Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a…
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is an adventure developed by Young Horses, released 30 January 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U. The main story takes about 1.9 hrs to finish.
What Octodad: Dadliest Catch is
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is an adventure game developed by Young Horses and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the splash hit, Octodad! This time, our cephaloprotagonist has gotten himself in a bind between his wife’s mounting mistrust, and a disastrous trip to the local aquarium! Are you dad enough to control the titular octopus father as he strives to hide his nautical nature from his family while keeping his tangled tentacles intact?
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, kids and party. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Octodad: Dadliest Catch holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 108 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and Intel Core HD Graphics 3000/4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Octodad: Dadliest Catch launched on 30 January 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Octodad: Dadliest Catch yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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