Would that make what we're currently in the beforedeath?

Image credit: Gabe Askew

I have no particular thoughts on what the afterlife may look like, namely because if there is one, and I'm allowed to hang out in it, I don't want to be disappointed. What if I have the expectation that it's a hedonistic paradise and am met with only having a guy named Gary who only eats cheese sandwiches for company? How embarrassing! No, I'll leave the imagining to others on this particular front. Doing so bears some ripe fruit for me occasionally, too, as is the case today with Abelina, a surreal platformer about a man who died and finds himself tending to gardens and carving masks and trying "not to think about what this place might really be."

My immediate reaction upon seeing Abelina is that it has the vibe of a Soviet stop motion film only Letterboxd users have heard of, which is perhaps the highest compliment I can give to a game graphically.…