6:35 was such a wham shot and the precise moment this went from a 9 to a 10 for me. The ridiculously easy "gain insight" version of the puzzle actually being designed to completely slap you in the face with the twist while Tyler is gobsmacked is just one of the most incredible moments I've ever seen on TH-cam, let alone anywhere really.
i feel like the development process of this game was something like: 1. develop mechanic 2. find every single edge case with previous mechanics 3. make new mechanics that apply in those interactions 4. repeat
I felt like a mad man trying to figure out how you would possibly interact with the lines and circles before this episode. This puzzle game is honestly insane
This game really feels like a monster's expedition. "Oh, so mechanics is just pushing logs, huh? Guess that's gonna be a short easy game" *25 episodes later* "I'm a log pushing master now. Logs can be pushed in a thousand different ways, the whole world is connected, my entire existence is a log, and I'm going to push it" "Oh, so mechanics is just pushing worms, huh? Guess that's gonna be a short easy game...."
The name of this game is so absolutely perfect! Every new mechanic that is discovered feels like you’re opening a whole new cam of worms with all the possibilities
genuinely the whole worm-ship orientation being a puzzle is so great. if i werent already following tyler id play this game through to the end (though im not as smart as he is)
@@electromika You’d be surprised honestly, when I started playing puzzle games I just tried employing the same thought process Tyler does until I developed my own. Now I’m able to beat most of the puzzle games I play with enough dedication (I still suck at some though).
@@laineyw7257 I'll definitely try starting playing more puzzle games! Last time I played was with Baba, and I wasnt putting too much effort into it and so I just got frustrated lol. The mindset to keep improving definitely helps!
i love it when a puzzle game leaves tyler speechless. Its awesome, through my vicarious playthrough its like my mind being blown is both validated and amplified
Whats even better that Tyler missed is that if you push that 3 long and then dont undo, solve the puzzle, it'll create a bridge between 2 useless points to show you how to make a bridge. That's the entire point of that trapped 3 long worm in the main room.
@@alittar8062 I've since patched it to make these wire candidates glow when they are in position, lots of people were understandably undoing the movement when it didn't immediately do something
I've been starved for a puzzle game on the same level as Baba Is You and Stephen's Sausage Roll so I hope this is true. Patrick's Parabox almost got there but not quite. Something that actually deserves to be in a "Puzzle Game Masterpieces" bundle alongside them unlike that bitchass Monster's Expedition. (don't crucify me that game was... decent)
This game is, hands down, GENIUS. I haven’t felt so baffled by how intricate the systems in a game are since… Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe A Monster’s Expedition? I’d say BIY but I feel that’s sort of a cop-out answer
Not only that, but also just how well it's done. Some games have such intricate systems, but they only overwhelm the player and aren't introduced properly, but this game manages to introduce everything organically in such a way that you are able to properly process everything.
I'm supremely impressed by this game. This series is definitely going down in Aliensrock history as one of the best on the entire channel imo. Incredibly designed game, fantastic commentary from Tyler as per usual, and the new leveled-up editing that's been gracing the channel for a few months now? This is peak TH-cam.
The last time I was ever this floored by something in a puzzle game was with Level Is Baba and Level Is Flag in the first Baba Is You overworld. This is _wild._
This is now a top 3 series for me, that reveal was just icing on the cake. This game is truly amazing and you can tell Tyler is loving it. Can't wait to see what other secrets are in store, especially with the other poster in the rocket diagram room hinting at even more mechanics
This absolutely blew my mind!! Kinda getting A Monster's Expedition vibes, with the meta puzzles and mechanics that could have been used the whole time if you knew them; but this seems so much more complex.
