
To do so, you slowly work your way through more complex environments with more complex hazards, creating new ecosystems for the land’s animals. Fix the damage, clean the waste, and make these areas hospitable for animals who will call these places home. It’s reminiscent of Earth but not quite our home planet. You and your team arrive on a desolate planet. How does it hold up as a game? For a game, I think it’s an enjoyable time that will make you think. You’re healing all the damage and destruction caused by the previous civilization to give it back to the animals and aquatic creatures who previously lived in these spaces. Instead of creating the perfect Utopia (or anarchist city if you’re like me), you’re reclaiming all that land. The same developers who brought us games like Bro Force, Genital Jousting, and GORN have made a game all about giving back to nature. What about the opposite? That is the goal of Terra Nil, developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital.

All Rights Reserved.Have you ever heard of a reverse city builder? Normal city builders, where you start with a basic landscape and build up to a bustling metropolis, I get. When you're done, use Appreciate mode to bask in the natural beauty of the ecosystem you have restored.Ĭopyright 2021 Free Lives. Lush hand-painted environments, relaxing music, and an atmospheric ambient soundscape make Terra Nil a peaceful, meditative experience. Levels are not about infinite growth, but rather balancing and nurturing the environment before leaving it in peace. Plan your build around randomized, challenging, and unpredictable terrain, including snaking rivers, mountains, lowlands, and oceans.Įach region of Terra Nil progresses through phases, with the ultimate goal being leaving pristine wilderness behind. Procedurally generated landscapes mean no two playthroughs of Terra Nil will ever be the same. Use advanced eco-technology to purify the soil, creating plains, wetlands, beaches, rainforests, wildflowers, and more-then efficiently recycle everything you've built, leaving the environment pristine for its new animal inhabitants.

Then recycle your buildings and leave no trace that you were there. Turn dead soil into fertile grassland, clean polluted oceans, plant sprawling forests, and create the ideal habitat for animals to call home.

Terra Nil is a game about transforming a barren, lifeless landscape into a thriving, vibrant ecosystem.
