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  1. Dec 8, 2017
    3
    I'm sorry but recommending this game at its current state right now should be considered a crime.

    I was super exited for this game after playing Alpha 1 and the ironic thing is Alpha 1 was the best and most stable version of the game, every update since felt like a downgrade and just added more problems to the game. Even after the game is apparently fully developed, I still feel like
    I'm sorry but recommending this game at its current state right now should be considered a crime.

    I was super exited for this game after playing Alpha 1 and the ironic thing is Alpha 1 was the best and most stable version of the game, every update since felt like a downgrade and just added more problems to the game. Even after the game is apparently fully developed, I still feel like I'm playing the beta version just slightly more extended. This is by no means a finished game and I'm just sick of these early access games being left half finished or just rushed out with a ton of bugs.
    This game does not deserve a rating above 5/10, I don't plan on buying another game made or published by these guys since obviously these devs could care less about the quality of their own games.

    Do not buy this game for $30, instead just watch a lets player on youtube, it will be more entertaining than playing the actual game plus its free. :-P
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  2. May 23, 2018
    4
    This is a game with great potential. A game that, if done right, would be a fantastic experience. But, what Dynamic Pixels did to this game is not right. Poor implementation of features is the main cause for this. The art style idea they went with is fine. The A.I system in the game is insanely annoying since, especially in the early Acts because the house is SO small, the neighbor wouldThis is a game with great potential. A game that, if done right, would be a fantastic experience. But, what Dynamic Pixels did to this game is not right. Poor implementation of features is the main cause for this. The art style idea they went with is fine. The A.I system in the game is insanely annoying since, especially in the early Acts because the house is SO small, the neighbor would just catch the player outright. I can't believe tinyBuild was the publisher of this game. Expand
  3. Mar 4, 2018
    3
    Unfortunately it just feels way too incomplete, not like a full experience, and overall kinda buggy, making it hard to justify replays too.
  4. Sep 20, 2019
    3
    I was really intrigued by this as I do enjoy puzzle games and it looked quite quirky and different. In my opinion, the game could have been really successful, but it has a huge flaw. It is far, far too difficult. Honestly, I would get stuck, watch a Youtube tutorial and just think "how would I have ever known to have done that" - over and over again. This isn't even me being dumb - I amI was really intrigued by this as I do enjoy puzzle games and it looked quite quirky and different. In my opinion, the game could have been really successful, but it has a huge flaw. It is far, far too difficult. Honestly, I would get stuck, watch a Youtube tutorial and just think "how would I have ever known to have done that" - over and over again. This isn't even me being dumb - I am generally quite good at puzzle games and have enjoyed playing Portal, Qube 2 and The Turing Test in the past. Expand
  5. Jul 1, 2018
    1
    The concept of the game is great but it's current state is terrible. It's filled with bugs, the AI (which is one of it's big selling points) is unpredictable, and it still feels like it's in alpha state.
  6. May 17, 2020
    2
    I'm very surprised at how popular this game has become. It's extremely ugly, terrible AI, terrible puzzles that don't work half the time, and a bad, confusing story that's too plain. It's one redeeming quality is just how crazy the game progresses, like the dude has a train in his house and crazy stuff like that. It's also fun to rant on. It's sad that many better games aren't becomingI'm very surprised at how popular this game has become. It's extremely ugly, terrible AI, terrible puzzles that don't work half the time, and a bad, confusing story that's too plain. It's one redeeming quality is just how crazy the game progresses, like the dude has a train in his house and crazy stuff like that. It's also fun to rant on. It's sad that many better games aren't becoming popular, yet this piece of crap is. Expand
  7. Jul 21, 2022
    2
    had so much potential - some of the beta and alpha demos were extremely good. ill never understand what happened in the development of the full game to make it this bad
  8. Mar 6, 2022
    0
    terrible. the game is so weird and teh ending doesnt even make sense like what did we go through all that trouble for.
  9. May 20, 2021
    3
    I will make this as simple as possible. The concept is great but the execution is awful. I guarantee you will enjoy watching somebody else play this more than playing this yourself. Don't waste your money or time.
  10. Jun 6, 2021
    0
    This is the worst thing i've ever seen in my entire life, the phisics, mechanics and anything else makes no fricking sense (love you austin) and this game drove me to insanity
  11. Jun 6, 2021
    0
    Thats the worse game that I ever played in my entire life. In general, all aspects of this deplorable game are horrible. This game destroied all my sanity and I want it back please.
  12. Jul 13, 2021
    1
    This game is literally a disaster. It’s bugged as hell, the graphics are ugly, controls are horrible and the neighbors ai is just dumb, it’s even an insult calling it an ai. I have to admit tho that in act 1, I actually wanted to know what’s inside the basement. That’s it.

