

Depending on your narrative decisions, these endings can range from a happily ever after to ones that are like, Damn, Dream Daddy. Over the next few days, I went on two dates with each dad, at which point I had to make the Choice: pick a dad to go on a third date with, which triggers the end of the game. Each daddy is a snowflake and your tongue is just hanging out there to catch them all. Throughout the game you can choose which daddies you want to go on dates with: Do you want to get coffee with the barista indie-rock dad? Do wind sprints with bro dad? Go fishing with the competitive beard dad? Chaperone a dance with the married dad? What you’ll discover as you go on these dates is that there are as many types of daddies as there are daddies themselves.

There are seven daddies - Mat, Craig, Joseph, Hugo, Damien, Robert, and Brian - each with his own virtues, issues, hobbies, and foibles. And if you’re about to come for me about my name choice, you are forgetting that I am drunk, and clearly unaware of the fact that Redge is the name of my hair salon.īut let’s get to the reason why we’re all here: the daddies.

Please meet Redge, who is probably some aspirational model of daddydom I have buried deep inside of me. The first thing you have to do is build your avatar - or your dadsona - because in order to find your dream daddy, you must first become one. If your dream in life is to feast at a buffet of virtual daddies, Dream Daddy was made for you. The social-media app of choice here is called “Dadbook,” and unlike Grindr, all of the dads are very responsive. Dream Daddy is a dating game simulator where you play a Dad who moves to Maple Bay, a small town that happens to be filled with lots of hot, eligible dads who all happen to live in the same cul-de-sac with you.

Instead of the crushing indifference of app-mediated reality, I could live in a world of wish fulfillment. Photo: Dream Daddy: a Dad Dating Simulator/FacebookĪfter a night of drinking, rather than message faceless torsos on Grindr, I decided to download Dream Daddy.
