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Harvest: Massive Encounter

Oxeye Game Studio · 2009-01-23

Steam

StrategyIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 23, 2009 (Mac), Jan 23, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 23, 2009 (Linux)

Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens.

Harvest: Massive Encounter is a 2009 Strategy and Indie title priced at $7.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (79% of 164 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

1
playing now
79%
positive of 164 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Harvest: Massive Encounter is a tower defense real-time strategy video game from independent developer and publisher Oxeye Game Studio. It was released on March 5, 2008. The game was awarded a second place in the Swedish Game Awards 2007.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.6k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 164 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2015-03-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520102026Week of 2010-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2010-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2011-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012017-07-052015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-03-17 — best price $1.992015-03-18 — best price $9.992016-02-17 — best price $7.992017-06-22 — best price $3.992017-07-05 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1712026-06-01 — 7 pageviews2026-06-05 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-13 — 5 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1 pageviews2026-06-25 — 8 pageviews2026-06-29 — 9 pageviews2026-07-03 — 2 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 8 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 4 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 10 pageviews2026-07-31 — 10 pageviews2026-08-04 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 6 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-24 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 5 pageviews2026-09-09 — 7 pageviews2026-09-13 — 5 pageviews2026-09-17 — 3 pageviews2026-09-21 — 7 pageviews2026-09-25 — 9 pageviews2026-09-29 — 17 pageviews2026-10-03 — 8 pageviews2026-10-07 — 9 pageviews2026-10-11 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
37.7%
earned "Flawless Establishment"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieSci-fiStrategySingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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