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Despite many protagonists lacking them entirely, there have been many great feet in first-person shooters. Duke Nukem 3D, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, F.E.A.R.; when the kickers come out, it’s often a spectacle. Anger Foot attempts to outdo all previous feats of feet.

Anger Foot comes to us from Free Lives, a developer whose work has brought us a varied portfolio that includes games like Broforce, Genital Jousting, and Terra Nil. It’s coming sometime later this year, but I got to plant my feet in it t??oday. Or, recently, I guess. What day is it?

Anger Foot stiff kick
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Anger Foot takes place in Shit City, a location that makes me grateful that I work for a publication that lets me swear. In Shit City, crime is the law. You heard me. If a person isn’t committing a crime, that’s a red flag. At that point, police step in to ensure that the person gets the help they need to, ?at the very least, participate in petty larceny.

The city is ruled by four gangs, and you play as the one person who is willing to stand up to them. But only so they can steal some new shoes. However, before you get a single moment to admire your now complete sneaker collection, it’s stolen from under them. There are only two weapons powerful enough to get that footwear back, and their names are “Left�and “Right.�/p>

Actually, there are also guns, but you’ll be getting a lo??t of mileage out of your two hooves.

Anger Foot is set up like a cross between Mullet MadJack’s corridor killing and Hotline Miami’s die-and-retry formula. Y??our goal is simply to reach the level’s exit point in the map, and any man, woman, or door that gets in your way needs to be kicked to splinters. One man. Two feet. All anger.

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Anger Foot puts its best foot forwar?d with its art style. Its grotesque stylings and use of bright comic-book colors are incredibly striking. T??he odd proportions and puppet people provide a helpful buffer to some of its gross-out humor. It’s like the Garbage Pail Kids have grown up with a fondness for toilets and swearing.

The music is similarly captivating. It maintains a near-constant, pulsing beat, but when t??here’s a br?eak in the action, it takes on a reverberating sound, like it’s being played at maximum volume next door.

However, after? emerging from the forest of its aesthetic, there’s much less impact. Kicking doors is great. It’s fun to watch them sail across the room before breaking on a thug’s face. And while the actual kicking will send foes flying, it strangely lacks force.

Melee combat is something that first-person shooter games often have trouble with. In Anger Foot you slide about, and when your foot is raised in anger, it doesn’t feel like it connects. There’s only the sensation that there’s a danger zone in front of your character. If you misjudge your timing, you might just pass by your target and glide around the floor to? get ready for the next approach. There’s no weight or force in play. Even the drop kick doesn’t feel good to use. A door reacts to your toes in a fun way, but everything else just falls victim to?? the danger zone.

Anger Foot projectile door
Screenshot by Destructoid

This is so??mething that bothered me all throughout the sizeable chunk of gameplay I was served. I never felt powerful. It only takes a handful of shots to bring you down, and you’re not really given many options to avoid them in a crowded room. Keep moving, kite enemies, and keep kicking. You can pack yourself full of caffeine using cans of Thirst Fucker you find laying around, or get yourself drunk off of Brewforce if you feel like it, but it’s still just a couple of shots to bring you down.

The safest way to get through a level becomes kicking a door open, backing up, then kicking the enemies as they appear through the choke point. Even when you’re not cheesing, any time you need to be careful about your actions, the all-important momentum dies. Without the momentum, you don’t feel powerful, and that’s something that is crucial to Anger Foot and entirely lacking.

There are guns, but that’s just another problem. Their ammo is so limited, and movement is so important that in the chaos of a firefight, your feet seem more useful. That’s certainly on message, but it doesnâ€?™t give a reprieve from its problems.

On the other hand, optional objectives that provide stars give value to repeated playthroughs of levels (even if some are frustrating). More importantly, the stars are used to unlock new shoes, each? of which comes with n??ew buffs and abilities. I could see myself getting deeply into collecting new kicks if the gameplay was made more exciting.

