![]() The digital soundtrack is now streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music Unlimited. The 34-track album is available for purchase through Steam and the Epic Games Store in. Publisher Devolver Digital previously posted an hourlong music preview, composed by French ambient music composer Meydän. Featuring procedurally generated landscapes in four region types-river valley, desolate island, volcanic glacier and flooded city-each playthrough promises a fresh and unpredictable experience. The degraded landscape of Terra Nil is restored by recycling uninhabited buildings, cleansing the soil, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife. Each biome has different machines to utilise depending on the landscape and topography, but essentially the overall aim remains the same – to take the land from a polluted wasteland to a thriving environment that supports life, while leaving as minimal impact as we can.Developed by Free Lives, environmental strategy game Terra Nil challenges players to transform a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. The final two biomes are a volcanic glacier and a flooded city. Completing one biome shows us a planetary view and we can move onto the next biome that requires our help, in this case the desolate island. Once you do finally reclaim the wasteland and create the perfect environment for the specific biome, we are given an option to continue or to appreciate watching the flora and fauna flourish which is a nice touch. To find one species, I killed another and felt terrible. I did a controller burn on the forest near then but it spread to their greenery, forcing the deer to run to the last remaining green square left, but sadly the fire took that too. ![]() In one instance I saw some deer grazing but I was trying to discover a new animal species. This requires you to the modify your initial plans, such as performing a controller burn to convert greenery to forest or creating a monorail system to harvest the coral from the reef. Picking the silhouette of a species and then scanning areas will help you work out the terrain type they prefer, whether it’s a mix of greenery and forest, or they require sandy beaches and access to coral reefs. Once we start to raise the temperature and humidity of a biome, this will start to attract fauna to your lands and we research and scan the areas looking for undiscovered animals. We then watch as the greenery catches fire leaving behind nutritious ash. ![]() This is a contraption that focuses sunlight onto an area of greenery to spark a controlled burn. We can add beehives to trees which pollinate nearby greenery, creating fynbos flowers, and then came a machine that is devastating to the work you have done so far, but proves beneficial in the overall process – a solar amplifier. To do this we convert greenery areas to wetlands using a hydroponium that replaces the irrigators we placed in the first phase. Once we have enough greenery coverage across the biome, we enter the second phase of each playthrough where we need to increase the diversity of growing plants while also balancing the climate’s humidity. This is followed by unlocking a calcifier which crystallises select greenery tiles, turning them into rock tiles where we can add more turbines and start to spread out our efforts, converting more land to greenery. This machine fills areas of dry riverbeds with clean water, and in doing so adds greenery tiles on either side of the riverbed. Once we have spread out from our starting point, converting enough soil to greenery, we unlock the next machine we can utilise, the water pump. We need to add power via wind turbines that can only be placed on rock tiles and then get to work cleaning the soil using toxin scrubbers, followed by irrigators to water the land and convert soil to greenery. In Terra Nil, we start with a tile-based arid landscape in a river valley. ![]() In Cloud Gardens you start with a post-apocalyptic scene, and you plant seeds to have greenery grow over the wasteland objects like signs, a bus, decrepit buildings and so on. The last game that I played where nature restoration was the goal was a 2020 indie title called Cloud Gardens. It becomes more about solving the biome’s requirements like completing a puzzle as opposed to city building, especially because we ultimately need to recycle the buildings we create. Where normal city builders have you raising cities, this has you purifying the soil, cleaning rivers and oceans, plant forests and balance the climate to reintroduce wildlife and restore one of four biomes back to the way nature intended. It launched on March 28, 2023, on PC and Netflix and is a fascinating and beautiful game that had me lose hours each play session without realising the time. ![]() Terra Nil is an eco-conscious city builder developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital. ![]()
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