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'.
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 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.
Harold Halibut started life in 2012 as a conversation over dinner about our love of stop-motion and story games.
It wasn't long after that we started building dollhouse sized sets and puppets in our bedrooms:
The result is a cross between game and stop motion film.
Welded metal, textiles sewn against tiny wooden floorboards and clay faces the size of walnuts immerse the player in Harold's tactile world.
Out now!
(PC, Mac, Xbox Series X/S, PS5)
Team
Onat Hekimoglu
Ole Tillmann
Fabian Preuschoff
Ilja Burzev
Kardelen Babal
Daniel Beckmann
Holle Schlickmann
Sascha Haus
Tommy Kolak
Gabriel Schmitz
Max Selvi
Sol Bekic