Anger Foot dead on the toilet.
Screenshot by Destructoid

Mullet MadJack feels so similar in intention to Anger Foot: Momentum, corridors, movement. However, through the use of systems like dashing and the glory kills of recent Doom games, MadJack ??feels much more satisfying. It has a series of mechanics that ensure that you never have to stop moving and you’re constantly killing.

Anger Foot is missing something. More accurately, it’s missing a few somethings. There are quite a few approaches that can be taken to alleviate its iss?ues, but it’s probably ??going to require a few changes. As it stands, the whole experience is just too shallow.

I’m hoping that before launch, Free Lives can implement something to bring everything together. The level design, aesthetic, and even framework are all outstanding. Everything except the core gameplay is exceptional. I love looking at it, but Anger Foot is going to? need to do more than?? just put one foot in front of the other to really nail the landing.

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Devolver Digital has announced that Cricket Through the Ages, the absolutely normal take on the sport from Terra Nil and Broforce developer Free Lives, is escaping mobile confinement ??and releasing on PC and Switch on March 1.

As a Canadian, I know next to nothing about Cricket. I’ve actually asked people close to me if they even know the rules, and no one does. Here’s my guess based on reading Life, the Universe and Everything: A guy throws a ball at a wooden block that is held up by three short poles. A guy w??ith a flat cudgel tries to prevent the ball from hitting the structure and knocking the block from the top of it. However, there are a bunch of other guys surrounding this duel, and I have no idea?? what they do.

That’s my guess at how Cricket is played.

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Thankfully, it doesn’t look like I need to know the rules for Cricket Through the Ages, a game that celebrates the extensive history of the sport. It seems to be aiming to give a deep dive into the sport and should teach me everything I need to know. It looks like one of those wacky physics-driven games that are intentionally difficult to control. People are throwing things at each other. One of the scenes actually looks like what I think the sport? looks like, but they’re pl?aying with a beach ball.

It looks fun. The press release notes it uses a “simple, one-button control scheme.�It has six game modes and can be played by yourself or against your most hated enemy. They also promise that you will, "learn about the totally real history of cricket. You won’t believe? it."

Cricket Through the Ages was previously only available as part of the Apple Arcade service on iOS, but is now coming to real video game devices. It releases on ??PC and Switch on March 1, 2024.

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Much to the chagrin of would-be kickers everywhere, Anger Foot was one of Devolver Digital's recently-delayed games. While we may have to wait until 2024 for the full experience, a new Anger Foot trailer i?s here to show more of the action. See what's going down in Shit City for more of what Free Lives is cooking up for PC.  

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkDc6u_4GQ

We got our first look at the over-the-top gameplay of Anger Foot back in June 2022. Not much has changed since, and the world and enemies look as absurd as ever. As Devolver puts it, "Shit City is a disease and your foot is the cure." That's about as much of a logline as we need. It's very Hotline Miami in 3D wi?th a big-ass boot, from the stylish visuals to the soundtrack. 

Screenshot via Devolver Digital

Kick, shoot, it's all in the mind

The devs are aiming for replayability with secrets and unlocks that let you tackle levels in different ways. These include new sneakers, weapons, and upgradable powers that make it easier to put the boot to the bizarre enemies on the streets. The Anger Foot trailer shows off a few locations, from sewers to run-down apartments. And yeah, enemies definitely won't find ?any sort of reprieve in the bathroom.  

Despite the extended wait, players have had a chance to check out a demo on Steam. There's still no release date in place, so we'll have to kick it until we find out when it's coming to P?C. 

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Going green

Everything on the earth is a wasteland. All is left to dust and ash, and by the time the player enters the frame in Terra Nil, all that's green is gone. There is nothing left to do but rebuild. And it's in restoring nature, in unpacking the very idea of a city-builder, that Terra Nil finds a smart twist on a traditional foundation.

It's fun to think that the same team behind Broforce and Genital Jousting made Terra Nil. It's not that I don't think a studio that's made games about bros and dicks can't also make a game about ecological restoration. But Terra Nil sees Free Live exploring an incredibly serene approach to puz?zl??es and city-building. Free Lives has range, is what I'm saying.

