Harvest: Massive Encounter

Harvest: Massive Encounter

Oxeye Game Studio · January 23, 2009 · Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense, Sci-fi, Singleplayer

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Harvest: Massive Encounter price by region

Harvest: Massive Encounter costs $4.99 in Georgia (USD), £5.79 in the United Kingdom, €6.59 in Europe (EUR), $7.99 in the United States, CA$8.99 in Canada, NZ$10.29 in New Zealand, A$11.50 in Australia, R$16.59 in Brazil and zł28.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Harvest: Massive Encounter offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
United Kingdom £5.79 £5.79 — 1
Europe (EUR) €6.59 €6.59 — 1
United Statesyour region $7.99 $7.99 — 1
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 1
New Zealand NZ$10.29 NZ$10.29 — 1
Australia A$11.50 A$11.50 — 1
Brazil R$16.59 R$16.59 — 1
Poland zł28.99 zł28.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Harvest: Massive Encounter

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

Harvest: Massive Encounter — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Harvest: Massive Encounter is a tower defense game with strategic depth that rewards creative tower placement, linking, and enemy prioritization, though some players feel the lack of tower upgrades makes progression frustrating and the endgame limited. Opinions vary significantly on value, with dedicated players praising hundreds of hours of gameplay while others find it too restrictive without upgrades and suggest waiting for a substantial sale.

Recommended Jun 27, 2026
One of my favorite Tower Defense games of all times. I have over 1000 hours of play time on steam and several hundreds on the old version from before Steam. I don't play it anymore because there simply isn't any more I could possibly do after reaching level 1000+ on the main planet. To the people who say that there isn't anything you can do to win because you can't upgrade the towers, you should know that there is a ton of subtle ways to use strategy that are not obvious at first glance, like linking towers and nodes, enemy priority, and so on. I would love to see a sequel to this some day.
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Recommended Oct 15, 2026
this game when i was just learning abotu games was so cool all the little lights and the big lasers
Not recommended May 16, 2026
OK in normal mode this game is good up to a point. You can not upgrade a single thing period. There is no way to win. So in my view it is a flop. It would be worth buying if it was $0.99 but above that hell no.
Recommended May 4, 2026
Did you know this was worked on by _jeb? from minecraft?
Recommended Apr 14, 2026
great game
Recommended Feb 19, 2026
Actually surprisingly good little tower defence game. The screenshots make it look pretty ugly, but it like kind of nice in motion. Interesting trifecta of resource gathering, power supply and distribution and defensive structures layers in the gameplay, forcing you to balance them all effectively to progress.

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