Harold Halibut is like a cheery BioShock under an alien sea

Too often, depictions of postapocalyptic society focus on grimdark, gritty, and gruesome. But Harold Halibut offers another perspective: dreamy and awkward, channeling Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic. It’s a PC point-and-click adventure with a stop-motion aesthetic, and it’s the debut effort from German indie studio Slow Bros.

The studio has been working on Harold Halibut for over five years. It started as a part-time project, and two years ago, cofounder and game designer Onat Hekimoglu and three others began working on it as a full-time endeavor. Slow Bros did attempt to raise funds via Kickstarter, but the project didn’t reach its goal. Yet the studio’s still forging forward and plans to complete it in about a year-and-a-half.