Hello Neighbor

Rather than try and make a quick buck out of cheap thrills, Dynamic Pixels and tinyBuild took the popular trope of hide-and-seek horror and twisted it into something new and creative. There is a great game buried here, as long as the development studio fixes the problems currently plaguing it... And if they can manage to really polish it, then the horror genre has much innovation to offer.

Hello Neighbor is a frustrating slog through a gauntlet of illogical puzzles that rely on persistence and thoroughness far more than cleverness, observation, or ingenuity. The stealth is hit-or-miss, alternating between feeling too punishing and borderline irrelevant from act to act. Some clever level design and a clear talent for making me feel creeped out eased the frustration, but don’t present enough of a reason for me to recommend anyone put themselves through 15-20 hours of this. I wish I’d just stayed on my own side of the fence.

Hello Neighbor is a complete mess with tons of bugs, stupid AI and a confusing storyline. The performance is even worse than the demo version.

It’s a shame the final version of Hello Neighbor isn’t what we wanted it to be. The great concept is poorly executed, with plenty of issues, ranging from the physics to the AI or the puzzle design.

Hello Neighbor is unpolished to the point that it feels unfinished. The overpowered enemy A.I. makes the gameplay miserable; models and animations are stiff, and physics critical to completing puzzles are so woefully uncalibrated that much of the game feels like you’re stacking boxes and hoping for the best. The game falls so short of its genre companions that it’s hard to recommend it to anyone, in spite of its beautiful aesthetic. Hello Neighbor simply isn’t fun or compelling even when it’s working.

Hello Neighbor is a game you persevere in due to sheer luck rather than any sort of actual skill, foresight, or cleverness. There's no catharsis, insight, or revelations waiting at the end of the ordeal, just a sort of uneasy malaise over what the images and environments near the end are meant to represent. As such, a simple, appealing concept is rendered inert.

An exemplary “YouTube shocker” of a game. Avoid at all costs.

Best game. Although some bugs, its really fun! Also the nostalgia and the story :(

Back in 2016, I stumbled upon some YouTube videos showing the alpha versions of this game and decided to check a couple out. The game piqued my interest, so I installed it myself and really enjoyed the gameplay loop—breaking into someone's house, grabbing items, and unlocking things—all while a deranged homeowner stalks you. However, there are downsides: the bugs are a whole other story—there are plenty of them. I suppose you could cut them some slack given it’s an indie studio with a limited budget (though you have to consider their original Kickstarter goal versus the actual budget they worked with). Another striking detail is the cartoonish art style—unusual for a stealth-horror game. I mean, have you seen the atmosphere they created for this genre? The CEO of tinyBuild justified this by saying they were "catering to the target age group"—which is just idiotic, guys. That said, I have to admit that the game's initial alpha version is genuinely scary (ironically enough), even with the host of bugs and unfinished elements (though, fair enough, we can chalk that up to it being an alpha).

The story is fine gameplay is meh having a lotta bugs but has a good modding community

Хорош только сюжет, который примитивен, но понятен. Остальное ужасно. Одни только баги.

Bem ruim, decepcionante eu diria, o pior jogo que já joguei e nem digo os bugs, eu realmente, prefiro bater a cabeça na parede a ter que jogar novamente esse jogo, entre jogar esse jogo horrível e jogar qualquer outro eu prefiriria sempre em todas as vidas jogar outro jogo, pq esse jogo sem condição, além do gráfico ele não tem muito a oferecer, literalmente te joga em um mapa, não tem objetivos, a não ser se matar para encontrar uma chave ou cartão que permita o avanço no jogo, não tem história, trilha sonora chucra e o vizinho nem se fala, chato e irritante, te vê a kilometros de distância e te persegue até não poder mais, um dos piores jogos que já finalizei