    It would be better if the game was free and not 20 dollars. I still don’t know how people like this buggy hell.
  13. Dec 23, 2022
    0
    This game made my dick shrink and directly after i played this my mom kicked me out i hate this game
  14. Dec 8, 2017
    4
    The game has a nice art style, but besides that there is really nothing to this game, its just another generic game that offers nothing new to the table. The game still feels unfinished, its riddled with bugs/glitches, a good number of them are game breaking and the A.I. sucks which completely ruins the game for me since the main focus of gameplay is based around the A.I.

    Clearly this
    The game has a nice art style, but besides that there is really nothing to this game, its just another generic game that offers nothing new to the table. The game still feels unfinished, its riddled with bugs/glitches, a good number of them are game breaking and the A.I. sucks which completely ruins the game for me since the main focus of gameplay is based around the A.I.

    Clearly this game was rushed and had little to no care for it when it comes to the quality of the "finished" product, If you still feel like checking it out... Don't buy it for the full $30, wait for it to go on sale for like $15 - $10.
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  15. Jul 26, 2018
    1
    Embarassing, sad, bad, ugly, boring, buggy, clusmy! This is just an epic fail game.
  16. Dec 14, 2017
    4
    I'm just going to leave a quick unbiased review and move on to some other games. (Hello Neighbor) has a lot of potential and can be a pretty fun game when it works, again when it works. There are so many game breaking bugs that just taints the experience of what would have otherwise been a really good indie game.

    (Example Of Some Bugs) These bugs can range from falling out of the map,
    I'm just going to leave a quick unbiased review and move on to some other games. (Hello Neighbor) has a lot of potential and can be a pretty fun game when it works, again when it works. There are so many game breaking bugs that just taints the experience of what would have otherwise been a really good indie game.

    (Example Of Some Bugs) These bugs can range from falling out of the map, broken/stuck A.I, textures not loading in and instead has the default Unreal Engine 4 grey checkerboard surface, some cutscenes don't play correctly or freezes forcing you to restart, etc. The most bizarre bug was when the Neighbor Guy got caught up in some collision based objects and gets shot straight up in the air and out of the map, at this point I had the whole (ACT/Level) to myself without worrying about the Neighbor which made that playthrough really boring.

    The game isn't always about running from the neighbor, some acts mixes things up a bit and have you playing through some weird dream like sequences which were actually pretty cool visually. Also there is a story, however rather then telling a story through dialogue, its instead told through expressions/body language and even through visual symbolism. But as interesting of an idea this was, It could have been implemented a little better and even when you do start to get some sort of idea of what is happening in the story at the end of the day its just standard at best. That would have been fine however rather then being okay with a standard story, the game leaves me feeling empty inside and that I have wasted my time playing this game, this is all due to the unbelievably disappointing ending. It's like you go to this old house, have a fever dream and then wake up and go back to moving your stuff in the house... that's literally the ending, look it up if you don't believe me.

    So the story was a let down, but there are a few things this game gets right. The most noticeable positive thing about the game is it's Eye Candy art style. Even when I read the negative reviews almost all of them had to admit that they liked the art style despite the other flaws of the game. Another thing the game does well is the gameplay, at the start of the review I said its a good game when it works, well when bugs are disrupting your playthrough the game is actually pretty fun. You have a decent sized map to work with when hiding from the neighbor and along side that there are quite a bit of interesting puzzles that get you thinking but are not at hard even for those who aren't very good or even hate puzzles. A lot of the puzzles are based around the way you explore the environment and also physic based as well.

    The main focus of the gameplay however is by dealing with the neighbor and it's supposedly amazing A.I. Now i'm just going to say it as it is, the A.I. is kinda dumb and doesn't always work the way its suppose to and I think overall the A.I. was the biggest let down. I wasn't expecting a great story or anything, what originally got my interest was the concept of how the A.I. was going to be used in the game. The A.I. from my first playthrough got stuck/lost 3 times, when you have an A.I. thats not that great fiddling around with traps and other tactics your result is usually going to be disaster. Half of the time the methods he uses to stop me end up being used against him even when I have no part in it. The most common way he gets stuck is when he boards himself in a room that has no other way out and sometimes his A.I. path finding gets confused if you stay in certain areas.
    When these things aren't happening you can get some pretty fun and intense situations happening but they can be rare depending on your approaches of playing the game.

