Skies Above Britain is a solitaire game depicting a Royal Air Force squadron of Hurricanes or Spitfires waging a desperate effort to disrupt and destroy German daylight bombing raids over southeast England in the summer of 1940.

The player's individual aircraft – each represented by a stickered block – must locate the incoming raid, intercept it, and evade or defeat swarms of escorting German fighters that usually outnumber you (and whose pilots have superior experience and tactics).