COLOGNE, OCT 14, 2026 - Announced today during IGN FanFest, developer Slow Bros is thrilled to announce that their acclaimed (Very Positive on Steam, over 1,000 reviews) handmade narrative adventure, Harold Halibut, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on November 12.
First released in the Spring of 2024, Harold Halibut is an adventure game that began its development in 2013 with Slow Bros building real world sets and puppets they would then scan into their interactive world. Now, having put everything together and after having first shipped on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, players can now explore Harold’s 3D scanned world of a city-sized spaceship, stranded in an alien ocean, wherever they go on Nintendo Switch 2.
It takes around 12 hours to complete Harold Halibut.
A completionist playthrough can take up to 18 hours.
About Harold Halibut
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 full of unique (fully voice acted) inhabitants, while he does his best to maintain the spaceship and find the true meaning of "home."
Features
- Unique Stop-Motion look through 3D scanned physical models. Yes, everything you see in the game is created in the real world using classic sculpting and modelmaking techniques
- More than 40 unique characters
- A cinematic story featuring fully voiced dialogue and motion captured animations
For more information on Harold Halibut, visit their website at http://www.haroldhalibut.com/
For special interview requests or any other requests, get in touch with pr@popagenda.co
Find the game on Steam.
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About Slow Bros.
Slow Bros. is a small indie studio based in Germany dedicated to thoughtfully bridging analogue and digital worlds in the form of interactive experiences. Founded in 2015 by long time friends Onat Hekimoglu, Ole Tillmann, Fabian Preuschoff and Daniel Beckmann, the studio member's diverse backgrounds including video game production, filmmaking, carpentry, apparel, and illustration give them a unique skill set with various applications, in games, VR-experiences, and art installations. Currently the studio is producing their first full-length video game Harold Halibut.
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