I love that we get to return to our favourite neighbourhood dads! Entertaining, hilarious and heartwarming. Perfect for fans of the game and to newcomers should they stumble across this. This book basically reaffirmed my love for Craig and Damien as my favourite dads.

This collection of comics is a must for fans of the Dream Daddy sim, giving more story time to the lovable characters introduced in the game with the same cleverness and hilarity. Readers who haven't played the sum yet wont have as much history with the characters, but even without it, will be charmed by the Dream daddies and suddenly interested in buying the game. (Trust me on that last part, I speak from experience!)

This collection of short stories all intertwine around one group of dad's their partners and their children. I wasn't aware that that this title was based on a dating sim game so there are some aspects of the plot I was confused on until I did further research. The art is adorable and the stories are cute but I would mostly recommend this graphic novel to fans of the game.

I haven’t been able to play the Dream Daddy game yet, but my oh my have I watched plenty of lets-plays as I think it is one of the cutest and prettiest games. I love the art style and the all the relationships between the dads and kids. Within the graphic novel were 5 stories and each had their own unique brand of cosiness and comfort. Each story brought with it a hug of it’s own. The artwork style reflected the plot points nicely making the whole experience harmonious.

Most of the stories made reference to each dad’s child(ren) and I loved how in some of them the story revolved around the dads and sometimes the children. They make it clear that these relationships are not perfect and all need work and show some of the compromises made.

I have to admit my favourite of all the stories was #1, it was the snuggliest hug and the cutest story ending in a kiss. I really enjoyed the D’N’D inspired one too. Each one has left a little piece of happiness in my heart. Just so cute!

Having not played the game this graphic novel is based on, I didn’t know what to expect. While I was a bit confused over who was who, I found myself enjoying this more than I thought I would. I loved the art and the colors and the humor was well done. I would recommend to fans of quirky, light reads and of course, to anyone who has played the game.

For someone who never heard of the game before, I had trouble following the flow of the story as I felt like I am missing something. But by the third one, I finally get to know more of the characters and was able to enjoy it until the end. I just wish there's a bit of a background for non-players like me. But nevertheless, it was a fun comics with nice illustrations.

i was provided a digital arc by NetGalley.

i was really excited to receive this book, it sounded like something i'd like but i didn't.

the art style was really nice, they drew a little dog in one of the chapters/volumes and i almost teared up because of how cute the illustration was. i enjoyed the first story too and thought it was cute. i wanted more of it though.

i didn't like this because it was very hard to read for some reason. i don't mind a lot of text in graphic novels, but this one just didn't cut it for me. after the first story, nothing was interesting or engaging. maybe i need to play and love the game to find this book enjoyable but honestly i doubt that. some moments were funny but i can barely remember them. i didn't care for the characters (but for the cute dog).

i really wanted to like this book :(

I want to give a huge thank you to both NetGalley and Oni Press for this eARC! I recently played the video game and was head over heels for the dad jokes, the varied personalities for each Dad, and the honest emotions that spring forth from this mostly comedic dive into the life of a dad trying to meet other dads on a cul-de-sac full of dads.

Wonderfully, the graphic novel has all of these things, and it adds more backstory to the more reclusive and mysterious dads like Robert and Damien. For my first play through on the game, I chose to focus on Joseph, and while I learned a lot about his character, I didn't really get to know anyone else. I really liked that this novel let me see a little peek into everyone's lives, and even gave the children of the other dads more personality and more to do than you get to see in certain story lines in the game!

I loved all of the various animation styles, and how each transition worked for the specific dad that it was focused on. I think my favorite issue in the whole thing was where the dads played DnD, but they were all fantastic little one shots that it's almost too difficult to choose! I really hope there is another volume, because I'm in love with these dads-- or do I smell a animated series next??

This comic book follows the five Dad's from the popular game 'Dream Daddy'. Although I found the stories fun, I think a bit of a backstory to each Dad would have been helpful going in as I had no idea anything about them whatsoever, having never played the game before. I liked how the art style and paneling changed with each of the five stories. I also enjoyed how the stories were more focused on the friendships between the Dad's rather than the romance as I had originally thought it would be. The only big complaint I have is that I wish each of the stories were just a bit longer.

This was just as fun and sweet and adorable as the game is. The artwork is all so well done. The different stories are fun and unique. Some of the details will probably be lost on people who didn't play the game, but I'm not sure anyone will pick this up who hasn't played the game. I would have enjoyed more stories that read like a play through of the game instead of just the dad's hanging out, but it was also nice to have stories of them hanging out and being friends.

It was cute and different. I wasn’t aware it was based on a game but even so it was still interesting.
The varying art styles were cool and overall it held my attention throughout.

I can't even say this was disappointing, because I got all I was expecting. I totally blocked my prejudice about stories with overly cutey-sweet gay things but it didn't help anyway. It wasn't entertaining or anything close to that. 5 stories, every one worse than the one before (okay, I must admit, one in the library was quite acceptable, kids were funny sometimes). In general, this was nothing but bad mishmash, not even cute (as most of the people refer to it) in my opinion.

