Stop-Motion Animated Narrative Game Harold Halibut Launches Next Month

Slow Bros. has announced that their stop motion-inspired narrative adventure game Harold Halibut will launch for the PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and Xbox Game Pass on 16 April 2024, followed by PS4 and Xbox One at a later unspecified date.

Harold 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 a cold war to find a habitable planet 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 the weird, wonderful and diverse people of the FEDORA I keep Harold busy too… Until one fateful encounter plunges Harold into a world no one could have imagined, and one that may hold the key to Mareaux’s re-launch plans.

What’s unique about Harold Halibut is the unique stop-motion aesthetics, where every element in Harold Halibut is tactile and meticulously hand-crafted using traditional sculpting and model-making techniques. According to the developer, a full playthrough of the game will take around 12 hours to complete, and a completionist playthrough will take around 18 hours.

Check out the trailer below: