It also makes it an entertaining game to return to, although I do worry a bit about diminishing returns. You're kickstarting natural processes, not building a base, and perhaps learning a bit about how these environments formed in the first place. A controlled wildfire can create fertile ground for an entire forest. A well-placed water pump on a hill can fill multiple rivers and lakes. Just completing each mission became relatively easy (although I could have pushed things harder with the granular difficulty settings, limiting resources and making choices more important), but finding the tricks in each environment to nudge nature into doing the heavy lifting was always satisfying. That's where the joy of Terra Nil lay for me. A few carefully placed Cloud Seeders near bodies of water won't do much at first, but the rising humidity will kickstart natural rains again, cleansing the entire map if you're willing to just sit for a while and let nature take its course while enjoying the rainy ASMR vibes. While you could brute force your way to success and cover the entire map with a grid of scrubbers and irrigators, it's far more efficient just to give nature a little nudge in the right direction. Systems are introduced through a beautifully illustrated notebook encouraging you to focus on the beauty of the natural world. Terra Nil is impressively good at conveying its message through mechanics. Lastly, each mission asks you to scan the environments you've created to find ideal homes for an assortment of animals, and then use natural rivers or your own monorail systems to clean up, leaving nothing but a lush environment filled with wildlife that you're encouraged to sit back and appreciate for a while as the camera pans triumphantly over it. When you're done, use Appreciate mode to bask in the natural beauty of the ecosystem you have restored.With enough green and blue foundation laid, a new set of structures unlocks (a different set in each mission and variant), allowing you to further manipulate the environment and grow different kinds of habitat to fill a quota for each. Levels are not about infinite growth, but rather balancing and nurturing the environment before leaving it in peace.Įxperience tranquilityLush hand-painted environments, relaxing music, and an atmospheric ambient soundscape make Terra Nil a peaceful, meditative experience. Plan your build around randomized, challenging, and unpredictable terrain, including snaking rivers, mountains, lowlands, and oceans.Ī natural ebb and flowEach region of Terra Nil progresses through phases, with the ultimate goal being leaving pristine wilderness behind. 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. Terra Nil is a game about transforming a barren, lifeless landscape into a thriving, vibrant ecosystem.
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