2025-05-23 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Bria
Octodad is featured in the launch bundle for Grandma, No! A new physics-driven comedy from our friends at Wallride and Super Rare. Babysit, summon creatures beyond the pale, and take out the trash! If you enjoyed the chaos and destruction of Octodad, you should check out Grandma, No! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362680/Grandma_No/
2024-08-09 16:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Bria
Devolver’s The Crush House launches today! To celebrate, we’ve added Octodad to the Little Guys in Weird Worlds launch bundle! In this thirst-person shooter, you get to produce your very own reality TV show. Pick your cast, film the drama, and keep an eye out for our Octodad easter egg ad. Everything else about the game is very normal and completely fine. Don’t worry about it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4471398/134799149506bbdf03c6c73045a6a59845f30988.gif Grab The Crush House along with some beloved games full of little guys. Another Crab’s Treasure Pikuniku Cult of the Lamb Astroneer The Crush House
2023-04-26 21:47 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk
If you're in the mood for some free games, Young Horses has them: The developer of Octodad and Bugsnax has released a series of four "smaller side projects" on Steam, and it's giving them all away for nothing... Read more.
2023-04-26 15:47 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Developer Young Horses - best known for Octodad: Dadliest Catch and Bugsnax - have released four free games as part of their Free Range collection. They describe the freebies as “the wacky projects we make between games,” which include an ant collectathon and an early prototype of Octodad. Read more
2021-01-08 09:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
One Off The List is our monthly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next month it may be struck off. Pack your bags, wrap the presents, put your scarf around your neck. And then sit down because, I’m sorry, you’re going nowhere. It’s bad, yeah. Even yours truly, a respected list goblin of note, could not make it back to his family in time for the holidays due to the ongoing vengeance of mother nature. But listen. What if I told you: “video games”? They have always had something for us in the past. What
2021-01-08 09:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
One Off The List is our monthly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next month it may be struck off. Pack your bags, wrap the presents, put your scarf around your neck. And then sit down because, I’m sorry, you’re going nowhere. It’s bad, yeah. Even yours truly, a respected list goblin of note, could not make it back to his family in time for the holidays due to the ongoing vengeance of mother nature. But listen. What if I told you: “video games”? They have always had something for us in the past. What
2020-02-14 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Happy love day, you disgusting piece of filth. Got you. That was an example of what today s young people call neggling . This is when you are nice and nasty in such quick succession that the body becomes inexplicably aroused. Spasms of lust take over both neggler and negglee, resulting in a paroxysm of extramarital sex and, subsequently, the degeneration of humanity. This is just one of the signs of an unhealthy rel
2020-01-31 03:44 UTC · Community Announcements · devonsoft
Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Version 1.2.35028 macOS Fix for fullscreen on 64-bit 64-bit Notarized App Minimum version changed to 10.9 Trackpad touch controls working again
2020-01-14 21:36 UTC · Community Announcements · devonsoft
Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Version 1.2.35018 macOS 64-bit Notarized App Minimum version changed to 10.9 Trackpad touch controls working again
2019-01-31 10:46 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
This is an RPS public service announcement. Please remain indoors and boot up Steam. Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the immortal tale of a struggling father and loving husband, is 79p on Steam. That’s 99 cents for all you United Statesians. And 92 centimes for our European reader.* Octodad is a literary masterpiece about the emotional turmoil of living far from your true home. A Steinbeckian fable about hiding a devastating secret from the ones you love, and trying your hardest to maintain the simple life of a caring family man when pursued by those who would seek their own fulfillment in th
2018-09-06 19:21 UTC · Community Announcements · devonsoft
Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Version 1.2.35006 Windows Fix settings tooltips descriptions not popping up on mouseover (thanks to ZuTheSkunk for reporting). Make borderless fullscreen the default setting for first installs.
2018-08-28 17:17 UTC · Community Announcements · devonsoft
The most recent update adds Serbian (Srpski) to the languages option in Settings. Check it out! Thanks to Radoš Milićev and Marko Josifović.
2017-11-03 09:10 UTC · Eurogamer
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is propelling its way onto the Nintendo Switch on 9th November. Developer Young Horses Games confirmed the tentacular indie title will make its way onto the Switch, hitting the Nintendo eshop in both North America and Europe next week. Initially released in 2014, Octodad sees players control loving father and husband Octodad, an octopus disguising himself as a human, as he goes about his life. Read more…
2016-08-16 20:51 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Humble Bundles come every fortnight nowadays but the Humble Indie Bundle is still a rare treat, something a bit fancier than the rest – the flagship bundle. Numero diecisiete is now upon us (I know – diecisiete already! but it has been six years of HIBs), a pay-what-you-want bundle of games including Lethal League, The Beginner’s Guide, Super Time Force Ultra, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and Nuclear Throne. …
2016-06-07 18:58 UTC · Community Announcements · devonsoft
Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Version 1.2.19338 Windows Improved performance for laptops with switchable discrete graphics cards. Improved performance for Windows DirectX 9 shaders. Force reduced anti-aliasing for intel integrated graphics to fix Windows 10 crash. Fix an issue with low shadow settings and borderless anti-aliasing.
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