Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a visual novel video game released on July 20, 2017 for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and on September 22, 2017 for Linux.

[5] The available romance options are: Vernon Shaw, the co-creator and co-writer for Dream Daddy,[6] met the Game Grumps while he was working as a talent manager for Maker Studios.

[7] Dream Daddy was announced on June 18, 2017, with a 45-second-long teaser trailer uploaded on the Game Grumps' alternate channel, GrumpOut.

[12][13] A Dadrector's Cut of the game, featuring additional sidequests and minigames, was released on the PlayStation 4 and launched as a free update to the PC version on October 30, 2018.

Griffis recalls the switch from the game being about dads having sex to being about relationships came towards the end of development when character arcs had been fully established.

The lack of references by characters to their sexual orientation came from the developers feeling that most media dealing with queer people was about societal issues and not about the relationships themselves.

"[15] Hannah Dwan of PC Gamer said the game should have included commentary on the difficulty of queer people finding relationships in society.

[17] The game's system of determining what gender identity and sexual orientation the player character has was praised by Wired UK.