VN - Ren'Py - Above the Clouds [v0.8] [Mundo Games]

There is no plot. It's just an endless stream of "lul XD random". It would be funny in small doses, but when the ENTIRE story is like that? Pass.

The renders and animation are good, which bumps it up a star. Still not great though.

Honestly, I don’t know what the writer was drinking, smoking, or thinking while making this. This AVN is kind of weird. Some of the jokes feel really cringe to me, and the whole story is just bland, basic incest stuff.
It’s a shame, because the renders are actually really good. Some of the love interests look beautiful, but the story and progression are just bad.
Maybe this AVN just isn’t for me. It feels like wasted potential. Still, I know some people might find it fun, so yeah—good luck to the developer.

A couple of years ago, I found this game to be a treat: breezy, irreverent, and with side lewd scenes with BDSM and teacher/student motifs -- it seemed promising.
But lately, it has just gone off the rails, for me. Sure "wit" and "humor" are delightful, if they're part of a coherent storyline. But really, there isn't any storyline here, just 'wacky' for the sake of wacky. After awhile, with all the crrrrazy goings-on, even though it does have a couple of desirable LI's -- it just became tiresome. It got boring, sorry to say. Those reviews that hail the dev as a comic genius -- no. This AVN is neither fish nor fowl, really.

REVIEW of [v0.8]

One of the most fun and least boring games I've ever seen, very HOT with incest

I might be biased, but I haven't stopped laughing since I started playing. It's true, the game is funny; it's not boring, the characters are sexy, the dad is hilarious, there are quite a few LEWD scenes, and it's a bit slow-burn. It's not the typical game where your stepsisters want to sleep with you from the start; it develops more realistically.

THE BEST PART: The way the story unfolds with all the effects makes you laugh out loud, and the best part is the occasional hot scene.

The animations are well done, although a few more would be nice in the LEWD scenes, and the audio sounds like it's taken from porn, but hey, nothing's perfect.

There are several response options, and depending on your choice, it leads to other dialogues. BUT HERE'S THE WORST PART: I'VE NOTICED THAT THE PATH IS THE SAME, meaning whatever you choose leads you to the same place, at least in most scenes.

ANOTHER NEGATIVE ASPECT: Some of the women look very similar, especially in their silhouettes and bodies. Their faces are the same even though they may have other embellishments like makeup, tattoos, and so on. I suppose this is due to the type of CGD3D used.

Positives:

• GREAT STORY and VERY FUNNY
• NICE ANIMATIONS with good movement and SOUND
• GREAT CORRUPTION SLOW BURN
• INTERESTING TEXT AND NOT BORING

Negatives:

• Many years of development and little content

RATING :

Content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sound: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Renders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Characters: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Animations: ⭐⭐⭐⭐


Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

EVEN SO, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE GAME, and the biggest drawback is that there's still very little content after so many years of development.

Okay, real talk: I ve blown way too many hours on visual novels over the years. Most of them are either super angsty, painfully slow, or trying so hard to be edgy that they forget to be fun. Then (2023) i stumbled across Above the Clouds and, honestly, it wrecked me.....in the best way possible.

The setup sounds simple enough: you re just a normal dude living with your ridiculously close-knit (and slightly nuts) family when your dad casually announces you re all moving back to his old hometown, Pitsville. Cue the chaos. What starts as a "why are we even doing this"? relocation quickly spirals into uncovering weird small-town secrets, meeting the most colorful bunch of locals you ll ever see, and trying to figure out what the hell is actually going on. The whole story is framed like you re retelling it to this mysterious woman (Helen ) you ve ended up stuck with somewhere way up in the clouds...she s grilling you for details, and you get to decide how much truth (or hilarious exaggeration) you feed her. The choices feel meaningful, the branching is solid, and somehow it all stays light and warm even when things get a little spicy.

