Harvester really does combine slick packaging, with true depth of gameplay and innovation. For those with a liking for the strange, unusual and downright revolting, or just a taste for great adventure games, I can''t hesitate to recommend it.
In this game, you play as a young kidder named Steve. After waking up with no memory, you find yourself in horrifying-50s-cliche-town. I won't spoil anything, but the entire town is just wonderful in terms of enjoyability. It's an extremely well-done satire on America, with violent content in video games being the focus. This was the first game in a very, very long time I had to beat in one sitting simply due to how enjoyable it was. The story never failed to impress, and it was a blast all the way through — well... Until the final day. The game downright switches genres and becomes survival horror, which does not work at all with a point-and-click interface. As well as that, the endings are awful. Still, it comes definitely recommended for anybody looking for a disturbing, engrossing, and fascinating game.
Though, don't forget, you always were a kidder.
Best Game! Gore! Blood! Story! This game is freakin' good even in 2014! I recomend you play this game!
The Story is fantastic! Brilliant Game for those who like horror games!
There's nothing actually revolutionary going on in Harvester, but it's a creepy game featuring tried-and-true adventure mechanics with entertaining twists and some truly disturbing full-motion video segments that will follow you to bed and snuggle up nice and cozy in your dreams.
A dated adventure with sub-standard full-motion video, puzzles that had been used numerous times, trivial item collection and drab conversations with bizarre characters. Potential oozed from the box, but was never achieved.
The designers may have thought they were making some sort of social statement, but the intended point is lost in all the sound and fury of oozing eyeballs and babies being hacked apart. It'll play well with the teens, because they'll think it's edgy and funny (missing the parody and irony, assuming they're actually there), but adults will no doubt find it stupid.
The game has little merit, as either an adventure or a story. The premise is ludicrous, the graphics are mostly pedestrian, the voice-overs distinctly amateurish, the puzzles unimaginative, and the ending quite unsatisfying.
There was clearly some black humour and some quirky characterisations, and some of the more confronting material is clearly included for shock value. It all, however, gets lost in the wash.
Harvester is absolutely brilliant. Whoever gives this game a bad review simply doesn't understand what it is about. Written almost 20 years ago, it satirizes movie and video game tropes in ways that modern satires only wish they could. It's bizarre how everyone seems to be so fixated on the gore aspect, while ignoring the fact that the game cleverly utilizes it as a means to portray the subtle violence of society itself. Child abuse, incest, spousal abuse, ****, murder, adultery, racism, ****, corporal punishment, capital punishment, religious fundamentalism, gun culture, cannibalism, nationalism, these are all themes you come across from the very start of the game. If Harvester had been released today, it would have been deemed a masterpiece.
This game lets you kill anyone when ever. Plus a man with no lower body is guarding a nuclear missle silo. Pies are involved alot. This game is so weird and spectacularly amazing it shocks me how many people have never heard of it. This is "The Room" of video games. You always were a kidder steve.
The world's worst game, the graphics are terrible, it's terrible because of this game, I divorced my wife, I had an argument with my family, I have a fight with my kids, just because of this game, this game absolutely ****!!!
SummaryYou wake up one morning to a town full of strangers and inexplicable sights. You share your home with your not so perfect family and your supposed fiance lives next door. The you are plunged into a nightmare. Your fiancee is missing and you find a hideous bloody skull and spinal chord drapped across her bed! Is it hers? What is going on?...