Octodad

""Fatherhood can be difficult. Especially when that father is an octopus.""

Octodad is a freeware game by a team of students from DePaul University. To quote the official site, 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 cephalopodian nature a secret from his human family.

You can read about and download the game here. Octodad returned in Octodad: Dadliest Catch in 2013, when he must deal with his increasing suspicions of his wife and his own watery past during a trip to the local aquarium.

"Stacy: I don't like your hat!"
 * Art Shift: Cutscenes are in a moving comic format, alternating between a Animesque style and a more traditional style.
 * Cardboard Pal: Octodad's main objective is building a fake self so that he can buy himself some time to make an anniversary gift for his wife.
 * I Thought It Meant: A lot of people didn't entirely realize why Octodad needed a banana for the disguise, until he assembles the decoy.
 * Evil Chef: Fujimoto might be right about Octodad, but he doesn't have to be such a Jerkass about it in the final part.
 * Good Dad: He may be an octopus, but he's still a pretty good dad for making sure his little girl Stacy gets a good night's sleep free of monsters and spiders.
 * Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad: He IS Octodad, after all!
 * Last-Note Nightmare: Screwing up too much and raising your Suspicion meter will cause the music to go increasingly off key.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: "GAME FACE"
 * Let's Play: A very funny playthrough by the Freelance Astronauts.
 * Little Miss Badass: Little Miss AND Little Mister due to Stacy and Tommy who become pretty damn brave at the end in

"Wife: Oh I can picture every detail... I was stowed away on that fishing boat and..."
 * Naughty Tentacles: Oh so very implied.


 * Paper-Thin Disguise: The furthest it goes is arranging his tentacles into a vaguely humanoid shape and putting on a suit. Only one other man notices, and he's written off as crazy. Not to say he isn't.
 * "I AM WALKING LIKE THE NORMAL MAN-PEOPLES!"
 * Say My Name: OCTODAAAAD!!
 * Standard Fifties Father: Octodad tries to be one.
 * Stranger in a Familiar Land: Implied by the end of the sequel's teaser trailer.
 * The Unintelligible: Though quite eloquent in his journal entries, Octodad's dialogue is simple blubbering. His points get across quite well, though.
 * Unmoving Pattern: In the kitchen cutscenes.
 * Wreaking Havok: Part of the fun to the game is just tossing stuff around and stumbling about.

"Nobody suspects a thing..."