Terra Nil

Terra Nil is for solo players who would rather restore a landscape than expand a city forever. Purifying terrain, shaping habitats, and recycling your buildings make a complete cycle, easy to fit around a relaxed gaming session. At $6.24 from Nuuvem, the current opportunity may suit that kind of measured, self-paced strategy play.

The Steam PC version has full controller support. Its 86% positive rating across 8,211 reviews offers another point of reference, alongside your own taste for environmental strategy. At $24.99 on Steam, Terra Nil suits a quiet solo session, with full controller support for play without a mouse.

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86%Steam Reviews8.2K reviews79Metacritic/10082OpenCritic/100

Released: Mar 28, 2023

Nature · Strategy · Relaxing · Puzzle · City Builder

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01About Terra Nil

Turn barren landscapes into thriving ecosystems in Terra Nil by purifying soil and oceans, creating habitats, and reintroducing wildlife. Procedurally generated terrain changes from one playthrough to another, while each region advances through phases toward a final wilderness. Recycle your buildings before you leave. Steam player rating: 86% positive from 8,211 reviews. The interface is available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Spanish-Latin America, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish. Released March 28, 2023.

Credits

Developer

Free Lives · Clockwork Acorn

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Steam player reviews

86%positiveVery Positive8,211 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$6.242026-10-02 · NuuvemBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
English	Yes	Yes	—

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	Yes	—
German	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish	Yes	Yes	—
Japanese	Yes	Yes	—
Korean	Yes	Yes	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	Yes	—
Russian	Yes	Yes	—
Italian	Yes	Yes	—
Arabic	Yes	Yes	—
Polish	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish-Latin America	Yes	Yes	—
Swedish	Yes	Yes	—
Thai	Yes	Yes	—
Turkish	Yes	Yes	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20

02Before you buy

Play and control

The Steam PC version supports single-player and full controller support. The game is designed for solo play.

Language

The interface supports English; listed supported languages have subtitles, not full audio.

03Frequently asked questions

What do you do in Terra Nil?

Restore barren land by purifying soil and water, creating habitats, and bringing wildlife back into the ecosystem.

Are the maps identical each time?

Landscapes are procedurally generated, so terrain and planning vary between playthroughs.

What happens when an area is restored?

After restoring an area, recycle your buildings and leave the wilderness behind.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

04/02/2023

This game is amazing but a lot of articles about it are a bit misleading. Many people call this game a "Reverse City Builder", which is a nice marketing term but it's not a CITY BUILDER or a strategy game. You don't have a economy, you don't have mouths to feed, you don't have to manage anything and you're not on the clock. You can take as little time or all the time in the world to finish a map. In short, this game is a PUZZLE game. Place stuff in the right spot to move onto the next step. It's beautiful, it's relaxing and on the highest difficulty setting it's pretty challenging but it is in short a PUZZLE game not a simulation. It's a great game to play while you're sipping some tea and maybe a muffin on the side, or play it on your phone before bed but if you're looking for hours and hours of gameplay to create the most efficient ecosystem... you'll be disappointed.Show moreShow less

0.1 hours at review822 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

03/28/2023

At its heart, Terra Nil is a delightful and peaceful game to play; however, in the release state (3/28/23), I can't recommend the game due to the shear lack of content. In ~4 hours of play time, I've essentially 'beat the game' plus completed alternative scenarios. There are essentially 4 maps with 2 variants of each map (8 scenarios). For the price, the amount of content just isn't worth it. Don't get me wrong. Terra Nil is fun and has a great concept, but not recommended due to the lack of content.Show moreShow less

4 hours at review1,440 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

03/28/2023

Decently fun game, but seems fairly overpriced for the amount of content (5-10 hours max, mostly chill gameplay, strategy/puzzle aspect is massively overstated)Show moreShow less

