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Terra Nil

For most of its duration, this self-styled ‘reverse city builder’ is, in fact, nothing of the sort. Rather, it’s a city builder, one with eco-consciousness at the fore. As with most games in this genre, you start out with a barren wasteland, and your objective is to use your limited but growing means to ensure it flourishes. You must still supply power to buildings, piecing together an infrastructure while bearing your environment and its randomly generated topography in mind. And there is, as ever, a delicate equilibrium of resources to be maintained. Here, however, you’re doing it to restore an ecosystem, before removing any evidence of human presence. is where it really becomes a reverse city

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