Heatwave brings a blistering new challenge of the arid climate to Terra Nil, introducing a whole new region to restore. Featuring three unique maps, 13 new animals, 10 new buildings, and five new biomes to transform the desolate into the flourishing. An improved animal system and a new photography mode give you more ways to interact with and appreciate the ecosystems you create.
The new arid maps offer striking environments and creative restoration puzzles, from vast grassland savannahs, to sublime deserts, and verdant acacia forests. Coax greenery from salt pans and riverbeds choked with alien vegetation on the edge of the Parched Dunes. Bridge a vast canyon, douse oil fires, and restore a cactus-filled desert using the remote-controlled ERW1N recycling bot on the Canyon Peaks. Clean up a former oil field, creating muddy watering holes for all manner of fauna, and bring diversity back to theFracked Floodplain.
To complement these dramatic landscapes, the wildlife system is more approachable and rewarding, with 13 new animals, including elephants, lions, crocodiles, and giraffes, that appear more naturally and stay longer. The new photography system lets you capture your favorite moments, earning stars for creative snapshots of happy animals and lush habitats, which you can keep in your trusty handbook
Deepen the sense of wonder and accomplishment at the heart of Terra Nil, as you bring life back to even the harshest places in Heatwave, the most significant and hottest content update to date.
Vita Nova expands on Terra Nil’s deeply satisfying nature restoration with new missions, buildings, an updated wildlife system, and a brand new world map—which is now fully 3D and can be freely rotated—giving you a more accurate and personalized overview of your efforts to bring life back to this dead world.
New levels include Polluted Bay, a barren landscape carved in half by a badly polluted river, and Scorched Caldera, a vast volcanic crater that you must transform into a life-filled freshwater lake. These, and all the new maps in the Vita Nova update, will put your reclamation skills to the test in interesting and unusual ways.
A completely overhauled wildlife system makes Terra Nil’s transformed landscapes more alive than ever. Animals emerge more naturally and have a deeper set of needs you need to fulfill if you want to keep them happy and abundant. This adds a new dimension of strategy to the game and gives you more animals to admire—including a brand new species, the jaguar—as nature is steadily restored.
Terra Nil is a game about transforming a barren, lifeless landscape into a thriving, vibrant ecosystem. Turn dead soil into fertile grassland, clean polluted oceans, plant sprawling forests, and create the ideal habitat for animals to call home. Then recycle your buildings and leave no trace that you were there. Reclaim the wasteland.
Use advanced eco-technology to purify the soil, creating plains, wetlands, beaches, rainforests, wildflowers, and more—then efficiently recycle everything you've built, leaving the environment pristine for its new animal inhabitants.
Procedurally generated landscapes mean no two playthroughs of Terra Nil will ever be the same. Plan your build around randomized, challenging, and unpredictable terrain, including snaking rivers, mountains, lowlands, and oceans.
Each region of Terra Nil progresses through phases, with the ultimate goal being leaving pristine wilderness behind. Levels are not about infinite growth, but rather balancing and nurturing the environment before leaving it in peace.
Lush hand-painted environments, relaxing music, and an atmospheric ambient soundscape make Terra Nil a peaceful, meditative experience. When you're done, use Appreciate mode to bask in the natural beauty of the ecosystem you have restored.
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Posted on: October 6, 2023
Sehremis
Verified ownerGames: 106 Reviews: 31
A nice game about restoring
This is a good game that's about fixing up instead of destroying things for a change. It's not very long, but I find it quite relaxing. It took me about 7.5 hours to get through the game on the easy difficulty, and that's enough for me.
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Posted on: February 2, 2024
Nervensaegen
Games: Reviews: 102
Puzzle game, on the shorter side
I got this for free with a subscription on another platform. Terra Nil is a simple, relaxing, slow-paced puzzle game with varying difficulty levels, none of which are too challenging. IMHO it's best enjoyed on mobile touch devices, due to its simplicity and casual character. The mechanics are not too many and each are super simple. You will have seen them all in a relatively short time, and applying them is easy. Throughout, the game tries to relax rather than challenge the player. It starts with a tutorial that eases players into the game, and introduces new mechanics in rapid (maybe too rapid) succession. There isn't much of a story, no hard science, and not much tech background either. So, if you are a techie nerd, this is most certainly not the simulation you are looking for. Terra Nil works well as a casual puzzle game with pleasing visuals, that is rather short and therefor best enjoyed in short bursts; during your daily commute, or a lunch break. If that's you, then you might fall in love. Otherwise, you may feel a bit disappointed at the lack of content and overall challenge.
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Posted on: March 12, 2025
Hanglyman
Verified ownerGames: 444 Reviews: 141
Okay, But Needs More Depth and Effort
Terra Nil's gameplay involves transforming barren landscapes into lush, thriving environments through three basic steps- first, creating water and arable land, second, creating specific biomes for plants and animals to inhabit, and third, ensuring that the animals have all their needs met, while picking up after yourself by recycling all the equipment you used to achieve the first two steps, leaving behind a pristine wilderness. The challenge is in the limitations placed on you- you might have to thaw permafrost to reach the ground, clean up clouds of radiation, dredge the ocean to make your own land, or find a way to make your equipment accessible by boat or monorail during the recycling phase. It's fun puzzling it out, but there are only 12 levels and it's not particularly challenging- on the second highest difficulty level, I never once ran out of resources. The brevity, combined with some annoying little problems, make it hard to recommend buying this unless it's on sale. I wouldn't go so far as to call the game unfinished, but it feels rushed out. As an example, the final level is... the third from the end. This wasn't a bug, the other levels are literally locked off and unplayable until you beat what was obviously intended to be the last level of the game. You take off into space, leaving the planet behind as the credits roll... and then there are two more, slightly easier levels. Completing them too rewards you with nothing. Getting 100 percent completion on every level rewards you with... also nothing. Sometimes an object you should be able to move with the monorail will be unselectable, or hidden behind an animal's status with no way to reach it, or tooltips will hide the area of effect of something you're trying to build. It's not game-breaking but it's irritating. I was expecting to learn something about real life ecology or at least get an interesting story, but the game offers neither. It's disappointingly shallow. There's missed potential here.
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Posted on: March 10, 2024
Pomme_de_Pain
Verified ownerGames: 322 Reviews: 108
Good for the soul
One of those gems you wish they were longer. You goal is to make a planet livable again. Really a game that make you feel good, when you see the result of all your work. When you start a map you wonder how it will be possible to make it green again. And then, step by step, trees, birds, water, fishes, all the fauna is there and the place is full of life. You have 3 phases in each map. First you need to grow the grass and clean the water, then in a second time, you grow the biomes (forest, coral, fields of flowers, ect), and at last you discover all the animals, clean everything up and leave. Once you complete all the four maps, you can redo them in their harder version. The main difficult will be to organize the various biomes you can create in order to gather up all of the conditions necessary for the animals to live there. You can restart the map anytime you want, since it generated at random you will not have the same twice. You can also just restart one of the 3 phases so you don't have to start from scratch. A really sweet game you must play.
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Posted on: March 28, 2023
ProtoUkr
Games: 116 Reviews: 1
Great idea
I like the idea of the game. We need more of such environmental oriented games for future generations 👍🏻 It's a shame the game doesn't have Ukrainian localization though (I hope it will be added soon).
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