Abelina is a surreal platformer about a dead man tending gardens in the afterlife

Abelina is a new surreal platformer about a man who has died and wakes up somewhere very green. Rock Paper Shotgun spotted the game and describes it as a strange romp through a natural afterlife.

The premise is quiet and a little eerie. Your character spends his time tending to gardens and carving masks, and trying "not to think about what this place might really be."

That line is the hook for me. Gardening and mask-carving in the great beyond sounds peaceful right up until you start wondering who the masks are for.

The people behind it have an interesting mix of backgrounds. According to Rock Paper Shotgun, Abelina is from a former League of Legends animator, and its music comes from the composer of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil.

A horror film composer scoring a serene-looking afterlife platformer is a pairing worth keeping an eye on, especially given how much that quoted line leans into unease.

Rock Paper Shotgun didn't share a release date, platforms or a price for Abelina in its writeup, and the developer's name wasn't given either.