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Terra Nil (PC [reviewed], Android, iOS)
Developer: Free Lives
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Release Date: March 28, 2023
MSRP: $24.99

So we started with the basics: Earth, or at least the planet approximating Earth in Terra Nil, is dead. You're never really told, outside of some lore and red-string you co??u??ld tie together, why that is, because that's not really important. What's important is restoring the world, and leaving no trace of yourself in its wake.

Un-building the city

This is why Terra Nil checks off the boxes of a city builder but in reverse. You start with a wind turbine or something that can generate power. Then you deploy toxin ??scrubbers, to clean the soil of hazardous material. Finally, you irrigate, rotating to change the shape and direction of the greenery you're about to unleash.

[caption id="attachment_372216" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screenshot by Destructoid[/caption]

This 1-2-3 process is the foundation of Terra Nil. It's the manner by which you will, over the course of four major areas, rebuild this world. It's a soothing routine that feels imme??diately rewarding. You're given a blank canvas of ruin and, with a few simple steps, can start to return life to the world.

Though, that's only just the first part. Soon after, you'll need to not just make grass, but revitalize biodiversity. And this is where Terra Nil gets tricky.

Revitalization

Each "zone" of Terra Nil corresponds to certain parts of the planet. While a simple grassland might just need some trees, the islands will se??e you restoring coral reefs, and polar caps will be in need of freezing. Where putting grass on the board was a simple task, creating a full-on ecosystem is entirely different.

This is where Free Lives starts to task the player with some creative problem-solving. Some biomes, like lichen, can only grow on certain tiles with certain conditions. Controlling the temperature and humidity becomes very important, as does the placement of all your buildings. A carefree attitude about your power or toxin scrubber placement can lead to some uphill battles when trying to properly restore life. It gets even trickier when dealing with controlled burns, transporting buildings via a ?monorail network, or particularly conditional ecosystems.

[caption id="attachment_372215" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screenshot by Destructoid[/caption]

Here is where I hit my first wall with Terra Nil: it doesn't always feel forthcoming. While some tasks a??re easily explained and tutorialized, others are very much a learn-by-doing experience. The undo button helps, in those circumstances, but I'd still occasionally set myself up for failure without fully realizi?ng it.

Additionally, it is fairly easy to run yourself out of the foliage resource that you spend on buildings. Once that's out, you're done. Restarting in Terra Nil is disheartening, to say the least. I could return quickly to the stat??e I was in before, but that would mean re-doing a lot of that early work in scrubbing and spreading out the fo??liage.

The other twist is that Terra Nil has a bit of a "solution" hidden away for all its levels that, once you've figured out it exists and what to go for, it becomes the repeat solution. To be clear, this didn't mean I was doing the same thing every time; but I wish a little bit more of a nudge was given toward the optional objectives??, which can act as a roadmap for figuring out each level.

[caption id="attachment_372214" align="alignnone" width="640"]Terra Nil Screenshot by Destructoid[/caption]

The Zen of cleaning

Still, even when I had figured out my aims for each level in Terra Nil, I ?still greatly enjoyed going after them. Ther??e's an almost ASMR-like quality to the sounds. Hearing desolate silence slowly begin to fill with rustles of leaves and grass, or the waves of the ocean, or even eventually the wildlife that starts to repopulate, it's all serene to experience.

Terra Nil is, at times, meditative. It feels very intentional that ther??e are not only forgiving difficulty options for those who don't want to get walled off from revitalizing the planet (or harder difficulties and chall??enges if you're into that side) but also an "Appreciate" button.

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You spend the last section of every restoration finding homes for animals, scanning back over your handiwork to discover the best habitats you can for them. And once the fauna is all settled in, you pack up and leave. This is one of the smartest parts of Terra Nil, to me. So many city builders embrace the sprawl and encourage constant expansion. Even at the outset of Terra Nil, you expand; but at the end, you're asked to contract and recompact, destroying everything you've built because you're not here to make cities. You're here to restore what came before an??d leave no trace behind.

