TERRA NIL

An eco-friendly antidote to planet-stripping sims

- Ali Jones

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE TBC

DEVELOPER Free Lives

PUBLISHER Devolver Digital

LINK bit.ly/3xwAIhi

In traditional city-builders and factory sims, your role is to extract whatever you need from the world around you, no matter the environmental cost. Terra Nil flips that idea on its head, asking what happens once every last seam has been mined, tree has been felled, and pre-fab mega-factory has been packed away.

Terra Nil’s demo begins overlooking a barren wasteland. The only features that mark the empty landscape other than the occasional rocky outcropping are just further evidence of the damage that’s been wrought upon the world; single desiccated pines, or ancient, dried-up riverbeds. The rewilding process begins by cleaning the soil of toxins and watering the ground, and as each relevant structure is dropped into place, a flash of color returns to another section of the world.