

If you think that sounds complicated, well, Terra Nil doesn’t let up with different biomes requiring many different requirements and temperature balancing. Then you move on to the next zone and continent until the planet’s restored with greenery. Once that’s done, you’ve completely enveloped that section of the map with restored nature.

You set up a recycling airship (or interstellar rocket), then recycle everything you’ve built and use “nature sonars” to ping animals to gather at your biomes. Then comes the third and final phase: the recycling and pack-up part. I’ll confess: most of the buildings’ names are lost on me, but generally you need to weather (heh) certain spots in the environment so that they grow enough biomes to fill up each individual meter. Sometimes, you will need to burn down meadows using solar amplifiers and nearby dried grass to create healthy ash, which then allows you to build structures that grow forests. You will need to build more complicated structures like cloud seeders and dehumidifiers that change up the weather and climate so that certain biomes like tundras and mangroves can grow the former needs less humidity while the latter needs more of it. Then, the second phase happens: you have to create different types of environments to fill up four separate biome meters. You’re given leaves as currency: place windmills and build irrigators at spots where grass and vegetation grow after cleansing it out with toxic scrubbers, and then you start filling the valley with non-toxic growth and some semblance of nature. Terra Nil starts you with a patch of wasteland on a desolate planet: your first objective is to fill it up with greenery. Terra Nil should be played by anyone with a mild interest in climate change and nature, or even anyone who likes puzzles mixed in with their building simulator. However, the creativity streak the team has displayed in its plethora of titles is anything but diminished. The jump from 2D action title Broforce and Genital Jousting (yes, THAT’S a thing), to a game where you build up forests and burn them to create the perfect ecosystem to fill up the required bars is stark. Genre: Reverse Building Simulation Without The Preachingĭeveloper Free Lives are taking quite a turn with its new simulation title Terra Nil. Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Netflix