This has potential to top baba is you. On a conceptual level, it follows similar meta progression and has so many mechanics stemming from such a basic concept. This is everything i love about puzzle games. However, im awful at them, so i let tyler blow my mind. Thank you
I love how this game just keeps on next leveling you. And even when you're expecting each world to add a new mechanic, it STILL surprises you with a meta-puzzle. Or a meta-meta-puzzle. THIS is the kind of puzzle game I love watching Tyler play.
this game is so cool. i love how that "help" thing is named "gain insight" and not "help" because you are literally gaining insight into how a puzzle needs to be solved, not directly told what to do. the mindbending that the game does is so satisfying to watch. amazing game 11:30 i also absolutely love that too. love the meta-puzzle stuff that goes on in the world map, really re-frames what a "world map" is. thats why i loved watching you play baba because it also had this exact feeling, with metaworlds upon metaworlds and puzzles on the map (with one of the endings being on the map too, which is extremely cool)
I’ve been waiting for these types of puzzles for a while, as soon as I saw the other wires on the puzzle and other entry points, glad they’re finally paying off.
Hey editor Dan, at the end of the series you should make a recap of all the times tyler said he loves something the game does to show how much he likes it.
The puzzles that you need to connect terminals in order to complete the rocket ships are my favorite of the entire game, the alternate solutions for them are so incredibly elegant that no words can do them justice, all of them were so incredibly enlightening to figure out.
I feel like Aliensrock is kind of shooting himself in the foot in regards to watchtime by having so many cuts. I would gladly watch an hour long video with the ring traveling around the ship at normal speed, or where Aiensrock spends a few extra minutes lining everything up once he figures out the puzzle and just needs to get everything in place. Either way, I absolutely ADORE this game and I keep checking for new videos every day! I can't wait for the next episode and the next discovery Aliensrock makes that completely changes the entire game!
Seriously my favorite moments are when tyler is speechless and just completely surprised by a twist because it's such a genuine reaction and shows he is as intrigued by the game as the audience is
The bridges blew my mind when I first got to them. So glad I took a break from these videos to play it myself. (Not quite at 100% yet, but enough ahead that I'm not spoiling anything). 8:38 You can undo the reset BTW (and then undo a few more would reset the current ship).
I've followed you through a lot of crazy puzzle with abstraction and recursivity, but this one impress me how it blows our mind in a "That was there since the beginning I need to go back through everything" kind of way!
This is an unbelievably incredible puzzle game. Can't wait for more! I can't imagine how much work it must have been to interweave all these mechanics together and still have it be make it smooth and easy to understand for the player.
I managed to 100% the game in 3 days after seeing Tyler play it for the first time and buying it immediately (Thanks Tyler!!!) :D I was trully stunned at how much fun it was! In any case, its super fun to watch Tyler go through the revelations that I've had while playing it :)
I thought the game was already super solid and each episode just amazes me more. I have no idea how a game can keep so many neat and interesting mechanics secret and then just teach them to you with little to no explanation. It’s so weirdly intuitive, and the possibilities here are crazy! Best puzzle game I’ve seen in awhile!
@@muntedfinger Holy cow it’s the dev themselves! Glad to see you hangin in the comments here! You’re game is mad impressive, and I can’t wait to see what else is in store!
You get the entire kit from the start. Everything you can do it here since you launched the game, and yet still this game can do something new with this kit on every step
6:35 this reaction is fucking gold, imagine going in thinking "damn, it's just a laughably easy insight with not much to add-" and then seeing that. This game is fucking insane!
Ok wtf this game is fantastic. I've never really seen a full meta puzzle game like this besides Baba is you so any game that allows you to mess with the environment is amazing. Not to mention you can change the levels with the ship and everything
I knew from the beginning that this game would be absolutely genius Anyone can make a puzzle game, but you need these mad lads with giant brains to make these masterpieces
Really curious to know where aliensrock will rate this against other top tier puzzle games. This is definitely gonna sit among the legends, if not above them.
My god i truly can't believe i thought yhis game would be akin to squishcraft after the first episode (as in random=funny with decent puzzles) when it's more like a deeper version of a monsters expedition.
this game breaks us every episodes, and there's still the weird black hole in the middle... this game just defeated baba is you as my favorite puzzle game of all time
Ok this episode solidifies it. This is the best puzzle game I’ve seen in years
Thank you ❤
it really is great, and I am a fan of them giving a rocket cheat sheet. Good of the devs to not just leave that as a tedious trial and error bit.
