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BE KIND, REWIND

Sometimes you just want to relax with a game by yourself. Low pressure, soothing sounds, just enough challenge to keep you engaged but not frustrated. Environmentalist strategy puzzler Terra Nil fits the bill, and puts a refreshing low-key spin on the city-builder genre, making it all the more surprising that it comes from Free Lives, developers of raucous meathead action games like Broforce, Gorn and… err… Genital Jousting

Officially billed as a as such. It’s a game about spending and generating resources, building synergistic chains of structures to achieve numerical goals. Despite this, owes more to puzzle games and solitaire than anything else.

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