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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
Developer Strange Scaffold
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an adventure video game developed and published by Strange Scaffold. Players explore airports and interact with intelligent, talking dogs. It was released for Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
300 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
148 positive · 37 negative
95% range 74–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 148 | 37 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 32 | 0 | 75 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
243 of 286 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 148 yes, 36 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 184 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (255 of 297 positive).
Players praise the absurdist humor and charming stock photo dogs. [1][2][3] Many find the gameplay repetitive and tedious due to fetch quests. [4][5][6] The writing is widely considered heartfelt and surprisingly poignant. [1][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
The gameplay in Airport for Aliens is too repetitive for how long it takes the story between Krista and your character to unfold. I would explore each destination where I was supposed to meet Krista (and/or where I needed to go for an item for a side character/dog) pretty thoroughly on the first visit so once the destinations started repeating there really wasn't much to do other than meet her, read the story, and …
- [1]
"An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs" is an absurdist comedy adventure game with a hell of a lot of heart. There's a quick summary at the bottom if you don't want to read my rambling. On the surface, the game's presentation is extremely silly, in a way that feels cohesive and eye-catching; environments are super stylized low-poly dreamscapes that bring to mind the confusion (& occasionally, the stress) of …
- [7]
I'd like to give this game a mixed review, but I am leaning towards an upvote because of the funny writing and the cute dog stock images - but there are some problems here. You will meet many dogs on your journey through An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. They all have something to say, from the witty to the deeply insightful to the hilariously stupid. The writing here is random, but genuinely good and you …
- [9]
Sights & Sounds - Do you like polygons, vaporwave, and JPEGs of dogs? If so, you've come to the right place - To call AAfACRbD—I'm going to get sick of that acronym—an ugly game would be technically accurate but perhaps mistake the intent of the artistic direction. Every single detail from the title, to the concept, to the visuals, is intentionally absurd. As you'll see in the later sections of this review, it's …
- [2]
it's a game where you explore airports with strange layouts full of more shops selling strange items than actual terminals to fly out of that don't even charge you anything because everything is run by friendly dogs who have no concept of currency and also you can pet them. all of the signs are written in an alien language that you cannot understand, unless you're dedicated enough to cross reference the shop names …
Summarised from 34 of the 285 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs talk about funny, absurdist writing with heart; those who didn't talk about repetitive fetch quest gameplay. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs received mixed reviews on Metacritic. GamesRadar, which praised the love story, called it "equal parts disarmingly funny and surprisingly touching". Adventure Gamers said it is "a highly unique and surreal" and praised the dialogue, but they felt the gameplay becomes repetitive. The Guardian said that it struggles to overcome its nature as a novelty game, but they enjoyed the love story and postmodern elements. PC Gamer said it is funny despite the repetition.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 300 · most liked first"An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs" is an absurdist comedy adventure game with a hell of a lot of heart. There's a quick summary at the bottom if you don't want to read my rambling. On the surface, the game's presentation is extremely silly, in a way that feels cohesive and eye-catching; environments are super stylized low-poly dreamscapes that bring to mind the confusion (& occasionally, the stress) of real airports, movement items let you pull off some very fun Speed And Height…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs will be on the main stage for Silly Block at #SGDQ2025 !!! Very excited to bring the classic @strangescaffold.bsky.social game to a live audience! What could possibly go wrong! (also, EXECTOR on backup! Scramble, Exector!!!)
