Rogue Harvest
- April 16, 2018
- Genetix Studio
Get on Steam"Rogue Harvest is a Rogue-like Open World Adventure with procedurally generated environments, offering a variety of gameplay activities such as exploration, combat, resource gathering, and farming. Players must survive harsh elements and permadeath while leveling up skills and crafting abilities. The game provides new content and features regularly, with each playthrough unique and valuable."
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game has potential and could be enjoyable for players looking for a challenge.
- Some players find it fun for a couple of hours despite its flaws.
- The concept of survival and crafting is appealing, and the game has a unique permadeath mechanic.
- The game is unfinished, abandoned, and lacks meaningful content, making it feel like a cash grab.
- Technical issues abound, including crashes, poor graphics, and uncustomizable controls, leading to a frustrating experience.
- The developer has not updated the game in years and has misled players by selling an incomplete product.
- graphics8 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 38 % neutral mentions
- 38 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game have been criticized for relying on outdated retro pixel art, lacking modern visual appeal and polish. Users noted the absence of resolution options and meaningful graphics settings, leading to a frustrating experience with performance issues. Overall, the graphics are seen as a significant drawback, making the game less appealing compared to contemporary titles.
“A choice was made to use obsolete, decades-old retro pixel art as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”
“There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks.”
“Add to that the fact that it doesn't load when I click 'load game', it doesn't close when I click 'close' (running in the background, cheeky cheeky!) and has no options to change the graphics except for VSync on/off and full/windowed mode... the choice is clear - avoid.”
- story4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game's story is criticized for lacking coherence and depth, with players noting a confusing narrative that fails to connect effectively with the gameplay. The reliance on repetitive procedural generation instead of thoughtful level design further detracts from the overall storytelling experience, leaving players wanting more clarity and polish in the plot.
“The game features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procedural generation algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the game, to avoid doing the important job of level/map design.”
- monetization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The monetization of Rogue Harvest is heavily criticized, with users labeling it as a cash grab that exploits gamers by selling an incomplete and abandoned early access product with no content or clear objectives.
“Rogue Harvest is an abandoned early access 2D retro pixel top-down JRPG-style survival/crafting/mining game with no content and no clear objective, that will never be completed and only exists on Steam as a cash grab to scam gamers into buying an incomplete and abandoned product.”
- music2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The music in the game has received criticism for frequently cutting out, which many players find frustrating and detracts from the overall experience.
“I dislike the controls and expected more from the game; the music randomly cuts out, and I find it annoying when it doesn't.”