But the real magic? The humor. Holy crap, the humor. The protagonist s inner thoughts are like having a sarcastic best mate narrating your life, dropping one-liners that had me actually laughing out loud in bed at stupid o clock. The family banter is next-level.....loving, supportive, and completely bonkers in a way that feels weirdly wholesome. Every new character in Pitsville is a total oddball, and the dialogue snaps so hard i kept rereading lines just to enjoy them again. It s sharp, it s silly, it s clever, and it never feels like it s trying too hard.

The art is gorgeous, the animations are smooth, and there are literally hundreds of little sound effects that somehow make everything even funnier. One minute you re tearing up at a sweet family moment, the next you re wheezing because someone just said the most unhinged thing imaginable.

Now, I scrolled down to the reviews afterward (as you do), and saw a handful of 1 or 2- star rants. Guys… come on. You re telling me this game “lacks depth” or “is too silly”? Mate, you walked into a comedy expecting a Shakespeare tragedy. You wouldn t know witty writing if it slapped you across the face with a rubber chicken. This isn t some grimdark grind....it s meant to be a blast, and it absolutely nails that. If your idea of humor peaks at dad jokes on a Christmas cracker, fair enough, but don t come in here acting like the game s the problem.

Mundo, you absolute legend—take a bow. v0.8 already feels incredibly polished, packed with some fresh content, and clearly has so much more madness coming. I m already itching for the next update.

If you want a VN that ll leave you grinning like an idiot, warm you up inside, and make your sides hurt from laughing, just play THIS GEM. Trust me, your future self will thank you. Five stars, no question...hell, i d throw in a few extra if the system let me.

I have only two questions:
- Who gave this game so many positive ratings?
- What was the author smoking?
This isn't irony, it's a conclusion drawn from the game's content. It's filled with everything but the plot of a fap game. The pictures and the preliminary description are enticing, but the game itself has nothing to do with the pictures or the description. As the previous person rightly pointed out, this game is just some kind of drug-induced dream, meaningless, incoherent, and useless. Just some kind of mindless nonsense.
Author, do you really have that much free time to create such crap?
It's a pity you can't give a negative rating here, I mean below 0, this is really a -5 rating

Lots of long winded stories with very little action with the one you think you would have action with. Big build up with good quality graphics only to be disappointed with the limited results. The gallery is with the same chick and random goths...

AVN is confusing

It plays like one long ass dream that you're gonna wake up from and think what the fuck was I tripping balls off of?

Typical Stepmom/Sister who clearly aren't because the dev wrote it in a manner that doesn't make sense and probably retconned it

There really isn't much here to care about, bottom of the list if I have nothing else to play but not something I'd jump on an update for

No wonder it got abandoned it did pretty much everything it could worng.
Story is bland, MC feels flat and idiotic and still every girl trows them selfs at him for unknown reasons.

Then they make use of fake choices, forced LIs, forced sex scenes, forced kinks/fetishes, how this could keep up such a high rating based on that i will never understand.

Animations are ok but you dont controle anything what so ever, not even if you want to creampie them or not.
Also theres not many sex scenes either, a shitload of text and constantly trying to be funny which makes it more annoying the fun.

Stupid sound effects constantly, every now and then it would be fun but constantly no.

Girls look nice enough but when your forced to fuck those you hate then it loses all and becomes a turn-off instend.

Either there a ton of fishy reviews or people love the mindless fuckfest type game which i have a hard time beliving, so heres a real review of what you can expect, not that it matters much since it did get abandoned in the middle of it, with no ending or anything.

It's a shame the game was abandoned. I liked the lighthearted tone; it reminded me of Fresh Woman in that regard. I consider both games among the best in the genre. I hope the developer returns to this game someday.

Ok, how to review this game...

