Harvest Hunt

Was super fun for some adrenaline run/jump scare play! Not my usual type of game - cool art, great atmosphere and easy to pick up when you want to pass some time.

What a fresh take on a horror game! The graphics are simply beautiful, and the gameplay is quite different than anything else I've played. The atmosphere is just badass, and I've had quite a few good jumpscares on this one! Well done, highly recommend. I'll absolutely be playing more of this game!

I think the last time I got this anxious playing a horror-themed game was back in the 90s with OG Resident Evil. Really inventive powers and abilities system. Forces, encourages, and rewards the player for approaching things differently. Great work for such a small team!

What if Dead By Daylight was good, singleplayer, and had a great story to it all!

Very well made survival folk horror that really feels unique. Amazing work, Villainous Games!

Harvest Hunt is a cool stylish horror roguelike. As the description says, runs take 10 minutes or so - you run around and gather weapons and materials while a monster chases you around the playing field every time. The map stays the same every run but the abilities and weapons available to you and the monster change between each run. It's not incredibly scary even at the most tense points of a chase. It's more casual than I expected in a lot of ways - I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing. It's an easy horror-themed roguelike that's on the lighter side of being scary. As you play you unlock lore tidbits after each run - It's well written, good stuff. I haven't finished the game and don't know yet how it ties up, but I can say that from the outset the writing is pretty solid. It's got a kind of "web of lies and intrigue" kind of mysterious air where each character feels unique through their writing, it's awesome. Definitely a labor of love - I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to play a horror game at their own pace with great lore drip-fed to you between runs.

I'm not usually a fan of horror games but something about this was just so enjoyable that I couldn't tear myself away. I have to admit I was more of a flight than fight warden (choosing to take the ambrosia and run whenever I could) but part of what makes this great is being able to pick how you play. I was definitely more unlucky on my first playthrough when it came to the cards I was pulling, so if you have the same trouble, just try again as the randomness giveth and it taketh away (and you'll probably be fine the next run if you had some really bad luck). I ended up forcing my husband and son to get involved too, so all three of us were invested as we reached the final season.

Overall my feelings for this game are positive, but repeating the same [spoiler] boss and the same over and over again for every season [/spoiler] got quite tedious after a while when I learned the [spoiler] boss's playstyle [/spoiler]. If they added more variety to the [spoiler] Devourer [/spoiler], maybe adding new versions or new creatures that would hunt every harvest season, I would absolutely give this a 10/10. As it is? Fun until you figure out the mechanics, then just kinda tedious. 7/10?

Game deserves more attention.

A spooky and challenging game, basically a single-player version of Hunt: Showdown. You're dropped into a small map and your goal is to harvest as much Ambrosia as you can from a series of landmarks before "extracting" from one of the exit points. But of course, it's not quite that simple. A large roaming monster ('The Devourer') is hunting you, and if it kills you, you lose whatever Ambrosia you found. You have a limited number of attempts to meet a specific "quota" of found Ambrosia, and if you're feeling especially bold, there are tools and weapons you can use to damage and potentially banish The Devourer for a large Ambrosia reward. You can unlock and play as a variety of different "Warden" characters, though in the current build of the game which Warden you pick really only affects which of the various Strength cards you begin with (there isn't any voice acting or unique abilities that differentiate the Wardens in terms of gameplay). Technically, Harvest Hunt isn't an early access game, but if the developer is planning to implement player feedback, here are my suggestions: -Hideouts feel largely useless since, if the player is chased into one, The Devourer often "camps" them by just standing around near the hideout the player is in, pretty much guaranteeing another chase will ensure when the player exits since The Devourer auto-detects them if they get too close even if they're crouched and their lantern is off (though it is at least nice that hideouts provide a one-time heal) -It'd be nice if there was some way the player could escape The Devourer's "grab," maybe through a timed QTE button press, and maybe only if they had a certain Strength card or only if they were holding a pitchfork -This would also help solve the current issue of pitchforks largely feeling useless since it's so easy for The Devourer to grab the player and drain most of their health -More unlockables would be nice, be they new Strenght/Fortification cards, new characters, cosmetic items, etc. Currently, once you manage to complete a full "run" of the game (finishing a full harvest season with each of the five currently available characters), there's really not much more incentive to keep playing aside from unlocking a few lore entries Aside from the above feedback, Harvest Hunt is a solid choice if you're looking for a spooky game to play and you like the "extraction" mechanic of Hunt: Showdown but you don't want to put up with all the PvP nonsense.