    So to sum everything up, the game was over hyped and the developers were dishonest about how advance the game really was. (Hello Neighbor) Is not a bad game, its just a disappointing game. Hello Neighbor is sort of like No Man's Sky, both are good games in their own ways but sadly both were rushed, both developers lied about the features of their games and were over hyped by the general public. If all the bugs were fixed and the game had more polished content to offer I would give this game a (6/10) or (7/10) but due to how the game was published, its just left a bad taste in my mouth... this game gets a (4/10).
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  17. Feb 25, 2018
    2
    While the first act has a bit of promise to it, it quickly devolves into an incoherent and overly cryptic mess, with glitches left, right and center.
  18. Dec 14, 2017
    2
    Anyone else getting the impression that almost all of the positive reviews might just be one or two desperate fans with multiple accounts trying to manipulate the ratings? I say this because 5 of the reviews have equally bad grammar and 2 of the 5 reviews misspelled A.I. with I.A. Not going to lie this is more than just coincidental and thats not counting the recent spam "Reviews" thatAnyone else getting the impression that almost all of the positive reviews might just be one or two desperate fans with multiple accounts trying to manipulate the ratings? I say this because 5 of the reviews have equally bad grammar and 2 of the 5 reviews misspelled A.I. with I.A. Not going to lie this is more than just coincidental and thats not counting the recent spam "Reviews" that fill the whole comment with (xdddd) just to post something.

    so with that said whatever you do don't buy this terrible game. Seriously even for the youtube/theory target audience this game fails on almost every level and when I say don't buy this game I mean even when it goes on sale its not worth it. No sum of money will justify the terrible quality of this game.
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  19. Feb 17, 2018
    2
    Pathetic AI, pitiful length and lack of threat makes Hello Neighbor an unenjoyable experience at best and a travesty at worst. Despite claiming to be a full game it feels less polished and complete than its earliest prototypes and the devs didn't seem to have a full grasp on what the wanted the game to be and it ends up a confusing mess with a enemy thats a less threatening neighbor thanPathetic AI, pitiful length and lack of threat makes Hello Neighbor an unenjoyable experience at best and a travesty at worst. Despite claiming to be a full game it feels less polished and complete than its earliest prototypes and the devs didn't seem to have a full grasp on what the wanted the game to be and it ends up a confusing mess with a enemy thats a less threatening neighbor than Ned Flanders Expand
  20. Dec 15, 2017
    3
    It's just very bad. The game failed to deliver what we asked for, it had so much hype. I just feel like I am still playing open beta. The textures didn't change at all from beta.
  21. Feb 20, 2018
    0
    This game is downright awful you bascally go and rob someones house your neighbor in fact this is quite possibly the dumbest game ever the graphics controls and everything is bad
  22. Nov 1, 2022
    2
    I really liked the alphas when I was younger, but the full game feels like im trying to build something i don't know how to build, so i go on YouTube and find a tutorial for it.
  23. Dec 27, 2017
    3
    What is a good idea?What is a good game?a huge number of bugs?crooked management?I was so hoping for this game.I thought she would be a very good.but I was wrong.don't buy or play this broken game.
  24. Jan 18, 2019
    0
    i'd rather stare at my ceiling than play this game, it's more enjoyable. A game that should have never been released.
  25. Feb 18, 2018
    4
    this does not scary even a baby, this game is a mess. are you kidding me that this is at the horror genre? this is stupid.
  26. May 8, 2018
    0
    Stupid not working piece of **** For kids and mentally retarded. And I am sad that tinyBuild was the publisher of this "game".
  27. Dec 21, 2017
    3
    I tried this game while it was in alpha phase and my toughts were : "What a great Idea, with a good concept but such a very very lame execution!"

    This game looked promising but the gameplay is BAD! It would've been soooo much better if it had a slower and more strategic pace. During the time I played it I felt like I was spending 90% of my time just running around, escaping. I
    I tried this game while it was in alpha phase and my toughts were : "What a great Idea, with a good concept but such a very very lame execution!"

    This game looked promising but the gameplay is BAD!
    It would've been soooo much better if it had a slower and more strategic pace.

    During the time I played it I felt like I was spending 90% of my time just running around, escaping.
    I wished there'd be more "hiding", more strategy!
    I would've prefered a more "Stealthy" approach/gameplay.
    Once I've been spotted by the neighbor, it felt as if my ONLY option was to run back to the street as fast as I can!

    I wished it was more like Outlast where you could hide in some places, some shadows in almost any room to have your persuer reset its state.

    Even when you do try and run, the action is so fast that you stumble and get stuck around every corner and most of the time end up being caught to a point where it's not even stressful anymore.

