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title: "Red Raven Games Above and Below Card Game"
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# Fast-paced 7-round gameplay Dynamic narrative storytelling Build & expand your village Red Raven Games Above and Below Card Game

**Brand:** red raven
**Price:** ₨2430
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🏘️ Build, explore, and conquer your story—before your friends do!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Red Raven Games Above and Below Card Game by red raven
- **How much does it cost?** ₨2430 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- red raven enthusiasts

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## Key Features

- • **Craft Your Own Village:** Strategically build and upgrade unique buildings to create a thriving settlement above ground.
- • **Portable & Ready to Play:** No batteries or assembly required—grab your deck and dive into adventure anytime, anywhere.
- • **Dive Into Rich Storytelling:** Explore mysterious caverns below with immersive, choice-driven narrative encounters that make every game unique.
- • **Perfect for Social Strategy Nights:** Designed for 1-4 players with quick turns and high replayability, ideal for millennial professionals craving meaningful downtime.
- • **Engage in Tactical Resource Management:** Balance harvesting, training, and labor to optimize your villagers’ skills and maximize victory points.

## Overview

Red Raven Games' Above and Below is a captivating card game blending village-building strategy with immersive narrative exploration. Designed for 1-4 players aged 13+, it features 7 fast-paced rounds where you manage unique villagers, construct buildings, and delve into story-driven quests beneath your settlement. With high replayability, elegant artwork, and no setup hassle, it’s the perfect game for professionals seeking engaging social play and strategic depth.

## Description

From the manufacturer

Review: Fabulous game that you're sure to enjoy its narrative storytelling is charming and fun - Absolutely charming game, there is plenty to love and enjoy for all audiences and we find the replayability extremely high. Once you’re familiar with setup and rules actual games are fast and exciting with everyone having a chance to build up a point generating engine, or spend their time doing the adventure driven quests to acquire resources and reputation. These two things combined make for an excellent choice of game to pull off your shelf and play with family or friends. Anyone not already familiar with Above and Below will be very surprised with the narrative adventure decisions they can make. The game itself sets 2-4 players as settlers of village in a new land after having been displaced by tragedy in their former home. As you begin building your new homes you discover a vast network of caverns below your new village, and so as you and your fellow players begin building “above” those of you who are excited about the riches and wonders can also start exploring the caverns “below” and possibly build there as well. You will focus primarily on your own player board moving your villagers to one of the five actions you may take on your turn, Explore, Harvest, Build, Train, and lastly Labor. The Explore action will take at least 2 of your villagers and gives you access to the narrative part of the game. You’ll roll a die and be presented with a tiny snippet of an overall themed story from the underground world, and then be given choices of how you’ll proceed. The Explore action has some great opportunities to gather resources to further your score and everyone will enjoy taking a turn reading the scenarios. Next, the Harvest action lets you gather some of the resources you’ve accumulated and move them to your player board for increases to your income you gain each round and victory points later. The Build action is where you will select from the available building and outpost cards, pay and then add them to your part of the village, the buildings have various powers and will let you set up an engine that helps you accumulate victory points or increase your ability to explore and grow. Taking the Train action will let you recruit new villagers to your player board so that you can take more turns each round assigning tasks to them. Lastly, taking the Labor action allows you to generate coins for each villager using it, and you’ll need those coins for building. We love this game; it has enough random elements to it that each game is unique and different. The artwork is quite attractive and a finished game looks great on the table, all your buildings lined up beside your player board have a nice flow and look like a completed fantasy world village. A tiny con, if anything the game is often times too short, having only 7 rounds it can sometimes be over before you get a good card engine built and you’ll wish it went on for a few more rounds. With setup being so easy though we can quickly reset and just play again in that case. I love this game at 2 players, and think it also plays wonderful at 3. I haven’t tried it yet at 4 but see no problem with that player count as each turn a player takes is usually pretty quick and in the case of the Explore action everyone gets involved in listening to the story and options. Fabulous game overall, one I think you are sure to enjoy.
Review: Great gentle game - Just a great game, don't bother with any of the derivatives as this original has it all. Perhaps an extension, although we're still exploring the basic game stories. Get the extension pack later. The game is, strictly speaking, competitive (rather than collaborative) and you can hinder other players from achieving their goals, but it's not nasty.

