Games are for dads. Thanks to video games, dads can play golf, build birdhouses, mow the lawn, and go fishing… all without leaving the home office. But what do games like Powerwash Simulator, Train Sim World 2, and The Golf Club have to offer the childless urban-dwelling millennial? Pat Gill reviews a selection of powerful dad games to glean life lessons and fatherly insight into the world of dads … and his own psyche.
0:00 About dad games
0:47 Train Sim World 2
3:03 Lawn Mowing Simulator
5:27 Powerwash Simulator
6:45 Bassmaster Fishing 2022
8:50 The Golf Club
11:20 What did we learn?
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Dad games. Which ones did we miss, and what do you rate them for Fun and Fatherly Insight?
As a Dad who plays games (but not … Dad games … apparently) this was awesome.
this is ….exquisite.
Patrick is an absolute gem. Good game, Rad Non-Dad.
more please thanks
hehe ball into hole
I don't know what that golf game was but it most definitely was not The Golf Club
OMG. I laughed so hard at the lawn game review, I had to pause the video.
11:41 His look is saying "I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish".
anonymous hole action 🤣
Today I learned that, apparently, I do not have a concrete understanding of what Pat looks like.
an FYI: people without captions turned on are missing out on delightful audio commentary
2:10 That happened to me the first time I played this scenario. Probably because I'm not a dad.
This is art.
This is beautiful, in a kind of asmr sociology
i'm just worried about my dad now
How about the genre of " WW2 dogfighting simulator for which my father has purchased a cornucopia of specialized controllers, each more intricate than the last"?
"I have an avatar who looks like me" Proceeds to show a dad-ified version of a weird mashup of celebrities who all vaguely resemble Ryan Reynolds
Daddy
Is this just how you ask your audience to call you Daddy?
This video is surprisingly emotionally fraught! Dang it! I liked it a lot, thank you Pat!
This was great
does octodad count?
"I'm not a dad, I'm a childless millennial" and yet somehow you've unlocked the true secrets of dadhood
As a very recently former childless Millennial, it terrifies and validates me how spot-on a lot of the small insecurities you have identified (worry about climate change/water/ecological disaster) are feelings and insights I have had to deal with while transitioning to Fatherhood.
Also I know I'm dad-ing up when you pull up a Golf sim and I think "OH THAT LOOKS LIKE A GAME I WANT" because time for real hobbies has slipped away.
Ooof, VERY bleak. Excellent video.
Every patrick video has the strangest premise that conceals within it a surprisingly deep critique of different kinds of masculinity…
so many lines here feel like straight up poetry
This was fantastic and I also feel personally attacked and also enlightened.
My dad plays Realm Royale
I'm a dad.
Genius
I don't think I say this enough, but god I love Polygon!
Insightful, thank you for this video
My dad used to play a game where you would shoot chickens on the wii, it even had a whole rifle accessory for the wiimote.
Pat seeing any white guy in character creator: "yep, that fits
I love that Patrick sneaks in phrases like "anonymous hole action"
i think i finally understand my father now
In this video I learned that dads love the environment.
I've dropped of polygon videos since bdg left but this one was great.
After this, we’re all getting Pat a Father’s day card this year, right?
6:18 this man is genius
Pat, let your wife lease that Miata, it's a good car!
Yes I am a dad.
beautiful
Prime Pat Insight
Now are there mom games?