'Oddworld: Soulstorm' may become the most prescient game of 2020

Comfort games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout may have dominated the hellscape that is 2020 so far — but it's Abe and the folks over at Oddworld Inhabitants who seem best positioned to produce the year's most timely title.

Oddworld: Soulstorm, which began production in 2016 before facing...