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Harvest: Massive Encounter

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Harvest: Massive Encounter

Rating: 4.5 (15 votes cast)

They looked for love and understanding. We had none. They asked for mutual benefit. We didn't plan to share. Now they're trying to take back their solar system. You won't let them!

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. In this 2D fantasy you take on the role as the base commander of a space colony far, far away, and must use five building types in a creative way to efficiently expand and defend it. 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.

The fundamental gameplay action of Harvest: Massive Encounter is to place buildings that cost credits and energy. Credits are gained by harvesting minerals from mineral fields, and energy is produced by power plants. What makes the game unique and interesting is how you get the energy to the building that requires it. Energy moves from the power plants to other locations by jumping between energy links that you place, and you can improve the energy network by setting waypoints.

You also need to build defenses. Lots of defenses! The aliens are out to get you! They must be stopped with Laser Towers, Missile Turrets and over-charged bombs that you place and power up with energy. The laser towers can be linked together to improve their range and damage, and the missile turrets can be upgraded for different purposes. These defenses are needed, because the aliens are equipped with ten distinct units, each that require different priorities and counter-measures.

Your objective is to try to 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
  • Nine Distinct Enemy Alien Types
  • Seven Building Types with Unique Abilities
  • Extensive Online High-scores
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Harvest: Massive Encounter review

By tomwjoseph posted 31st Dec 2008

I would highly recommend this game. It falls into the category of 'minutes to learn a lifetime to master'. This game is great for a quick gaming fix of 20 minutes, or you could dig in and spend hours refining your base building and defense strategies. An elegant and simple design with a variety of gaming scenarios, an active user community and the ability to mod make this a must buy.

Harvest: Massive Encounter review

By etherdeath posted 27th Sep 2008

This is a great game. Though there are only 5 units you can build, the game is challenging and much more interesting than you might expect. It is not the best strategy game out there, but considering the price and small game studio, this game is quite excellent. From what I understand, the game is open to modding and if I had the time and skill I would do that because I think this game is definitely something that can be built upon to be even more fun. I'm hoping for a sequel or mode game play modes. There is a demo, which gives you the complete essence of the game. Kudos to Oxeye Game Studio, definitely one of the top 10 games of the year.

Harvest: Massive Encounter review

By Darkreaver1980 posted 29th Mar 2008

This game is simply amazing.

i love games, where i have to defend something. But this one is just crazy. At begin, you only have 2-3 powerplants which are producting 1 energy every second. the energy will travel along powerlines which you are building. To build another powerplant, you have to spend 50 minerals to place it down and than you need to bring 20 energy so conctruct it. the more powerplant the more energy you have. energy is also required to power all your defenses.

There are thousand of ways to setup your base, i love to build circles of laserturrets around my powerplants and a nice missile base next to it.

Get it! its just 20 euro and every coin worth!