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Preserve looks like a relaxing puzzle blend of Dorfromantik and Terra NilHow does your garden grow
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Image credit:Bitmap Galaxy
Image credit:Bitmap Galaxy
It’s been a good few years for relaxing, puzzle-strategy games about spreading nature’s glory. The future looks bright, too, thanks to Preserve, which seems to blendDorfromantik’s lush hexes withTerra Nil’s gradual ecological recovery. You’ll find the announcement trailer below.
Preserve | Announcement TrailerThe announcement trailer for Preserve.Watch on YouTube
Preserve | Announcement Trailer
Those plants and animals take the form of a hand full of cards that players can choose from and select where to deploy. There are also different biomes, including carribean reefs, alpine forests and savannas, each with their own set of animals and plants to learn how to use.
If puzzling out the balance of these different elements sounds stressful, Preserve will also have creative mode that lets you plonk down hexes and wildlife with no limitations, and a photo mode for grabbing screenshots of whatever you make.
Preserve is currently aiming to release in autumn this year.
Katharine is our resident Dorkromantik head, givingthe elegant village builder a Bestest Best back in 2022, and giving Preserve an all-caps “HELLO” when I messaged her about it on Slack earlier today. Personally, my most recent dalliance with tending to nature in video games wasthe idle tidy ‘em up sandbox Garden Galaxy.
