Steam terratech demo free#

I didn’t really appreciate the breadth to which Free Lives would allow me to set this plain, upon which I had just spent 20 minutes carefully molding into a flourishing grasslands, ablaze with the power of the sun. My first time doing this was essentially playing with fire. Putting beehives in trees can help to pollinate the surrounding area, allowing flowers to dot the landscape land near rivers can be converted to wetlands, allowing nautical flora to appear and, most drastically, grasslands can be lit ablaze using solar power to create a “controlled burn,” from which a woodlands can be built. The first part is straightforward: you simply construct more wind turbines, lay out more of your basic soil-cleansing solutions, and watch as the world springs back into life.īiomes are a little trickier, and where Terra Nil starts to feel a bit more like a puzzle game. Greenery flourishes and cascades across the area you’ve designated, and in the place of rocks and sand, there’s grass and trees.Īt this point, Terra Nil launches into the goals: restore life to the soil and expand diversity through different biomes. Plotting out irrigators and machines that clean the soil, the dreary wasteland starts to change shape before your eyes. Wind turbines power your structures and act as the focal points for your expanding empire. But rather than eating the resources of the planet, you’re returning them to the barren landscape. It tasks you with plotting out infrastructure and interlinking synergistic buildings to max out numbers.

I got a chance to play the demo of Terra Nil, the next project from Broforce and Genital Jousting developers Free Lives, and it is a sort-of inversion of the resource consumption-based builder.

The goal is to locate a good place to harvest and spend a great deal of consumable products, so your empire can keep expanding and encompassing more territory, eating more resources along the way, and all the while managing consumption and scarcity. Builder games are usually built around consuming resources.

Steam terratech demo