The Weirdest Game I've Ever Played

Hello and welcome to An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs. I really don't know what to say about this one. It is as described
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[@RTGame]

Even after playing this game, I'm not sure what it is

[@algorythm4354]

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

[@inkyisdreaming]

It is Orb

[@JamJuice101]

You know you should try out Cursed to Golf, it’s a decent game I think you’ll like!

[@Poopsticle_256]

Charming

[@skylarkblue1]

It's just meant to be a chill chaos game lol

[@Zelinkokitsune]

Reminder that the Dogs were supposed to be placeholders until the art for the Aliens were done. But they liked the dogs enough and and went with them

[@fretfultrout2788]

The title makes sense now

[@lunacanyonrose8436]

lol

[@wesleyward5901]

Not a reminder, more of a fun fact.

[@scp-682-cu6]

that... explains a lot xD

[@L0ILKAS]

How far into development was the decision made? As I need to know if you were intended to be able to pet the aliens.

[@dazcarrr]

Fun fact: "An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs" typed backwards is "sgoD yB nuR yltnerruC sneilA roF tropriA nA" which means absolutely nothing

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Oh NO

[@randomninja7632]

Enlightening

[@Simipourfangirl]

Fitting for this kind of game.

[@NazarusGG]

oh dazcar2203 of the comment sections what is your wisdom? -dazcar2203: "An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs" typed backwards is "sgoD yB nuR yltnerruC sneilA roF tropriA nA" which means absolutely nothing that is good wisdom

[@ed_cmntonly]

damn you must be matpat to be able to solve this kind of thing 🙏🙏 the answer of it being absolutely nothing at all puts a new perspective into this game, An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs 🙏🙏

[@aviatornic2839]

The relationship between the two main characters is crazy well written for how absurd it is. What a cool game

[@webbowser8834]

It's a shockingly sweet and wholesome love story.

[@galacticpotato607]

i both hate and love how i almost cried at the end, humanity needs more stories like this

[@ed_cmntonly]

​​@@webbowser8834 combined with an alien airport on multiple planets, who are mysteriously currently run by dogs game of the year 2024. period.

[@Asryal]

truly amazing

[@godlyhax4172]

I wonder if the dev is projecting or something

[@gctypo2838]

This game is a reminder that you don't need to have a team with a decent artist to make a competent and entertaining game. Sometimes the jank and unpolished aspects can be weirdly charming.

[@LakesideTrey]

The best stories on earth came from pen and paper. Creativity and skill always trumps resources.

[@DrakonBlake]

You might still need at least a decent artist for some of the modeling if not some other things.

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

45:08, mild correction. Humans don't use our own waste as fertilizer without some kind of treatment due to diseases from said waste tainting the soil, the crops, and making farmers very sick. That's why we use waste from other creatures with which we share very few diseases or paracytes- we're better at fighting off worms that evolved for bovines than worms that evolved for homonids. People got less sick using animal waste, and before we even had germ theory we knew our own waste could make us very sick and needed to be disposed of properly as a public health measure. Now here's the fun part-- homes with their own septic tanks ( a holding area for waste water and all the things in it ) built with a septic field almost never need draining- just cleaning once a decade. How? The waste is allowed to flow into the soil deep enough that natural processes can filter out all the stuff that would normally make one sick, fertilizing *from below* after natural aquifers ( layers of silt, sand, and gravel that exist in the water table ) have filtered things out, deep soil bacteria has broken down the waste, and various microfauna have filtered it though their digestive processes. By the time the human waste products rise into the top soil layer, they've been through several other creatures that either exploits the toxic properties of waste or is proof to it So human waste CAN be used to fertilize a field, but ya gotta build it properly and in the right location, and it involves a great deal of digging and then waiting five+ years for nature to do its thang. It took some agricultural engineers to figure that out, so most farms do not collect people waste for crops. Thank you for reading my rant, love your work, hope some folks enjoyed me going off about septic tanks for a hot second.

