Inventive nature restoration game Terra Nil has strategy and satisfaction in equal measures. Also: monorails.
Few things feel as incongruous as setting a beautiful patch of grass and trees on fire in"reverse city builder". The environmental strategy game is all about restoring nature to dead, barren maps using eco-friendly technology: wind turbines to provide electricity to your buildings, toxin scrubbers to create clean soil from polluted dirt, irrigators to seed the ground and grow greenery, and pumps to turn empty riverbeds into gurgling streams.
But hey, Mother Nature goes hard. Forest fires, as horrifying and destructive as they can be in the real world, come with benefits like clearing the forest floor of underbrush and dead foliage, nourishing the soil, killing disease-bearing insects, and removing weaker plants from the ecosystem so the stronger ones receive more nourishment and sunlight. In Terra Nil, sometimes you've gotta burn something down even if you've just spent long minutes building it up.
The second biome is a bigger and even more interesting challenge. Instead of a continent you're on an island, which includes sections of ocean, four mini-biomes to grow and balance instead of three, and fewer riverbeds meaning you need to establish a monorail system across the island to move equipment around.
That's just the start, though. Around the cliffs on the map I can place shadecloth to form canopies, underneath which grow towering tropical trees and eventually a massive rainforest. I can salinate the wetlands so mangroves will grow, and build sandy little islands in the oceans to place machines that can reach the farthest edges of the map to scrub even more ocean water clean.
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