@@muntedfinger You made a seriously incredible game! A puzzle game that keeps blowing your mind at every step is a rare treat.
Genuinely impressive game top 3 I’d say in a long time
@@muntedfinger holy shit I wasn’t expecting you to show up. You’ve done an fantastic job. You should be proud.
6:35 was such a wham shot and the precise moment this went from a 9 to a 10 for me. The ridiculously easy "gain insight" version of the puzzle actually being designed to completely slap you in the face with the twist while Tyler is gobsmacked is just one of the most incredible moments I've ever seen on TH-cam, let alone anywhere really.
I gasped out loud irl
i got chills, and i usually only get those when im playing the game myself! so satisfying
The fact that the ad is perfectly Times after the insight is just🤌
I had a gobsmacked moment when I unlocked the rockets, such an amazing puzzle game~
As soon as that happened, I paused the video in shock and then had to laugh at how amazing it was.
Next episode: I found a new dimension, I don’t think the game is going to be over anytime soon…
oh just you wait :))))
dude predicted world 8
it’s getting crazy here
There is a literal wormhole on the overworld map, alright? So it IS going to be a new dimension.
we'll need to push worms into wormhole to beat the game, i think
EDIT: guys, i watched speedrun of whole game, and now i know the whole lore
i feel like the development process of this game was something like:
1. develop mechanic
2. find every single edge case with previous mechanics
3. make new mechanics that apply in those interactions
4. repeat
Pretty much
I love how the dev is just chilling in the comments, love it
@@muntedfinger you made me download steam in my Linux and buy your game this is brilliant
@@meghanto Enjoy! It's not officially supported on Linux, but I hear many reports it runs well under proton
Honestly, that's the best way to design a game. That's why dwarf fortress is so great, really.
Imagine the biggest plot twist in this game would be that the worms are actually snakes all along.
How dare you even mention such blasphemy
You’ve heard of snake bird
Now get ready for
Snake
So basically what you’re saying is, what is the worms could eat a giant ones?
@@zaxtonhong3958 snek worm yes
They have legs.
I felt like a mad man trying to figure out how you would possibly interact with the lines and circles before this episode. This puzzle game is honestly insane
the fact that mechanic was accessible from the very beginning is what we call a pro grammer move
This game really feels like a monster's expedition. "Oh, so mechanics is just pushing logs, huh? Guess that's gonna be a short easy game"
*25 episodes later*
"I'm a log pushing master now. Logs can be pushed in a thousand different ways, the whole world is connected, my entire existence is a log, and I'm going to push it"
"Oh, so mechanics is just pushing worms, huh? Guess that's gonna be a short easy game...."
And the cycle repeats
Every time I think this game is nearing its' end, it introduces a brand new way for the puzzles to be puzzled.
This game is literally Baba is you but (and) worm.
The name of this game is so absolutely perfect! Every new mechanic that is discovered feels like you’re opening a whole new cam of worms with all the possibilities
Oh my God I didn't even acknowledge the name of the game and the discovery of all the new mechanics, what a fucking genius game
worms with rings as mouthholes that the sentient can throws
Ayyyyyyy 👉😉👉
The travel mechanic also being a puzzle is awesome
genuinely the whole worm-ship orientation being a puzzle is so great. if i werent already following tyler id play this game through to the end (though im not as smart as he is)
@@electromika I wish I was was too
@@electromika You’d be surprised honestly, when I started playing puzzle games I just tried employing the same thought process Tyler does until I developed my own. Now I’m able to beat most of the puzzle games I play with enough dedication (I still suck at some though).
