Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
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.
Read the full game description
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.