    Last times I intruded the house, once I got spotted I just waited for him to catch me cause I knew i'd just get more and more frustrated if I cared to try and escape...
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  28. Jan 22, 2018
    1
    I'm giving it a 1/10 because the neighbourg looks like the mafia guy from A Hat In Time.
    (Also, it should have deserved a 0/10)
  29. Jan 8, 2018
    1
    Interesting concept very poorly executed. Played for about an hour before it lost all of its charm...
  30. Feb 19, 2018
    3
    Worst horror game ever can't even scare me
    Graphic is not bad but the story seem like 12 year olds made them
  31. Feb 25, 2019
    3
    A "horror game" with absolutely no tension or intriguing mechanics. Even calling this a game is quite a stretch.
  32. Jan 4, 2020
    0
    Game is a piece of garbage don’t waste your time: he can’t jump efficiently and the game is stupid.
  33. Jun 28, 2022
    3
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  34. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Probably the most glitchy and buggy game I ever played! Nice art direction, but no consistency or quality control ever...
  35. Nov 3, 2019
    1
    A laughably bad game which sadly seemed pretty interesting at the beginning but ultimately destroyed any potential that it had .Now its a boring story with really bad gameplay mechanics and the graphics look like something a 12 year old did in blender.Avoid
  36. Dec 11, 2022
    1
    This game is very basic and pointless. Everything is too easy and it has too many repetition in this game. I didn't liked it.
  37. Dec 17, 2021
    3
    gameplay is pretty boring, plot is not intresting, atmosphere is bad too, quests boring
  38. May 16, 2019
    1
    One of the worst games I’ve ever played , it’s just awful in every single way, the puzzles are garbage and the AI is awful, and the worst part is that I was really excited for this game
  39. Dec 30, 2019
    0
    No se ni lo que tengo que hacer en el juego....
    No se puede controlar el audio en el propio juego...
    Me va lagueado el juego....
    Y eso...no hay controles por ninguna parte, no se que tengo que hacer....y la historia no es que sea buena.....es una mierda.
  40. May 12, 2020
    1
    One of the worst games I've ever played. The "puzzles" are a lame excuse that have no creativity. One section has a part where you have to take a painting off the wall to expose a hole. No other painting in the game can be removed, how the heck am I supposed to know that one can be removed. Do not play. Developer be ashamed.
  41. Feb 20, 2021
    4
    From the first few alphas, the game had a lot of potential. That is not to say that the game is terrible - but it just could have been so much better. It is a refreshing idea that vastly differs from standard horror games. However, some parts of the game feel frustrating and boring to say the least - especially the dream puzzles on the third act.

    Although the story is interesting and
    From the first few alphas, the game had a lot of potential. That is not to say that the game is terrible - but it just could have been so much better. It is a refreshing idea that vastly differs from standard horror games. However, some parts of the game feel frustrating and boring to say the least - especially the dream puzzles on the third act.