Lets do it like this:

The Bad:
1. Bland Mc: the classic "chad" mc writing for someone who doesnt know what a chad is, he doesnt have charisma, he says unfunny jokes most of the time, he is carried by the girls, he tries to be smart but everything fall to his feet, no effort at all, he would be the worst character if it wasn't for...
2. Hanna: yeah, this one can be controversial, but hear me out, she began like the classic little sister in any anime harem, cutesy user, smart, a little devoius, but really fun, except that while you play more she becomes increasinly annoying, manipulative and erratic, and it is such a real shame, because at the beginning i found her charming, but later i just wished that her scenes were cut out, her jokes become otaku comedy, and not the fun otaku comedy like konosuba, nop, it was the cringe harem otaku comedy, the type that only japanese otaku with a mentality of a prepubert would enjoy, god...
3. Wasted characters: The mom, a busty
twin, Ember( a little), the villains, etc... this one hurt, for real, how can it be that a character that was born from a dumb gag has more development that a main Li like the mom?? How?!.
4. Storyline: yeah, even with everything i have said before, this is a game that works because the characters, because the story is convulsed and senseless, not horrible but pretty dumb, it would have been better if the game just follow the classic meet a girl and conquer her without any "main" plot.
5. Sex animation: this one is a little bad faith, they arent horrible per se, some are good, but the speed and some angles should be worked more, still it has some great blowjob animations.

The good:
1. Other Lis: this is where i get annoyed because how can you create a character like the mom and at the same time you write Lucy?? She is really great, all her funny moments are really charming, and she grows on you, everytime she appears the game become enjoyable, the classmate is another great character, she only has one gimmik but it is work really great, Other Milfs/wife/older Lis are pretty solid, and fun to see, and lets not forget the goddess.

2. The sex situations: maybe the animation arent the best, but if we talk about the sex scenes, they are pretty good, great even, there is plenty kinks to try, and they doesnt hurt the story telling, some like with certain mommy are top class.

3. Humor: outside of the otaku humor that appear from time to time, there are some really great jokes here, especially by Lucy and Ember, they are charming together and i dont understand why the dev worked so hard to try to make Ember disliked, a pretty solid work.

4. Good use of side characters: yeah side characters are pretty great here, and the dev is pretty creative with them.

Even when i put more bad stuff than good, the good is really amazing, that is why i recomend people to play it.

If the game would have been developed to its conclusion and had some other minor improvements, this could have been a 4 or even 5 star game. But it's abandoned and there's very little porn content. The negatives outweigh the positives unfortunately.

Positives:

• The girls are all hot and in somewhat different ways!
• One (short and basic) anal scene.
• Pretty good character models overall and graphics. No significant complaints.
• Literally the only adult game that has successfully used humor (although see negative points below).
• Some good animations.
• There's a beautiful submissive girl that wants you to be her daddy and train her.
• The MC is not a weak, insecure idiot. Which is a big step up from most AVNs.
• A good number of girls. Not so many that it gets complicated.
• One deepthroat scene.

Negatives:

• The game is abandoned! It's very unsatisfying. The game stops suddenly in the middle.
• The game doesn't include much porn in comparison with non-porn content.
• The story does get old pretty fast... So eventually you'll probably be skipping quite a bit.
• The proportion of story/jokes versus porn is bad. There's too little porn in this porn game.
• Animations are too slow. It's a weird and recurring issue. "Oh you're fucking me so hard and fast!" but then it's just a slow half-assed penetration.
• Even though the humor is mostly fine, it does get extremely excessive and tiresome. I mean, it's constant!
• Unavoidable footjob. Not my type of thing.
• No interactivity in the sex scenes.
• The story is essentially railroaded. The choices are very minor. But this isn't a big issue imo.
• Humor during the sex scenes doesn't work well. It's a turn off.

A game whose comedy and slap stick comedy with use of sound effects is akin to a japanese anime, implemented in 3d avn form. It is an artform of storytelling I can appreciate but I can't enjoy until unless I find these character worth to follow like school rumble. Unfortunately mc is bland, and whiles supporting female are great, their sexualization turns me off, give the tone of the comedy, hence it seems author is trying to force fit two separate genre and for me that result is failing despite its tasteful renders and ability to think out of box.

For me it is 3.4/5
Because the combination fails for me, though I can see this combination working wonderfully for some, but alas not everyone can like everything.