[@eliasen1550]

Thank you for the rant, I’d never heard of septic drain fields before and now I’m going to go read up on them!

[@wanderingvagrant1551]

Bro hit us with the peer reviewed study

[@werthedead]

Now this has me paranoid about the vegetables we grow in the backyard

[@professionalretard7660]

mmmmmmmm, shit

[@BYakimets]

i did enjoy your septic tank rant, thank you! i knew of them but i thought they just. held stuff. then got emptied like once every 5-10 years. very cool to know they actually have filtering processes as well!

[@ieatcrayonseveryday595]

Can you believe that the developers that made this game went on to make space warlord organ trading simulator.

[@carysk4083]

I very much can believe that lol

[@formorian5]

Excuse me?

[@nefer-trebeledfomp-4129]

Wait, what? The last game with Kinect compatibility??? These are the same guys?!?!?

[@skylarkblue1]

El Paso, Elsewhere is also by them. And Xalavier wrote for hypnospace outlaw and many other great games! Oh right, can't forget about sunshine shuffle as well - the game Xalavier himself managed to get banned on american eshop because he went a bit too far with the "we're teaching kids how to gamble" bit lmao

[@JBRedux]

@@nefer-trebeledfomp-4129Strictly speaking, the option to make Kinect games isn't gone; the Unity package for it is still available. The only issue is you need to have the Kinect to PC adapter to play it.

[@GreenCorgiQueen]

Honestly, I'd trust dogs to run the airport more than humans for aliens

[@Burnt_Chocolate_Toast]

would only be a shame of the snacks😔

[@saamjaza1742]

They'd be a little confused, but they've got the spirit.

[@username172]

Honestly, id rather get growled at and possibly my jugular severed over going through a pat down.

[@cholsreammos]

Hmmm . . . I am exactly the 1100th like . . . I've never witnessed the button change number when above 1000, i didn't think it actually changed until now

[@GoddessOfMisfortune]

21:25 Dan running past her JUST as he was asking where she could be is the single funniest thing

[@kiefc_]

MY blind streamer

[@mightykingwario]

indie games truly let us see humanity in it's rawest form

[@silversonome5360]

And it is genuinely, unironically, and wholesomely beautiful.

[@Ag3nt-MC]

Like turnip boy!

[@silversonome5360]

This game... Hit me hard on the feelings. More than I would like to admit from a game called An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs. I'm about to leave my girlfriend to stay with my chronically ill father, and while it's something that I need to do, something that's important and that I'll appreciate, and she's supportive of my choice... It's just hard to make it. It's hard to do it despite it being one of my priorities, because _she_ is one of them too. And I cannot just let that slide, I can't leave her be without feeling a little afraid or sad. And yet... Our love will remain strong for as long as we fight for it. And I won't ever allow myself to forget her or leave her alone. I really identified with Krista and the main character's romance. Maybe it's the sleep deprivation. Maybe it's the nostalgia. I don't really know. But this game was unexpectedly sweet.

[@lapinamoric]

i've been in a long distance relationship for a while - just because you're far, doesn't mean that any of the feelings are any less real. remember ot be just as attentive as you were in life, but through however you choose to communicate. it's a whole new can of worms and challenges, but absence always makes the heart grow fonder. i'm thinking of you man, good luck

[@tammyhollandaise]

My aunt got human manure from the local wastewater treatment plant to use in her garden. As things began to grow, it became clear that none of it was what she'd planted. It was just tomatoes; every variety you can imagine at the supermarket, growing from every inch of where she spread the manure. Turns out, tomato seeds have trouble being digested and can still sprout long after they've escaped your bowels.

[@synphilia4776]

Mmm, shit tomatoes

[@Brian-tn4cd]

Can confirm once lived near a sewer outflow, there was a jungle of tomatoes, before i told my mother where they were from she thought they were very tasty

[@electricisnthereatthemomen6535]

@@Brian-tn4cd mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@itbird180]

wastewater treatment people can find sewage leaks along waterways and stuff by seeing where tomatos are growing. It's a reliable tell.

