Terra Firma

You create and customize a natural landscape, taking the role of a world-shaper rather than managing a settlement or character. Adjust the terrain yourself or let simulated plate tectonics build and alter it over time.

Water flows across the land, eroding and depositing material to form river networks, deltas, lakes, and oceans. You can change the terrain’s shape by raising, lowering, or flattening areas, then observe how those changes affect the flow of water.

As time advances rapidly, plants grow in places shaped by water availability, nutrients, and terrain. The view can zoom from individual plants and trees out to landscapes spanning hundreds of square kilometres.

Players who enjoy Terra Firma often praise the freedom to shape terrain and watch water and erosion transform it, describing the simulation as absorbing, relaxing, or useful for exploring geography. Some also value it as an educational or creative reference tool. A recurring reservation is that the experience offers few activities beyond setting up a landscape and observing it change, so some reviewers lose interest quickly.