I did not like Harvester.

Haven't played it yet, but you're not wrong about being unpleasant, or disgusting. Maybe even bad, considering how old it is, and in what era was it made. It's a game with hyper-violence from the era of overacted FMV games, by today's standards it's a really weird game.
Not sure if it is a good recommendation after these, but I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream very likely could get in the top unpleasant games category, likely along with Darkseed. They made some pretty upsetting type of horror-thriller games back in the time, when they couldn't just get away with jumpscares.

Thanks a lot for GAs!

I love FMV games and still have a lot of them to play, but I consider Harvester to be the best FMV game I have played so far. It is probably in my top 30 or 40 games of all time. It is certainly not for everyone though. I wasn't bothered by the gore at all, I actually thought it was fairly tame given the reputation of the game.

I looked up what Dosbox settings to use before playing the game and only had one technical issue, but I already knew about it, so it wasn't a big deal. Every once in a while a cut scene would be skipped. The solution was just to save often and when a scene gets skipped, use a hotkey to lower the cycle count in Dosbox and then reload to just before the cut scene to watch it. I was already saving before every conversation anyway so I could go back and play out every conversation option because I found it so interesting.

It looks ugly, disgusting and weird yes but it also look funny and interesting in some ways. It seems like the kind of game which some will love and some will hate

Thanks for the Harvester anyway!

It's an old cult classic of a game, and a very bizarre on at that. At least you gave it a try.

Bump and thank you.

Harvester is one of my favorite point and click adventure games. I think it's pretty obvious it's a "disgusting"/gory game which should be obvious to anyone who spends the smallest amount of research into the game. All in all I find the gore quite mild especially compared to the gory/horror movies that exist today. The main goal of the entire game is to make you feel disturbed/uncomfortable.

I would argue just because you don't like a game doesn't make it a bad game (I know you said it's just your opinion). A bad game is something that has poor gameplay, story or is riddled with bugs, ... Overall the story is coherent, the gameplay has aged fairly decently and while it may have some bugs, they're fairly limited. I have to say I never really enjoyed the combat-y parts and the acid gimmick towards the end but otherwise it's an excellent game (in my opinion).

I'd recommend the game to fans of point and click adventure games who are interested in an unconventional game and don't mind the gore, very light sexual theme (the screenshots are as risque as it's going to get) and old games. And yes there are some very light combat-y scenes towards the end, which are kind of meh.

I tried playing Harvester somewhere around year 2000 and just couldn't make myself finish it. I was a point-and-click fan back then already, I've always had a soft spot for FMV, and I didn't usually mind gore (like in Phantasmagoria, for example), but this game was way too disgusting; I also remember it desperately trying to be funny, that didn't help as well.

I like point & click and FMV, but looking at the store page it does look like it might be disgusting but I'd still like to try it out for myself, so thank you for the chance :)

You always were a kidder.

It is one of the great FMV games. I like how it is a satire yet it portrays the McCrathy era US town life so well. I like the puzzle design. But I think it could have tried to be a bit more forthcoming, especially with the violence. Up until some segments in the last act, it feels held back. It tried to go the route of Splatterhouse or the Toxic Avenger, just did not dare to do wholeheartedly up until the final act.

Look forward to trying it 😎

Seems, peculiar...

I have never played Harvester but have seen streamers playing it over Halloween. I haven't watched until the end so I still don't know what happens but what I saw looked like fun.

Did you leave a review for the game? Seems you have a more thought out opinion than most reviews posted to steam.

I never played Harvester, but it looks like one of those interesting classics that I should get around to playing at some point. The general consensus from what I've read is that the first two thirds or so of the game is great.

As for ET Armies, didn't care for it.