## Features

- Build a village and explore the caverns below
- Manage your villagers, each with a unique identity
- Read from a book of encounters, building an amazing and memorable story each time you play

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B015OWCB2S |
| Additional Features | Portable |
| Age Range Description | 13-15 years |
| Are Batteries Required | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #14,667 in Toys ( See Top 100 in Toys ) #482 in Board Games |
| Brand | Red Raven |
| Brand Name | Red Raven |
| CPSIA Cautionary Statement | Choking Hazard - Small Parts, No Warning Applicable |
| Color | Red |
| Country of Publication | China |
| Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 698 Reviews |
| Edition | base edition |
| Educational Objective | Develop strategic thinking, planning, and decision-making skills; improve language and narrative skills through storytelling |
| Estimated Playing Time | 90 Minutes |
| Expansion For | Above and Below |
| Genre | Action & Dexterity |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00040232261213 |
| Included Components | Cards |
| Indoor Outdoor Usage | Indoor |
| Is Assembly Required | No |
| Item Dimensions | 7.4 x 29.7 x 0.1 centimeters |
| Item Weight | 1 Kilograms |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Red Raven Games |
| Manufacturer Maximum Age (MONTHS) | 1332.0 |
| Manufacturer Minimum Age (MONTHS) | 36.0 |
| Manufacturer Part Number | RRG00009 |
| Material | Cardstock |
| Material Type | Cardstock |
| Minimum Age Recomendation | 156 |
| Model Number | RRG00009 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Players | 1 to 4 |
| Number of players | 1 to 4 |
| Operation Mode | manual |
| Set Name | Red Raven Science Fiction Kid Above and Below |
| Size | Standard |
| Supported Battery Types | No batteries required |
| Theme | Village |
| UPC | 793631855230 040232261213 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Red Raven
- **Genre:** Action & Dexterity
- **Material:** Cardstock
- **Number of players:** 1 to 4
- **Theme:** Village

## Images

![Red Raven Games Above and Below Card Game - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71xW5TrdeiL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: How's this game holding up after a few plays (still fun and challenging)? Is the replayability good? Does it drag with the max amount of players?**
A: After playing it 6 times you begin to realize the strategy isn't that deep and the encounters, while fun and novel become predictable and are not connected in any really meaningful way. It's an above average game and a great entry point into more complex games for casual players. I adore the art work and it does at least offer a lot of variety. Basically it gets old.

**Q: is this the expanded KS edition that included the wooden components?**
A: No wooden components, but all the pieces are very heavy stock cardboard.  Well built game and still one of our favorites after over a year of playing it.

**Q: The game says ages 13-15. Is there anything that would be inappropriate for elementary school aged children? Is it difficult to master?**
A: It is not difficult to master, but the person playing it must like role-playing games / developing story / table top exploration games.
I would say it is a fantastic board game enthusiasts that love character development and pick your own adventure. 

I played through this game few times and I did not see anything inappropriate for elementary children. However with so many game pieces and tokens and rules you really can't give this game to any kid that don't have a short attention span.

**Q: How does the gameplay and fun compare to betrayal at house on haunted hill? we enjoy that game and this sounds similar. dice based, stories...**
A: Trying to not be too vague, the gameplay is similar yet different.  Betrayal uses cards to tell the story or give you pieces and you have no control over your path or decisions to make.  Above and Below uses a book which is more like those old 'choose your own adventure' books.  Betrayal is more morbid (satanic themes) and A&B is just a happy fantasy world, and although we have fun playing Betrayal, I like A&B for my family (with kids) and Betrayal for a more mature crowd.  I think over time (a long time) you will start to see more repetitive stories in A&B yet with Betrayal, there are so many possibilities that you will never repeat the same game twice.  That being said, we have both games and we would still rather play A&B.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fabulous game that you're sure to enjoy its narrative storytelling is charming and fun
*by N***K on 6 April 2020*

