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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

Strange Scaffold · 2021-05-25

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 25, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), May 25, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 25, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S)

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.

86%
positive of 297 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
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.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (54 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 28,905 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.9k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 297 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99-50%
Microsoft Store$9.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2024-06-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 35 of 78 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
505020212026Week of 2021-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$7.992021-05-252026-10-152021-05-25 — best price $17.992021-08-02 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $16.992022-03-28 — best price $19.992022-11-22 — best price $11.992023-02-06 — best price $19.992023-05-22 — best price $11.992023-09-04 — best price $19.992023-12-04 — best price $9.992024-01-22 — best price $19.992024-05-06 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-10-22 — best price $9.992024-12-06 — best price $17.992025-02-01 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $9.992025-04-09 — best price $9.992025-05-08 — best price $19.992025-06-21 — best price $19.992025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-08-27 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-01 — best price $19.992026-03-17 — best price $10.002026-04-18 — best price $9.992026-06-01 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-07-29 — best price $19.992026-08-28 — best price $9.992026-09-15 — best price $19.992026-09-20 — best price $19.992026-09-25 — best price $19.992026-09-30 — best price $19.992026-10-05 — best price $19.992026-10-10 — best price $9.992026-10-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3422026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-23 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 13 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 21 pageviews2026-08-07 — 20 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 6 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 pageviews2026-08-31 — 9 pageviews2026-09-03 — 8 pageviews2026-09-06 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-12 — 8 pageviews2026-09-15 — 13 pageviews2026-09-18 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 13 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-27 — 7 pageviews2026-09-30 — 9 pageviews2026-10-03 — 7 pageviews2026-10-06 — 19 pageviews2026-10-09 — 19 pageviews2026-10-12 — 13 pageviews2026-10-14 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
88.1%
earned "Wake-Pup Call"
35.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)67916%22
Xbox Series (Xbox)33756%22
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DogCuteFunnyComedySandboxSurrealColorfulAdventureStory RichExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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