A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.
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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.
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
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
This game contains themes of psychological distress, loss, and sacrifice.
There is no graphic violence.
Approximately 1 hour: if you enjoy the game, please don’t refund just because you can!
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Really good one. Started off a bit confused but figured it out pretty quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwPsHnxnJM
It's a short game with awesome graphics & psychological horror experience. I really enjoy it all the time, I've played quite a few games where you die a lot, it's the same here. It's a free game and it's 2026, but there are still people who leave negative reviews on a free games (Especially since this is an indie dev), I will never understand this! Support indie devs!
I remember seeing NOPE the film, this game reminds me a lot of it, its tense and mysterious, the gameplay loop is fun and solid. The graphics look gorgeous, They used Unreal engine to its maximum potential, it feel so real, even the camera movements. When i saw that you could actually find hidden dialogues and places, i started searching for them, i didn't expect it tbh the scream when you die terrifies me. I'm interested in seeing where they go next with this game.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 49 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Completed it in 50 mins, got most of the achievments. the pacing is tight, the visuals punch way above what i expect from free titles, and the way the threat forces you to plan your route between cover is clever. Frankly honestly impressive.
Well it's a very short game lol. I like the setting and the idea, but in the end there's not much to do. You'll run around, turn on generators and flee from a cloud. Well and... that's it. It's a shame that a great idea turns boring so quickly. Rating: 3/10 IMO
Performance was solid for me: locked 60 on a 3060 at 1440p. Only nitpick is the stamina has no indicator so you kinda guess... still recommend
really tense little experience. the creature AI keeps you moving. it does get a bit repetitive by the last few generators but for free i cant complain much. good audio work
its Ok. Short and does the job for a free download. Nothing amazing but i didnt regret the time. The atmosphere carries it more than the gameplay imo
I wonder if they played their own game. I was attracted by the nice scenery but the game is unplayable. If you go past the super noisy lumen and terrible LOD, the gameplay is super repetitive and is rendered even impossible by the completely unbalanced stamina / monster speed and spawn rate.
this nailed the dread factor. its like a bad dream you cant wake up from, running through the sand while something hunts you. stuck with me after i closed it. props to the team
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