4.1 hours at review258 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

04/03/2023

The theme and art of Terra Nil are all very cute, and it's quite nifty to start from a wasteland and end up with pristine nature teeming with life. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make a game. And I'm not talking about the fact that it takes two hours to finish the game (and five hours to 100% it). This is the sort of thing that could be fixed in future updates. The problem I have with this game can't be fixed in updates, unless the devs are willing to completely change the design of the game. You see, the game is marketed as a "reverse city builder" and an "intricate environmental strategy game". The implication here is that it plays as a complex environmental simulator where you'll spend a long time tinkering with various systems to get the ecosystem balance right. Screenshots of manual pages with detailed drawings of buildings and features like procedurally-generated terrain only reinforce that impression. But that's not what the game actually is. In reality, it's just a puzzle game. You use building A to flip tiles from terrain type x to terrain type y, and then you use building B to turn them into terrain type z. Repeat for 30 minutes until you've reached all the arbitrary objectives, and you're done. What little difficulty there is only comes from the fact that you work with a limited budget that comes from placing the buildings in an optimal position, and you can't move or remove your buildings because this is, again, a puzzle game, and not an actual city builder. I understand that some people might like it. If you like puzzle games, or if you enjoy the cute relaxing aspect of it, that could be for you (although at $25, I'm sure you can do better for less). But I find the marketing (both in the steam store and in the many, many articles I've seen published about it) too misleading to recommend it.Show moreShow less

5 hours at review482 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

03/28/2023

I don't really care for these types of games, as I'm not into growing civilizations or anything of the sort. But since Terra Nil is about rejuvenating the environment instead of building onto it, I find it very compelling. The premise is simple – you have a wasteland and it's your job to restore it. You generate power, scrub a small area of toxins, and then add greenery. The first phase is always about adding enough of this greenery (or purifying enough of the nearby waters). The game is fairly complex but it does a pretty good job of guiding you forward. The second phase is trickier, as you need to restore four biomes. The last phase is about reintroducing animal life and then removing all of your machines so you can leave the land without a trace of your involvement. It's immensely satisfying. The game has four areas that you unlock sequentially, but each area has a second version that unlocks once you complete all of the initial ones. These mix things up by adding in machines and features from across the initial four levels. They can get pretty difficult, though. In the second version of the second area requires you to build forests by constructing shade pillars. But shade pillars can only be placed on cliffs and need to be in a triangle and you have to dredge up all of the level's land from the ocean. If you don't dredge up the ocean in preparation for this, you'll need to restart the whole level. But things aren't usually THIS demanding. You can zoom in extremely close and the graphics are lovely and detailed. The game isn't massively long but I feel like it's got enough content, especially since the levels are all generated, which makes attempts feel fresher than otherwise. At the end of the last area, you have to build a rocket, which is neat and it does a great job of making you feel like you accomplished something during the last four levels. You can restart any of a level's three phases once you get stuck and you can often undo your last move, which is helpful, but you can't quicksave or undo multiple moves in a row, so the game isn't extremely forgiving of mistakes, so you can sink yourself if you're not careful. But I think Terra Nil is highly enjoyable and recommend it to anyone who wants an anti-city builder that often feels like a puzzle game.Show moreShow less

10.8 hours at review172 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

03/30/2023

TLDR: Play the demo, that is the game. If $25 is a lot for you wait for a sale. I don't review stuff often on steam but I played like 20+ hours of the original prototype of this game so I felt important to review the final version. Part of me wishes there was a mixed option, but I'd still recommend this over not. First off this game is getting a lot of flack for not having enough "content". Yes after 4 hours you will see every biome and every building, I feel like if this is the main criticism of the game maybe people have only been playing games from the last 8 years or something. It's a puzzle game that has procedural levels, that is what the content and replayability is, the gameplay, not what types of biomes there are. To me it's like complaining that you've seen all the content in a game like Tetris or Sim City after 5 minutes, because you technically have. There is no meta progression where you get new pieces in Tetris, there is no alternate biomes or mechanics in Sim City. You just get one thing done well. I do think the price of the game is a little high and it feels like it was because it was picked up by a "larger indie" publisher and they felt they needed to recoup their costs. Which is a little disappointing. It would also be nice if we did get just some basic updates with more achievements, optional larger maps, maybe a custom map maker, and some additional challenge modes or difficulty. In a lot of ways this game feels a bit easier than the hardest maps on the prototype, and as someone who has basically already played it a lot in an earlier for it would have been nice to see something to allow for that without having to add "new content". If $25 for a game is a lot for you then you should probably hold off. Play the demo, that is what the game is + a few more biomes. The replayability is just enjoying the puzzle mechanics of the game, not meta progression or unlocking things. If you NEED that kind of gameplay to be engaged by a game then this probably isn't for you. That doesn't make it a bad game though as there are TONS of games that do one thing simple, and straightforward, without a ton of content and they are fantastic.Show moreShow less

3.4 hours at review163 people found this helpful

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