Dungeons and Daddies Cancelled Video Game Hours After Being Announced

A beloved Dungeons & Dragons play podcast’s surprise video game trailer delighted fans for about four minutes before the team cancelled it themselves.

Dungeons and Daddies is an actual play podcast about four suburban dads transported into a fantasy realm during a soccer tournament, who must quest to rescue their kidnapped sons.

The show has run for four seasons and built a devoted fanbase over the years with its emotionally complex, genuinely funny storytelling. The Women-Led Games Showcase, which aired on June 4 as part of Summer Game Fest Week 2026, gave the game its public debut. Then the Patreon post arrived.

D&D(addies) Video Game Cancelled Before Fans Could Wishlist It

The trailer revealed Dungeons and Daddies: BDSM (Bad Dads Survive Monsters), a survivor-like visual novel story with segments. Players would take control of all four dads: Glenn Close, the rock and roll bard, Henry Oak, the hippie nature druid, Ron Stampler, the emotionally detached step-father rogue, and Darryl Wilson, the stay-at-home coach barbarian.

The in-game dialogue samples were exactly what longtime listeners would expect, including a Garden Witch mid-ambush: “Good luck finding your kids if you survive this.”

The game had a full team behind it, with studio director Ashley Blood, lead pixel artist Carolyn Jong, and portrait artist and trailer animator Omar Romolino among the credited contributors.

Then, on the same night the trailer aired, co-creator Anthony Burch posted to Patreon, confirming the team had decided not to move forward. “We wanted to pull it,” he said. “It was a little bit too late to pull it from the shows we were in, and that’s on us.”

“The reason we’re not moving forward has nothing to do with the quality of their work,” Burch explained. “We weren’t able to give the game the focus that it really deserved.” He left the door open: that particular version of a Dungeons and Daddies game is probably not going to happen, but the team hasn’t ruled out making one someday.

If you’ve somehow never heard Dungeons and Daddies, start with Season 1. The game was a great idea, and hopefully it still will be, eventually.

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Cande’s calling in life is to annoy NPCS, smash virtual pottery, and complete every side quest available in RPGs. Her passion for games dates to 2006, when she mounted a Chocobo for the first time, but she has been writing professionally for the past four years. Under Nintendo and Square Enix’s chokehold, she willingly pours hours upon hours into reaching 100% completion in the longest roleplaying games ever made. But hey, who needs fresh air and sunlight when you can just live in Ivalice?

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