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

Is that how the tomatoes in fallout are so wonky

[@StickMaster500]

The CanYouPetTheDog Twitter Account must be foaming from the mouth while playing this mega fever dream of a *_fetch_* quest game

[@FrankensteinsMudpuppy]

I personally would trust Cage Dog, The Dog Who Loves Cages

[@foreng3095]

He just really enjoys professional wrestling.

[@samandom8772]

He is forever heartbroken that Nicholas Cage was among the humans that died.

[@damageYT666]

Plus he makes a killer chicken parmesan.

[@Spectrum16]

This game had no right to have such an endearing and downright wholesome love story.

[@amorales7778]

Where do you even find games like this? Do people send these to you??

[@max_208]

Many of the games he plays are suggested by the community, I wouldn't be surprised if this was among them

[@dynomar11]

Steams new release page is full of *KZbin* like this lol. Proceed at your own risk

[@deontaeavila3514]

Is it strange that I am strongly/violently aroused by the concept of a hospital run by dogs?

[@mmsL125]

This gets suggested by steam when you play stuff like cruelty squad or space warlord organ harvesting simulator

[@helloandgoodbye7286]

He knows a guy

[@emailjada]

Theres honestly some deep commentary that could be made here about love in the face of the chaos of life, and how we have to balance that, finding time for people we love despite things that would otherwise stand between us. Theres also drunk dogs flying planes and dogs secretly hiding missiles though, so who knows.

[@ares_drakon583]

This is honestly the best low budget game I’ve seen but because the dev are actually funny and wrote good dialogue

[@17thFable]

I am going to release an urge since Dan is playing these kind of games. Disco elysium. I know it will never happen but disco elysium. Urge over... for now

[@Practicallypreposterous]

One day I'll get through the first two days, I know it's gonna be so good but I just can't bear the uncomfortable atmosphere of the introduction mentally😅😅

[@ollie_3948]

@@Practicallypreposteroussame!!!! It’s so uncomfortable I literally can’t get through it

[@17thFable]

@@ollie_3948 that's fair. The game features some very *KZbin* content and is not afraid to represent it. Which is why I am certain that although RT will likely love the game even just for the unhinged dialogue options. It will never happen.

[@ollie_3948]

@@17thFable it seems like a fantastic game, when I say it make me uncomfortable I mean that strongly as a compliment! I wasn’t uncomfortable because of the content, but how well it creates an atmosphere. You don’t remember anything, you’re a mess, you’re constantly fucking up, and there is someone much more competent than you who has to watch you as you throw that rock and projective vomit the third time in a row. Nothing could be more terrifying to me.

[@thefloppdontstop4405]

If I were to throw out my number one "I'd love to watch litrally any KZbinr play this" then Jazzpunk takes the cake.

[@contortionyx]

I love that the airports are *currently* run by dogs. It implies that at any second this could change Really like the dogs tho so I'm glad it didn't 😊

[@palecaptainwolfkayls8499]

It’s an airport for aliens, and Dimmadog mentioned that there _were_ aliens, before there were dogs. Also, apparently, these dog images were placeholders. *_Were._* So now it’s an airport for aliens, currently run by dogs.

[@shinyninja8107]

It’s a weird feeling, but despite very little being explained I never felt like I needed answers? If that makes sense? Like yeah, it would be neat to have an explanation for some of this stuff, but I don’t need it. It kind of just is. I think a part of that is the fact that all of the weird stuff with the dogs is just set dressing for the love story between the main characters, so it didn’t really need to be explained outside of providing the context.

