Harvest Island Remaster Looking for Playtesters

Indie developer, Yobob Games, has announced that the beloved horror farming game, Harvest Island, is getting a remaster! A 2025 roadmap has been released, with a few features from phase one already completed, including expanding Becky’s story, dynamic lighting, and more. While phase one is already halfway completed, there’s more work to be done for fans to look forward to, and playtesters are needed. Access to playtesting can be requested via the Official Yobob Games Discord server, or via email.

Roadmap Features, Phase 1:

Expanded Story for Becky, along with redesigned levels
Dynamic lighting and horror atmosphere
Free movement and improved camera
Animated dialogue
Intuitive object interactions
Steam Deck compatibility
New title screen (coming soon)
Secret areas in Becky’s story (coming soon)
Full controller, mouse, and keyboard support (coming soon)
Becky can collect items for Will and Samantha (coming soon)
More explorative interactions (coming soon)
Redesigned inventory (coming soon)
Improved Quest UI (coming soon)

What is Harvest Island?

Living with your family on a remote island, you discover a sinister purpose of your existence. Look for a way to escape your idyllic farm life. Offer your Harvest Offering to the gods to keep up with the façade. Question everything and fake your blissful farming days.

Harvest Island is a story-driven, mysterious, dark, lore-rich adventure with horror and farming elements such as watering crops, collecting livestock produce, befriending wild animals, collecting tidepool critters, and catching fish for the gods. You can discover lots of well-hidden places like a cave behind a waterfall or befriending wild animals that’ll take you to new places or finding a randomly placed vending machine in a dark underground, hidden room along the beach. The places are hard to discover because of the maze-like island. Tides impede your adventure so conveniently, your dad always dismisses your curious questions, and your sister finds it odd that things on the island are purposefully hidden with some kind of weird message. You’ll need to figure out what’s wrong with Harvest Island, why the kids are alone with just their father, and dive deep into the lore of Harvest Island to figure out this mysterious, dark story.

If you’re interested in staying in the loop on all things Harvest Island, you can join the Official Discord Server, where feedback and suggestions are always welcome!

ABOUT Yobob Games.
The developer behind Yobob Games started developing games when he was in college, still using the identity of Yobob. It was an on and off again thing while he was finishing up his physics degree. During the time he was studying, he learned how to hone in on his craft in relation towards video games.

Yobob is proud to say that he’s studied under an LA Philharmonic Composer. He’s spent a good eight years learning how to write a captivating story and all the physics background he knows allowed him to quickly learn new skills, like programming.