History VideoGame / Octodad

* ShoutOut: At the beginning of ''Dadliest Catch'' there is a stained glass window of Cthulhu.

* TheUnintelligible: Though quite eloquent in his journal entries, Octodad's dialogue is simple blubbering. His points get across quite well, though.

* VocalDissonance: Tommy sounds at least ten years older than he actually is in the first game.
** Luckily, he's got a new, much more age appropriate voice in Dadliest Catch.

** In the sequel "[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mintcraft]]" cookies are on sale at the grocery store, complete with a box that looks like a Creeper head and even hisses at you while flashing red when you touch it. Posters in other parts of the store also reference {{QWOP}}, {{The Stanley Parable}} and [[VideoGameChampionshiPWrestling VGCW]].

** In the sequel "[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mintcraft]]" cookies are on sale at the grocery store, complete with a box that looks like a Creeper head and even hisses at you while flashing red when you touch it. Posters in other parts of the store also reference {{QWOP}} and {{The Stanley Parable}}.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Octodad feels rather out of place when visiting the aquariam that resembles his old sea home in ''Dadliest Catch''.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human. [[spoilers: in the end of the second game, after his family learns Octodad's secret, Tommy lampshades this by questioning how he and his sister came to be from this marriage.]]

** In the sequel "[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mintcraft]]" cookies are on sale at the grocery store, complete with a box that looks like a Creeper head and even hisses at you while flashing red when you touch it.

** In the sequel "[[VideoGame/Minecraft Mintcraft]]" cookies are on sale at the grocery store, complete with a box that looks like a Creeper head and even hisses at you while flashing red when you touch it.

* BigBad: Fujimoto, a psychotic sushi chef who wants to cook you.

** [[spoiler:Fujimoto does the same trick in ''Dadliest Catch'' by making a fake Scarlet. Octodad falls for it.]]

** The sequel has Octodad and other characters watching a movie in a theater. Octodad can pick up popcorn bags and soda cups.

** There's also some shout outs to popular Youtube celebrities who [[ColbertBump helped make the game more popular]], like Pewdiepie, TotalBiscuit, the FreelanceAstronauts, and Seananners.
* FateWorseThanDeath: When Fujimoto finally [[spoiler: captures Octodad]] in ''Dadliest Catch'', he decides not to kill Octodad [[spoiler: but expose him as an octopus and leave him stuck in an aquarium tank]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Octodad forgives Fujimoto after the final battle. In response, he promises not to hunt down Octodad anymore.]]

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human. [[spoiler:In the end of the second game, after his family learns Octodad's secret, Tommy lampshades this by questioning how he and his sister came to be from this marriage.]]

** [[LampshadeHanging Scarlet apparently has to clean the destroyed living room daily]] and [[NoodleIncident there was that time Octodad accidentally burned down a bakery]].

* OnlySaneMan: As psychotic as Fujimoto is, he gets points for being the only non-marine biologist to see though Octodad's PaperThinDisguise.

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: In Dadliest Catch, Scarlet is waiting on top of the giant fish tank in the aquarium. It's actually a decoy made by Fujimoto]].

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human. [[spoiler: in the end of the second game, after his family learns Octodad's secret, Tommy lampshades this by questioning how he and his sister came to be from this marriage.]]

* BigBad: The first game's main villain is Fujimoto, a psychotic sushi chef who wants to cook you.

** There's also some shout outs to popular Let's Players who [[ColbertBump helped make the game more popular]], like Pewdiepie, TotalBiscuit, the FreelanceAstronauts, and Seananners.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human. [[spoilers: in the end of the second game, after his family learns Octodad's secret, Tommy lampshades this by questioning how he and his sister came to be from this marriage.]]

-->''Nobody suspects a thing...''

You can read about and download the game [[http://octodadgame.com/index.php here]]. A sequel was released in January 2014, when Octodad must deal with the increasing suspicions of his wife and his own watery past during a trip to the local aquarium in ''Octodad: The Dadliest Catch''.

* ArtShift: Unlike gameplay, which is in full 3D, cutscenes are animated comic panels.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human.

* GoodMorningChrono: The first game begins with Octodad being woken up by his loving wife. Except it's at 3:50 in the afternoon.

You can read about and download the game [[http://octodadgame.com/index.php here]]. Octodad will return in 2014, when he must deal with the increasing suspicions of his wife and his own watery past during a trip to the local aquarium in ''Octodad: The Dadliest Catch''.

-->''Nobody suspects a thing...''

** There's also some shout outs to popular Let's Players who [[ColbertBump helped make the game more popular]], like Pewdiepie and Seananners.