ABOVE

ABOVE (2026)

EDGE · June 10, 2026 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Exploration, Puzzle Platformer, Choose Your Own Adventure

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Mostly Positive74% · 90 📈 Making a comeback 86%
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About ABOVE

THE SKY IS WATCHING.

ABOVE is a narrative-based, atmospheric psychological horror game set entirely in broad daylight.
You play as Joyce, a lone park ranger stranded beside her disabled car on a remote desert road in Idaho. The engine is dead. There is no respite. Only temporary shelter, open ground, and the growing sense that something above you is watching, listening, and waiting.Explore the surrounding landscape, discover pieces of a scattered diary and unsettling radio exchanges that slowly piece together a deeply personal and tragic story about family, guilt, and sacrifice. This is a compact, story-driven experience designed to be completed in a single sitting. ABOVE favors atmosphere, tension, and emotional impact over traditional horror mechanics, asking not how you fight, but how you endure.


GAMEPLAY

  • A minimalist survival experience with environmental fight back mechanics
  • Sound-based tension where your actions can attract unwanted attention
  • Exploration in a wide, open desert with limited and temporary safety
  • Tools that help you observe the environment and sometimes what moves within it
  • Risk–reward decisions where being noticed can be fatal
  • Environmental objectives that require planning, timing, and nerve
  • Subtle systemic pressure that escalates with every mistake
  • Designed to be completed in a single, intense sitting

FEATURES

  • Atmospheric psychological horror experience
  • Set during the day
  • Story-driven narrative revealed through exploration and dialogue
  • Sound-based mechanics where only specific noises attract danger
  • No combat: survival through movement, awareness, and timing
  • Procedurally randomized objectives for replayability

CONTENT WARNING

This game contains themes of psychological distress, loss, and sacrifice.
There is no graphic violence.

ESTIMATED PLAYTIME

Approximately 1 hour: if you enjoy the game, please don’t refund just because you can!

ABOVE — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Aug 21, 2026
Great as a free game. First run, never completed. Lasted about 40 minutes. I kept dying and got irritated which caused me to rage quit. Then I saw some easy achievements I could get so I figured I'd go back in-game to get them before uninstalling. Well, after getting those lil easy things, I ended up actually playing the game for some reason and magically beat it under 30 minutes. The graphics are my favorite thing about this game, and the ending actually made my chest hurt. Glad I finished it.
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Not recommended Aug 17, 2026
I absolutely detest games with save points. That is just laziness from the programmers' side. Also, I would wish there was more focus on the puzzle rather than the time constraint to find and activate the next generator. I play games to de-stress, not to add to the daily stress. Graphics is nice, though, and I like the mystery part.
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Recommended Sep 23, 2026
Well... I got attracted to this game mainly for 2 reasons 1. Daytime Psychological Horror 2. Great Graphics The game is intriguing and keeps you on your toes (literally :)). But I couldn't get the storyline, like what happened and how does switching on power help, whereas whenever I switch them on, the cloud/UFO or whatever it is comes and engulfs me. Also, whats the logic behind a fire extinguisher saving me. And when I'm falling from such a height, how am I surviving that? It also gets frustrating from dying multiple times. Still, for a free version, its quite nice and different from other psycholigical horror games. I like the distinctiveness.
Recommended Sep 19, 2026
I would say great concept but really short story. It is just one mission, but still the environment and setting of the game feels great
Not recommended Sep 7, 2026
idk why'd you call it a game. I mean, there is a plot - as strong as straw against the nuke, but you can say you have it. Dialogues are literally soap opera style, worst of. Gameplay? Just running here and there, basing on stamina without stamina bar, activating random points in the desert, while wind follows you. Sounds interesting? I'd add that steps sound very weird like they're misplaced. I've really tried to have some fun. But from the first seconds to the last dialogue it felt terrible. It's not a game. It's just minimum viable product. If devs would spend some time writing interesting plot, creating somewhat believeble dialogues, making gameplay interesting etc., it could be a good game. But as for now it's not a game, not even pre-Alpha
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
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