Harvest: Massive Encounter

Harvest: Massive Encounter

Released Jan 2009

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.

79% positive · 164 reviews
Done
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $7.99
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Evaluation

Harvest: Massive Encounter launched on January 23, 2009 as a complete, self-contained real-time strategy game. The store description presents a fully defined feature set — five game modes, three worlds, ten enemy types, 25 achievements, and online high-score lists — with no mention of planned expansions, downloadable content, or ongoing updates. There are no DLC listings of any kind. The developer's news history contains six posts, none of which carry any development-relevant content (patch notes, announcements, roadmaps, or status updates). This game was released as a finished product and has never established a post-launch content cycle. It is complete as shipped.
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Store description presents a complete, fully defined feature set with no mention of future content, expansions, or post-launch updates.
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No DLC listings exist for this game — no season passes, expansions, or additional content of any kind.
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Details

Publisher
Oxeye Game Studio
Achievements
25
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

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. The game offers a vast array of possible strategies with these simple rules, and will compel you to try new and better base designs every time.

Your objective is simple: Stay alive for as long as possible. Compete on the extensive online high-score lists, form player groups that battle against other groups, or simply try to beat your own record on each of the game's planets. With two scores to beat, three planets to explore and four high-score enabled game modes, you will have a lot to do!

  • Survival Real-Time Strategy Game with Epic Proportions
  • Unique Resource Management that Requires Planning and Creative Thinking
  • Beautiful Rendered 2D Graphics
  • Five Game Modes Ranging from Relaxed to Insane
  • Three Worlds with New Challenges and Discoveries
  • Ten Distinct Enemy Alien Types
  • Five Building Types with Unique Abilities
  • Extensive Online High-scores
  • Unlock all 25 Steam Achievements
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