@@laineyw7257 I'll definitely try starting playing more puzzle games! Last time I played was with Baba, and I wasnt putting too much effort into it and so I just got frustrated lol. The mindset to keep improving definitely helps!
this game is getting increasingly meta
i love it when a puzzle game leaves tyler speechless. Its awesome, through my vicarious playthrough its like my mind being blown is both validated and amplified
Same
This puzzle game is gonna be one of the goats ( at least for me) just due to the overworld mechanic.
Whats even better that Tyler missed is that if you push that 3 long and then dont undo, solve the puzzle, it'll create a bridge between 2 useless points to show you how to make a bridge. That's the entire point of that trapped 3 long worm in the main room.
@@alittar8062 I've since patched it to make these wire candidates glow when they are in position, lots of people were understandably undoing the movement when it didn't immediately do something
@@muntedfinger actual goated fucken dev, I aspire to create a game as good as this one day
@@muntedfinger Keep up the good work, not many can actually pull off combining puzzles, arcade and metroidvania.
I've been starved for a puzzle game on the same level as Baba Is You and Stephen's Sausage Roll so I hope this is true. Patrick's Parabox almost got there but not quite. Something that actually deserves to be in a "Puzzle Game Masterpieces" bundle alongside them unlike that bitchass Monster's Expedition. (don't crucify me that game was... decent)
I think this is the first time I was in awe watching a puzzle game
Have you watched Tyler's play through of a monsters expedition? Only other time I've felt this awe
@Joe Tucker Can't forget about the final few worlds of Baba Is You
Truly one of the worm master rocketeers of all time
As they say, Baja be thy blast
aliensrock playing this game is unironically my favorite content on youtube
both the game and tyler are absolutely incredible
This game is, hands down, GENIUS. I haven’t felt so baffled by how intricate the systems in a game are since… Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe A Monster’s Expedition? I’d say BIY but I feel that’s sort of a cop-out answer
Thank you! A Monster's Expedition is awesome
Not only that, but also just how well it's done. Some games have such intricate systems, but they only overwhelm the player and aren't introduced properly, but this game manages to introduce everything organically in such a way that you are able to properly process everything.
imagine if the last puzzle requires you sending a ring all the way through every "worm"ld and reaches the start
that would be the greatest, something like what The Witness did.
Given the noted connections Tyler took notes/made a cheat sheet with... I'm going to say that's not just imaginable, it's likely
I'm supremely impressed by this game. This series is definitely going down in Aliensrock history as one of the best on the entire channel imo. Incredibly designed game, fantastic commentary from Tyler as per usual, and the new leveled-up editing that's been gracing the channel for a few months now? This is peak TH-cam.
This is an amazing journey told through a silent puzzle of puzzles.
Makes me really hope this gets ported to more platforms. This deserves the reach!
I own a Switch now I've just gotta figure out how to shove the game inside of it
@@muntedfinger easy. with a worm.
At first I thought the individual puzzles were brain twisting, but these *overworld puzzles* definitely clue me in: This game is too smart for me 😅
After this episode I‘m a 100% certain this is going to be a 11/10 rating.
I love it when a good puzzle game is able to consistently blow Tyler’s mind
I'm calling it right now. This is going to be Tyler's new favorite puzzle game.
YES! I love meta puzzles. I could tell this game had them, and I'm so happy they are FINALLY starting!
The last time I was ever this floored by something in a puzzle game was with Level Is Baba and Level Is Flag in the first Baba Is You overworld. This is _wild._
I can't believe this game got even more creative and added this much more depth. I think this actually may be the best puzzle game ever created
This is now a top 3 series for me, that reveal was just icing on the cake. This game is truly amazing and you can tell Tyler is loving it. Can't wait to see what other secrets are in store, especially with the other poster in the rocket diagram room hinting at even more mechanics
This absolutely blew my mind!! Kinda getting A Monster's Expedition vibes, with the meta puzzles and mechanics that could have been used the whole time if you knew them; but this seems so much more complex.
