Oh, Octodad. Your mere existence makes me happier than I could ever truly describe. So happy, in fact, that I'm willing to break the unofficial 'no posting about Kickstarter projects unless/until there's playable proof of concept' RPS rule. Octopad, I think it's safe to say, has very much proved itself. As any game simulating the life of an octopus who is also the father and husband in a human family naturally would.

So what comes next? Well, some money, hopefully. The devs deserve it. And once they have that money, they can make Octodad 2: bigger, better, octopusier. Rather than going down the Octodads route, they're exploring more of the strange, wobbly life of the original Cephalopod patriarch.

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