A reverse city builderUse 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.ĭifferent maps every timeProcedurally generated landscapes mean no two playthroughs of Terra Nil will ever be the same. 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. It’s easy to be pessimistic about our future, but Terra Nil is at least a small slice of hope amidst it all.Terra Nil is a game about transforming a barren, lifeless landscape into a thriving, vibrant ecosystem. But I personally loved that even Terra Nil itself is about entering, making a positive impact, and leaving. Maybe that’s not as in-depth or infinitely playable as some strategy heads might want from a city-builder. It does just what it needs to, and moves on. It’s a small-scale, unique city-builder that is short and sweet. When all’s said and done, you leave, and nature remains. The final coda to your clean-up campaign is touching, though, and puts a sweet bow on the efforts you’ve made.

Terra Nil offers some replayability, in additional levels and challenges, though seeing the credits roll can happen fairly quickly if you’re on a roll. You can see how the thunder and rain have returned to a region, pouring new life into the soil. You can see all the wildlife living in habitats you built. So then, at the end, you can click that “Appreciate” button and watch a montage of your new land.

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