Terra Nil still follows this basic gameplay loop, but it changes the focus from building huge factories or bustling cities to regrowing grass, replanting trees and replenishing dried rivers on a desolate, dead stretch of land. You build things with resources, those things give you more resources, and then you build bigger things to get bigger resources and so on. But what it can do is give you a break from the existential despair that is the current state of the planet, by letting you take charge of your own little world, and bring that back from the brink instead.Ĭity-builders or factory-builders are pretty common genres of game at this point. Terra Nil, from South African developer Free Lives, can’t fix any of that. At some point, something will have to give, and it’ll more than likely be us.

It is increasingly easy to despair as we watch green become grey for the benefit of a few 1-percenter disaster capitalists, at the cost of everyone else across the world.

More and more it seems that our place in this world is becoming untenable, and no one in power seems to care.

The ice caps are melting at unprecedented rates, and the UK government seems more interested in arresting climate protestors than it is in keeping to any of its promises to combat climate change.

Terra nil demo