Terra Nil turns the idea of Sim City on its head with an inventive reverse city-builder premise that's incredibly satisfying.
Most city-building games play out the same way. You start with an empty stretch of land and slowly start filling it up with roads and houses. In no time, that blank canvas becomes a thriving metropolis filled with shops, skyscrapers, and power plants that are most assuredly doing a number on the atmosphere. It’s rare that we ever get to take a different approach, using that plot of land to create spaces that aren’t explicitly for humans. That’s where Terra Nil swoops in.
Related A new world blooms The big difference between Terra Nil and something like SimCity is that the former isn’t an endless sandbox game. The core campaign tasks players with restoring four distinct biomes using a set of tools built around the area’s climate and makeup. That makes it a bit more of a puzzle game than a traditional city-builder, as the goal is to walk through a set of restoration objectives while managing a universal resource used to create new buildings.
What I really admire here is that Terra Nil doesn’t just feature a single set of tools that it repeats through missions. All four areas need to be handled in entirely different ways depending on their makeup. One volcanic area has me drawing on the power of magma to create fields of rocks. Another has me depositing coral reefs into the ocean via a series of monorails.
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