Octodad (Student Edition)
Young Horses: Free Range · 2023 · 3D Platformer, Physics, Stealth, Difficult, Walking Simulator
PC
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About Octodad (Student Edition)
✦ AI summary
Control an octopus pretending to be human as you bumble through household tasks with floppy tentacles while keeping your true identity secret from your family. This hilarious physics-based adventure lets you experience the comedy of failure as you struggle to complete mundane chores without blowing your cover.
(This is the original free student project. The fully complete Octodad: Dadliest Catch can also be purchased on Steam.)
Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family.
The player controls Octodad like a marionette, dragging his arms and legs around while his body flops along. The player’s goals are often simple household chores made difficult and interesting by the flailing, tenuous control they have over Octodad’s body.
Being an octopus also has its strengths. Octodad can slip through tight spaces, grab objects with his suckers, and knock things around with tremendous strength. But if the player does things too out-of-the-ordinary, Octodad’s family will grow suspicious and realize what he really is. If they do, it’s game over for Octodad!
Octodad: Student Edition is part of Young Horses: Free Range, where we collect our smaller side projects and release them for free!
This is the game that started it all! Octodad was made before the founding of Young Horses by a group of students at DePaul University. Our goal was to enter the Independent Games Festival in 2010 (we did enter, but we didn't win). Octodad made a big enough splash that we decided to take our chances and start a company to develop a commercial sequel!
So give it a try! It's free, so there's only so disappointed you can be!
Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family.
The player controls Octodad like a marionette, dragging his arms and legs around while his body flops along. The player’s goals are often simple household chores made difficult and interesting by the flailing, tenuous control they have over Octodad’s body.
Being an octopus also has its strengths. Octodad can slip through tight spaces, grab objects with his suckers, and knock things around with tremendous strength. But if the player does things too out-of-the-ordinary, Octodad’s family will grow suspicious and realize what he really is. If they do, it’s game over for Octodad!
FEATURES:
- 6 levels full of comedic failure!
- 3 family members to deceive!
- Roughly 35-45 minutes of gameplay!
- One very non-canonical ending!
WHY DID WE MAKE THIS?
Octodad: Student Edition is part of Young Horses: Free Range, where we collect our smaller side projects and release them for free!
This is the game that started it all! Octodad was made before the founding of Young Horses by a group of students at DePaul University. Our goal was to enter the Independent Games Festival in 2010 (we did enter, but we didn't win). Octodad made a big enough splash that we decided to take our chances and start a company to develop a commercial sequel!
So give it a try! It's free, so there's only so disappointed you can be!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
As a huge fan of Octodad: Dadliest Catch, this game is awesome. I love the drawn cutscenes, and I love seeing the original version of one of my favorite games of all time. If they remade this game in the Dadliest Catch engine I would happily pay for it. And now I finally know what the lyrics "Makin' a doll with a log and fruit" mean LMAO Highly Recommend.1 found this helpful
Ahhh... that tutorial theme hits different.
this is one of the best games that I've ever played
buggy, but fun this is the first game btw
incredibly fun to see where Dadliest Catch came from!! very silly and entertaining game that i absolutely adore - however, the controls are DEFINITELY less refined here than in DC - the movement feels wayyyyy more stiff and awkward. go into this game expecting the jank though and it's really fun!! would def recommend playing DC first, though, otherwise the jankiness might turn you away <333
its good but it definitely doesnt compare to the official game. but its charming knowing it is the original student project. give it a try iuts quick to finish and pretty fun if not janky
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