Harold Halibut released back in 2024 with one of those visual styles that immediately made us sit up and pay attention. In the two years since, we have been hoping that its stop-motion-esque stylings might one day make the jump to Switch and next month, it’s set to do exactly that.

Developer Slow Bros announced yesterday that Harold Halibut will arrive on Switch 2 on 12th November, and while there’s every chance that we might be a little preoccupied with certain other games around then, we think it’ll be well worth a look.

For those who missed the original launch, the game started life with Slow Bros making real-life puppets and environments out of clay, before 3D scanning them into the characters we see on-screen today. This lends the whole thing a cool stop-motion vibe (though, of course, it’s not actually stop-motion), as if everything has swum in off the set of a Laika movie.

It’s fitting that the story sounds suitably adorable, too, with Harold and his alien fish friends setting out to save his submerged spaceship home.

Here’s a brief rundown of the game’s key features and a handful of screenshots:

  • Unique Stop-Motion Aesthetics:
    Every element in Harold Halibut is a tactile and meticulously hand-crafted using traditional sculpting and model-making techniques.
  • Full Voice Acting:
    All of the Fedoras’ wonderful inhabitants come to life with full English voiceover, elevating the game’s narrative to cinematic proportions.
  • An expansive Character Ensemble:
    Meet a variety of unique characters and get to know their personalities, quirks and stories through meaningful conversations.
  • A riveting cinematic storyline:
    Journey through a captivating narrative, underscored by a carefully orchestrated script that blends drama, humor, and suspense

At around 12 hours to beat, this could be a nice little chaser for all those Zelda play sessions next month — hey, it’s going to be a great couple of weeks for protagonists that look like puppets.