Brood Ma : Dadda

Brood Ma : Dadda

James B Stringer · December 16, 2024 · Cinematic, Rhythm, Audio Production, Atmospheric, Casual

Brood Ma : Dadda is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Brood Ma : Dadda price

Brood Ma : Dadda is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Brood Ma : Dadda

Originally a real-time audio-visual experience designed for live performance, Dadda has now been adapted for into an avant-garde desktop PC experience, crafted within the UE5 engine. This unique adaptation captures the essence of the live show, offering a disruptive take on technology, experimental noise music, and anxious expression—remapped for you to perform yourself on your own PC.

  • Live Performance Adaptation: Experience the powerful and chaotic spectacle of Dadda, originally designed for live performance, now reimagined as an interactive desktop game.
  • Dark Humor & Symbolism: Explore Dadda's metallic anatomy and personal signifiers, symbols of fragility, resilience, and collective anxieties.
  • Interactive Gameplay: Engage with Dadda's sonic contraptions, from squeaking toys to spinning spirals, creating unpredictable sonic outcomes more in tune with experimental noise music.
  • Advanced Audio Capabilities: Experience fully spatialized audio with standard stereo, and the potential for 5.1 or 7.1 surround.
  • Variable Play-Time: Perform, sequence and replay Dadda differently each time, with play-time ranging from 5-35 minutes.

This desktop game adaptation of Dadda re-captures the energy of the original live performance as a single player narrative experience.
James B Stringer is an artist, producer and developer. He co-founded the Quantum Natives label and collective and has released music on Tri-Angle, Hemlock and Mantile under his Brood Ma alias. He was Creative Director and co-founder of digital studio Werkflow and has created videogame powered visuals and artworks for artists such as Actress, Rachel Maclean, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Kuedo, Libby Heaney and many more.

Brood Ma : Dadda — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Nov 9, 2025
"Brood Ma : Dadda" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "Brood Ma : Dadda" is a software application that presents a simulated "machine" for making various noises on so you can try to make some music with it. Not to put to fine a point on it, but nobody ever picked up a violin and said "This is the best game ever!!!". See why this isn't really a game? As far as music instruments go, this is a really weird Fischer-Price Toddlers Activity Set, full of buttons and toys for making noises... we're here for PC games, and this got released in the game section. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that pla…
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Recommended Feb 28, 2025
Rite done, place moves. Walls beat, framey thing sinks. Quacker sounds.
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Recommended Jan 8, 2025
My gameplay: https://youtu.be/B0rl65CQn1s?feature=shared This is a pretty cool take on forming music from eerie sounds and rhythms. I wish there was more to it than that, more options maybe. The controls were a little confusing to understand, even after looking up the controls. I felt blind playing this game. But the noise and sounds were amazing! Props to the sound designer. And for a free simulator, not bad. I would recommend this game only if you want to have fun for a little bit creating creepy sounds. Other playthroughs: https://www.youtube.com/@iAmLegendanny
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Not recommended Apr 2, 2026
The f what should I do for the achievements mf bruh...
Recommended Dec 11, 2025
sound design is absolutely next on. Theres a midi port setting, but could not get it working. This whole thing ismasterful and inspiring.
Recommended Feb 16, 2025
Guys will see this and say hell yeah

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