(Review as of v0.75)
(Game is considered abandoned as of this review 11-18-2024; still worth playing)
(Played with Incest Patch + Walkthrough Mod)

How Long To Beat: 5+ hours

A comedy game that actually manages to be funny!

Above the Clouds takes the basic formula of a choice-based VN and subverts many of the tropes with humor while still delivering on the promises of an adult game. Gameplay is mostly kinetic, with choices determining lewd scenes and jokes. No sandbox. No (major) relationship point system. No inventory. Just straight up story.

Premise: MC is in an purgatory-type place, recounting to an angelic being, Helen, the events that lead him to this afterlife(?). This includes, but is not limited to: seducing his mother and two sisters, his family moving to a boring town called Pittsville, seducing various residents of the town, his father becoming involved in a crime conspiracy, a global conspiracy that involves world destruction.

Most of the tropes above are recognizable. If you've played enough VN's, you're probably bored of them by now. Thankfully the game tells this story with legitimately good jokes and eschewing all of the boring parts of the story.

Unfortunately, the last hour or two of the game starts to focus too much on these ridiculous plot lines, taking a global conspiracy of world destruction a little too seriously. It's ironic that the game was abandoned as soon as it takes this turn towards the "serious".

To illustrate the point, early in the game, whenever the MC is prompted to get involved in a tropey "the end of the world" plot, it's subverted by MC who is focused on getting to the next lewd act. I was disappointed when the game finally focused in on these as a serious plotline rather than continuing to dismiss it outright.

A majority of the character models are attractive, sexy, and unique. There isn't a lot of cross-pollination of character features, except that the developer likes redheads. Well so do I!

The game takes pride in it's sound design. Every scene has sound effects, music and sound gags to add to the jokes. Many of the sequences are animated and often played for humor.

The comedy ranges from sight gags, animation jokes, call-backs (sometimes to such insignificant details that are genuinely surprising), absurdity, and some parody. The comedy is consistent with the characters, so while many of them are silly (for point of references of similar humor: Spongebob, classic Looney Tunes, classic Simpsons, Adventure Time), very few are monkeycheese LOL random.

Every lewd scene is animated and has sexual sound effects, although many of the animations are basic, such as missionary sex scenes where the focal point is penetration. Many of them I wish would have had more camera angles.

Let's run through the various love interests in the game. Because its abandoned, I think it's fair to spoil what lewd scenes are available to each character, so that a prospective player isn't disappointed.




Helen: An angelic supernatural being who serves as co-narrator, guiding MC through his story. She becomes infatuated by MC. Lewd scenes go all the way to vaginal and anal sex.



Hannah: The "cute" younger sister. Immature, goofy, conspiratorial, silly, instigator, agent of chaos. A lot of the game's humor comes from Hannah. I'm personally not the biggest fan of her face. I was happy to see a character with soft puffy cheeks, but she's probably the weakest link on the attractive scale. The few times you see her nude do make up for it. You only see her naked and can get a handjob from her late in the game.



Lucy: The older sister. Plays a little hard to get, is dismissive of her siblings, but is never a full-blown tsundere. She's just as playful and goofy as Hannah, and has some of the best jokes in the game. She's very sexy and connects most with MC. Lewd scenes go all the way to vaginal sex.



Evelyn: MC's silver-haired MILFy mom. Has the least characterization of the LI's. Bored housewife, feels dejected by husband, finds her son's advances problematic but is just too horny to say no. (The carpet does not match the drapes.) Furthest lewd scene is handjob and blowjob in late game. I think she's very sexy.



Ember: Lucy's boss. Owns a bar/restaurant/night club. A bit of a dom and a tease, comes off as sinister but just seems nice but mischievous. Wants to see MC bang his family and anyone else. Most of her lewd scenes are teasing, but does give MC a blowjob.



Mia: Alt girl. A cute sub looking for her dommy daddy. Likes it rough. Lewd scenes esclate to outdoor vaginal sex.



Nicole: Teacher/Principal who's brain has been broken by roleplay. Married, but anything that happens during roleplay isn't cheating. Lewd scenes are full vaginal sex (with optional Ember watching!)



