Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.25/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 10,754
- Critics
- 69 players 25 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.4h
- To 100%
- 7.9h 3.3x the story
- Finish
- 37% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 January 2019
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
49% start to 37% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
69 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.59. The record reaches that level 67 times.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Untitled Goose Game ($19.99, scores 69).
More about Octodad: Dadliest Catch
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 25-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 443 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 424 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,608 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I saw it has a kid, thought all the youtubers were acting with how much the body was flying around. Yo they werent acting... Can play multiplayer by having one person control the legs while the other controls the arms.
2 more reviews
You are an octopus, posing as a happily married man. Nobody suspects a thing. The gameplay is a simple matter of flail around in your own time for the first roughly half of the game, followed by upping the stakes by making you have to move quickly and stealthily in the second part. The first half is funnier; the second half forces you to get good. Your wife in the game is a bit of a ballbreaker, in my estimation. My...
hahahahahahahahahha how many tickles does it take to tickle an octopus hahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaaha ten-tickles hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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 constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Core HD Graphics 3000/4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Octodad: Dadliest Catch scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224480/octodad-dadliest-catchReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.