And I can't tell you how pleased this makes me! It's as if I'm playing a building game in reverse. You build, you return the land to nature, and then you give it back to nature. The final layer of the game requires recycling all of your buildings, then using the materials from them to build a craft and fly away to another area in need. The fundamental difference between Terra Nil and other building games is that the ultimate goal is to remove everything you've built from it. Here, you can see deer and birds, and a bear pokes her nose from the woods. It will soon spread across that entire area. Progress! I set that fire on purpose, by the way. Still it was about our interfering in the natural world and leaving our grubby mechanical print upon it.
You see, it gnawed at me that finally we had a game about restoring the beautiful natural world of our planet - an idea which couldn't be more timely - but still it was about building. So, as the game opens up and new objectives filter in, the complexity ramps up.īut the masterstroke comes at the end. You can't just plant a forest: you need to burn an area down first to create the ash-rich soil it needs to grow. Goal-two, for me, was covering the land in biomes - forest, wetlands and meadow - and I unlocked an array of new machinery to help me do that. Goal-one was covering a certain amount of the land in greenery. New layers unlock when you satisfy your main goal. This all costs leaves, so if you're not careful, you'll run out, and have to begin again. You can create your own, but you need water, and there's no natural water on the map, so you need to create that too. Turbines can only be built on small rock formations, and only have a small power radius. You can't build anything wherever you like. There's an Itch.io page with a prototype you can play, if you want.īut! There's a strategy to doing this. It looks like Terra Nil was created in a game jam roughly this time last year. The whole demo took me around an hour and fifteen minutes to finish. I jump forwards in time at a couple of points, to try and show more of the later game.
And when you do this, you earn a leaf-resource to buy more things with. Then, you greenify the land with another machine, growing grass, bushes and trees. For instance: your first lesson is to build a wind turbine for power, then a soil cleansing machine to make some land fertile. These machines slowly enable you to transform the land. But with your futuristic array of environmental machines, you can change that. A barren wasteland, earth cracked, trees dead. You want birds and bees and animals to repopulate what begins as a scorched piece of Earth. "Sort of" because you don't actually want people to come and live in what you create. This, on the other hand, Terra Nil, is a serene game about restoring them. I love that game dearly, but it's a reckless action game where heroes tear pixelated lands apart. And I tell you what: I would never have expected it from the maker of BroForce. I am smitten! Terra Nil has rocked my world.
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