History YMMV / DreamDaddy

* WishFulfillment: All of the dads, each in his own way. Heck, it's practically in the title. Naturally, once you date the dads and get to know them, you'll find that your character is ''their'' dream too.

** Saul is one for people who know and/or enjoy the Cult Ending to any major degree. He only makes an appearance in said ending, and barely has any defining character moments, outside of the fact that he is also a widower with a kid of his own (Barry), and he is not only investigating the case on Joseph, but seems to know what Joseph actually is in regards to the Cult Ending reveal. However, his character design, and voice clips have him sounding like he's voiced by Jacob Anderson, a long-time friend of the Game Grumps who's best known as playing Grey Worm from ''Series/GameOfThrones'', have many fans hoping he'll become a secret date option.

* GoodBadBugs: Joseph's CreepyTwins can [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/4e6e3ca817d85d1d6541d1872ca3782d/tumblr_otenp9hAVC1u06rq4o1_1280.png follow you around]] [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/9a7886e04c826ceefe8b6c3be6baeb5e/tumblr_otenp9hAVC1u06rq4o3_1280.png for no reason]].

** All the hype and marketing about Dream Daddy being a mainstream dating sim starring a gay male protagonist can come across as such with the reveal that DingDong (know for being a guest on Oneyplays) revealed in a 2022 stream that he was approached by most of the dev team to speak their complaints about the game treating the LGBTQ+ community as a gimmick to help advertise it. This lead to a stream where DingDong (Who was one of only 2 LGBTQ+ people working in the office at the time) spoke his and others complaints against Dream Daddy. After which everyone who previously approached him refused to acknowledge their previous complaints. This resulted in DingDong becoming black listed from multiple game studios and eventually deleting his entire presence off the internet due to the controversy.

** Joseph, ''again'', as well as Mary: during the barbecue, when Joseph repeatedly asks Mary to find Crish, it seems like it's establishing Joseph as an attentive father and Mary as a neglectful mother, right? But when you stop and think about it, Crish is a toddler (so a year or two old, at least) in his ''own family's'' backyard, with ''both'' his parents, ''all three'' of his older siblings, and ''seven'' adult neighbors who are ''all parents themselves'' outside with him! Of course Mary was sure he was fine! Was she really being neglectful, or was Joseph [[MeddlingParents helicoptering]]?

* FanPreferredCouple: Robert/Joseph has a large fanbase due to their clashing personalities.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the initial [[ScheduleSlip "launch"]] stream of the game, some gay fans were upset that the player character was canonically married to a woman prior to the events of the game. After the slight delay in release following the stream, one of the slight adjustments made to the game was the ability to decide whether your previous partner was a man or a woman, as well as if your daughter, Amanda, was biological or adopted, and the addition of trans options to the character customization menu.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The main protagonist has a celebrity crush on Mario Batali and Brian has been mentioned to look like him, being a heavyset redhead. However, as of December 2017, Batali has had accusations of sexual harassment against him brought to light, making this a lot less amusing.

* ValuesDissonance: When the game was released, it was very well received by LGBT+ groups for its writing. However, nowadays, the fact that only one of the Daddies is voiced by someone LGBT+ is something that would attract controversy nowadays.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** Steam stats on achievements indicate that, while all seven potential love interests for the Dadsona have similar levels of popularity, the largest minority of players chose Craig in the end. His route seems to be especially popular since he's the only love interest to have a [[ChildhoodFriendRomance pre-existing]] [[HighSchoolSweethearts friendship]] with the Dadsona before the game starts.
*** Dadsona/Craig is also the only Dadsona ship to receive focus in the tie-in comics, though there's no indication that this is canon (and the writer of that issue confirmed it was a case of AuthorAppeal rather than being commissioned to write about that particular couple).
** Among non-Dadsona, Robert/Joseph has a large fanbase due to their clashing personalities.