Harold Halibut
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$34.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$13.9960% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 1,362
- Genre rank
- Top 30% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.5h
- To 100%
- 17.6h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 23 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $9.79 May 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 30 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, This Bed We Made ($24.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 20).
More about Harold Halibut
Of the 517 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 10.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 15 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game has so much to love! The voice acting, voice direction, music, the look of the puppets and set design are just out of this world! The mundanity of walking around the ship can be a bit much sometimes, but I really didn't mind overall as hearing what was going on with the characters and what they had to say to be super fun to follow throughout the games story. I don't even know if I could pick a favorite...
1 more review, not recommended
The only thing this game really has going for it is the whole claymation-esque style to it. Past that there's really no substance to the game and it commits the ultimate sin any entertainment can commit of being boring. Once the game grabs hold of you it just refuses to let go of you and makes sure the trek to the end is as slow and tedious as possible, especially in the latter half of the game where it stops being...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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’.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480, 56 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Harold Halibut scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/924750/harold-halibutReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.