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2024 Ranked #3,699

Strange World Above the Clouds

A city is taking shape above the clouds. Layer every transparent card with care and let strange buildings, roads, and creatures align.

Card Game City Building Closed Drafting Tile Placement

Players

1-4

Play time

10-20 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

7.29

Easier to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.3/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.5/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.0/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.3/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.8/5

Deep strategy

Player control 4.0/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 10 min
Table footprint Medium
Campaign commitment No campaign
Recommended edition Strange World Above the Clouds – GRRRE Games English Edition (2025)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Draft translucent landscape cards and layer a strange city in the sky without hiding the features you need.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Strange World Above the Clouds is a compact spatial drafting game about building an impossible settlement from transparent cards. Each turn offers a small choice of landscapes, buildings, paths, and unusual inhabitants. Cards overlap inside a tight personal tableau, so every placement can reveal a useful combination or cover something that a later objective needs. Shared drafting creates gentle competition, while the puzzle remains centered on reading layers, completing scoring patterns, and keeping future placements open. A short play time and clear icon system make it approachable, yet the transparency system produces satisfying turns where several scattered details suddenly align. Solo and multiplayer use the same visual logic, with larger groups adding more pressure to the shared display.

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Editions

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Strange World Above the Clouds – GRRRE Games English Edition (2025) 2025 English GRRRE Games / UK

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All specifications (18)

Play and group

Players
1–4
Play time
10–20 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
App
None app

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min
Teach time
About 10 min
Teardown time
About 5 min
Table footprint
Medium

Campaign and continuity

Campaign commitment
No campaign
Group continuity
Flexible
Resettable
Fully Resettable

Edition and product

Recommended edition
Strange World Above the Clouds – GRRRE Games English Edition (2025)
Language
English
Region
UK
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard
Current edition
Yes
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Florian Grenier

Artists

2
Florian Grenier Valériane Holley

Publishers

5
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