These require specialises technology and forests are particularly interesting as you’ll need to create bush-fires to create the required ash for them to grow.Ĭreating a flourishing ecosystem is only half of the challenge in Terra Nil though – you also need to pack up all your technology, build a rocket and blast off into space. Then to reach the optimal levels of biodiversity you also need to create wetlands, meadows and forests. This includes purifying the soil, water irrigation and cultivating greenery. In the game you are presented with a barren procedurally generated wasteland and you place special buildings to help rejuvenate it. We previously featured an earlier build of Terra Nil on Alpha Beta Gamer a year ago (and it was excellent), but the beautiful pixel art visuals have had a significant upgrade and the gameplay has been expanded on in the latest build. Yet even within a region, no two playthroughs will be the same.Terra Nil is a beautiful and tranquil building simulation game that subverts the genre by tasking you with converting a barren wasteland into a flourishing ecosystem, then leaving it without a trace of your technology there.Ĭurrently in development by Free Lives (creators of Broforce, Genital Jousting and Anger Foot), Terra Nil is a reverse city builder where your aim is to create ecological paradises that look untouched by technology. Each region of the game has its own flavour and procedural generation palette. A meditative soundtrack and stunning audio palette will accompany your efforts.Įach time you play the world is different and has unique challenges.
You navigate a sprawling, verdant, hand-painted environment where everything but the rocks move and breathe. From there you embark on more complex tasks restoring biodiversity, fixing the climate, introducing wildlife, and finally recycling all the structures you used to get there, leaving the environment pristine.
You start by setting up a water system, slowly purifying the soil, and cultivating pioneer greenery. Play involves managing your resources to place and control a series of interrelated systems.
It raises interesting themes of how humanity plays an important role in a healthy environment, as well as the importance of playing our part with longevity and light footprints in mind. It's a city-building game where you aren't building a city at all, but a clean thriving ecology. Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring back life to a barren world.
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