then it's later shown she had some food tucked away for herself.