neutral · AI labelView post →An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs sounds like a deeply serious game. 🤔 Wait... is this it? Could it be? @pmctrilogy.bsky.social is here to kick off the SILLY BLOCK!!! 🎉 #SGDQ2025
neutral · AI labelView post →An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs is a part of @gamesdonequick.com #SQDQ2025 on July 10th at 1:09AM CDT! Tune in for the charity, stay to see if they use "the piss filter". gamesdonequick.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Can you imagine seeing your pet dog or cat taking the floor in your daily actions? That Cats & Dogs movie where both are spies infiltrating our lives. The aliens we love so much but don't recognize internally and purely. Well, this is the game that if you've ever dreamed about this topic, you'll find a small part of it. When human beings find the processes for an alternative dimension and the construction of their civilizations are more concrete and advanced, perhaps something similar will be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay in Airport for Aliens is too repetitive for how long it takes the story between Krista and your character to unfold. I would explore each destination where I was supposed to meet Krista (and/or where I needed to go for an item for a side character/dog) pretty thoroughly on the first visit so once the destinations started repeating there really wasn't much to do other than meet her, read the story, and find out the next destination. Actually getting on the flight is the primary…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/An_Airport_for_Aliens_Currently_Run_by_Dogs/) This is a delightful little indie game where you have to talk to stock photos of dogs and complete little unhinged quests. It's been on gdq in the awful block with the dev before, but only 221 reviews as of now
positive · AI labelView post →I liked this game a lot initially, as the writing was quite entertaining and funny, but the bulk of the gameplay is just finding an item to bring to a dog. The various locales are fairly massive and it seems the task of finding the right item to deliver is tied to RNG, which at one point led to me needing to find the same item three times in a row to arrive at a different airport, further adding to the repetitive game feel. You can find energy drinks from vending machines to boost your movement…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's a game where you explore airports with strange layouts full of more shops selling strange items than actual terminals to fly out of that don't even charge you anything because everything is run by friendly dogs who have no concept of currency and also you can pet them. all of the signs are written in an alien language that you cannot understand, unless you're dedicated enough to cross reference the shop names with the dogs' dialogue until you realize that it's literally just english in a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →About an hour away from An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs kicking off silly block at #SGDQ2025 !! twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
neutral · AI labelView post →This game has an unrealistic amount of dogs running the airport.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright. An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is done and dusted. Let's see. What to say about this game? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362485093 The story is that you and your girlfriend/fiancée are the last two humans alive in the multiverse and are caged by a very large dog who was supposed to be catering your celebratory dinner. And so, you escape said cage and find yourself in an existential airport...for aliens...run by dogs. Your girlfriend asks you to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok, I really wanted to like this game, and I did.. for like 20 minutes. I don't know if there is more later, but I'm really not inclined to continue, and I regret the hefty price tag. There isn't really a story. I think you and your fiancé are the last humans or something, but there's nothing really beyond that. The gameplay is always the same at each airport: 1) Get a ticket (it's always right where you start off) 2) Find the departure terminal. This isn't even really a puzzle as the trailer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In episode 2 of The Strange Scaffold Cool Things Club (our podcast!) we learned the story of "The Piss Filter" in An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs. Yep. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22b97aF/
neutral · AI labelView post →Designer Notes #98: Xalavier Nelson (@writnelson.bsky.social), founder of Strange Scaffold, designer of El Paso Elsewhere, Clickolding, and An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs - Part 1! www.designer-notes.com/designer-not...
neutral · AI labelView post →And while we're on the airports are weird tip, there's also @strangescaffold.bsky.social's An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs: store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is difficult to review, because it's not very good at all, except when it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd like to give this game a mixed review, but I am leaning towards an upvote because of the funny writing and the cute dog stock images - but there are some problems here. You will meet many dogs on your journey through An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. They all have something to say, from the witty to the deeply insightful to the hilariously stupid. The writing here is random, but genuinely good and you could tell there was passion behind making these dogs varied and unique, almost…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →lmao new An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs PB 23:13 it's on backup for AGDQ 2025 🐶
positive · AI labelView post →It was amusing talking to dog images and a random low poly woman for an hour. However the amount of back and forth required doing the same thing/reading the same dialogue just to get to the end of the story made the experience overall boring. I have no clue if there's a faster way to travel between airport levels than doing the ticket and bribe across several levels to get to where you need to go, my brain completely shut off after hour 2. Got it as a filler game from a bundle but it feels like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is astounding.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The demo for Duppy Detective Tashia was AMAZING, I cannot wait to play the full game!! Now we are streaming An Airport For Aliens Currently Run by Dogs by @strangescaffold.bsky.social ! store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/...
