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Dad by the Sword

Dad by the Sword is a First Person Swordfighting game with a heavy focus on tactical dismemberment, player creativity, giant spraying fountains of purple blood, and dad jokes. Play as YOUR DAD in his quest to fight evil glizzhounds, Wizzards, things hatched from eggs, and other vile Anti-Dads.

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Rocketcat Games
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Rocketcat Games
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Dad By The Sword is a game about YOUR DAD running around in jorts and slaying Anti-Dads with a claymore. Experience a unique First Person Swordplay experience that rewards player creativity, featuring dynamic slicing and tactical limb severing. Outsmart your enemies, use dad accessories and enchanted dad shoes to gain an advantage, destroy weak points in their armor, and then slice them apart.

Dad Features:


  • Randomly generated dungeons for new battles every time you play
  • Pray at Dad Altars to gain character modifying dad perks (AKA "DERKS")
  • Find Dad Accessories that give you wondrous new abilities, such as the powerful Airhorn, a magically growing Bowling Ball, or a superpowered Lawnmower
  • Character creation is a groundbreaking 100% infallible IRL paternity test
  • Unlock new dad types with their own abilities and styles of jean shorts AKA jorts
  • "It's Dark Messiah meets Skyward Sword meets your dad meets Spelunky" --- Quote from some prestigious video game guy
  • Lots of dad puns
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