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(1996 Video Game)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Graphic content just shy of NC-17 rated nudity.
  • A pornographic poster on a wall in a bedroom shows the rear of a naked man.
  • A man masturbates to a pornographic magazine. He is beaten with a newspaper by another officer as punishment.
  • Mild-crude sexual references (ex. "strange stains on the bed", Lube etc.)
  • Strong, mature sexual themes (intercourse, masturbation, S&M, prostitution, sexual diseases, sexual toys, sexual slavery).
  • You can have intercourse with a prostitute and contract a sexually transmitted disease.
  • You can have a conversation with a middle-aged man about male genitalia.

Violence & Gore

  • Mom: (shocked) "Oh, that thing? I looked at it the other day. The very thought, breeding serial killers... It's disgusting!"
  • This implies/directly states that playing Harvester is just as bad as sharing in the desensitizing horrors that your player experiences.
  • Many, many more graphic scenes.

Profanity

  • Strong, high PG-13 level swearing, including:
  • Several uses of damn.
  • At least one use of bullshit.
  • Unique dialogue can be uncovered by entering "f(fornicate)" into a dialogue box in a conversation with your mother.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Mild.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This game is extremely twisted, brutal, messed up, grotesque, and warped.
  • Many, many extremely disturbing themes that may upset and disturb players (cannibalism, pedophilia, incest, rape, S&M, torture, etc.)
  • This game is not for anyone under the age of 18 for sure.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A man is forced to be a sexual slave by his wife. Many sex dolls and blood are seen all around the room. He is trapped in the room and tied to the bed.
  • A different man spies on her daughter dressing/undressing through a peephole in the bathroom. He also does this while she is having sex with your character.

Violence & Gore

  • Deaths and level of violence: Hand-drawn blood and gore effects, edited frame-by frame. Deaths may result in brain matter blasting all over the place, a man accidentally falling over and gouging his eye out with a box cutting knife, a man's head being brutally torn off of his shoulders by a carnivorous plant, suicide by hanging, etc. There's also a scene where a wasp lays eggs in a baby's head, and the next day the larva squirm out of his face and his eyes pop out of their sockets, and the mother has to push them back in with her bare hands. In another scene, a woman is being eaten by her own children as a metaphor for "how terrible parenting is in reality". Her legs are eaten and her cannibalistic undead children are still feasting on her while you speak to her. This scene is extremely graphic and disturbing, and was cut out of the game in Germany and the UK. All of this in full focus of the camera.
  • Freedom: You can kill anybody you want in the game, including children. You can use guns, makeshift weapons for bludgeoning and a ceremonial scythe-like weapon. Killing random people at the beginning of the game results in your arrest and execution via the electric chair. Towards the game's end, you go through certain trials, including being invited to torture and kill a man strapped to a table in his underwear, being told that you have to beat an elderly couple to death to continue on, etc.
  • Freedom Part II: At the end of the game, it is revealed to you that the town the game takes place in is a simulation, created to desensitize people to violence, and coerce them into joining a secret lodge of serial killers. You are then given the choice to stay in the twisted and sickly happy virtual world of Harvest for the remainder of your life, or exit to the real world by retrieving the skull and spinal cord of your still-living girlfriend, who shares your status as one of the two people in Harvest who aren't illusions. They remind you that she will feel all the pain of death even in the simulation. Choosing the latter lets you use the aforementioned ceremonial scythe-like weapon to hack apart her face as she screams in agony, tearing past brain matter and arteries and pulling out her spinal column to finish off the job. Your character then wakes up from the simulation, joins the cultish Order of the Harvest Moon, kills and eats the finger of a taxi driver and drives home. In the epilogue cutscene of the the only ending where you escape, your character is playing a computer game. Your mother peeks in your room, and the following exchange takes place.

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