Tim's Mom (I can't remember her name): Redhead MILF with magical titty love powers. Loves MC for being her loser son's best friend. Lewd scenes go to full vaginal sex, but it's played as a gag. Actual lewd scene involves topless grinding on MC's cock. An absolute GOAT MILF, model-wise, although not utilized nearly enough for how high quality she is.



Millie: Bad-ass assassin, a twin, trying to save the world but is on everyone's shit list for trying to kill MC. Don't mention her small boobs or she will try to kill you. Lewd scenes get to full vaginal sex.

The cast of characters are all sexy and enjoyable. While some are more fully developed than others, I liked them all.

Overall, this game is worth a play even though it's abandoned. Maybe the dev will get back to it. Like all abandoned games, the limitations on lewd scenes with your favorite characters are disappointing. Because the game doesn't take the plot seriously for the majority of the run-time, it's a breezy playthrough with good pacing.

RECOMMENDED.

While the face of the little one looks too much like a little kid, this game is freaking hilarious. I love it. Especially the character Lucy. Perfect soundtrack, great editing, excellent renders, hilarious plot, sound effects, and great animation. Highly recommend

Love or hate game. I strongly side with the former. Hell, and even if you end up hating it, you should at least try it. Because no matter, you will have to admitt that bold and original. The only game that comes close is In a Scent, so if you liked that one you should definitely play this as well.

Though even I agree that the humour kinda gets in the way in the last 1/3 of the current plot, it just overshadows everything else at that point. I was happy with it up until than, but I would personally turn it down. This is especially visible with Hannah, even I think there should be a limit.

Second minor gripe is the bar lady (forgot her name), just felt cliche and I find her just annoying without any redeaming qualities, personally.

What I noticed unique about this game are the male characters, including the side ones. They are written *very well.* Timmy? and the dad gave me a laugh basically everytime they were on screen.

Also almost all the girls are sexy af, in a unique kind of way, and the renders are truly stunning.

Overall 3/10
1st VN i couldn't finish - writing is unbearable, all 3/10 points come from clean animation + models. This game nailed on the looks side, but humour for 10 year olds over and over and over. NEVER ONE SERIOUS MOMENT. nothing to cut the cringe, just cringe man... a lot of wasted potential
Humour is so lame, im sorry i tried. Too cringey, was funny at the start then they shove poop in ur mouth gets way toooooooooo unfunny.
Animations are clean
Models all look good - even the MC (rare)

This one is funny!!!
Ok, I hear that people complain about the humor in this game, but goodness how many boring games are out there? Romance/mystery, romance/drama, romance/survival, and so on.
This one is a breath of fresh air.
Humor is delightful and the characters are actually interesting.
I really enjoyed this game.
Also, animations, models, and game-play are very good.

This AVN is just awful. The attempts at humor fall completely flat, leaving me cringing instead of laughing. The sheer number of spelling and grammatical errors is appalling, making it difficult to even understand what's going on half the time. And don't even get me started on the lack of continuity – it's like the story was stitched together by someone with no regard for coherence. I regret wasting my time on this mess. i feels like people give 5* on everything nowadays. smh

However, I must admit that one positive aspect is its technical performance. It doesn't stutter or lag, and runs smoothly.

The writing is fucking awesome, didn't get this much lol time except for the time playing No More Secret.
Still at early stage and I hope there will be some seriousness with the comedy or it'll become boring.

Edit: now I understand what the problem is, the developer try too hard on the humorous side I mean it's really nice for short time but only to suffer the whole game is really irritating. There is another problem a significant one and that is all the characters are similar I mean all are kind of crazy there is no single character who is serious I mean you cannot really like anyone unless you like crazy people and then you kind of like them all. I think you understand where the problem is. I mean if there are one or two characters were different like someone serious who actually is more responsible. The girl who calls the mc Daddy could have been a more serious person or like the younger sister she could also be more serious and responsible person.
Waste of a great beginning.

BTW the sex scenes(angle), models(boobs) are legendary. Loved it.