Release
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Player score
Awaiting reviews
Platform families
1
Connected releases
Core game only
Game data from IGDB
Editorial overview
Inside Mote: Workshop
What it is
Mote: Workshop is a short, atmospheric story game set in a forgotten woodworking shop, where every tool, plank, and dust mote carries the echo of a father who spoke more through his craft than his words. Explore the dimly lit space at your own pace, interact with worn tools and scattered plans, and piece together a quiet narrative about memory, family, and the comfort of focused work. With simple controls and a cinematic first-person view, Mote: Workshop invites you to slow down, listen to the creak of the floorboards, and find meaning in the small details left behind on the bench.
The premise
The shop always smelled the same—sawdust, old varnish, and the faint trace of machine oil that never quite left the air. As a boy, he used to sit on a crooked stool near the window, watching his father work in steady silence. Words were rare there; instead, his father spoke through careful measurements, patient sanding, and the quiet rhythm of a plane gliding across wood.
Now the tools rest where they were last set down, as if waiting for hands that won’t return. Running his fingers along the worn workbench, he can almost hear that familiar cadence again—tap, scrape, breathe. In the stillness, he realizes the shop was never just a place to build things. It was how his father showed love: not loudly, but in every joint cut true, every surface made smooth enough to last.
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