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Harvester cover art

Harvester

DigiFX Interactive · Nightdive Studios · 2014-04-04

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 06, 2014 (Mac), Mar 06, 2014 (Linux), Sep 05, 1996 (DOS), Mar 06, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!

Harvester is a 2014 Adventure game priced at $0.89, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (91% of 1734 reviews).

6
playing now
91%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
10,941
twitch viewers (latest)
10941.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
81/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
11h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Harvester is a point-and-click adventure game written and directed by Gilbert P. Austin and developed by DigiFX Interactive. It was published for MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux in North America on September 24, 1996. Players take the role of Steve Mason, an 18-year-old man who awakens in the fictional Texas town of Harvest in 1953, with amnesia. Over the next week, he is coerced or manipulated into performing a series of tasks with increasingly violent consequences at the behest of The Order of the Harvest Moon, a cult-like organization which seems to dominate the town and which promises to reveal the truth about Steve and how he found himself in Harvest. The game is known for its violent content and its meta-commentary examination of violence, and has garnered a cult following.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 121 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 43k–104k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,734 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.89-85%
GOG$1.79-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2014-12-12) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 79 of 123 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620182026Week of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 10 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
101Apr 2014Aug 2026Apr 2014 — avg 4 · peak 23Aug 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7Dec 2014 — avg 5 · peak 31Apr 2015 — avg 6 · peak 20Aug 2015 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2015 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2016 — avg 4 · peak 21Aug 2016 — avg 2 · peak 9Dec 2016 — avg 3 · peak 24Apr 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2017 — avg 2 · peak 11Apr 2018 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2018 — avg 2 · peak 11Dec 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2019 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Dec 2021 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Dec 2022 — avg 4 · peak 17Apr 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2024 — avg 6 · peak 86Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 17Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 61
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$0.592015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-08-28 — best price $3.292016-06-08 — best price $1.492017-05-11 — best price $1.492017-12-21 — best price $1.492018-08-30 — best price $1.192019-06-27 — best price $5.992020-03-16 — best price $2.392020-06-24 — best price $4.922020-08-12 — best price $5.992020-10-03 — best price $5.992020-11-14 — best price $5.282021-01-07 — best price $5.992021-02-15 — best price $5.992021-04-01 — best price $5.992021-05-11 — best price $5.992021-06-28 — best price $5.992021-12-22 — best price $2.092022-05-23 — best price $5.992022-09-29 — best price $1.492023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-07-11 — best price $4.692024-02-13 — best price $4.692024-05-08 — best price $5.992024-08-21 — best price $5.992025-01-16 — best price $5.992025-05-22 — best price $5.992025-09-26 — best price $5.992026-01-15 — best price $1.192026-05-13 — best price $5.992026-08-17 — best price $0.892026-09-17 — best price $1.792026-10-12 — best price $0.892026-10-15 — best price $1.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5151282026-05-30 — 128 pageviews2026-06-03 — 206 pageviews2026-06-07 — 183 pageviews2026-06-11 — 228 pageviews2026-06-15 — 206 pageviews2026-06-19 — 192 pageviews2026-06-23 — 182 pageviews2026-06-27 — 170 pageviews2026-07-01 — 169 pageviews2026-07-05 — 408 pageviews2026-07-09 — 163 pageviews2026-07-13 — 244 pageviews2026-07-17 — 199 pageviews2026-07-21 — 226 pageviews2026-07-25 — 204 pageviews2026-07-29 — 189 pageviews2026-08-02 — 177 pageviews2026-08-06 — 177 pageviews2026-08-10 — 201 pageviews2026-08-14 — 175 pageviews2026-08-18 — 203 pageviews2026-08-22 — 130 pageviews2026-08-26 — 217 pageviews2026-08-30 — 259 pageviews2026-09-03 — 208 pageviews2026-09-07 — 201 pageviews2026-09-11 — 149 pageviews2026-09-15 — 163 pageviews2026-09-19 — 147 pageviews2026-09-23 — 168 pageviews2026-09-27 — 152 pageviews2026-10-01 — 181 pageviews2026-10-05 — 156 pageviews2026-10-09 — 176 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

13k11k2026-10-02 11:12 — 12,653 viewers2026-10-02 12:12 — 11,477 viewers2026-10-02 13:12 — 11,224 viewers2026-10-03 12:12 — 10,544 viewers2026-10-03 13:12 — 10,723 viewers2026-10-03 14:12 — 10,941 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

FMVGoreRetro1990'sHorrorSatireClassicSurrealViolentAdventure

Census log

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

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