It turns out that Joseph, the wholesome and secretly gay Christian Youth Minister dad, is not the leader of a cult, nor does he murder your player-character. This is what happens:
( Read more... ) It’s an excellent horror story. I’ll be honest and admit that the dating sim elements of this game didn’t resonate with me, but the secret ending makes the entire endeavor worthwhile.
I remember that the Game Grumps team had to deal with a strong fandom backlash after people went through the Dream Daddy game files on Steam and found this ending when the game was released in 2017. Purity discourse on Tumblr was starting to get heated, and this was right around the time when Undertale fans were getting death threats because the game has jump scares that aren’t properly warned for (it has no such thing, by the way). Arin Hanson eventually had to get on Twitter to apologize for leaving the secret ending in the Dream Daddy files as an Easter egg, and his statement is reproduced in the Switch version of the game.
I also remember that there were a few student artists who were bullied off of social media for creating fan art of gender-swapped Dream Daddy characters. These artists were young queer women who enjoyed the game but were more into girls, and they were accused of being homophobic, transphobic, catering to a straight male gaze, etc etc etc. After being contacted by the parents of a teenage artist who attempted to commit suicide, Arin Hanson had to get on Twitter again to ask fans of Dream Daddy to stop stalking and harassing each other. People make jokes about how “Tumblr is a hellsite to you, but I’m just reblogging my pictures,” but let me tell you. Tumblr was a giant looneybin back in 2017.
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