Harold Halibut
Dive into this nautic adventure as curiosity will guide you through a space ship wreck on an unknown planet made up of water. When one of the lead scientists still on board tries to unriddle the possibility of…
Harold Halibut is an adventure developed by Slow Bros., released 16 April 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $9.79 at GOG. The main story takes about 13.5 hrs to finish.
What Harold Halibut is
Harold Halibut is an adventure game developed by Slow Bros. and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 the ship’s lead scientist, Jeanne Mareaux. While most of the ship’s inhabitants have reconciled themselves to a life lived aboard the sunken ship, Mareaux still works tirelessly to find a way for the ship to leave the planet and find a new, dryer home. But of course the weird, wonderful and diverse people of the Fedora keep Harold busy too. Until one fateful encounter plunges Harold into a new world that nobody could have guessed existed - and one that may hold the key to Mareaux’s…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Harold Halibut holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 18 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $9.79, that works out to about $0.73 per hour of the main story, or $0.54 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz / AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 56GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.79 at GOG, 72% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Harold Halibut launched on 16 April 2024, within three weeks of Stellar Blade, Indika, Minishoot' Adventures and Another Crab's Treasure. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stellar Blade, Indika, Minishoot' Adventures, Another Crab's Treasure.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Harold Halibut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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