[@iskraiskra_9007]

as long as they dont overcharge for luggage i trust them

[@KyunaCookies]

The dogs don't know what money is

[@zebra_ecstasy5772]

AAFACRBD is pretty revolutionary for its time, shouldve been a GOTY contender at the game awards

[@metalvoiceguy1232]

What a beautiful game. I'm 100% serious this game is better written than 90% of the games I've played this year. I'm not usually a guy for romance but the relationship between the two main characters is just so sweet. 10/10

[@Whenpigfly666]

If I had a nickel for every love story game set in an absurd world that Dan has played in the last few months, I'd have to nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. (Slay the Princess and now this)

[@noemiemaurice5551]

The violent switch from nonsensical chaos to existencial dread and vice versa is a lot to take in XD

[@dercooletin5332]

The fact that this game has enough content for RT to make a 48min long video on it, is astonishing 😂

[@scalemerald]

its partly because he spent half of it walking past the single human there was to find while asking where said human was i think

[@beezzinha]

@@scalemerald and talking about shit crops

[@novaduck_iv]

This is a weird ass game but it made me feel emotions 😭😭😭 It be cool if the devs made a 2nd game where you play as Krista after her mission and meeting up with her weirdo again (does the player character have a name? I didn't notice if he does)

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

Even though some of this stuff is obviously "low quality" it's obvious the devs pit a lot of love into this game and it's actually quite funny! It's nice seeing a small game like this that they clearly had fun making!❤

[@nathanj202]

As someone who loves space and dogs this game was so fun! I tried to figure out the language from only looking at “ticket booth” and “passports made slightly less difficult” Also [spoilers] the *Høršę* pacing when I played was spot on! For a while I thought the pilots were drunk because they were puppies and flying is scary, but there had been hints of something more. Then I went to the squeak easy and learned how important the drink was, that there was _something_ they needed to forget. I had already flown a few times and was used to a bright plane full of dogs with the window seat. So when it’s empty, the isle seat is dark and a PNG even larger than Cage Dog, the dog who loves cages appears it truly scared me. It also worked well since later, when I went to Phobos, and could talk to one of the pilots who could no longer fly and *I know what they had seen.*

[@Sloth21]

I’m so confused, what did they see? What horse?

[@VoidZeroNothing]

I'd go to the airport if it was run by dogs. Not even gonna go anywhere. Just wanna meet the dogs.

[@lexienonemaker7030]

i really did not expect this game to be as romantic as it is, krista and the player are so cute together

[@GoomEevee]

I genuinely cannot believe a game with this title made me cry

[@scp-682-cu6]

Same. I've seen the beginning a bunch but never the end. I was on the edge of a sob even despite the shitato conversation xD

[@Whoyagonnacallpaul]

The most spiritually fufilling game of our time! I’m so glad that our father finally played it!😊

[@juances]

See kids, this is why you don't drink and dev at the same time.

[@zeldaenby224]

Nah, this is why you absolutely do

[@five-fold]

accidentally creating a really sweet relationship where they have to do their own thing but they still love each other so much? dogs???? sign me up

[@zeno1122]

How did this fever dream of a game actually manage to make me sad?

[@justjack9211]

Came for the aliens, stayed for the dogs

[@skylarkblue1]

I love this game so much. Xalavier makes the best chaos games! (He wrote for hypnospace outlaw too if you know of that!)

[@artistdead]

😮 oh my god i didnt know that, thats actually so cool and is one of my fave games (even though i never finished it😅)

[@mothtransman]

12:07 as a moth man, your support is appreciated

[@Sunrie]

RT started heading into Let's Game It Out territory LOL

[@froggo_doggo7313]

why do these dogs have more personality than any of the characters in any game by any AAA studio

[@Personwhopersons]

The game deserved every award at the game awards. Also unlike other games the title for this one is correct, not clickbait at all. Also Dan if you see this comment please play Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on steam. It's great. I'm stopping the ghost trick comments now. Just hoping Dan plays ghost trick.

[@dollenrm]

Massive vouch for ghost trick which funny enough has one of the best dogs in a video game ever. The true goodest boi

[@minticedtea]

Ghost Trick is sadly vetoed at the moment, but it does have the very best dog of all time so I hope Dan can someday meet him, along with another very good boy.