The different art styles were good and bad, depends on which story you read, at least one thing I find interesting about this book.

In conclusion:
1. If you want gay stories/about single dads, similar to this, just visit Tumblr.
2. If you want to get drunk, just drink something every time you'll see the word "bro" in this - effect guaranteed in 5 minutes.
3. Let’s make it 1,5/5 for reference to The Shining and library/science fair story

Adorable.

A collection of short tie-in stories for the dating sim Dream Daddies where you play as a new dad to the neighbourhood getting to know other single dads. The setting and stories are cheesy and adorable and tropey and queer and fantastic. Everyone’s living happy, functional solo-dad lives. Their kids are different ages and the parenting isn’t sidelined, it’s a part of the setting and characters and we get to see them facing parenting challenges (e.g. the competitiveness in Fair Deal) and mostly winning at being supportive, caring dads while still being themselves. It’s refreshingly non-toxic and sweet.

There’s very little on-page romance in this collection, it’s much more about fun side adventures with the characters than about them hooking up. It’s probably deliberate so as not to crowd the game content too much.

I haven’t played the game, but I didn’t find that hindered my enjoyment of the stories or understanding of the characters, setting and interactions. I may have to check out the game now because I really loved this gang. Brian is my fave.

I liked that the art styles changed each story and found I enjoyed all of them. My favourites were Much Abird About Nothing and Dungeons & Daddies.

The only rough patch for me was Let the Right Dad In, which I think needed a bit more context for Robert than I, as a non-player had.

A shamelessly cute and fun jaunt!

This was very good and a really fast read. I loved every page and it seriously made a greats start to my morning.

This is a game that I used to play a lot when I was younger and it's really fun to see them played out in a graphic novel format.

This was so wonderful and hilarious. The different art styles were gorgeous and the writing was so funny just like the game.

Much Abird About Nothing was so cute, Craig’s storyline was my very favorite in the game and this little story felt like it was taken directly from his story.

Let The Right Dad In was so so so good. I love that it set up a nice friendship trio that I desperately want to see more of.

My favorite was Dungeons & Daddies. Just perfect in every way. Every character got to show who they are. The writing and art was impeccable. Such a fitting adaptation of a wonderful game! I’m definitely going to buy this when it comes out.

Whether you've played or watched someone else play the game or not, it's pretty easy to catch onto and is a fun read. I haven't played the game myself but watched Youtubers and Craig has always been a personal favorite of mine, but I'm sure everyone's favorite daddy is different.

There are five different stories within the comic. Two of them include the character you would've played in the game and the others involve just the dads themselves, which I also liked. The last story is about all the dads getting together to play Dungeons and Dragons, one of my favorites.

I also enjoyed the different artwork, since all five stories are written and drawn by different people. Their takes on the Dream Daddy game comes across as good adaptations that make sense for the characters. If you didn't play through or meet all of the dads within the game, you will as each one has their time in the stories, even if the story isn't solely about them.

All in all, an enjoyable read that I would recommend. 4.5/5 stars.

This is a wonderful comic edition to the game it was based on, I loved the game and I loved these mini comics! However, they are what they are, which is comics based off of a game, and if you have not played the game you most likely will miss a lot from the comics. Regardless, I loved them.

This was fun! Five different stories following the dads from the dating simulator game and they were all different and fun to read. I would say having previous knowledge of the game is helpful to have some context of the characters' personalities and priorities, although it's certainly not necessary. But I have to admit that even having played it when it came out it took me a while to remember why a certain character was behaving a certain way or another.

My favorite stories were the second one (with Damien, Robert and their shenanigans) and the last one where all the dads played d&d.

I would recommend it if you played the game and want to see more of the characters.

actual rating: 4.5

This was so cute! I love the Dream Daddy game so it's always nice to see new related content for it. This book is made up of five short stories featuring the dads from the game and their kids [and a couple of different cute dadsonas]. They were all really fun and have the same great dialogue that I love from the game, but the one where Robert thinks that Damien is an actual vampire was definitely my favorite. I would totally read more volumes of this if they decide to write more!

So first of all I've never played Dream Daddy and going into this book, I was only vaguely aware of the plot of the game (you're a single dad and there's a lot of other single dads in your neighborhood that you can woo, right?) but I was hoping that I'd be able to pick up enough to make sense of the story. As it turns out, there is a key that has everyone's names on the back cover (would have been really useful to see that *before* I struggled my way through the book without a clue who everyone was) but the main problem was not name recognition but genre expectation. I thought this was going to be a book of romance shorts, and the first story ("Much Abird About Nothing" by Wendy Xu, and it is SO ADORABLE, I loved it) seemed to support that conclusion, but then all the other stories are backstory(?) about the various dads in the neighborhood, not romances. So that was kind of disappointing. The art is really cute and so are the stories, but they weren't romances! I wanted romances! Except for "Much Abird..." which contained everything I love (friends to lovers! food! fandom! dads carrying their sleeping children out to the car!) and needs a sequel stat.