Mother;Above

Forty-eight hours until the floodgates open.

In Mother;Above, a short (~30 minute) psychological horror visual novel, you follow Vik, a teenage laborer in a basin town built beneath the floodwall that protects the City Above.

Vik maintains pumps, repairs drain lines… paints evacuation routes… and packs the emergency kits that keep the city dry.

Then the Flood Authority announces a controlled discharge. 

Vik's mother disappeared through the wall years earlier. Her civic file does not list her as dead or missing. It says only: MOTHER; ABOVE.

With Sava, Corn, Braska, and an older runaway named Meytan, Vik plans to steal the Highline, a maintenance tram that can carry them through the floodwall before the gates open.

Key Features:

• Short but impactful psychological horror visual novel, with each playthrough lasting around 30 minutes.

• A forty-eight hour countdown to a flood.

• Three distinct endings.

• A rain-soaked industrial basin, a floodwall visible from every street, and an upper city made horrifying by how ordinary it looks.

• Ambient soundscape built around heavy rain, pump machinery, warning sirens, tram tunnels, and calm emergency broadcasts telling residents to remain where they are.