2024 · Story Rich · Cinematic · Walking Simulator
How long isHarold Halibut?
12 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 7 hours and 17 hours
On the long side for an interactive fiction game: 12 hours for the typical player, longer than 164 of 189 interactive fiction games here.
88% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Do the first two hours of Harold Halibut tell you?
In the first two hours57%recommend it
After that84%recommend it
18 in 100 said no: 14 after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 12 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 7 hours and 17 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,350 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
9% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 57% of those recommend it. After the window, 84% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 79% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 8 hours in.
When would you get there?
12days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 12 hours on Thursday, November 26.
Half of its reviewers had played between 7 and 17 hours: Nov 21 to Dec 1 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in Harold Halibut?
The filter
The Adventure Begins
10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold A Slice of Life. and never earned it.
How this is counted
42% of the players who launched Harold Halibut hold A Slice of Life., its first story achievement on Steam, and 18% hold Home Is Where the Heart Is, its last. The steepest drop comes between A Slice of Life. (42%) and The Adventure Begins (32%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is Harold Halibut worth it?
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Harold Halibut
- Steam list price, US
- $34.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 12 h
- interactive fiction game rate
- $2.50/h
- 12 h at that rate
- $30
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Harold Halibut worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical interactive fiction game charges: $2.92 an hour
Liked
84% recommend it after the refund windowmost interactive fiction games: 91%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $34.99, the typical player's 12 hours come to $2.92 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 84% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Harold Halibut costs about what the typical one of 189 interactive fiction games here charges $2.50.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (interactive fiction games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Harold Halibut today?
On PC, Xbox Series and PS5
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayXbox Series2024
- todayPS52024
- todayPC2025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Harold Halibut came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Harold Halibut?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Harold Halibut, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Harold Halibut would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
What did people here do with Harold Halibut?
2 of 4
Copies in the libraries here: never launched it
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Harold Halibut: a kind of game it is that Harold Halibut is not, a feature its tags carry that Harold Halibut's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.