Absolutely charming game, there is plenty to love and enjoy for all audiences and we find the replayability extremely high. Once you’re familiar with setup and rules actual games are fast and exciting with everyone having a chance to build up a point generating engine, or spend their time doing the adventure driven quests to acquire resources and reputation. These two things combined make for an excellent choice of game to pull off your shelf and play with family or friends. Anyone not already familiar with Above and Below will be very surprised with the narrative adventure decisions they can make. The game itself sets 2-4 players as settlers of village in a new land after having been displaced by tragedy in their former home. As you begin building your new homes you discover a vast network of caverns below your new village, and so as you and your fellow players begin building “above” those of you who are excited about the riches and wonders can also start exploring the caverns “below” and possibly build there as well. You will focus primarily on your own player board moving your villagers to one of the five actions you may take on your turn, Explore, Harvest, Build, Train, and lastly Labor. The Explore action will take at least 2 of your villagers and gives you access to the narrative part of the game. You’ll roll a die and be presented with a tiny snippet of an overall themed story from the underground world, and then be given choices of how you’ll proceed. The Explore action has some great opportunities to gather resources to further your score and everyone will enjoy taking a turn reading the scenarios. Next, the Harvest action lets you gather some of the resources you’ve accumulated and move them to your player board for increases to your income you gain each round and victory points later. The Build action is where you will select from the available building and outpost cards, pay and then add them to your part of the village, the buildings have various powers and will let you set up an engine that helps you accumulate victory points or increase your ability to explore and grow. Taking the Train action will let you recruit new villagers to your player board so that you can take more turns each round assigning tasks to them. Lastly, taking the Labor action allows you to generate coins for each villager using it, and you’ll need those coins for building. We love this game; it has enough random elements to it that each game is unique and different. The artwork is quite attractive and a finished game looks great on the table, all your buildings lined up beside your player board have a nice flow and look like a completed fantasy world village. A tiny con, if anything the game is often times too short, having only 7 rounds it can sometimes be over before you get a good card engine built and you’ll wish it went on for a few more rounds. With setup being so easy though we can quickly reset and just play again in that case. I love this game at 2 players, and think it also plays wonderful at 3. I haven’t tried it yet at 4 but see no problem with that player count as each turn a player takes is usually pretty quick and in the case of the Explore action everyone gets involved in listening to the story and options. Fabulous game overall, one I think you are sure to enjoy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great gentle game
*by A***Z on 22 June 2025*

Just a great game, don't bother with any of the derivatives as this original has it all. Perhaps an extension, although we're still exploring the basic game stories. Get the extension pack later. The game is, strictly speaking, competitive (rather than collaborative) and you can hinder other players from achieving their goals, but it's not nasty.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Above & Below
*by J***. on 7 March 2016*

Above & Below is a beautiful game focused around story-telling and village-building. There are really 2 parts to it. The "Above" - building your village up, training villagers and assigning tasks to them. And the "Below" - exploring caves, reading paragraph length stories to each other and making choices about what to do. The play is pretty non-competitive and gentle and I have yet to see anything dying or being killed (your villagers are just tired even if they fail their tasks) so this is perfect for playing with children. However there are also plenty of choices to make and lots of nice systems in place to make this enjoyable for adult players as well. Systems are reasonably straightforward and make sense once you get used to them and there are a few videos online to help out if you get confused at all. The only downside for me is that you only discover who has won at the end when you total up the points and the game ends after a certain number of turns, which can make it feel a little bit like you've not completed the story yet. Games do last an hour or so, which is plenty of time though. I bought this to play with my 6 year old son, who doesn't normally deal with losing too well, but he has been absolutely fine with this as the game itself is so enjoyable. Winning or losing feels almost incidental. It's really fun to train people up and then send them out to work (and there are some special villagers which you can only get from "below" which make things a bit more varied) but the undoubted star is the exploration and the "choose your own adventure" stories. I would recommend this game for all ages really. It's well-designed, beautiful to look at and really fun to play.

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