This upcoming survival game promises an unusual twist: You're an alien botanist who's crash-landed on Earth 300,000 years ago

In most survival games, you're cast naked and alone in a fantastical world with nothing but a rock and a stick to help you stay alive. The upcoming Astrobotanica promises to be a little different: Instead of playing as a human trying desperately to survive in an alien environment, you're an alien facing the same challenge on Earth in the very distant past.

Your name is Xel, and you're a botanist from a far-away world with a problem: "Irresponsible technological adoption" has put your homeworld on a downward ecological spiral...