Octodad (Student Edition) overview

Overview

Octodad (Student Edition) comes from Young Horses: Free Range, Young Horses and is published by Young Horses. It arrived on Steam on Apr 25, 2023, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Octodad (Student Edition)'s latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 09:07:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 6. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 91% positive across 141 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Octodad (Student Edition) is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Octodad (Student Edition) has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Octodad (Student Edition) overview details

Octodad (Student Edition) combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

(This is the original free student project. The fully complete Octodad: Dadliest Catch can also be purchased on Steam.) Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family. The player controls Octodad like a marionette, dragging his arms and legs around while his body flops along. The player’s goals are often simple household chores made difficult and interesting by the flailing, tenuous control they have over Octodad’s body. Being an octopus also has its strengths. Octodad can slip through tight spaces, grab objects with his suckers, and knock things around with tremendous strength. But if the player does things too out-of-the-ordinary, Octodad’s family will grow suspicious and realize what he really is. If they do, it’s game over for Octodad! FEATURES: 6 levels full of comedic failure! 3 family members to deceive! Roughly 35-45 minutes of gameplay! One very non-canonical ending! WHY DID WE MAKE THIS? Octodad: Student Edition is part of Young Horses: Free Range, where we collect our smaller side projects and release them for free! This is the game that started it all! Octodad was made before the founding of Young Horses by a group of students at DePaul University. Our goal was to enter the Independent Games Festival in 2010 (we did enter, but…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Octodad (Student Edition) is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, Simulation, and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 09:07:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 6, and 91% positive reviews.

Support and legal notes

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