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You died, and you woke up in Abelina.

A hand-crafted afterlife, and a mature story about life and death told through the people you meet.

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Surreal afterlife platformer · In development · 2027

A strange place to wake up.

A hand-crafted afterlife.

You wake as Vasily in Abelina, and its story comes together through who you meet and what they tell you. It's a mature, quiet story about life and death, built frame by frame into a world you move through rather than one that explains itself.

We're early, and shaping it in the open with Gabe. There is more to show as it takes form.

A character you meet in Abelina
See it move.

Current gameplay footage.

Early shots from the world.

Still in progress, still moving.

Built by hand.

Every frame, every sound.

Abelina is made by two people, by hand. A CG-animation veteran and a Webby-winning composer building every shot and every sound themselves.

Direction & Animation

Gabe Askew

Nine years at Hornet directing campaigns for Dolby, Purina and Campbell's, then supervising cinematics at Blur Studio. Abelina is all of that pointed at one strange, personal world, built solo.

Music & Sound

Ryan Holladay

Gabe's longtime musical partner, a Webby Award-winning composer, VP of Music at WaitWhat and a Senior TED Fellow. Every note in Abelina is written for it.

It's early days.

Follow Abelina as we build it.

Wishlisting on Steam helps a lot, and it's how you'll know the moment it's playable. The dev-chat Discord is open too, so you can read along as the world takes shape.