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Harold Halibut Review
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Harold Halibut is a wholesome, handcrafted adventure with plenty of heart.
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Tristan Ogilvie
Reviewed on PC
Summary
Harold Halibut is a modern adventure game, with a strong focus on storytelling and exploration. Take in the atmosphere and be a part of this utopia-turned-awry.
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Yunus Emre GedikBeat
Recommended
7
The story revolves around the protagonist Harold Halibut and the community living in the spaceship stuck underwater which fled earth years ago. Everyone on the ship has a job, a family and things to do. Eventually, we discover a mystery of the planet; and the story takes us to an interesting adventure.
The gameplay consists of discovering, having dialogues with others and solving some basic puzzles.
Graphics are not only impressive, everything (characters and environments) is hand-crafted. Just like stop-motion movies.
Unfortunately, I wasn't fully satisfied by this game. Firstly, the story progresses slowly. The story is well-designed and interesting, but we only see it in the cutscenes of the main missions; and the side quests (or stuff) we need to do until we get there aren’t interesting, and they take too much time. More elements should have been added in terms of gameplay. More puzzles, progression, customization, and action should have been added.
Despite the problems, it was a unique experience. Thanks to everyone at the team.
I wish you a joyful game…
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Tomi
Not Recommended
6
Love a slow game but that was painful. Wonderful story just needlessly drawn out with almost no puzzles or traditional point and click style engagement.
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JorgaBeat
Recommended
7
It's a very atmospheric sci-fi journey, but for the lack of gameplay, it sometimes gets very boring. But if you really want to see an interesting story, you just need to give it a chance, despite all the problems.
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Nogeek28Beat
Recommended
8
Beautiful and strange little story! Love the anti capitalism and the beauty of people with no place finding each other!
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XkynerBeat
Not Recommended
7
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Recommended
8
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Recommended
7
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Recommended
7
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A24x7Beat
Not Recommended
5
Harold Halibut is here to ask some serious and depressing questions about life, loneliness, and friendship. It’s about an autistic person reconciling with depression and taking control of his life. But unfortunately the gameplay mechanics “perfectly” reflects the depressed mind set of the character. It’s depressing, boring, and unbearably slow. I’m mean it’s literally slow, from movement to quest design to story beats. And the fact that majority of the quests are simple and stupid fetch quests doesn’t help either. I understand the artistic choices behind all that. But it’s just a boring freaking game. The fact that only 5% of players who started the game finished it on XBOX proves that.
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damien mullinsBeat
Recommended
7
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Not Recommended
5
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XaocCPS
Recommended
8
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Recommended
7
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VolodymyrBeat
Recommended
9
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melvinpoppelaarsBeat
Recommended
8
Such a cute feelgood game. Gameplay wise there is not much there but the fun story combined with great writing and a unique artstyle totally makes up for it
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Arlenn14
Recommended
9
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Recommended
7
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Harold Halibut is a wholesome, handcrafted adventure with plenty of heart.
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