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Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.
Harold Halibut is a story rich, cinematic and walking simulator game
developed and published by Slow Bros..
Released on April 16th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish and Italian.
It has received 881 reviews of which 742 were positive and 139 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 12.24€ on Steam with a 65% discount, but you can find it for 9.14€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz / AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 56 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD & Controller Recommended
MacOS
- Requires an Apple processor
- Processor: Apple Silicon, Apple M1
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 56 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Controller Recommended
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**Harold Halibut - A Flawed and Slow Story** It pains me to give this game only a 6/10, but it has major issues. Let's start with the good first. The game looks absolutely amazing! I love the hand-crafted look. It looks great with all the characters and environments, and this must've taken a lot of work to make. The voice acting is also great, and I really liked all the characters. Good music too. However, those are the best things about the game. It only goes downhill from there. Let me explain. This is perhaps the slowest pacing I've ever experienced in a game, and I actually like slow-paced games. When games take their time, I feel rewarded by the end, but in Harold Halibut, it becomes a pain after a while. For instance, you have a tube system that you use to "teleport" around. That sounds helpful, doesn't it? No, it's just slow. In this game, you mostly just do fetch quests, running around at an extremely slow pace on a big space station that's underwater. You run to one of the tubes to move to a next area, a slow animation plays, you hear the same intercom saying the same lines again and again as you use the water tubes, then there's a loading screen, then you finally get to the next area. It's fast enough, but it's the repetition that gets very tiring. What about the gameplay? Maybe it gets better? No, you just run back and forth the entire game. There are no real puzzles, no real mechanics, it's just to run around and talk to people, then deliver things or messages. That's it. The gameplay never evolves or changes. Now gameplay is THE most important aspect of a game to me, so when a game takes me 18 hours and never evolves its gameplay or does anything unique, you come out the other end feeling pretty disappointed. Even though I think gameplay is very important, would it matter much if the story was amazing? I actually wouldn't mind the gameplay taking a backseat if the story was incredible, but it's not. It's decent at best, but most of the time, it's pretty underwhelming. You play as Harold, a man that's very timid and unable to do much, unable to speak his mind on anything at all. He's almost autistic in a way, and I don't mean that in a rude way, as I'm autistic myself. You're in this space station that has landed in an alien ocean. You now live there, but the people have a plan to get out of the atmosphere and explore the cosmos again. Sounds epic, right? Well, you don't get to explore anything outside that space station and a little bit of the planet you're stranded on. Also, most of the game, nearly all the characters are rude as hell towards Harold. This made me so annoyed after a while. You do a bunch of annoying chores for these people, and they're always rude or don't care much. Towards the end, people eventually start liking him though, and I was so happy to see that. He finally has friends and he's useful, he feels accepted, and when they're finally going to escape the planet, he decides he want to stay with an alien he befriended. Yup. He finally gets respect from his mother figure, people finally like and care about him, and he decides to stay in a small cave for the rest of his life. Abysmal ending. That's a problem I have with the entire game: It seems made for children's TV in the UK, Germany or somewhere. It's very simple, and there are barely any deep scenes in the entire game. For instance, there's a sad scene where the postman dies, but it's only sad because he was super nice to everyone, a real standup guy, but it's not sad because he was some deep well-written character. Characters barely have anything to them, maybe a tiny bit of backstory, but that's it. It pains me to say this, because the voice acting is really good, and all the characters are all super charming, but the story itself? Pretty weak for a story-focused game. All in all, I felt pretty disappointed after playing this game. The art, characters and music are all wonderful, but the gameplay is painfully boring and the story is very simple and has a terrible ending. It also could've been a lot shorter, as I feel like much of the game is filler. Oh yeah! And I forgot that there's also a "twist" with a "villain" later in the game. It's so dumb and had me rolling my eyes like crazy. Still, I have to give it at least a 6/10 because of the art and music, and the fact that a small studio made it. If you want a charming game that's long and full of fun characters, this game is for you. Just don't expect a deep story or any interesting gameplay whatsoever.
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I really do truly appreciate the art, atmosphere and genuineness of the story. There are so many beautiful shots, and moments of serene ambiance that give so much life to the world of this game. The story feels extremely empathetic as it explores humanity's quest for meaning all alone in space, on the grand scale of a species, and on the small interpersonal scale. Harold's story I think is a very melancholic one--not an overtly tragic one, he has friends who care for him, but that doesn't always make you feel like you belong. I think the game expresses growing pains and how difficult change is very sharply. By the end of the game as the screen fades away into the ocean I couldn't help but feel sad. The ending itself was not sad, but change is scary, and the choices to move yourself out of your comfort zone are hard and lasting ones. There's always a grieving process when you take your life in a new direction.
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It seems that the developers have intentionally made the very beginning of the game slightly mundane in hopes to gate-keep the wonderful narrative they end up creating. I was initially drawn to the game by the unique clay-mation art-style and expected not much more than a simple point-and-click adventure, but I was happy to be proved wrong. The story that is spun throughout the game enveloped me and I really felt like I knew the characters, by the end I really felt like I lived on the Fedora with Harold. All this is built upon with an incredible OST.
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Experienced on the Meta Quest 3 You can view my 3D in VR gameplay here (SBS 3D video): https://youtu.be/EPpCvw2W1eI Yes you can play Harold Halibut in 3D in VR using the completely free Geo-11 3D mod (search for it), which renders the game in SBS 3D for viewing in VR using any app that lets you view 3D content in VR such as Virtual Desktop (Steam) or Bigscreen VR. The game looks beautiful in 3D in VR, it is total eye candy. It's like watching a 3D movie at the theater, which is perfect since this game is mostly a cinematic experience. Game ran perfectly fine for me, with only a few minor issues (such as posters or elevator buttons not quite looking exactly right). Performance was usually around 90-120 FPS on my RTX 3080 with DLSS on Quality with most important graphical options on high, but with motion blur, depth of field, lens effect, volumetric fog on low or turned off completely. I wish everyone would realize that these narrative-driven games / cinematic games are perfect for 180 VR. You don't even need to add motion controls! The VR 180 theatrical experience or spatial video as Apple calls it, is genuinely just better and beats out the pancake experience 10 out of 10 times. 3D in VR Rating 9/10. Almost perfect in VR, just a few minor flaws. I bought this game! If you enjoyed my review, please consider joining my Steam Curator group [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR]Oculus Rift Reviews.
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Beautiful game that I played on my steamdeck plugged into the TV with my wife watching. It played more like an animated show, rather than a game but after a long day of work I didn't mind that. It was fun, quirky and entertaining. The humour, and the delivery of the story itself was captivating and heartwarming from start to finish. We both loved the characters, and the little drawings that popped up in your notebook after each encounter. I can see this not being for everyone, but for those that like narrative heavy, walking sims this is a game to try. Humbadoo!
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Harold Halibut is currently priced at 12.24€ on Steam.
Harold Halibut is currently available at a 65% discount. You can purchase it for 12.24€ on Steam.
Harold Halibut received 742 positive votes out of a total of 881 achieving a rating of 7.98.
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Harold Halibut was developed and published by Slow Bros..
Harold Halibut is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Harold Halibut is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Harold Halibut is not playable on Linux.
Harold Halibut is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Harold Halibut. Explore additional content available for Harold Halibut on Steam.
Harold Halibut does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Harold Halibut does not support Steam Remote Play.
Harold Halibut is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Slow Bros.
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