Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the dads and dad havers who are reading . Yes, it’s the time of year that we celebrate the daddies in our lives—whether that be our fathers or the men we call daddy. So hey, we figured we’d make a big ol’ list of the best dads and/or daddies in video games.
Some of these men are great dads who I’d call daddy. Some of them are absolute dogshit fathers but are men I’d call daddy. It’s an important distinction, and we’re here to celebrate all of the above with zero consistency and some questionable merit.
We’re kicking things off with one of the worst fathers in video games who also gives off extreme daddy energy. from is a terrible caregiver to his son Arven. The scientist is so obsessed with studying the future evolution of Pokémon that he neglects his son for years and ultimately is killed for his hubris.
When he and visits the future before his death, all he cares about is furthering his research, not seeing his son before he goes. But goddamn, I felt a whole other kind of sexual awakening when Game Freak revealed him, so he has to go on the list as a video game daddy. ’s Kratos has been a bad father.
I mean, you can’t get much worse than killing your child, even if it was due to trickery by Ares. But the guy gets a shot at redemption in the 2018 reboot and its sequels. Though he is an asshole to his son Atreus at first, the two find common ground as the game goes on, and he’s shown to be capable of warmth and emp.