[@dollenrm]

@@minticedtea who would veto ghost trick? For what reason other than hating all things good in the world?

[@minticedtea]

@@dollenrm I don't think it was anyone other than Dan himself, maybe the AA fans within the intersection scared him, but it could also be the thing he said where people want him to play something to react a certain way? Which I can say for my part, sure, maybe a little because it's equal parts shocking and funny, but mostly I wanted to see his prophecy powers in action with a game as masterful as Ghost Trick in the genre.

[@otaniemiri]

@@dollenrmiirc he said he doesn’t want to play games with a big fandom culture on his channel, omori was also on the list. I think it’s also due to chat spoiling puzzle games for him in the past

[@villevalste1888]

Hey, I remember this game. It was made by the same guy that made SWOTS. I think the games happen in connected parallel universes or something. Like, there was that one ending in SWOTS where the player ends up in the universe of this game. And of course a dog from this game is one of your rivals in the other game, but I don't think it was ever explained how it got there.

[@just_ur_local_idiot]

This game looks so silly and fun I want it

[@doctorsnakeeater1997]

This game gives massive Jazzpunk vibes and I'm all for it. Speaking of, RT should play Jazzpunk.

[@aleculth]

i watched this while withdrawn on depression meds and i cannot tell if it made it worse or better

[@Matt-qv8lm]

A guy in Ireland thought a hole 2 guys dug earlier in the day was from a meteor. That made more sense than this game

[@cooldude2722]

Wow, within the minute; can’t remember the last time that’s happened. Also, yeah, this game’s great; big Jazzpunk vibes, which is always good.

[@TheKiwiKiwi]

45:48 They do mention this in the movie or the book I can't remember, the "fertilizer" was left outside in a container and the radiation outside killed all the bacteria and sanitized it so that it could be used.

[@jackhazardous4008]

At least the dogs arent going to make me go through humiliating and ineffective security theater to get to my destination

[@monageeuk6504]

I watch so many weird video essays that from the thumbnail I didn't realise this was a gaming video

[@slothfulcobra]

It's weird how Fairly Oddparents isn't itself very popular and there's not a lot of sentiment for it, but Doug Dibbadome references are big

[@purplehaze2358]

I'll give this game one thing; its title certainly checks out. It is, indeed, about an airport for aliens that's currently being run by dogs.

[@itsjustmebud]

Video games are really in their avante-garde era huh, sick.

[@Kukaak]

I love the mix of absurd comedy and the more serious stuff

[@lostgubbins]

so, about the fertilizer discussion: the fertilizer thing in the martian worked because the shit was vaccuum sealed and stored outside in well-below-freezing martian temperatures, which would have killed all the gut microbes, potential parasites, and everything else before watney rehydrated it and mixed in the earth soil samples he had brought with him as a part of the experiments he would have done had the mission not been scrubbed after 6 days due to the storm. the beneficial microbes in the earth samples were the important part, which is why it's so devastating when the hab ruptures. the sudden change in atmosphere and temperature didn't just kill the plants, it killed the microbes in the soil which meant he couldn't grow anything even if he'd had more stuff **to** grow

[@itryen7632]

This was absolutely made for a game jam by an art student from Germany who spends most of his day using the free wifi in a coffee shop whilst somehow not getting kicked out.

[@_soothsayer_]

this game gives me "final computer science project for university but i only had a week" vibes and i love it

[@Anonymous-ss1kg]

This feels like a sort of therapy...

[@CozyTimes-ee5fe]

It doesnt matter which game RT plays, it is always fun to watch it anyway!

[@minifye]

We need a playlist of just the games that have ridiculous acronyms

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

"I'm going to lick my balls now" is a hell of a soundbite

[@danielhale1]

The game lives almost entirely on the strength of its dialog and absurd premise. You've gotta respect the power move of using flat images for the dogs. That shows supreme confidence, and in this case it's clearly warranted.

