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Harvester cover art

Harvester

DigiFX Interactive · Nightdive Studios · 2014-04-04

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

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!

8
playing now
91%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
11h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 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

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  • · Top 24% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 43k–103k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,718 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$0.89-85%
Steam$0.89-85%
GOG$5.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$5.99

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 56 of 91 observed days · $5.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-11 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.592015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-06-19 — best price $1.492016-01-15 — best price $0.592016-09-22 — best price $5.992017-07-05 — best price $5.992017-12-21 — best price $1.492018-07-23 — best price $1.492019-01-10 — best price $1.492019-11-03 — best price $5.992020-04-07 — best price $4.922020-06-24 — best price $4.922020-08-04 — best price $5.282020-09-15 — best price $5.992020-10-21 — best price $5.992020-11-22 — best price $5.992021-01-07 — best price $5.992021-02-07 — best price $4.992021-03-11 — best price $5.992021-04-18 — best price $4.992021-05-18 — best price $4.992021-06-28 — best price $5.992021-11-29 — best price $5.992022-04-04 — best price $5.992022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-10-16 — best price $4.402023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-06-04 — best price $4.402023-12-13 — best price $1.492024-03-15 — best price $1.492024-06-03 — best price $0.892024-08-21 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-03-19 — best price $1.792025-08-04 — best price $0.892025-10-09 — best price $1.192026-01-15 — best price $1.192026-04-12 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $0.892026-08-30 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4081282026-05-30 — 128 pageviews2026-06-02 — 196 pageviews2026-06-05 — 180 pageviews2026-06-08 — 247 pageviews2026-06-11 — 228 pageviews2026-06-14 — 172 pageviews2026-06-17 — 315 pageviews2026-06-20 — 209 pageviews2026-06-23 — 182 pageviews2026-06-26 — 163 pageviews2026-06-29 — 205 pageviews2026-07-02 — 175 pageviews2026-07-05 — 408 pageviews2026-07-08 — 178 pageviews2026-07-11 — 168 pageviews2026-07-14 — 269 pageviews2026-07-17 — 199 pageviews2026-07-20 — 206 pageviews2026-07-23 — 184 pageviews2026-07-26 — 305 pageviews2026-07-29 — 189 pageviews2026-08-01 — 193 pageviews2026-08-04 — 195 pageviews2026-08-07 — 155 pageviews2026-08-10 — 201 pageviews2026-08-13 — 152 pageviews2026-08-16 — 179 pageviews2026-08-19 — 258 pageviews2026-08-22 — 130 pageviews2026-08-25 — 200 pageviews2026-08-27 — 214 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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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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