60
Harold Halibut has an impressive story and art style, but it lacks the strong gameplay hooks to keep all but the most patient players engaged.
73
Slow Bros.' game combines charming claymation and meticulous craftsmanship with a bold, yet potentially divisive gameplay approach that reflects its protagonist's mundane life and emphasizes narrative over action. Despite losing its focus and reducing interactivity over time, its captivating characters and thought-provoking themes create an unforgettable audiovisual experience for some, while others may find it tedious.
59
Harold Halibut overstays its welcome like a free diver that descends too far. Its painfully boring gameplay consists of walking back and forth as the story unhurriedly transpires. Still, the oddball characters and sublime stop-motion aesthetics may hook a few gamers who are happy to wade in the shallows.
8
First you have to understand what you have in front of you. This is a kinetic novel. There is no skill required, there are no challenges, there is no real gameplay. It is a story that is told slowly with a fantastic artistic direction, among the best I have ever seen. Spectacular graphics and sound. Maybe the mistake was to propose it as a game, but it is not a game at all.
2
Great thematics but it is slow paced and the game has such long and unnecessary walks back and forth between missions.
0
an achievement that takes 15 hour of sitting around doing nothing and it still doesn't work too, don't make another game again until you can figure out how to properly put an achievement in a video game. 2025 and we still have incompetent developers wasting peoples time, be better
Harold Halibut
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Apr 16, 2024
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69
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Apr 15, 2024
100
While not your most traditional “game,” Harold Halibut is without a doubt a true work of art, something the likes of which we haven’t seen before and are unlikely to see again.
Apr 15, 2024
80
One thing’s for certain: you’ve never played a game like Harold Halibut before. You may have played cinematic narrative adventure titles before, but none offer up such a striking stop-motion style and thought-provoking narrative, especially when paired with a winning combination of mystery, heartfelt character relationships, and quirky artistic flair. You will question your own path in life and whether you’re truly happy, then leave you wondering how to find your own bluglglgl.
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Sep 15, 2024
10
Sensacional, extremamente criativo, engraçado e cativante. amei muito! Personagens muito bem escritos e ambientação incrível, um dos melhores jogos que eu joguei! Se você gosta de um jogo de história, este é para você!
Apr 22, 2024
10
Sûrement mon jeu inde de l’année pour l'instant... l'ambiance les personnage la DA mon tellement transporté et le scénario est très prenant. Evidemment il a beaucoup de mou des problèmes de rythme et peut être un manque d’interactivité pour un jeux vidéo mais justement pour moi c'est plus une oeuvre artistique ça dépasse le jeux vidéo et c'est une expérience a vivre. Le Sound Desing est sympa sans plus et musicalement il y a de très bonne idées même si assez **** pour finir Harold est très touchant les problèmes sociétal dénoncé dans ce jeux sont décuplé quand on suis Harold pendant tout le jeux.
Apr 15, 2024
80
Despite this path being surprisingly linear, with many of the game’s main questlines being simple, and playing out in long, dialogue-heavy segments, Harold Halibut maintains a deep sense of intrigue, and a richness of character growth. It’s an excellent, layered exploration of purpose, and where we fit into the fabric of the universe – one that is much bigger than we may ever comprehend.
Apr 16, 2024
70
Harold Halibut's world and the people that inhabit it were literally crafted by people that cared about him and his story. And while that story struggles under the weight of its ambitions, the human touches on every part of it are evident. Those are the heart and soul of the game, and they imprinted on me too.
Apr 19, 2024
60
Audiovisually enchanting adventure on a submerged spaceship with likeable characters, which is not entirely convincing in terms of narrative and has little depth in terms of gameplay.
Apr 15, 2024
60
A great artstyle and flashes of brilliance never truly make up for a meandering, risk-averse plot.
Apr 15, 2024
50
Looking at the Slow Bros.' game, it's hard not to associate it with The Neverhood, but these are just appearances. A bland protagonist, almost complete lack of gameplay, and - on top of that - a huge amount of bugs make Harold Halibut a fish that's very hard to digest.
May 8, 2024
7
Fantastic art design, soundtrack and voice acting elevate this 'adventure game'. The world and character designs reminded me of British stop motion like Wallace and gromit. As the ploy is centered around colonists stuck on an alien world for generations, things have become quite sterile and mundane for them. The way this is explored in the writing is fascinating with some humerous beurocratic office type jokes and existential questions being asked by the main characters. Gameplay is effectively minimal with walk and 'interact' being the most common things a player will do. Quests are almost entirely fetch missions from a to b and yet through this the charm of the characters and world elevate the material to surprisingly engaging levels. As others have mentioned, if the content was trimmed to be a bit tighter with less fetching and maybe some dialogue choices to mix things up a bit this could've been a banger. If you're a fan of story adventure games this one is for you!
Apr 20, 2024
7
(MY SCORE : 7.8 /10) This Narrative Story-Driven game which is set in a Post-Apocalyptic world is actually quite interesting, although perhaps some gamers will complain that they are bored with the Walking Simulator style and the lack of challenges in this game. You may initially feel confused by the lack of directions, even though we can actually see the "Main Task" on the PDA and sometimes reveal the location we have to go to, but remembering the location of the NPCs also holds an important key in this game! In this game we become Harold Halibut, an Assistant Scientist to Professor Jeanne Mareaux on the Fedora I, a Colony Ship that left a destroyed Earth. Where the ship is located in an ocean which is also inhabited by an alien creature called Weeoo. And the encounter with the dying Weeoo that he and Professor Mareaux managed to save in the Lab District, made Harold, a simple and sincere man, yearn for a more meaningful life than his life as an Assistant Scientist. At the end of the story, after Brigitte and Weeoo were able to save the Fedora I ship from the threat of freezing caused by Slippie's actions, Harold decided to stay in Flumylym Cave together with Weeoo, parted ways with Professor Mareaux, and did not accompany the Fedora I ship to leave the ocean.
Apr 12, 2025
2
Great thematics but it is slow paced and the game has such long and unnecessary walks back and forth between missions.
Apr 24, 2024
2
even free not worth it watch it on utube with 1.25c or skip it
- 8 - 11 boring disappointment long. -walking very repetitive fetch boring quest simulator, awful unnecessary mini games, glitches, uninteresting boring story (80% story filler), disappointment i wait this not a game 4 years to release shame i love interactive adventure games and cant refund it. -only good music and Stop-Motion animation.
SummaryHarold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship, and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. It's been 250 years since your home - an ark-like spaceship - fled an Earth on the verge of cold war to find a habitable planet on which to preserve the human race. You are Harold, a young lab assistant for ... Read More