This has potential to top baba is you. On a conceptual level, it follows similar meta progression and has so many mechanics stemming from such a basic concept. This is everything i love about puzzle games. However, im awful at them, so i let tyler blow my mind. Thank you
Somehow this game managed to make hundreds of different mind breaking mechanics with just worms and holes... this is amazing
This game is so relatable, getting rejected by a worm is truly depressing
I love how this game just keeps on next leveling you. And even when you're expecting each world to add a new mechanic, it STILL surprises you with a meta-puzzle. Or a meta-meta-puzzle. THIS is the kind of puzzle game I love watching Tyler play.
Love the meta world puzzles
this game is so cool. i love how that "help" thing is named "gain insight" and not "help" because you are literally gaining insight into how a puzzle needs to be solved, not directly told what to do. the mindbending that the game does is so satisfying to watch. amazing game
11:30 i also absolutely love that too. love the meta-puzzle stuff that goes on in the world map, really re-frames what a "world map" is. thats why i loved watching you play baba because it also had this exact feeling, with metaworlds upon metaworlds and puzzles on the map (with one of the endings being on the map too, which is extremely cool)
I’ve been waiting for these types of puzzles for a while, as soon as I saw the other wires on the puzzle and other entry points, glad they’re finally paying off.
Hey editor Dan, at the end of the series you should make a recap of all the times tyler said he loves something the game does to show how much he likes it.
The puzzles that you need to connect terminals in order to complete the rocket ships are my favorite of the entire game, the alternate solutions for them are so incredibly elegant that no words can do them justice, all of them were so incredibly enlightening to figure out.
This game is absolutely amazing, hands down one of my top 3 puzzle games I've seen Tyler play. Just utterly fantastic in every way.
Refresh, refresh, refresh. Cant wait to watch this video! I can't wait to see more of this game!
I feel like Aliensrock is kind of shooting himself in the foot in regards to watchtime by having so many cuts. I would gladly watch an hour long video with the ring traveling around the ship at normal speed, or where Aiensrock spends a few extra minutes lining everything up once he figures out the puzzle and just needs to get everything in place.
Either way, I absolutely ADORE this game and I keep checking for new videos every day! I can't wait for the next episode and the next discovery Aliensrock makes that completely changes the entire game!
This game has such an insane amount of depth between all these different mechanics. I am loving this series!
Seriously my favorite moments are when tyler is speechless and just completely surprised by a twist because it's such a genuine reaction and shows he is as intrigued by the game as the audience is
It is amazing how every single episode so far seems to have introduced yet another new mechanic, this game just keeps on surprising!
12:21 I was waiting for that to happen after last video, I just thought the followup was a pellet that could move anywhere.
The bridges blew my mind when I first got to them. So glad I took a break from these videos to play it myself. (Not quite at 100% yet, but enough ahead that I'm not spoiling anything).
8:38 You can undo the reset BTW (and then undo a few more would reset the current ship).
6:35
Bruh, had the same reaction as Tyler when the worms became lines
I've followed you through a lot of crazy puzzle with abstraction and recursivity, but this one impress me how it blows our mind in a "That was there since the beginning I need to go back through everything" kind of way!
This is an unbelievably incredible puzzle game. Can't wait for more! I can't imagine how much work it must have been to interweave all these mechanics together and still have it be make it smooth and easy to understand for the player.
6:40 the "what the fuck" genuinely made me laugh oml
If they don’t call the sequel to this game “a whole other can of wormholes” I will cry
I managed to 100% the game in 3 days after seeing Tyler play it for the first time and buying it immediately (Thanks Tyler!!!) :D
I was trully stunned at how much fun it was! In any case, its super fun to watch Tyler go through the revelations that I've had while playing it :)
I thought the game was already super solid and each episode just amazes me more. I have no idea how a game can keep so many neat and interesting mechanics secret and then just teach them to you with little to no explanation. It’s so weirdly intuitive, and the possibilities here are crazy! Best puzzle game I’ve seen in awhile!
Thank you!
@@muntedfinger Holy cow it’s the dev themselves! Glad to see you hangin in the comments here! You’re game is mad impressive, and I can’t wait to see what else is in store!
