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Terra nil key12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() “Healing landscapes across Earth’s biomes is the ultimate comfort fantasy,” Polygon says, “especially amid a sea of games premised on destruction and dominion.” The language of regeneration is set in opposition to the language of industrialisation, with roads giving way to salmon runs. “Restore nature, and with it your hope for the future,” says the Guardian. Most of the initial commentary here I think you can fill in from that description, or from any of the recent reviews. Victory involves a return to the pre-lapsarian state, to a world before humans – or, more specifically, to a world before the player. The final phase of each map is a particularly nice touch – it has you disassemble all the buildings you used to restore the environment, pack them into your helicopter, and leave. You undo the damage that humanity has done to the environment and restore it to its original state. You engage in all different sorts of rewilding, building up rivers, rainforests, swamps and marshland. Terra Nil takes the opposite approach: you begin with a post-industrial wasteland, which you have to revitalise. As a genre, city sims typically begin with an open grassy field, which you build up over the course of the game into a dense urban landscape. I try to stay away from games until they’ve been out for a couple of years, but – well, here we are! Launched March 28, 2023, Terra Nil is pitched as a sort of environmentalist response to Sim City. Terra Nil is – actually something of a rarity for me, in that it’s a game that came out this year.
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