Harvester
Worth it · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $0.84/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 73 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Supper (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats CAYNE (free, scores 55).
The press gave it 53; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 38-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 377 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 251 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
janky and broken as hell at times (crashes, fullscreen not working, various other things) but if you can get past that its a really charming and interesting game, with fun puzzles great characters and existent combat, all with a really well-developed story and world
I think Harvester is a hard game to review, and the best way to get a gauge for if you'll enjoy it is to take a look at a few Let's Plays and see if the slower pace and scary and goofy nature of the game is the kind of game you can get into. The game places you in the shoes of an 18 year old man with amnesia in the town of Harvest, Texas during the 1950s. You are tasked with finding out the nature of the strange...
The logic is ridiculous... It's almost trial and error of what will work and what won't. The game isn't very polished, and most things just don't make any sense. There is a LOT of blood and gore, monsters attacking, etc. I just reached a point when I said enough is enough and just deleted it. That said: IF you can get this on sale for under a buck, take it for a ride. Some parts make sense and are fun, and you can...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Harvester scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/287020/harvesterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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