Terra Nil
Worth it · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.24.
- Length
- 5.4h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 / Radeon RX 560X, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in September 2026. 29 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ISLANDERS ($4.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Station to Station ($17.99, scores 63).
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 623 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.4 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.4 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
76% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
310 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Absolutely recommended. It's a very nice, chill but still challenging and very rewarding puzzle game. Try it if you can!
"Bears reintroduced in the environment, check, kelp forest developing in the ocean reef, check, snow during constant 50°C heat, …check?" -One confused ecological engineer Lots of City Builder games but nearly no "Reverse" City Builders, and Terra Nil fits that ecological niche in the videogame landscape. Gameplay The objective is to terraform the land, using buildings that do different things to achieve this. Each...
It's just a good time. The puzzles are not crazy complicated, but they are interesting. It's easy to mess up, but you're often given enough tools that if you stop and smell the roses, you can come up with a solution.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Terra Nil scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1593030/terra-nilReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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