Above

Above is a daylight psychological horror game about Joyce, a park ranger stranded beside her disabled car on a remote desert road in Idaho. With the engine dead and only temporary shelter nearby, she explores the open landscape while sensing that something above is watching, listening and waiting.

Story and exploration

You uncover pieces of a scattered diary and unsettling radio exchanges that gradually reveal a personal, tragic story about family, guilt and sacrifice. The game is designed to be completed in a single sitting, with an estimated playtime of approximately one hour.

Surviving the desert

This minimalist survival experience has no combat. You endure through movement, awareness and timing, exploring a wide desert where safety is limited and temporary. Your actions can make noises that attract unwanted attention, and being noticed can be fatal. Tools help you observe the environment and sometimes whatever moves within it.

Environmental objectives require planning, timing and nerve. Risk-and-reward decisions and subtle systemic pressure that escalates with each mistake shape your attempts to survive. Objectives are procedurally randomized for replayability, and only specific noises attract danger.