Octodad is inarguably one of the best premises for a video game ever conceived: don't let anybody find out that you're an octopus. Trying to live a normal life as a human with eight woobly tentacles in place of limbs comes with considerable challenges, but it is imperative that nobody realises. You must be a secret octopus. It's sublimely surreal.
The thing that makes Octodad a hugely entertaining game as well as a hugely entertaining idea is the controls, which are just unmanageable enough to be hilarious instead of frustrating. Controlling individual tentacles with the analogue sticks, you can approximate walking, opening doors and other day-to-day human functions, but only in a chaotically slapstick way.
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