Harold Halibut
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $34.99.
- Length
- 10.6h
- Value
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480, 56 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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’.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.79. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lifeless Planet Premier Edition ($1.49, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 19).
Of the 509 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 10.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
85% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Harold Halibut scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/924750/harold-halibutThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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