So then, at the end, you can click that "Appreciate" button and watch a montage of your new land. You can see all t??he wildlife living in habitats you built. You can see how the thunder and rain have returned to a region, pouring new life into the soil.

Terra Nil offers some replayability, in additional levels and challenges, though seeing the credits roll can happen fairly quickly if you're on a roll. The final coda to your clean-up campaign is touchin??g, though, and puts a sweet bow ?on the efforts you've made.

When all's said and done, you leave, and nature remains. It's a fitting end to Terra Nil. It's a small-scale, unique city-builder that is short and sweet. It does just what it needs to, and moves on. Maybe that's not as in-depth or infinitely playable as some strategy heads might want from a city-builder. But I personally loved that even Terra Nil itself is about entering, making a positive impact, and leaving. It's easy to be pessimistic about our future, but Terra Nil is at least a small slice of hope amidst it all.

[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]

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Build it up and tear it all down

Most city-builders are about expanding and growing. The goal is to take a natural, untamed world and bend it to your benefit, turning the realm into a humming machine for resources and production. Terra Nil, however, does the inverse.

Rather than creating a monument to your designs, Terra Nil is a reverse city-builder from BroForce studio Free Lives. It as?ks you to take the barren, scorched earth and fill it with life. You restore the grasslands, let water flow down canals, and crack the earth to restore the ecosystem. And then, at the end, you pack up and leave, with only nature in your wake.

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This particular game has been on my radar for a while now, and publisher Devolver Digital recently confirmed that Terra Nil is planned for launch on March 28, for PC and Netf?lix. Ahead of the release, we had a chance to sit down with lead artist Jonathan Hau-Yoon to talk about how the team approached this unique take on building.

Caught in a jam

While Free Lives may be well-known for releases like BroForce or Genital Jousting, Terra Nil is outside the realm of blasting bits or flopping dicks. The concept originated from Free Lives' Sam Alfred, who conceived it as part of a Ludum Dare game jam with the theme "start with nothing." The "compo" version of the game was made?????????????????????????? from the ground-up in 48 hours, and placed fourth overall. B??ut game jam origins aren't new to Free Lives.

"All of our games have originated from game jams, which allows us to be quite experimental and try out novel ideas," said Hau-Yoon. "I think that that’s why Free Lives has made a patriotic pixel art platformer, a VR?? gladiator game, a penis-themed party game and a two button mobile sports simulator. We have countless other jam games that haven’t quite made the cut for being a commercial title."

For Terra Nil, Hau-Yoon attributes the concept to both Alfred's previous use of buildings and grids, and to ??growing up in South Africa. Growing up there, they were never far from a hiking trail.

"South African education also has quite a leaning toward conservation and an appreciation for natural beauty," said Hau-Yoon. "The Big Five appear on our bank notes, and many people holiday at national parks and game reserves. It’s a source of national pride and a big driver of to?urism. So some parts of the game, like the relationship between fynbos and fires, and how fires are necessary for many of our plants to grow, is inspired by that knowledge."

[caption id="attachment_364991" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screenshot via Free Li??ves / Devolver Digital[/caption]

Breathing life into the planet

The Free Lives tam has done research into different real-world phenomena, like coral restoration and shade cloths, or fences used to protect beaches ??from erosion.

"Otters have pockets in their armpits! Flamingos are pink because of their diet" said Hau-Yoon. "Now, these don’t necessarily make it into Terra Nil as-is, but we get excited about them. We are inspired by nature and conservation, but we often bend reality aroun??d what makes for a game mechanic that’s more intuitive or easier to understand, or that thematically fits better with some of the other mechanics in a map."

In practice, you can see this as controlled burns elicit new variety in the ecosystem. Through tiny modifications and a little bit of video game magic, Terra Nil giv?es y??ou the power fantasy of taken a lifeless patch of dirt and seemingly breathing life back into it.

