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Octodad: Dadliest Catch

by Young Horses·published by Young Horses

30 January 2014E10+23
PCLinuxWindowsMacMobileiOSAndroidiPadPlayStationPS Vita

Reader score

7.0/ 10

13 votes

How long to beat

only 1 report

2h

Normally

story and some extras

Where to get it

Trailer

Gallery

7

Screenshots

Key art

About

In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the player takes the role of a loving fiancé and father of two kids. He is also a octopus in a suit who lives unrecognized in the human world. The majority of the time is spent with mundane tasks, e.g. preparing the protagonist's wedding ceremony, but unfortunately one person knows the secret: a crazy chef who is in the mood for sushi...

This is commercial and further developed successor to the freeware game Octodad. While the objectives themselves are not too complicated, e.g. doing the dishes, the challenge comes from the fact that each limb is controlled separately. Of course this makes coordinated movement hard and, along with the deliberately oversensitive physics simulation, results in chaos and slapstick moments. However, making chaos when other people are watching fills up a suspicion meter which eventually causes Octodad to be recognized and leads to a game over. Sometimes there are small stealth sequences in which the protagonist can't be seen at all.

After finishing the campaign, the six levels can be replayed in order to find hidden ties or beating the developers' best time. In co-op mode, each player controls one limb (or two with less than four participants). The level editor is exclusive to the Windows version, but the user levels can also be played on Macintosh and Linux.

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayerCo-operative

Together

Local co-op

Perspective

Third person

Players

4 offline

Updates

Octodad Shorts

Languages

11 languages, with audio, subtitles and interface
Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
Chinese (Simplified)—
English
French—
German—
Hungarian—
Italian—
Japanese—
Korean—
Polish—
Russian—
Spanish (Spain)—

Also known as

Octodad: Tako to Yobanaide — Japanese title

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Facts

Developer

Young Horses

Publisher

Young Horses

Released

30 January 2014

Series

Octodad

Platforms

PCLinuxWindowsMacMobileiOSAndroidiPadPlayStationPS VitaNintendoWii UPS4XboxXbox OnetvOSSwitch

Age ratings

ACBGGRACALLCLASS_IND10ESRBE10+USK6PEGI7

Standing

Top 6% by 24hr peak players

Tags

3rd-person (Other)Direct controlFantasyComedy