Airplane Mode Enlists Bennett Foddy

Cooky, crazy video games are back and it's about time, because things are depressing out here in 2020. Luckily, you'll be able to channel that tedium and ennui in Airplane Mode soon.

Airplane Mode isn't a recreation of turning your phone into a somewhat functional brick, but it gets close. The game is a spiritual successor to the dullest video game ever created, Penn and Teller's Desert Bus. In Desert Bus, you drive a bus from one point to the next, Tucson to Las Vegas, which takes eight hours to do, on a straight road. The game is known primarily for its use in charity streams, where people can go along for the ride, as someone completes this ridiculous task.

 

Shifting slightly, Airplane Mode takes a real-time trip as well, but from the perspective of a passenger. A trip of six hours was previously announced, though there will now also be an option for a short two and a half hour flight. In the meantime, players will be able to occupy themselves with whatever trinkets are in their carry-on luggage, such as books or earphones. There's also a seat display and various other tidbits found in planes, like a window seat. Who doesn't want to just gaze into the endless horizon in waiting?

Bennett Foddy, the cruel mastermind behind Getting Over It, will be portraying the role of the pilot in this game. Their dulcet tones will hopefully not sound as mocking as it did in their rage game. Foddy has also helped shape the game through an advisory role.

Airplane Mode is out in 2020 somewhere for PC and has a Steam page up now. This news came with a bunch of jokes about Microsoft Flight Simulator, but a good game stands on its own, without having to piggyback off momentum.
 

Daav Valentaten, NoobFeed
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