[caption id="attachment_364992" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screenshot via Free Lives / Devolver? Digital[/capt??ion]

Green serenity

A big part of the appeal is the emotions and feeling Terra Nil can exhibit. When I first previewed the game, I was amazed by just how calming it all felt. City-builders are normally pretty stressful affairs; games like Banished ask you to watch constantly climbing and falling numbers, each o??f which could spell either prosperity or doom.

Terra Nil does have multiple difficulty options, to allow the optimizers to min-max their way to a green future and for more casual enjoyers to simply soak in the sun. A Zen mode, though, ??really highlights the effectiveness of Free Lives' design.

When you plant a building, there's a soft flutter and cascade of sound as grass flows over the barren earth. The soft torrent of water feels almost tangible when you hear it rush through canals. Even fire and lava crackle in incredibly pleasing ways. It's no surprise that, as Hau-Yoon describes it, the goal of in-house sound designer Jason Sutherland was to create a sound palette that s?ounds physical.

"Searching for the different sounds created by the different buildings, biomes and animals should? in itself be an adventure, and we wanted someone who listened to the game playing with their eyes closed to have a bit of an ASMR, that their ears would prick at the sound of a frog or a bubbling waterfall," said Hau-Yoon.

The visuals were also made soft, inspired by Kazuo Oga's work on Studio Ghibli films?. It's all calm, soothing, and serene.

[caption id="attachment_364993" align="alignnone" width="640"] Screensh?ot ?via Free Lives / Devolver Digital[/caption]

You can rebuild

As Hau-Yoon tells me, the team found that the "main character" of Terra Nil was not the "city' itself. Other builders focus on the buildings you create and maintain, the factories that produce, and the people that staff them. But in Terra Nil, the focus is nature itself. You build things to see what they create, and?? how they combine. An arboretum can make a forest, which can house trees, and those can house beehives. One ??begets another. And eventually, your role in this building is done.

The idea of building it all and then leaving, deconstructing all your ??artificial architecture to leave only a slice of nature behind, is thematically potent.?? There is no grand city sprawl at the end of this. Just nature.

Hau-Yoon says they hope Terra Nil renews players' interest in the environment and conservation efforts. But they also hope it eases some anxiety and helps them to relax. I know for me, Terra Nil is looking like a very peaceful game to cool down with, accompanied with a glimmer of hop??e for our own reality.

Terra Nil goes live on PC and Netflix on March 28.

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Welcome to Shit City (literally that's the name of the city)

After a busy day of Summer Game Festing, I'm pretty much spent, but leave it to Devolver Digital (and Suda) to supercharge my brain for a bit with another chaotic showcase. On one extreme, we saw the adorable 2D-meets-3D storybook adventure The Plucky Squire �and on the other, there was Anger Foot, a face-kicking action game for sickos.

The first gameplay glimpse from developer Free Lives (Broforce, GORN, Terra Nil) looks unhinged. I'm talking "Academy Award winner Russell Crowe in Unhinged" unhinged.

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It's one of the most no-bullshit, take-it-or-leave-it showings I've seen in a while, and I also ??appreciate the synopsis, which reinforces this game's unrelenting mood.

"Unleash the world's deadliest feet on a colorful cast of anthropomorphic enemies," as Devolver Digital and Free Lives put it. "Clearing out slums, sewers, and skyscrapers as you grab new weapons, unlock new sneakers, and upgrade your powers in absurd and wonderful ways. Kick and shoot your way to the exit as you leave behind a smoldering trail of shattered doors, broken bones, and crumpl??ed energy drinks."

I can already tell Anger Foot will be the kind of game where there's an ideal "wow, that went smooth!" way to play, and getting the flow down just right will surely take practice. In the meantime, I'm sure it'll be funny to fumble your way through these setups, too. If you've ever wondered how Hotline Miami would (or could) translate its frantic roo??m-clearing carnage to 3D, well, this is ?probably the closest we're getting for now.

General mood aside, you don't need to take the reveal trailer's word for it �there's a demo right now on Steam. Anger Foot is planning a 2023 release.

