Oh man, first 2064, now we’re talking about this game. I feel like the moment I was honest about my sexuality I started to notice homosexual games more and more, not that I’m complaining. I can, however, complain about the possible seedy practices that happened behind the scenes of this game, as mentioned in NikPiks, but…. Don’t focus on that right now. Let’s just talk about the game itself, and see if it manages to be good on it’s own. Let us talk about Dream Daddy.



Now you probably remember seeing this game all over the place a few years back. Every major let’s player was playing it and there was no way to avoid it. Created by the Game Grumps, mostly the woke man himself, Arin Hanson assumedly, you play as a dad as he moves to a new town with his daughter Amanda to a new neighborhood. Here you meet the local dads. College roommates and old friend Craig, coffee shop owner and Woolie lookalike Mat, high school teacher Hugo, big bear riva dad Brian, my neighbor IRL Joseph, a bad boy voiced by Danny Sexbang Robert, and local goth and AquaMarine bait Damien. From this fine selection of dads, you are tasked with hanging with them and romancing them to achieve your ultimate dad dream of being a bisexual or a full on gay. Now being a visual novel, don’t expect this game to be anything like Katana Zero, but maybe expect it to be fun in its own way. And it can be on occasion. All the dad’s are genuinely interesting characters. I was expecting to hate at least one of them like I do with any characters in a straight dating simulator, but no. Every dad is enjoyable, one way or another. This isn’t a Persona 3 situation where I can’t stand half of the dating choices given to me.
Now of course, being a visual novel, there isn’t much in the gameplay department aside from making choices about what your dad says and which dad you choose to date. After all, it’s a game all about story. And the story can range from being quite humorous to making you notice the weight of some of the dad’s situations. You will run into times where the dads will be cracking all sorts of dad jokes and your dad is experiencing the weight of a situation all because of a lawnmower. But then your friendly dads will start talking about their family life, their regrets and such, and it can be kind of heavy at times. Even with Amanda, the game knows when to take a step back from the humor and to just tell you things from a more mellow prespective. It makes the nice moments between Amanda and your dad that more sweet. There are however, actual minigames you can play. They can range from neat little time wasters to feeling like the developers wasted time working on them. Some of them just feel way too simple and makes me groan the more I play them. Of course, winning them isn’t really that important. It just gets you gloating rights, but it doesn’t destroy the dad path you take. So why have them? I dunno, completionists, maybe?
Dream Daddy is a fun and well written dating simulator. It’s interesting how this game which was probably used as a joke for let’s players managed to have decent writing and a lot of heart in the story. Is it the best indie dating game? Probably not. One day I’ll review you, Hatoful Boyfriend. One day. But still, Dream Daddy is a fun little game, and more than just a joke for LPs. Check it out some time

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