Harold Halibut
- April 16, 2024
- Slow Bros.
- 10h median play time
A gorgeously hand-crafted adventure about escaping mundanity by taking chances.
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Get on Xbox Games Store"Harold Halibut" is a narrative-driven game taking place on a spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. As Harold, a lab assistant, you'll explore a vibrant world, interact with diverse characters, and help the ship's lead scientist in her quest to find a new home for humanity. The game's unique stop-motion aesthetics add a tangible, handmade quality to the retro-future setting.
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PC
Playstation 5
Windows
Xbox Series X|S
Cloud
PlayStation
Xbox
Xbox Game Pass
Reviews
- story234 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 5 % negative mentions
- graphics99 mentions
- 54 % positive mentions
- 43 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- gameplay82 mentions
- 17 % positive mentions
- 72 % neutral mentions
- 11 % negative mentions
- music49 mentions
- 51 % positive mentions
- 45 % neutral mentions
- 4 % negative mentions
- emotional29 mentions
- 97 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Harold Halibut Review
Harold Halibut’s amazingly hand-crafted stop-motion visuals buckle under the weight of the game’s repetitive and shallow gameplay and drawn out runtime.
55%Harold Halibut Review
We really wanted to love Harold Halibut, and there are some redeeming qualities. Its wonderful aesthetic is unique and detailed, it has a great sci-fi hook, and there are some good moments throughout the story. Unfortunately, these aspects depreciate due to a prolonged runtime, most of which is filled with slow, repetitive treks from one scene to the next. The narrative is left to hold everything together, but it sadly doesn't quite stick the landing thanks to pacing issues and some iffy writing. This is one fish you might want to let get away.
50%Harold Halibut Review – No Place Like Home
Harold Halibut’s narrative, setting and visuals are so wonderful and creative from a sci-fi perspective, it’s an enormous shame it’s housed within such a one-note and heartbreakingly boring video game.
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