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Verdant anti-builder Terra Nil gets a surprise free update with a “deeper” wildlife simulationFive new maps, nine new buildings and a jaguar
Five new maps, nine new buildings and a jaguar
Image credit:Devolver
Image credit:Devolver
Rewild ‘em upstrategysimTerra Nilhas just received a free Vita Nova update, which introduces five new levels, nine buildings, a spinnable 3D world map, a new creature, the jaguar, and a more sophisticated wildlife system (that’ll be the “new life” in question, then). It endows the game’s hitherto rather decorative fauna with “deeper needs” and greater agency. Find a trailer peering through the reeds below this sentence like a jaguar slavering over an unsuspecting herd of boar. Yes, you’re the wild boar in this analogy. Run piggy, run!
Terra Nil | Vita Nova Update | Out Now on PC and MobileWatch on YouTube
Terra Nil | Vita Nova Update | Out Now on PC and Mobile
I’ve only ever played a pre-release version of Terra Nil, but I’ve interviewed developers Free Lives and they seem like a kind bunch. One thing we talked about in that interview was whether the developers might introduce human beings to the setting, living alongside the nonhuman creatures and involving themselves in the restoration process, rather than having everything hinge on the usage of shiny SimGadgets. Terra Nil is a charming game and a pleasant reprieve from climate crisis angst, but I’ve always found the absence of humans from its setting a bit hopeless. There’s an unintended, but unfortunate parallel withhow real-life rewilding projects may exclude indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
