Terra Nil Reviews

I would LOVE to be able to play this game! I can play the old version on my Nintendo Switch (kinda, I have to close and relaunch the game every 2 levels) but I have NEVER been able to get it to play on iPad. I have all the visuals turned to lowest quality, this iPad is barely 1 year old, I’ve even wiped the iPad back to factory defaults because I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME…but I can’t. Can’t even get through the first level. Super sad. If the developers could fix the crashing issue then this would be an instant 5 stars and I would give them all my money forever.

I know this is an ad in game form, and I know it’s the way the industry has gone, but do I really need an account to play a mobile game? Is it so ridiculous that I might just want to enjoy something without it being gated behind one of a thousand 2-step verification logins?

Love this game but….it has so many bugs. It glitches out and crashes constantly. I had switched levels, got to the 3rd phase and I can’t even play for more than a few seconds without it crashing. Please fix it. And allow us to exit a map without loosing all of our progress. I want to start and stop different maps at different points

This is the kind of game that’s right up my alley. Calm and quiet, animals and natural scenes, restoring beauty to a wasteland…all of that. But the game is so buggy as to be unplayable. It crashes constantly, sometimes within seconds of loading my saved game even on the lowest settings. Would love to play more but I actually can’t.

Edit: was hoping the recent “bug fix and stability” update would help. But now I can’t even load my saved game. Thought I’d see if this was available on PC and it was! BUT, reading the Steam reviews, apparently that version is just as buggy if not more. Resulting in CPU overheats, BSODs, and other failures. Yikes! I’m not downloading that.

The graphics and gameplay aren’t complex. My devices aren’t that old. If I had to guess, the coding is overwritten and inefficient as to be causing such a high drain on resources and I don’t think this game can update its way out of that.

I can’t move buildings, I’m doing it exactly the way the tooltips tell you to do it, but it just tells you what the building is instead of moving it. It glitches and crashes after you play longer than 15minutes and if you have any older phone be prepared to plug it in and out on some gloves because it’ll get hot like sims.

Netflix I know you like the money but pay your developers to make games that are ment for apples App Store, not the indie startup game section on steam

It crashes a lot.

If you can handle having to reload the game every few minutes or restarting the game and losing all your progress several times, when the game works it’s pretty fun.

It’s just a roll of the dice whether or not your progress will be saved or there’s a critical error and you have to restart the game altogether.

I’ll update my review to have more stars whenever they fix all the critical errors that cause the game to crash constantly.

I started really enjoying this game. It actually surprised me with how enjoyable yet challenging it was to play. Couldn’t even get past the first phase and it began crashing on me whenever I tried to move a new building around. 6 times that happened, until it just started crashing before I could even get to the game itself. Netflix support is SUPER UNHELPFUL even if you try to report something wrong with the game.I doubt the developers even check these reviews. If they did, TerraNil wouldn’t be this buggy for this long.

If they do, then please fix. I really want to enjoy this beautiful game you’ve created!

Arabic Support
MIT License
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Downloaded it not knowing it was a Netflix exclusive. Having an Apple play exclusive game is one thing since it’s automatically still with Apple, but if Netflix wants Netflix games, that’s making a whole second exclusive account, or more if more developers hop on board. When I see an interesting game I want to try it from a guest account, have multiple account options or not be able to see it at all. Make your own game system for your exclusive games Netflix

Absolutely love the gameplay more than any other Netflix game I’ve played before, but it just crashes any time I try to load it up past the first region (keeping in mind that I’ve already tried all of the bug fixes on the website).

When I open the new version of Terra Nil that came out last week, I get an average of 45 seconds of play time before it crashes. I probably spent too much time on the previous version because it was enjoyable and did not crash. Now I barely bother trying to open the game and have found more productive things to do. Thank you Terra Nil developers for helping me to redeem the time.