neutral · AI labelView post →@writnelson.bsky.social is selling his and his team's entire catalogue for $65! Go buy @strangescaffold.bsky.social games! My personal recs are El Paso, Elsewhere, I Am Your Beast, & An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (a game I played on a plane going to GDC & adore!).
positive · AI labelView post →An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, is a long, extended and tedious series of fetch quests (pun intended?), with morsels of comedic stock photos of dogs strewn throughout. The main story is actually really well written in my opinion for such a short game with such an absurd premise, and genuinely made me very sad, even though I think it was aiming to be hopeful. The game has a unique charm but is ultimately very empty. The player could be given a permanent double speed boost and there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am a 'dog person' so this game looked intriguing. I had it on my wish list and picked it up, on sale. Having spent many hours in airports run by dogs, I have very mixed feelings. It is a silly, somewhat mindless game with the biggest challenge being to find specific characters, objects and gates in each of 6 airports. Woven into this is a love story about a long distance relationship between you and Krista (the last two humans left on the planet). Your busy lives intersect at airports and it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔴 Going Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Demo ✨ An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (dev @strangescaffold.bsky.social) twitch.tv/callmekixie
neutral · AI labelView post →This is why gaming was invented.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice to hear the "An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs" carry the energy over from the wrestling segment with the chant "Dog Airport" www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
neutral · AI labelView post →i pet a dog 704 times
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what the hell is An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. i’m stoked
positive · AI labelView post →TODAY at 9:30am EST (soon) honestly, it's a calm sunday. so i wanna go travelling. sadly, it seems i only have enough money for AN AIRPORT FOR ALIENS CURRENTLY RUN BY DOGS join us for yet another strange scaffold joint at twitch.tv/vixibombae
neutral · AI labelView post →Cons: moving around can be frustrating. Pros: literally everything else.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Summer Games Done Quick 2025 schedule has been released (July 6th to 12th). https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/56 Silly block is Wednesday night / Thursday morning (highlighted in yellow) starting with "An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs", and ending with "Rose and Camellia"
neutral · AI labelView post →Is very cute and fun at first but starts to wear off quickly. Walking is super slow and the later airports are annoying to navigate. I guess is a fair price on sale but $20 for full price is wildddd
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Streaming in an hour, trying out An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, and then continuing Slitterhead! www.twitch.tv/supergreatfr...
neutral · AI labelView post →(Disclosure; key received for free in return for eventually making a review of it. This is that.) See, it's cute at first. The music is jammin, the comedy is solid. But after you've been to the first two areas of the game, you've seen at least 80% of the jokes the game has to offer. Everything else is either repeated, a throwaway line of dialogue that doesn't contribute anything nor make me laugh or a small scene that equally contributes nothing. So what's left after that? Well, mostly just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🎇 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆 My 1st game played of 2026 was showing my friend An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs ✈️🐕 I have a 5K in the morning that I’m not ready for but 2026 will be another year of showing up anyways & trying my best 🙂↕️ I’m going to play Ball x Pit until I’m tired & go from there 😆
positive · AI labelView post →an airport for aliens currently run by dogs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly written game. To be honest, there isn't too much gameplay except for reading text and talking to dogs, but it's a beautiful peek into a weird and wonderful world created by the devs. This is, like, the positive side of Internet Brainrot. The music and visuals are similarly wacky. It's relatively short for its price, and doesn't have a lot of gameplay beyond the dialogue and characters, so play this to laugh at the funny words and tell your friends that "oh, this is marinara trench,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn’t “An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs” only exist as a result of some awesome placeholder art?
neutral · AI labelView post →"An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs" is a REAL game I am very excited to play right now, BECAUSE I LOVE DOGS SO VERY MUCH! LIVE now! ♥🐶 twitch.tv/DevenAndRock... #Vtuber #ENVtuber #raccoons #dogs
positive · AI labelView post →Started playing one of the next-gen, highly sophisticated, couldn't do it on Xbox One games I've been looking forward to for ages. Yes that's right, it's An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs and it's great.
