They’re all looking for love, and love just happens to look like whatever you’ve designed your character to look like. You’re ready to move on and meet a bunch of eligible men within your first hour or two of arriving. In Dream Daddy, your character (who you get to intricately customise) moves into a new town with your 18-year-old daughter in tow, after recently being widowed. The game works like most other dating simulations, a genre that’s been around for over 30 years, but doesn’t often get mainstream coverage – usually, you follow a story, meet potential partners, chat to them, date them and see if you can end up with the nicest. In Dream Daddy, you are also one of those dads, and they want to date you.
These are dads that wear loud, cat-print shirts, that have pierced eyebrows and purple hair, dads that listen to cool bands because they want to and not because they’re trying to impress younger co-workers. If your idea of “dad” is, well, your dad, the stereotypical papa with that telltale horseshoe of hair and an interest in old cars, new golf clubs and calling you up to ask if you’ve done your taxes yet, then think again – these are dads for our modern age.