This is such a refreshingly creative and beautiful game, but it’s riddled with bugs, some of which that can prevent you from progressing any further, particularly on the last level. What’s more is that the devs have been aware of these bugs for over a year now too and they haven’t done anything about it. It’s almost like they took their Netflix money and bailed. It’s such a shame, because Terra Nil has so much potential to be absolutely amazing.

So if you’re thinking of renewing a Netflix subscription just to play this game, don’t. It plays like an early beta version, and it’s not worth your time or money until they address their shoddy programming issues.

As others have mentioned it’s a great game but unfortunately you can’t play past the first level. At the very end of the level it crashes if you try and do anything else. You can load the game again and resume but it does the same thing time after time. I wonder if they’re still supporting this game as this seems to be an issue for a while now.

I loved this game for a long time, so excited for an update but now it crashes constantly. I have restarted iPad, deleted and reinstalled game, cleared space on iPad storage/memory, everything I could think of! But I am LUCKY if I make it to three minutes as others have stated before it crashes, normally within 30 seconds of the map loading it crashes or goes black screen.

Please fix this!

This game is thoughtful, nice to look at and fun to play casually. That said, unfortunately after finishing a few different areas the game has become almost unplayable and crashes (even on lowest res) every few minutes making it impossible to continue with. Hope they update soon as this game has great potential and is really enjoyable the time I do actually get to play.

Would be a great game if it didn’t crash constantly. I hope the developers see all these reviews and come up with a fix.

Enjoyed the 13 minutes I got to play, before it became a crashing app. The moment the loading screen comes on, one thing is certain, a crash is coming within ten seconds.

I thought this game was such a good idea and it could have been really fun but it was really disappointing. I wasn’t able to make it past the first level because it kept crashing right after I would load in to the save. Not to mention, the game is very repetitive and is pretty boring. If you already have Netflix I suggest giving it a try since it is free and it might be more fun for you but it wasn’t worth it for me

The gameplay itself is fun so far, but the buttons on the left side of the screen completely block the animal information display on iPhone 14, making it useless. I’ve seen stuff about it from a year ago, so I guess that’s just an issue they aren’t gonna bother fixing.

By closing and reopening the game frequently, I was able to get to the 4th level. At that point, the part where the monorail tap-to-move dynamic doesn’t work at all made it impossible and annoying.
It’s a fun premise, but clearly theses Netflix games are just slopped together with no testing or fix team.

Need to fix the constant crashing. Can’t get past the first rocket level due to game crashing every time I try to load satellite and collect seeds! Cannot continue level without it!

There was intermittent crashing here and there, I figured well it’s not such a big deal because it’s a pretty big game so I get it. Now I am on the level with the seed vault, and EVERY time I click on the icon for the seeds the game crashes.

Love the new version but it crashes right when it opens and it’s been doing this for days. It’s frustrating when you can’t even get the game open!

I love this game, but it keeps crashing. I’ve finished a level but am stuck on it because the game crashes every time I try move on.

I loved this game when it first came out, so I was excited when I saw they reworked it, but now I’m in the first tropical area and it crashed, and now it won’t load my saved game at all. So I can’t play without restarting from the beginning. Major bummer

Really enjoying the game, but it’s killing me to deal with the crashes. I’ll wait until it’s fixed before I keep playing.

During the tutorial, every time I addthe irrigator after the toxin scrubber, the game crashes. I've tried all I can think of and its still happening. Very upsetting.

I am not sure why, but the last update to the game made the end game confusing by removing the animal scanner feature without explanation for the new system. It also led to incessant crashes to the point the game is unplayable unless you’re 9k with re-starting TerraNil every few minutes. Love the game, but I’ll have to take a break until the devs address the issues.

I really enjoyed this game for about 20 minutes until it started crashing within 3 minutes every time I opened it. I tried rebooting the game and my device several times, as well as reducing the video quality. Nothing I could think of worked. This game seems like a really cool concept and I want to see where it goes. Please fix the issues!!!

Enjoyable game and good updates but can’t put up with regular crashes.

