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Harold Halibut cover art

Harold Halibut

Slow Bros. · 2024-04-16

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 16, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 16, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 27, 2025 (Mac)

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’.

82%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
4.07★
PlayStation Store rating (2,983 ratings)
14h
to beat · rushed 10h · completionist 18h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$34.99
steam price (US)
Harold Halibut is a 2024 video game developed by German independent developer Slow Bros for PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. The game is a narrative-based adventure video game in which players control Harold, a janitor on a spacecraft submerged in an alien planet, and complete odd tasks for the ship's inhabitants. The game was created over a ten-year development process, first conceived as an unfunded part-time project to create a narrative game inspired by stop-motion animation. To implement a stop-motion aesthetic, the developers hand-made characters, objects and environments using various materials scanned into the game and animated in the Unity engine. During development, the game received several features, nominations and accolades for video game, film and culture festivals.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 195 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24/week).
  • · Review velocity up 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 30,244 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–61k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,351 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.79-72%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.79-72%
Microsoft Store$10.49-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.79 at Steam (2026-05-11) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 54 of 81 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
22722720242026Week of 2024-04-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$34.99$9.792024-04-162026-10-172024-04-16 — best price $29.742024-06-03 — best price $34.992024-07-12 — best price $34.992024-09-26 — best price $34.992024-11-13 — best price $23.442024-12-04 — best price $34.992025-01-03 — best price $34.992025-02-21 — best price $34.992025-03-04 — best price $34.992025-03-20 — best price $34.992025-04-24 — best price $20.992025-05-14 — best price $20.992025-06-14 — best price $34.992025-07-10 — best price $34.992025-07-31 — best price $17.492025-09-14 — best price $17.492025-09-29 — best price $17.492025-10-09 — best price $17.492025-11-17 — best price $13.992026-01-03 — best price $34.992026-01-23 — best price $13.992026-03-03 — best price $13.992026-03-26 — best price $34.992026-04-14 — best price $12.592026-05-12 — best price $34.992026-06-18 — best price $34.992026-07-21 — best price $9.792026-08-25 — best price $9.792026-09-10 — best price $34.992026-09-14 — best price $34.992026-09-18 — best price $9.792026-09-22 — best price $9.792026-09-26 — best price $9.792026-09-30 — best price $9.792026-10-04 — best price $9.792026-10-08 — best price $34.992026-10-12 — best price $9.792026-10-16 — best price $9.792026-10-17 — best price $9.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

125112026-07-19 — 34 pageviews2026-07-22 — 75 pageviews2026-07-25 — 48 pageviews2026-07-28 — 55 pageviews2026-07-31 — 42 pageviews2026-08-03 — 63 pageviews2026-08-06 — 51 pageviews2026-08-09 — 45 pageviews2026-08-12 — 33 pageviews2026-08-15 — 33 pageviews2026-08-18 — 33 pageviews2026-08-21 — 46 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-27 — 28 pageviews2026-08-30 — 33 pageviews2026-09-02 — 55 pageviews2026-09-05 — 13 pageviews2026-09-08 — 24 pageviews2026-09-11 — 31 pageviews2026-09-14 — 25 pageviews2026-09-17 — 26 pageviews2026-09-20 — 12 pageviews2026-09-23 — 32 pageviews2026-09-26 — 14 pageviews2026-09-29 — 25 pageviews2026-10-02 — 24 pageviews2026-10-05 — 32 pageviews2026-10-08 — 15 pageviews2026-10-11 — 25 pageviews2026-10-14 — 55 pageviews2026-10-15 — 114 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
85.3%
earned "Tubular!"
22.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudHDR available1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-04-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series (Xbox)6,1077%27
PS5 (PlayStation)3,79434%28
Steam (Steam)5828%27

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CozyIndieCasualAdventureCinematicEmotionalLore-RichWholesomeStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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