positive · AI labelView post →As a boy I dreamt of a game whose writing, like cinder blocks, shattered skulls. This day my dream has come true.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun game for what it is. Has a lot of cute dogs, but I feel it got boring very quick and sometimes annoying to run to the time skip, but it is fine. I would love to be able to run faster though, that really made the game feel very slow at times. If you like simple fun games and dogs, I would recommend it, if not, probably not a game I could suggest
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Further research confirms that the same dev also made "Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator" and "An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs"
neutral · AI labelView post →All Patrons get access to a fun little Discord section: discord.com/invite/dog-a... This is your "Barkstage Pass", which is a loving nod to An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (as well as the presence of "Pilot" himself throughout the Patreon page guiding the banner, icon and tier imagery.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I am not against this game for the humour, as I understand it's not for me, but my true complaint I have against this game is that it's 20 dollars. It's not a bad game but it is incredibly small, short, and unpolished. If you want to play this game go ahead but do not buy it at full price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs ($9.99) - you and your fiance are the last humans. stranded across space, you must find a way to reunite. and to do so, you must go through an airport for aliens currently run by dogs. a lovely comedy adventure. store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/...
positive · AI labelView post →10 games to get to know me... - Undertale - Ocarina of Time - Snow Runner - Journey - Deep Rock Galactic - Forza Horizon (2 specifically) - Elite Dangerous - Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion - Powerwash Sim - An Airport For Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →Do you love stock photo dogs? Collecting everything you can? Petting dogs? Taking trips across the galaxy? Petting puppers?! This game is for you my friends! Awoooooooooo!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its alien airports being run by stock photos of dogs. if that doesnt sound fun seek therapy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔴 Live on Twitch! Come hang out and chat about #indiegames with us. ^^ ✨ Featured Game ✨ An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (dev @strangescaffold.bsky.social) twitch.tv/callmekixie
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes, a mood hits and this type of humour just gets me through so I stuck with it to the end. However, gameplay can be boring and tedious. luckily you can basically have infinite of an item so you don't really have to run around much and can just speedrun from check point to checkpoint if you just want to fast travel the story. But I liked hearing what everyone wanted to jabber on about so while my inventory was STACKED, I took my time a little bit. Does suck to cycle but if you hate fetch…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. Story was really good and I think I petted every dog. If you love an engaging story and neat, low poly environments, this is the game for you.
positive · AI labelView post →True variety list should also include An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs and J-Town: A Visual Novel, but I digress
neutral · AI labelView post →Not for everyone, and I think I would feel differently if I had paid full price for this title, but AAFACRBD is a delightfully nonsensical and absurd art project of a game/walking simulator. There's just enough jank that the whole package works, but there are some issues. The gameplay loop is repetitive. You get a ticket to your destination, you find the gate that matches the symbols on the ticket, you find out what fetch quest you need to complete for the gate NPC dog, you travel to a new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sights & Sounds - Do you like polygons, vaporwave, and JPEGs of dogs? If so, you've come to the right place - To call AAfACRbD—I'm going to get sick of that acronym—an ugly game would be technically accurate but perhaps mistake the intent of the artistic direction. Every single detail from the title, to the concept, to the visuals, is intentionally absurd. As you'll see in the later sections of this review, it's meant to serve as a counterpoint to the surprisingly poignant narrative, excellent…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> My personal favourites are moody third-person shooter El Paso, Elsewhere, in which you battle addiction and try to kill your vampire ex-girlfriend to stop the end of the world, and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, a simulator game where you, well, trade organs on the intergalactic stock market. Shoutout also to the dog JPEGs manning the airport in An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. I’ve seen praise for these, I should finally play them!
neutral · AI labelView post →This is one of the most bizarre things I have in my Steam library, and I don't know why it's here. I guess I got it in a bundle somewhere. Is this a Gen Z thing? I don't get it. It comes off as low effort lol so random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at first, but the more you play it, the more you realize this wasn't low effort or shovelware; there was some level of intent and competence put behind it. I don't think I'm the target audience for this, and I really don't think it's worth buying. There seems to be a…
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