This game is marvelously addicting. So far I’ve done the entire play through several times, once on the hardest mode.

The game however still is very buggy, where there are times that the animals don’t show up even though everything they needed was checked off, or menus open when they aren’t pressed.

I also wish there were more biomes and levels to explore, as the game play through only has four biomes/levels and only one bonus map level per biome once the main game is completed. It would be much more fun to have more bonus level maps of varying difficulty and more biomes. There’s already Temperate, Tropical Island, Polar/Arctic, and tropical cityscape. Would be interesting to have things like a desert biome, a completely marine level like an abyss, and subtropical biomes, or even a subterranean level.

I actually really loved playing this game, however after the first level TerraNil crashes during the loading screen EVERY TINE making the game unplayable. Very disappointing considering how imaginative and relaxing the limited gameplay I experienced was. Hope to see this fixed in the near future.

I am a complete beginner and can’t get any progress because the game keeps crashing. Also you can’t delete buildings that were built more than a turn ago. They say you can move already made building but you can’t. If all of these problems were nonexistent, I would rate this a solid 4. Netflix, please make test phones to test all of these issues. I have an I phone 6 though so I guess I’m doomed.

I love the idea, but just when it starts to get fun and you feel like you are making progress, it just crashes. Hard, and repeatedly.

It won’t even open your saved game, so you have to start a new game. Which will also soon crash hard.

Fix it and I would definitely play. But it’s not fun doing incessant restarts with this version.

I suppose it’s an okay game. Got to the point where you start finding animals, but something buggy happened. And since it told me it would save my game automatically, I was like cool, I can just exit to the main screen and reload. Tell me why when I reloaded, I can’t even see my next task of 0/3 animals, not can I even see past “level 1” buildings? I already found the frog, now I have to go search for it again?! I thought it automatically saved? If it saved, it would put me back where I was, not at the beginning with only 1/3 of my buildings available. 😒

I would rate this game 5 stars if it weren’t for the crashing. Love the concept and gameplay however crashing makes it unplayable. (It crashes during the loading, and if I’m lucky, I get to play one minute of it until it crashes again.)

App still crashes after update! I had no problems with the waste land game started crashing once I started on the wetland level. Great game just needs bug fixes please fix asap

Game is great but stalls in the second area when asked to put down “1 more” Monorail pilings. Glitch causes no further progress in entire game. Please fix ASAP!!

Phone overheats and app crashes every 10-15, extremely power hungry, for something that looks like a game for a Game Boy

I really enjoyed the first restoration level, very relaxing and satisfying. However, on the second level (tropical biome) one of the habitat restoration features simply doesn’t work at all, so I can restore 3 of the 4 habitats, max. Coral reef restoration requires you build a monorail, with a feature that is supposed to unlock after you deploy the monorail feature once. Unfortunately, no matter how many times I added a monorail, the locked feature still always said I had to deploy the monorail feature (1) more time before I could continue. Even after I erased my progress and started over. Stopped my gameplay in its tracks and I can’t advance. I’m playing on my iPhone, perhaps this isn’t an issue on a PC.

Seemingly random crashes, but eventually it gets better. Now past 2 rainstorms. I hear birds but where are the other animals? Crashes are driving me crazy 😳

This game has this bug where once i enter level 2, the game crashes after a while and when i relaunch the game it just crashes in the loading screen. I’ve tried so many things and deleted and redownloaded TerraNil so many times but the bug persists. And it is a shame too because it is a great game and super relaxing and ive had a lot of fun playing it when it doesn’t crash. So devs, please fix this bug.

Let me first say that this is a great game, it is so relaxing, especially the music. But, it keeps crashing. Even if I set the graphics to very low, it still crashes. It especially crashes once you unlock rain. Although I play this game an a old iPad if you release a game on a platform it should be able to preform well on said platform.

This relaxing and fun sim game appears to be the opposite of Simcity. It makes you think without being too challenging, and not a huge time commitment - I finished the initial world in a day.

