'Octodad: Dadliest Catch' Nintendo Switch Release Date News: eShop Version Launches on Nov.9
"Octodad: Dadliest Catch" is coming to the Nintendo Switch, as game development studio Young Horses took to social media to announce their new promo. This unique game will come to the hybrid console on Thursday, Nov. 9.
The game is coming next week on the handheld, and Young Horses is also throwing a promo where gamers can get a chance to win an SNES Classic bundle for free by retweeting their announcement. They will be picking a winner as the game comes up lie on the Nintendo eShop next week, on Thursday.
The Switch version of "Octodad: Dadliest Catch" will cost $15, and is just the latest version of the game for current consoles. Young Horses has pretty much released the game for every modern platform at this point, with the whimsical title already available in Linux, Windows, and OS X versions for the PC.
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Home console versions are also extensively covered, with "Octodad: Dadliest Catch" versions available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U and Apple's tvOS. Handhelds, of course, were not left out, with the game supporting Android, iOS, PlayStation Vita, and now, the Nintendo Switch, as Engadget lists out.
One of the developers had an interesting note for those looking to take up game development for the Nintendo Switch. They did not have to do a lot of changes to get a Switch version out of the Android version of "Octodad: Dadliest Catch," as Kevin Geisler, a producer and programmer at Young Horses, noted in his Twitter post last Friday, Nov. 3.
"So, the Switch was probably our easiest port we've done for Octodad," Geisler wrote, adding that the team "hardly had to change much code from Android version."
In "Octodad: Dadliest Catch," players take on the role of Octodad, a smartly dressed octopus, as he tries to go through the daily routines that humans take for granted. Succeeding at the various challenges meant that he can live for a while longer with his human family, his true nature as a cephalopod remaining a secret.
