

The game’s clean art style looks fantastic the portraits and expressions drawn are spot-on and everything really pops on the big (or small) screen. Unfortunately, this Switch version doesn’t include touchscreen support, which feels like a sizeable omission for a visual novel.
DREAM DADDY A DAD DATING SIMULATOR PLUS
This 'Dadrector’s Cut' adds in some side quests and cut content, plus a new minigame. There’ll obviously be repetition outside of the ‘date’ content, but that’s where the fast-forward button comes in handy – you can skip directly to the fresh stuff. Our first run involved browsing the latest releases at the local record store ( Vinyl Fantasy VII, pun fans) with cool dad Mat, but the writing is good enough to warrant at least a second run through. With all the dads available, plus the responses and options that you didn’t take, there’s plenty of replayability in Dream Daddy, too. Yes, the romance options are there, but anyone expecting a salacious male-only dating sim may be disappointed by its good-naturedness and universal human themes. Romancing hot dads and adding notches to the bedpost might seem to be the point from the outside, but Dream Daddy is really about the father-daughter relationship and how being a parent impacts the lives of each and every one of the ‘daddies’. A fast-forward button on ‘R’ enables you to skip to the end, but to do so would be to miss the point of the game.Īnd the writing is the point of the game. While that might sound like a negative, the writing makes it an utter joy and we happily read through reams of text. Dialogue options enable you to shape the conversation but they’re not as regular or intrusive as you might expect and you’ll spend a lot of time simply tapping through text boxes. They’re not all ‘romantic’, per se, and often involve simply hanging out and chatting. Throughout the game, you go on three ‘dates’, although these encounters usually involve other people and take place at various venues at all times of the day.
