This game is... odd, for reasons I couldn't articulate until a week after I stopped playing it. I was scrolling youtube and a clip from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air came up, and suddenly it clicked.
The Daddy Plan is an incest porn game written like an 80's sitcom. Which is.. fucking weird.
You play as Ginger Man who is inexplicably attractive to women. So we've already snapped the bounds of credulity. Ginger Man's wife has died leaving him to look after his four daughters. The relationship between the members of this household is the kind of family-friendly wholesome sappy unrealistic nonsense that saturated living rooms across the western world before The Simpsons arrived and turned television families on their heads.
Ginger Man and his daughters have corny in-jokes. Ginger Man never loses his temper and is always encouraging. Ginger Man's daughters love and respect their daddy like good nuclear children should. The dialogue between characters feels like you've time-traveled back to the Reagan Era of safe family sitcoms... except that Ginger Man's daughters are apparently all in love with him and crave his wrinkly carrot.
If this sounds like an intriguing premise to you, forgive me for bursting your bubble. It isn't. Sitcoms, for all their faults, had actual storylines and pacing and a constant sense of forward momentum of their short runtimes. The Daddy Plan is sorely lacking in anything of the sort. I played for a few hours and essentially nothing happened. Ginger Man goes on a date. His daughters try out for the cheerleading squad. That's it. Neither of these things was particularly interesting, and the saccharine dialogue just became too sweet to swallow. The Daddy Plan suffers from your typical amateur writer problem of thinking that long dialogue-heavy scenes can make up for nothing of any interest going on storywise.
Which is a shame because if the sitcom-level writing was intentional, that could be an interesting hook for a game. Juxtaposing sappy sentimentality and sitcom scenarios with hardcore sex could make for a fun time, but the dev would need to understand pacing to make it work. And this game is paced like a marathon at the special olympics.
Story and setting aside, there is also the problem that NONE of the girls in the game is attractive. This dev has a clear type, and it's boy-bod. No hips, no ass, no tits. Bodies like the cardboard box your ironing board came in. If that's your thing, cool. It's 2025. Being gay isn't a big deal anymore. But for those of you that are attracted to the female form, you won't find any here.
There is also the problem that the girls are in charge. This is another mistake I see far too often. Your male MC, being played by a male player, wants to be the seducer, not the seduced. Men like being in charge, making decisions, making shit happen. When you write your male MC as largely passive when it comes to romancing the girls, and having the girls be the ones making most (if not all) of the moves, you done fucked up. Stop doing this, devs. Stop writing passive player characters. This is objectively bad writing and game design. Players want to play, and playing means being the one who steers the events within the game. So stop giving all the agency to non-player characters.
The Daddy Plan is not a bad game. But it isn't a memorable or interesting one either. It makes wrong choices about player agency, has awful pacing, unattractive character models, and doesn't lean into it's own premise hard enough. But if you like inoffensive incest porn (wrap your head around that one, if you can) , or have a fetish for ironing boards, then I guess this is the game for you.