My main complaint is that the game’s structure is simplistic. With a few exceptions, buildings have an effect only when placed and are basically monuments until they are recycled as you leave.

Second complaint is bizarre technology choices. You don’t get power transmission lines & poles until area 3 I think. You get a waterborne recycling drone, why not one that travels on land? Why not drone bulldozers (realistic tech) instead of weird futuristic “excavators” that basically are huge guns firing giant bullets to dig trenches for water, lava, etc. (nonsense). Why no solar power generators?

I enjoyed it for a day, and now I’m done with it.

This is quite possibly the most innovative game I have played. I absolutely loved the gameplay and the increasing levels of difficulty with each biome as the game progressed. That being said, flaws in the game coding made gameplay quite frustrating at times. In the final level, when I was collecting seeds, the satellite interface would randomly exit, dumping me back into the main screen and exiting the biome I was collecting from. The location of the interface buttons also have entirely too much overlap, meaning that sometimes I was unable to scroll because the directional arrows were directly underneath the main game menu. The in-game help was also less than useful at times, requiring me to exit the game and do an internet search to solve my problems. Honestly, if they took the time to fix the GUI, in-game guide, and coding issues, this game would deserve 5 stars.

Pros:
— innovative
— engaging
— challenging
— extremely fun

Cons:
— badly designed GUI with too much overlap of clipping paths
— poorly coded interface
— errors made gameplay extremely frustrating at times
— needs an update to address coding errors

I fell in love with this game! I kept dealing with it randomly crashing, but now that I am on the final level it constantly crashes. I LOVE this game, please fix this issue!

I LOVED this game!!! I thought I’d try again today, but they made some interface updates that aren’t great. For one thing, it doesn’t fit on my phone screen anymore so I can’t see all the interfaces because they get stuck under the buttons (even though this phone is bigger than the one I used to play last year). Also, some aspects of the game don’t seem to work (for example, I can’t start fires). I do love that this great game got some more development attention; I just don’t think it was tested well enough before release.

I really loved playing this game, but it crashed a lot. Some days I would have to stop playing altogether because it was so bad. Also, there are only 4 different maps to play on so far. I would love more content with different themed/styled worlds with different animals and plants. It is a very relaxing puzzle to work on with pleasant graphics.

I really love the game! I’ve played a lot of cv builders, and the concept of a “devolver” where you’re reclaiming land and ecosystems is truly unique. Love the animations and the various play styles. The one drawback is that one of the levels (Flooded City) often glitches when you load. Depending on the location of one of the randomly generated map features (radioactive waste depot), you might not be able to complete the level at all. I’m still seeing if I can find a workaround, but it’s highly frustrating to try a level multiple times in a row and not be able to complete it. Otherwise, a great game!

*UPDATE* - After searching online, the monorail bug isn’t actually a bug but instead misleading instructions. You have to place a monorail node next to a building, then tap the node and select a building near it. Then you can relocate the building anywhere along the monorail line you’ve built.

Having finally figured this out, I’m updating my rating to 4 stars instead of 5, only because the unclear wording of the instructions almost had me give up on the game completely.

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I love this game so much! It’s great to play a world building game where you build up the world, rather than deplete it of resources . My issue, though, is that I cannot get past the second ecosystem as it will not allow me to place cars on the monorail. I have tried starting over, changing the difficulty, and even uninstalling then reinstalling, and it still won’t work. I hope they’re able to fix this bug quickly, as I really want to continue playing.

The top review saying ‘love it but it crashes’ pretty much sums it up. The game is wonderful and so addictive, so peaceful to play, too, but the crashes are frequent and annoying. Since that review is 1 year old, I’m guessing these crashes aren’t a priority to fix for them. Too bad!

Play this game a while 100% and stop playing. Checked back and there was a new update. most of my progress was gone, but I was excited for the new update. It seemed fun, but they’re clearly wasn’t enough play testing before as the were tons of crashes. by the time you read this, it will probably be some bug fixes so please download this game. It’s very good not just a “mobile game”. Devs, please don’t add more. There were enough crashes before the update. Please focus on fixes.

