Harvest Exit Plan

Harvest Exit Plan is a fruit-picking game about Nico, who inherits his grandparents’ orchard after spending every childhood summer there collecting fallen apples. He plans to clear the orchard, sell the fruit and the land, and never touch another apple. But as he works, he finds himself enjoying it.

Nico’s orchard

The orchard has six gardens, each with its own fruit and a robot that keeps working while you are elsewhere. Collect fruit and sell it to buy tools and upgrades at the workbench. Twelve rare finds, two for each fruit, are mixed in with the ordinary produce and added to your collection when you uncover them. Each garden also has mastery goals.

Clearing all six gardens completes the first season. Season two begins immediately at a faster pace, with cards that change how the season plays. Cards can increase basket size, extend the grabber’s reach, make robots work harder or lower workbench prices for the rest of the season. There are 20 cards so far, and from season six onward you pick ten at a time. As a run progresses, the scale of collecting grows from gathering a piece or two by hand to using a fruit vacuum that collects 25 pieces a second; the final garden can hold 79,000 peaches.

Two ways to pick

You can take a relaxed approach, walking around and holding the collect button as you clear the grass. There are no timers, failure conditions or pursuers, and you can pause to look at the trees. You can choose upgrades, leave a robot working in one garden and collect in another, or simply take your time.

For a more focused run, keep collecting without a break to build a streak. The pace and sound rise until you reach FRENZY. Clearing a quarter of a garden cleanly earns a payout for the rest of the run. Choosing tools for different fruit densities, deciding when to sell and planning which upgrades to buy all affect your results. The records screen tracks your best pick rate, longest flow, time spent in Frenzy, distance walked and each tool’s share of the work; leaderboards let you compare records.

Tools and options

• Three tools: use them alongside a workbench of upgrades, where choosing one purchase means passing up another.
• Cozy mode: hide speed readouts and record pop-ups, and collect with a toggle instead of holding a button.
• Additional options: the game includes Steam achievements and leaderboards, ten voiced and subtitled languages, a colour-blind mode, free key rebinding and scalable text.