In Astrobotanica, players are transported 300,000 years into Earth’s past, casting them as Xel, a highly educated alien biologist stranded on a prehistoric version of the planet. Following a crash ...

The sci-fi series, like the social-media horror story “Adolescence,” speaks to the fear of children being sacrificed to technology. By James Poniewozik In the sixth episode of “Alien: Earth,” Smee ...