[@goldendragon6762]

Figures in a game entirely about dogs, you'd be playing as literally one of the only humans left in existence.

[@meepdameep5343]

God i remember this... it was the first birthday gift I gave to my girlfriend... needless to say, we are still together.

[@that.guy.1208]

This game is the definition of “how it feels to chew five gum”

[@thecyberrabbit1440]

This was legitimately one of the best games I’ve seen in a long time

[@ianschlembach2185]

An absolute beauty of a game. Already tearing up.

[@ObieDobieZoomer]

I swear I've had deja vu of this specific video so many times and it's only 7 hours old as of today.

[@Nightstick24]

What a strange game to have such a bittersweet and emotional love story in. Gotta love how even though it's a game filled with meme dog jpegs and mouth-made sound effects, I'm still sitting here tearing up.

[@yate0128]

This was exactly the humour expected The sweet human relationship was a nice surprise tho 😌

[@sharkeep4269]

Furious Artist wanting to become so stinky as a form of revenge is oddly very cat-like actually. They sure do love being stinky.

[@paulomatute4114]

I don't know what I was expecting from this but honestly the game surpassed all my expectations in the first 3 minutes of the video

[@Psychedelic-giraffe]

I was not expecting some of the dialogue to hit that hard

[@foxycritter]

This is one of my favorite games ever, thank you for playing!

[@jamescanjuggle]

AI is scaring everyone meanwhile im still trying to get over my fear of people and what we're capable of

[@user-oq3vn1ni3b]

I’ve never been more intrigued by a video title

[@Atoll-ok1zm]

Monster hunter level puns in a game that just exudes unity and is utterly incomprehensible but probably suposed to be deep.

[@picpic7220]

I dunno, the "I love you, weirdo" really has something. I think it's somehow really sweet, and it affects me a bit.

[@sampearson3406]

All this game needs is a jazzpunk-like sound track and it'd be brilliant

[@RolandTheJabberwocky]

If this game teaches you anything, it should be that you shouldn't trust Cage Dog, The Dog Who Loves Cages.

[@PlasticiTea]

This is giving me some delightful Douglas (Doglas???) Adams vibes. I'm here for it. Love you, weirdo.

[@Whenpigfly666]

You know, if you ignore... a lot of things, actually, this game is really touching and heartwarming !

[@Prometheus1464]

Just shows a good game doesn't need insane graphics that require an overpriced graphics card, this is what true _Art™_ is!

[@crazycocopuff100]

OH MY GOD I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GAME! Might just need to pull up the VOD to watch the whole thing.

[@KyunaCookies]

Watch rt spent 45 minutes wandering the beach airport missing flights

[@tsb4]

This is the last game I expected RT to play. Though I guess I did think the same about Persona. So cool! I love this game

[@sythrus]

If this game didnt have a petting function i would have lost all hope for the gaming industry

[@nazalways4eva]

i didn’t think i’d love this game as much as i actually do

[@Grimalkind]

this game reminds me of giraffe town but like, wholesome instead of horrifying

[@Simipourfangirl]

Adorble dogs and a strange plot, what more could i ask for.

[@reverendroar]

I love when RT plays these philosophical fun games but what was the message in this one? Love is eternal and loneliness can be killer?

[@kittiecandy747]

I'm currently having a fever, and this doesn't help

[@Godnando00]

by the gods I havent laughed so hard like the very full dog dialogue

[@aracharsley7357]

Now he's gotta play Space Warlord Organ Trading Stimulator

[@ethanlim437]

Another quality rtgame upload

[@thewerewolfofwaggawagga8818]

You know Orb, Dan. We all know Orb. We all love Orb.

[@nitelast]

This game is an insane fever dream whem you're trying to get to sleep at 5:30am

[@dettol761]

this is like a jackbox prompt made irl

[@kaebigfan1]

holy shit this is so awesome..

[@wilfur3077]

Thought the thumbnail was an ad for a second.