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It's a world in which even the rain returning is cause for celebration. Bears even poke their heads out from your forests. Herds of deer start to appear, flocks of birds fly above, fish swim in your streams. There are mini-thrills along the way as well, mainly in seeing animals gradually return to your once desolate land.

And the thrill of leaving a land completely unspoilt is tremendous. 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. 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.