Harold Halibut, a handcrafted game that's been in the works for 14 years, finally launches next month, and we've played its first two chapters.
Harold Halibut, a game that’s been in the works for 14 years, is finally coming out. The handcrafted narrative adventure is set to launch on April 16 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Ahead of its release date announcement, Digital Trends got a closer look at the project, going hands-on with the first five hours of the ambitious project and getting insight into its unusual development from its creators.
The project was first conceived in 2010 as a traditional point-and-click adventure game with a focus on puzzle solving. The co-founders noted that, at the time, the decision to use handcrafted objects was less an aesthetic choice and more a necessity since no one involved in its early creation “knew how to draw.” Thus, the team decided early on that it would create models of everything from characters to sets and scan them into the game.
All of that work shows in the game’s first two chapters. When I first boot up Harold Halibut, it’s a bit of a surreal experience. Nothing about its characters or sets feels digital in the way that I expect from games. It more resembles a lost European cartoon from the 1990s, one that I have full control over. The co-founders cite a wide range of animation influences, from Czech legend Jan Švankmajer to MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch.
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