Octodad has finally been created for the Xbox One. Why? I’m not so sure.
For those of you who don’t know, Octodad is a game where you have to live your day as an octopus that’s pretending to be a family man. You have a wife and kids somehow, and the aim of the game is to keep your identity a secret. To begin with, the missions include a trip to the supermarket where you have to pick up specific items, doing some chores around the house like cutting the grass and weeding the garden.
The game is pretty straight forward and the story is pretty shallow. The game only really shines when playing co-op. Other people can pick up a controller and control a different limb, so you can have four people playing, two as the arms and two more controlling each leg. When playing this way the game is a lot of fun and it seems like this was how the game was imagined. If I was going to compare this game to anything it would be Goat Simulator, nobody really asked for it, but we are secretly glad it came along.
If you’re planning to play this game on your own, I’d stay well away as there is very little enjoyment in playing this game solo. However, if you have a partner who’s new to gaming or a friend that you can game with, this is a frustrating but fun co-op game that will give you a couple of hours of entertainment and laughs, or a controller through you television. Controlling a rag doll octopus trying to weed the garden while avoiding all of the flowers or running away from a chef while trying to jump over just about every obstacle you can think of, it gets pretty tense. What I love is how the game makes you communicate with whoever you’re playing with, because if you’re not working together it’s going to make the whole level quite a lot harder.
The game is incredibly short and you will finish it with a couple of short sessions, so don’t expect to be playing it for very long, but that’s alright because what it does it does well, and nothing overstays its welcome, but there is also little reason to come back once finished. For the price this really does not surprise me. This game looks like a lot of fun when watching other people play it, but once you get your hands on it, the novelty runs out pretty quick. I was hoping to enjoy this game a lot more than I did, I think I’ll just leave it to PewDiePie.
Overall I did enjoy this game, but only because I had somebody that I could co-op with. It was challenging and funny at times as it’s incredibly slapstick throughout the entire game. For a co-op game that could possibly get you gaming with your other half, I’d give it a 7 out of 10. But playing alone it wouldn’t score that high.
Have you managed to pick it up? Let me know what you guys think.
Bezz contributed 14 articles to ICXM in 2015, covering game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news with a focus on hands-on impressions and verified-source reporting. Their bylines on the site span the Xbox One’s first full year of post-launch coverage, including the early days of Backwards Compatibility and Windows 10 gaming. They post on X as @BezzJunior.