
For once, Steam's globally top-selling video game for much of July wasn't a first-person shooter, nor was it an addictive, colorful puzzle game. Its initial 2017 release raised some eyebrows.

Throughout the date I felt legitimately nervous about making a good impression, but Mat isn't a real person – he's a character in a video game called "Dream Daddy."

I find him afterward, and he tells me, "Guess we should have held hands then, huh?" My character blushes. I try to stay close to Mat, but lose him in the crowd. When the show begins, I'm mobbed by kids moshing to the music (played by the real Canadian band PUP). He hasn't been to a live show since before his daughter was born, when '80s prog rock, pet rocks and mullets were cool. My character – also a hot dad – is apprehensive about going to a concert on our first date.
