Dream Daddy

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About

Dream Daddy is a 2017 visual novel dating sim, created by the YouTubers Game Grumps, in which you play as a dad attempting to romance one of a number of other dads. After it's initial announcement, the game quickly grew in popularity online, garnering a range of different reactions.

History

Dream Daddy was first announced on June 8th, 2017, through the GameGrump's second channel, GrumpOut ^[1], with the game's initial trailer gaining over 200,000 views and 14,000 likes within 2 days (shown below). The game is due for release on July 13th, 2017 on Steam.^[7]

Comic Book

On August 29th, 2018, the entertainment news site Paste^[9] published an exclusive announcement that the publisher Oni Press has purchased the rights to create a comic book series based on the Dream Daddy game. The first comic in the series titled "Much Abird About Nothing" was made available that day on Comixology^[10] and other digital retailers for $2.99.

Online Relevance

After the game's initial reveal, Dream Daddy grew in popularity over social media, with the official Dream Daddy Twitter gaining over 20,000 followers within 2 days of launch ^[2], as well as reaching #1 on Tumblr's trending the day following the reveal (shown below). The story of the game's announcement was also picked up by a number of publications, including Kotaku, ^[3] Gamespot, ^[4] The Mary Sue,^[5] and Queerty.^[6] A Twitter moment for the game was also created on June 20th, 2017.^[8]