Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

 PC
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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 103 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 71 out of 103
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 103
  3. Negative: 20 out of 103

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  1. dieselfuels
    Jul 21, 2017
    7
    Not a Game Grumps or visual novel fan but had a blast with Dream Daddy regardless.

    The humor is funny and tasteful, characters are endearing and likeable The mini games are a nice break up from the story but some need to be explained a little more than they are The campaign is short and to the point but could use more than three dates per character and an ending that doesn't feel    Not a Game Grumps or visual novel fan but had a blast with Dream Daddy regardless.

    The humor is funny and tasteful, characters are endearing and likeable
    The mini games are a nice break up from the story but some need to be explained a little more than they are
    The campaign is short and to the point but could use more than three dates per character and an ending that doesn't feel rushed.

    This is a comfort food game. Filling, not extremely difficult but most importantly, wholesome. It's personally worth the pricetag currently but if you're still weary, wait until a steam sale.    … Expand
  2. lokisbutt
    Jul 23, 2017
    7
    This game is decent. The overwhelming number of "10"s came from one of the devs tweeting that people should come leave positive reviews to balance out the one negative review it had at the time.

    Anyway, I had a relatively fun few hours playing this game, but there were hard-to-miss errors left and right. Typos and improper grammar in nearly every other text box of a visual novel got    This game is decent. The overwhelming number of "10"s came from one of the devs tweeting that people should come leave positive reviews to balance out the one negative review it had at the time.

    Anyway, I had a relatively fun few hours playing this game, but there were hard-to-miss errors left and right. Typos and improper grammar in nearly every other text box of a visual novel got extremely annoying after a while, but some of the humor made up for it some of the time. The mini-games have virtually no instruction. There are slight continuity errors in the story which, again, are annoying in a visual novel. The game is very, very short for the $15 you have to pay for it, though I am not familiar with dating sims or their average length-to-price ratio. One of the dads' storylines is lazy, boring, and hard to enjoy, even during the third and final date. A lot of the humor panders to the tumblr crowd, even having some lines of dialogue closely resemble text posts from the site. Even as a tumblr user, this got on my nerves.

    All that being said, most of the storylines in the game are very touching and I enjoyed seeing the character/relationship development. There were moments that made me laugh out loud. The devs produced a game with characters that almost every player can relate to in one way or another, and I think it's great that this is an LGBT-driven game that literally captures every letter of that acronym (and maybe some of the other letters, just not as blatantly) in its story in some capacity. The focus on dadliness over gayness ensures that this game is not a mockery of the gay experience, but a fresh take on the never-before-seen "dad who gets the chance to date 7 other hot dads and care for his daughter" experience. And that's pretty cool, though the game, at this moment, still has problems I cannot overlook for the sake of a positive review.    … Expand
  3. piercetheemo
    May 18, 2021
    7
    lol im kind of embarassed to review this but it's one of my favs

    sometimes though the story does feel a bit forced, but idc very much the romance options are pretty nice ouo

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#58 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 30, 2017
    70
    A well-written, lovable story gracefully focusing on things that matter in life. The game’s logo is misleading, as romance and sex are kept in the background. [10/2017, p.52]
  2. Shacknews
    Sep 29, 2017
    60
    Considering I’ve already written 2000 words on a game with no gameplay that lasted less than two hours, I would say I’ve probably seen enough. Did I learn anything about myself? Would I have enjoyed it more if these people were gay terminators as part of a weird government social experiment? Probably, yeah.
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  3. games(TM)
    Sep 8, 2017
    70
    Dream Daddy is a breath of fresh air. [Issue#191, p.82]
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