Steam game

ABOVE

A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.

Free June 10, 2026

By EDGE

Windows
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ABOVE - EDGE. Popular. Released June 10, 2026
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Overview

About this game

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! 

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