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Leave no trace

Builder games are usually built around consuming resources. 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 alon?g the way, and all the while managing consumption and scarcity.

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. It tasks you with plotting out infrastructure and interlinking s?ynergistic buildings to max out numbers. But rather than eating the resources of the planet, you're returning them to the barren landscape.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8eYqNNxICE

The process is fairly straightforward. Wind turbines power your structures and act as the focal points for your expanding empire. Plotting out irrigators and machines that clean the soil, the dreary wasteland starts to change shape before your eyes. Greenery flourishes and cascades across the area you've designated, and in t??he place of rocks and sand, there's grass and trees.

At this point, Terra Nil launches into the goals: restore life to the soil and expand diversity through different biomes. The first par??t 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.

Biomes are a little trickier, and where Terra Nil starts to feel a bit more like a puzzle game. 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, allowi??ng 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.

My first time doing this was essentially playing with fire. 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. One poorly thought-out decision later, I at lea?st had a lot of room to create some forests.

Getting good biome diversity means boosting each of these three concepts, making sure they each have their own sp?ace and enough to go around. It was a very careful process that required a little bit of trial-and-error. It also meant doing some terraforming of my own, opening up new river canals or stone to place wind turbines on so I could expand and reach further.

It's fascinating how Terra Nil still manages to feel like a city-builder, even as you're constructing nature rath??er than civilization. And so it becomes all the more intriguing when you're asked to tear it all down, piece-by-piece. The final project, once you've restored nature to the area, is to build an airship by rec?ycling every bit of machinery you've just constructed.

As you plop down silos to collect your buildings, watching them disappear into a flurry of greenery and then get sucked into a container by a drone and converted to building materials, it's rewarding. Dismantling an empire and leaving no mark of your presence behind is bittersweet, but as you do so, wildlife starts to emerge. Deer start roaming and grazing. Life is coming back to this place, once a d?esolate wasteland.

A screenshot of Terra Nil

And so the airship sets off, and the demo ends with a planet left to replenish—save one area, now starting to look full of life again thanks to my efforts. It's a nice touch. I've played and enjoyed a lot of building and management games, and some even address the toll of rapid construction, expansion, and consumption on the environment and the climate. But Terra Nil isn't just about the tack-on effects; it's about undoing the damage? and restoring life where it once existed. I'm looking forward to clearing many more grasslands for families of deer in ??the future, just hopefully with fewer accidental blazes.

Terra Nil is coming to PC, though no release date has been set yet. A demo is currently available as part of the Steam Next Fest.

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This isn't what I expected when I heard murmurs about a "reverse city-builder" game, especially one dreamed up by Broforce developer Free Lives, but I mean that in the best possible way. Terra Nil looks so neat.

We'll even be able t?o try it? out soon with a demo on Steam.

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I'm watching this reveal trailer as my neighbor enters hour three of incessantly using his power sander on some boards that must be ready by now, and I needed this.

While we will be plopping down machinery in Terra Nil, the point of the game is to restore a "ravaged" wasteland into an "ecological paradise complete with different flora and fauna." If you've followed my coverage of sim games like Birthdays the Beginning over the years, yo??u'll know how much that premise clicks with me. And this art looks rea??lly pleasant.

I'm not entirely sure of the beat-by-beat strategy of Terra Nil just yet, but it's clear that we'll need to rebuil?d the natural world one well-placed component at a time, and there's a ripple effect as water, soil, and trees reenter the picture. The initial screenshots on Steam show a sort of building currency needed for windmills and the like. The game's summary also mentions that the ultimate goal �once life finds a way �is to "recycle all the structures you used to get there, leaving the environment pristine." I love that concept.

Free Lives and Devolver Digital will host a playable PC demo of Terra Nil starting June 16 through Steam Next Fest, a showcase event intended to highlight cool upcoming games. As ?far as a release date, there's nothing on the books yet. We'll see how folks take to the demo, I guess! I know I'll want to make time to check it out.

It's also fun to go back and trace the roots of this project to a non-commercial pixel-art build hosted on Itch.io.

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