Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.55.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $6.25/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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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.
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...
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was January 2019. 68 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.55. The record reaches that level 66 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Untitled Goose Game ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62).
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 8. This site sampled 442 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 615 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,601 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.
The drop-off
49% start to 37% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Unintuitive controls, and an absurd story make this game unbelievably peak. It is pretty short but that's really the only downside I can think of.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is one of the funniest and most chaotic games I've played. The whole concept of playing as an octopus trying to pretend to be a normal dad is already hilarious, but the physics and controls make every simple task turn into complete chaos. 🎮 Gameplay - 9.5/10 The gameplay is simple but incredibly entertaining. Doing basic things like making coffee, mowing the lawn, or walking around can turn...
Pretty fun game, but gets extremely frustrating at times, its better with friends.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224480/octodad-dadliest-catchThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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