Terra Nil is a rare game in that you are “building” a restored ecosystem. You begin by placing a piece that prepares the surrounding area for plant life, then move on to growing grass, forests, and other environments then attracting animals.

The challenge is in avoiding mistakes that prevent you from fully restoring the environment. You must be efficient with your placement.

Each scenario takes roughly 45 minutes to 1:30 hours and can be paused.

I highly recommend this game for lovers of strategy games who are looking for a casual option. My one critique is that this game is relatively short, and could be completed in a weekend.

Had to Google what the task was asking.
Place a monorail node near a building, select monorail the the building to move to new location. This unlocks coral.

Amazing game. Challenging. Easy enough to finish without too much stress. And doesn’t go on and on. So I can delete after I m finish. But it does drain my battery really fast and heat up my phone like crazy.

Very relaxing and serene, you can lose hours In this, but be warned it is pretty processor heavy and can easily drain battery since it is a pc game, but other than that it works well and has some interesting scenarios and is stunning visually.

I am a huge fan of this game, super relaxing and everything works for me. Sometimes getting 100% restoration can get a bit tedious but fun overall. My only real problem is that there isn’t more levels.

As you progress through its 4 areas. Very relaxing game but there is strategy to the gameplay. It’s not a “turn your brain off” kind of game. I’m loving the strategy and beautiful art and music. My only issue is the game is a battery drain.

The game does as advertised. However I found it too easy. I think many of the negative reviews I read were just people who didn’t progress far enough or doesn’t fully understand the mechanics.

This game was phenomenal though it can be short lived as there is only the one planet. Takes a bit to learn the mechanics but once you do it is absolutely fun and I’ve even played maps multiple times to try and prolong the experience. Hope there will be more maps in the future.

I absolutely love this game. It nice and relaxing, nice graphics and I love the mission with the spaceship. It was cool! I hope they will add more land to estire because I feel like it was a short game. And hopefully they’ll add more animals and terrain. Like a dessert terrain with cactus, scorpions and other cool animals. Awesome game!!

I don’t normally write reviews, but this game is exceptional. Like other Netflix games, it is so refreshing to have no pay-to-win aspect or ads to disrupt gameplay, but this game goes above and beyond to capture your attention and relax your mind. It feels rewarding, progress never slows down (this is what makes Terra nil a success and Godus a fail IMO), and the game is just beautiful. Many reviews mention crashes, but I have never had this issue. Maybe it’s been patched.

With the release of the new update there’s been a couple glitches I found that makes it difficult to complete the biomes in the game, like in the Flooded City, where tapping on the button for the seed vault automatically crashes the game.

I’m playing this game again after I played it a year ago and had to quit due to a random glitch where it just crashed mid-game. Now the random crashing is starting again. Please fix this! I’m also getting farther - underwater city - and unable to play mini-game without a crash. I mean, I just click on the mini-game and it takes me to iOS Home Screen. I downloaded it via Netflix apps and they have no place to leave comments. Please resolve this issue. Thanks!

Was obsessed with playing sim city 2000 as a kid and never found anything reminiscent of that childhood experience until playing Terra Nil.

Beyond it just being enjoyable from a pure gameplay perspective, I love that this takes the opposite approach from the doom and gloom messaging of most climate change activism by showing what the future could look like through innovation and human resourcefulness—with the end goal of restoring earth and building for nature first, not humans.

Can be as challenging as you want with many options to change the difficulty of the game. I found the “ecologist” mode enjoyable with increasingly appropriate difficulty as you get into later stages.

Will be recommending to friends and family for sure!

First, this game is super fun. I played many hours of the original and was very excited to see a new version. Unfortunately, the new update appears to be a bit buggy. I’m sure the dev team will fix the bugs, so maybe wait a few weeks/months before jumping in.