Please be advised that the game contains disturbing imagery and should not be played by minors.
"People are strange when you're a stranger." - Jim Morrison, The Doors.
Welcome to Harvest. It's a quiet little town with eccentric locals and traditional family values. Life moves at a slower pace in q...
Please be advised that the game contains disturbing imagery and should not be played by minors.
"People are strange when you're a stranger." - Jim Morrison, The Doors.
Welcome to Harvest. It's a quiet little town with eccentric locals and traditional family values. Life moves at a slower pace in quiet Harvest without the hustle and bustle like you'd get in the big city. Don't forget to attend the annual PTA Bake Sale and keep in mind that the blood drive is mandatory.
Harvester is one of the most controversial horror games of its time with a classic point-and-click interface and tons of interesting puzzles. You'll play as the amnesiac Steve (who is such a kidder!) as you try to figure out why you should join the Order of the Harvest Moon and discover the horror that lurks just beneath Harvest's small-town veneer. Meet some of the strangest characters to ever grace the computer screen--such as Mr. Pottsdam who really, really loves red meat or Colonel Monroe who guards the nuclear missile base and holds The Button. Harvest is a lovely town and the locals aim to keep it that way, no matter the cost...
Play Harvester the way it was meant to be played: completely uncensored!
Written and directed by Gilbert P. Austin of Wing Commander and Strike Commander fame!
Perform random acts of sabotage, blackmail, murder, evidence tampering, and many more innocent pranks!
Meet characters that defy categorization due to their rather unique personalities!
Goodies
manual (US version)
Harvest travel brochures
The Making of Harvester
soundtrack (MP3)
an early look at Harvester
poster
manual (European version)
manual (Spanish)
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
It's a bad adventure game because you'll use more your weapons than your brain; it's a bad action game because the combat system is dramatically poor; it's a bad horror game beacuse it's not thrilling, it's just splatter. So I repeat: AVOID THIS GAME.
I’ve heard very differing opinions on Harvester. It’s either a disgusting, shock for shock horror kind of nonsense, or a clever commentary of sorts on media. I was a little curious about which is it, so I decided to try it.
You’re Steve, you wake up in the town of Harvest, population 51, with amnesia. And your mother tells you about an imminent annual blood drive, where you would be “expected to give” and where they “don’t use needles”.
The only way to be exempt is to join a Lodge – a mysterious organization that seems to hold much sway in the town, with an impressive, castle-like headquarters in the centre.
What follows is a rather low-brow accumulation of low-quality filth: gore, cannibalism, sexual violence, body horror, harming children and things like that. All given in a campy, a little bit over-the-top package.
The aforementioned over the top feel is, by the way, one of the reasons why none of the “shocking” things in the game are actually shocking, since you can’t really take them seriously. So the game isn’t even shocking per se, it’s just... weird and kinda gross at times.
Is there a “message”? Well, yes, kinda. But the message is totatally not worth going through the game for, nor is it really that clever or profound.
As far as the point and click adventure part is concerned, Harvester seems pretty standard.
To make matters weirder, shooting and melee combat elements appears rather out of nowhere at the end of the game. They add nothing to the game in my opinion, and are rather unwieldy as far as controls go.
Overall, I really believe after finishing it, that Harvester is trash. It’s “message” is trite and probably thinks of itself as a lot more clever than it’s actually is.
I do kinda regret playing Harvester and I think it was a waste of time, but if you’d like to see how it plays and judge for yourself, you can see it on my youtube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzYykOmL8s&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWXQuETyFICHCThcmw4O-nf1
I STRONGLY urge you to purchase this game. It came out when games like Mortal Kombat were thought to breed serial killers. This game had the BALLS to basically say "yeah, the point of this game is to decencitise you to violence and start killing people." It is one of the few Anti-games, and it is a masterpiece.
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