You get the entire kit from the start. Everything you can do it here since you launched the game, and yet still this game can do something new with this kit on every step
6:35 this reaction is fucking gold, imagine going in thinking "damn, it's just a laughably easy insight with not much to add-" and then seeing that. This game is fucking insane!
This is my favorite series on TH-cam right now! I love it so much
Love that this game continually manages to surprise Tyler :>
This series is more enjoyable every episode
This game is incredible, each step im more and more impressed.
they should change the name of this game to mind blow simulator, like holy what a gem of a game.
Simulator?
Ok wtf this game is fantastic. I've never really seen a full meta puzzle game like this besides Baba is you so any game that allows you to mess with the environment is amazing. Not to mention you can change the levels with the ship and everything
man, this game was already impressive with just the puzzle design, but the (multiple) meta twists are just unbelievable.
This game is absolutely amazing, best puzzle game in years. Top tier designs.
6:26 this hint was just absolutely beautiful as if I opened a literal third eye
HOW DOES THIS GAME KEEP GETTING BETTER?!
HOW?!
I knew from the beginning that this game would be absolutely genius
Anyone can make a puzzle game, but you need these mad lads with giant brains to make these masterpieces
This game is amazing, can't believe how could someone create such intricate systems
This game just keeps bringing you more and more mechanics to keep making it bigger, truly a masterpiece of puzzle games
This game is awesome. The level of puzzle-ception is insane.
Around 6:40 I said exactly what Tyler said right before he did twice in a row, what a cool puzzle game wow
6:34 How the music just cuts out to reveal a shocking truth.
And the underlying squelching noises.
I wonder now if they used real worms for the sfx 🤔
7:29 Tyler having puzzle pleasure
I love this series! Every time a new Can of Wormholes video comes out, I'm like, "Oh boy, another episode of socking!" Lol
This changes ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
Really curious to know where aliensrock will rate this against other top tier puzzle games. This is definitely gonna sit among the legends, if not above them.
To learn worm bridging connections you could've push 3 long worm and finish the level and game would show you the mechanic
My god i truly can't believe i thought yhis game would be akin to squishcraft after the first episode (as in random=funny with decent puzzles) when it's more like a deeper version of a monsters expedition.
Holy everything just got much more complicated... I wasn't expecting how far the "meta" puzzles would go...
Bro, this shit is frying my brain. I just came from game theory talking about their final fnaf timeline and this is just to much info to remember.
Are you able to cope with someone using real logic for once?
Lmao, gottem, etc
6:35 That was THE best "what the fuck just happened" moment in history😂😂
at like 6:40 that what the fuck was so genuine
Can't wait for the eventual final puzzle where you have to align every Worm Ship in order.
This was the best video since you were figuring out the Baba is You overworld puzzles.
6:35 *chef’s kiss from the devs*
this game makes everything important
*_even the intro animation when you start a level_*
The gift that just keeps on giving
Holy crap this game is so cool. I thought it was a gimmick game but here we are uncovering big brain moments.
6:35 love that part xD
wow. this is seriously the coolest puzzle game we have seen in months.
It would be fun to see a whole snake solved by using just one puzzle board!
I love games that use the over world as part of the game (besides connecting levels)
Going all 4th wall with the levels, now that's opening a Can of Worms
I love having these videos while playing the game that makes me rage the most.
'puzzcel' got a snort out of me 😂
this game breaks us every episodes, and there's still the weird black hole in the middle... this game just defeated baba is you as my favorite puzzle game of all time
I love this series and your reaction to this amazing game
Always love it when we get to the Meta puzzles.
MORE CAN OF WORMHOLES CONTENT LETS GOOOO
I must have used a canned wormhole to get here this early. Also, welcome to the land of the meta puzzles.
Early bird gets the wormhole
Thank you for the video Tyler and editors!
I can't believe there's still so many new mechanics to discover in Frog Factions