Protect appears to be like like a calming puzzle mix of Dorfromantik and Terra Nil

It has been an excellent few years for stress-free, puzzle-strategy video games about spreading nature’s glory. The longer term appears to be like vivid, too, because of Protect, which appears to mix Dorfromantik’s lush hexes with Terra Nil’s gradual ecological restoration. You will discover the announcement trailer under.

“The target is to foster and maintain a thriving and numerous biomes, the place every element coexists in a symbiotic concord,” says the Protect Steam web page. “By using strategic pondering and a eager eye for stability, gamers are granted the ability to place a wide selection of crops and animals, curating an surroundings that caters to their preferences and aspirations.”

These crops and animals take the type of a hand stuffed with playing cards that gamers can select from and choose the place to deploy. There are additionally totally different biomes, together with carribean reefs, alpine forests and savannas, every with their very own set of animals and crops to discover ways to use.

If puzzling out the stability of those totally different components sounds traumatic, Protect can even have artistic mode that permits you to plonk down hexes and wildlife with no limitations, and a photograph mode for grabbing screenshots of no matter you make.

Protect is presently aiming to launch in autumn this 12 months.

Katharine is our resident Dorkromantik head, giving the elegant village builder a Bestest Greatest again in 2022, and giving Protect an all-caps “HELLO” once I messaged her about it on Slack earlier as we speak. Personally, my most up-to-date dalliance with tending to nature in video video games was the idle tidy ’em up sandbox Backyard Galaxy.