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Land Above Sea Below

Land Above Sea Below

Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

Released Sep 13, 2023 Developer Glasscannon Studio Publisher Skystone Games Platforms Windows City BuilderLogicStrategyPuzzleRelaxing
View on Steam ↗ $1.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

72.2%positive151 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun lil game. Lacks replay value. I'd say skip it unless you're really into these kinds of logic puzzles or if it's on sale.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“a nice little city builder if you just want to relax a little. good if you want to play a game for half an hour and don't want something too involving. plays like a board game, luck of the draw is a factor, and some simple strategy.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I really enjoy this game, how it looks, and the gameplay loop; however, the game often crashes on launch or while closing. it is hard to recommend a game that is hard for me to launch to play.”

— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

17achievements
3.4%median completion
0.3%rarest: Botanist
38.1% of players 28.3% of players 13.2% of players 9.5% of players 7.8% of players 7.3% of players 6.5% of players 3.6% of players 3.4% of players 3.4% of players 2.3% of players 2.3% of players 1.3% of players 0.6% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 38.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
38.1%Day by day I — Reach 15 days in a single game
28.3%Higher and higher I — Don't let a single tile to sink for 3 seasons
13.2%The fruit of labor I — Complete 10 mini-objectives during one game
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Botanist — Plant all 3 Tree of Fall types in a single game
0.3%Age of empires — Unlock all special buildings
0.4%The fruit of labor III — Complete 65 mini-objectives during one game

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 04, 2025
Check out The Artifactory, a chaotic couch co-op party game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3511520/The_Artifactory/ Hey Island Architects! Some friends of ours just launched their Steam page for The Artifacory, and trust us—it’s a wild ride! The Artifacory

Oct 26, 2023
Game Update Highlights: Performance Boosts, New Skip Card, and More!

Hello everyone! We're back with another update. Thank you for your valuable feedback; it's been incredibly helpful. We apologise for the delay in getting this update out to you; with our limited resou

Sep 23, 2023
Message of Thanks and Game Updates from Glasscannon Team

Hey Island Architects! First of all, we would like to express our immense gratitude to all of you for supporting our small team and trying out our game. A special round of applause to everyone who pro

Sep 13, 2023
Land Above Sea Below OUT NOW!

Greetings Everyone! It's time to enter Eternal Autumn! Thanks for all your support and feedback over the last few months as we’ve been hard at work on Land Above Sea Below. As you can tell…we are now

Sep 10, 2023
Prepare to Dive In Sept 13th! Overview Trailer Revealed

Ahoy, Land Above Sea Below Adventurers! 🌊 The moment you've all been waiting for is nearly here! We've just unleashed our epic overview trailer, and it's set to blow your sails off! But that's not all

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresCasual, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsCity Builder · Logic · Strategy · Puzzle · Relaxing · Indie · Building · Sandbox · Atmospheric · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Strategy · Nature (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Achievements17
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (64-Bit) Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Intel / AMD) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated graphics card, GTX 770 2GB or similar DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 550 MB available space