The Slow Bros studio announced today that their narrative adventure Harold Halibuta “handcrafted” game, which took the small team 10 years of development, will finally arrive on April 16 and it will be included in Xbox Game Pass at launch.
Harold Halibut is a game about friendship, set on a spaceship the size of a city immersed in an alien ocean, in a story that will keep us busy for 12 hours or more. In the role of the protagonist Harold we will be able to explore a lively and retro-futuristic world to find the true meaning of the word “home”. The game is characterized by a stop-motion visual style, where all objects, scenarios and characters were actually created by sculptors and then scanned in 3D to be animated within the game.
Here are the official details, followed by the game trailer.
Harold Halibut is a handcrafted game about friendship, set on a city-sized spaceship immersed in an alien ocean.
It’s been 250 years since your home, a spaceship that serves as Noah’s Ark, abandoned an Earth on the brink of a cold war to find a hospitable planet on which to safeguard the human race.
You are Harold, the young assistant to the ship’s chief scientist, Jeanne Mareaux. Even though many inhabitants have accepted the idea of living aboard a spaceship submerged in the ocean, Mareaux continues to work tirelessly to leave the planet and find a new… drier home.
But the strange and wonderful inhabitants of FEDORA I also give Harold something to do… Until a fateful meeting lands Harold in a world that no one could have ever imagined, a world that could hold the key to Mareaux’s plan for a new launch.
Together with Harold, he explores a vibrant, retro-futuristic world and finds the true meaning of the word “home”.
Characteristics:
Unique stop-motion graphics: Each element of Harold Halibut is a tactile object meticulously handcrafted using traditional sculpting and modeling techniques. Fully Voiced: All the wonderful inhabitants of Fedora come to life thanks to a full English dubbing, which brings the narrative of the game to cinematic levels. A large group of characters: Befriend a variety of unique characters and discover their personalities, quirks and stories through meaningful conversations. A fascinating cinematic plot: discover an engaging plot, highlighted by a well-structured script that blends drama, humor and suspense.
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