The ingenious Harold Halibut, an journey recreation leaning into the plasticine visuals of well-known IPs like Wallace & Gromit, hits all main platforms in early April 2024, so clear your schedules.

When it was first revealed, Harold Halibut shocked me with its ingenious mixture of stop-motion animation, journey recreation mechanics, and a narrative that dives deep for a bit soul-searching. The sport seems like a labor of affection and the story sounds prefer it’ll be as zany because the works that impressed it.

Harold Halibut cruises onto all main platforms subsequent month

Developer Sluggish Bros revealed that Harold Halibut shall be launched for PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S on April 10, 2024, in the course of the Future Video games Present Spring Showcase. This leaves lower than a month to attend till essentially the most visually placing journey recreation of the yr up to now is with us, and it’s one I’m going to be prioritizing as quickly as I get my fingers on it.

Over the course of the sport’s story, gamers tackle the function of Harold Halibut on a crashed spaceship. Town-sized ship is submerged in an alien ocean the place everybody has to do their half, however Harold, bless him, appears like a spare half with no function. He’s a pleasant sufficient man, and everybody will get on with him, however he’s all the time on the sidelines.

This all adjustments when Harold discovers an alien from the unfamiliar waters visits the ship. Whereas not the very best man for the job, Harold is handed the duty of escorting the creature again to its world whereas trying to keep away from those that may search to do it hurt within the title of science.

After all, this story is not going to solely take you on an exciting journey across the sunken spaceship and out onto the alien planet, but it surely’ll additionally present Harold so much about what dwelling means to him. As a person who feels misplaced when surrounded by his personal variety, he and the alien have a lot in widespread as outsiders in unusual locations.

I can already really feel myself welling up on the mere thought {that a} recreation goes to show me one thing about how I understand my dwelling and why that might change to make the world a extra comforting place. For me, this recreation is visually beautiful and far nearer to artwork than interactive media. I simply hope the story lives as much as that when it’s lastly right here.