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Harvester

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Harvester
Harvester cover
Developers
DigiFX Interactive
Publishers
Retail Merit Studios
Digital, former Nightdive Studios
Digital, current Lee Jacobson
Release dates
DOS August 31, 1996
Windows (DOSBox) March 6, 2014[1]
Linux (DOSBox) April 5, 2014[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) May 22, 2014[3]
Reception
Metacritic 53
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles FMV
Themes Adult, Contemporary, Dark, Detective/mystery, Horror, North America
Harvester on HowLongToBeat
Harvester on IGDB
Harvester on MobyGames
Harvester on Wikipedia

Harvester is a singleplayer cinematic camera adventure game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Windows
Linux
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5] Not available in Germany.
Windows
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\CONFIG.INI
Windows <path-to-game>\HARVEST\CONFIG.INI[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows <path-to-game>\HARVEST\[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Saves are stored in numbered files named SAVE.#, indexed by LOADSAVE.DES.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Options menu
Options menu

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects/Voice, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crashing when NPCs enter combat mode

The installation folder must not be mounted as the drive root in DOSBox; to avoid this mount a folder containing the installation folder (e.g. install the game to C:\Games\Harvest and then mount C:\Games\ as the DOSBox C: drive).

Videos not playing when in full-screen mode

Go to the Harvester DOSBox config file and change the line output=surface to output=overlay

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 DX 33 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA VLB/PCI
512 KB of VRAM
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX compatible graphics
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Integrated with 64 MB RAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 13.04
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL accelerated card or onboard graphics


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References