    Although the story is interesting and some of the puzzles are good ideas, the excessive amount of bugs makes you wonder whether your puzzle's solutions are based on bugs or indeed intended by the developers.
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  42. Dec 20, 2021
    3
    This is honestly one of the worst games I have ever had the displeasure of playing in my life. An extremely promising concept that was made popular by countless youtubers and ultimately never expanded upon due to the unwillingness of the developers. Instead, they release this broken, unfinished mess of a game. Even without the bugs, the level design is downright insulting, the story isThis is honestly one of the worst games I have ever had the displeasure of playing in my life. An extremely promising concept that was made popular by countless youtubers and ultimately never expanded upon due to the unwillingness of the developers. Instead, they release this broken, unfinished mess of a game. Even without the bugs, the level design is downright insulting, the story is nonsensical, the puzzles are aimless and feel like they were randomly generated by an AI, and the "platforming" makes the original Tomb Raider on the PS1 look like Mario Odyssey in comparison. Do not spend your time on this promising waste of a game. Expand
  43. Jul 27, 2020
    0
    Easily the worst game I have ever played. I had never played such an awful game in my whole life.
  44. Oct 6, 2021
    0
    El apartado gráfico del juego es bonito y bastante bueno. Sin embargo este juego está lleno de bugs por todos lados. Desde que desaparecen objetos que usas como interacciones mal hechas, lanzas algún objeto a una ventana y se queda bugeado y no lo puedes coger. Por un bug de estos no he podido avanzar en el juego más allá del Acto 3, ni lo he podido terminar ni he podido continuar al ActoEl apartado gráfico del juego es bonito y bastante bueno. Sin embargo este juego está lleno de bugs por todos lados. Desde que desaparecen objetos que usas como interacciones mal hechas, lanzas algún objeto a una ventana y se queda bugeado y no lo puedes coger. Por un bug de estos no he podido avanzar en el juego más allá del Acto 3, ni lo he podido terminar ni he podido continuar al Acto Final ya que se me ha bugeado una tubería y no funciona la salida de agua. Es inadmisible que habiendo pagado este juego no lo pueda ni terminar. Las mecánicas del juego están bien, quizá a veces demasiado repetitivas, muy poco intuitivo el juego, tendrás probablemente que consultar vídeos porque habrá partes que ni puedas completar sin ayuda porque no es nada intuitivo, pero bueno es tu decisión si te la juegas a comprarlo y que se te bugee y no lo puedas ni terminar dejándolo a la mitad. Expand
  45. Nov 12, 2021
    4
    Lots of bugs, but still playable. Game is kinda creepy sometimes ngl
    can recommend ig.
  46. Aug 6, 2022
    2
    Графика дерьмовая, геймплей ужасный, с кучей непонятных головоломок. Куча багов.
  47. Mar 6, 2022
    0
    Я не поддерживаю бандитскую страну. Вам должно быть стыдно за Путина и выступить против агрессии на Украине
  48. May 11, 2022
    3
    Umm, what were they smoking when they made this game, it felt so glitchy and not fun. I tried so hard to beat this game, and I only got to the second part and I just raged and quit. It was horrible and confusing. It started fine, and fun, but then it got worse and worse. It was laggy and buggy and overall not fun. Maybe if I played one longer I would enjoy it more, but I can't do that whenUmm, what were they smoking when they made this game, it felt so glitchy and not fun. I tried so hard to beat this game, and I only got to the second part and I just raged and quit. It was horrible and confusing. It started fine, and fun, but then it got worse and worse. It was laggy and buggy and overall not fun. Maybe if I played one longer I would enjoy it more, but I can't do that when it's garbage, to begin with. Expand
  49. Dec 7, 2022
    2
    Hello Neighbor started off as a horror-genre game when the first alpha came out in December 2016, it was praised by the gaming community on YouTube for being a great stealth like puzzle-horror game.
    Those were the first two alphas, now let's get on to the last two alphas, alpha 3 and alpha 4. Alpha 3 was a disappointment to many, the game started getting very confusing to the point where
    Hello Neighbor started off as a horror-genre game when the first alpha came out in December 2016, it was praised by the gaming community on YouTube for being a great stealth like puzzle-horror game.
    Those were the first two alphas, now let's get on to the last two alphas, alpha 3 and alpha 4. Alpha 3 was a disappointment to many, the game started getting very confusing to the point where it's unplayable without a walkthrough, the game also crashed an intense amount to the point where it was similar to the saints row 2 PC port. Alpha 4 was extremely buggy and an extreme disappointment to anybody over the age of 13, it was worse than alpha 3 and that's when people realized... Hello Neighbor is going to be an indie mess. The Al was broken, the game required you to go on YouTube, and the game was buggier cyberpunk 2077 1.0 on the base PS4.
    You think they would fix this on release due to the bad critic reviews? That's a funny joke. The game to this day has very positive reviews on steam, all of them are 10 years old. I checked their accounts, they only had Hello Neighbor and the most amazing game ever made.. Secret Neighbor. Even with the patches, this game is forgettable and still sits at a huge 4/10 on metacritic from both critics and users.
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  50. Dec 2, 2022
    4
    This was a massive disappointment. The alphas were so much better in comparison.
  51. Mar 12, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Que puto asco de juego me dio gonorrea y cáncer testicular aún que tengo el platino
    -11/10 puto sida de juego
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  52. Aug 29, 2023
    1
    no, just no, this game is awful, a huge amount of bugs, frustrating ai and gameplay, puzzles only albert einstein could solve by himself, the sequel is mediocre but this is just bad
  53. Feb 27, 2023
    0
    Oh my, this is a really awful game. I'm sorry but this was very unacceptable.
  54. May 2, 2023
    4
    I don't know what happened to this one... All of the alphas were SO much better and they weren't even a complete game. I feel like the added a little too much story to it and it overcomplicated it, the whole fun of the game was just running through a gigantic house to try and unlock the basement, there's no need for so much story. Another thing is for some reason ITS SO BUGGY! There's manyI don't know what happened to this one... All of the alphas were SO much better and they weren't even a complete game. I feel like the added a little too much story to it and it overcomplicated it, the whole fun of the game was just running through a gigantic house to try and unlock the basement, there's no need for so much story. Another thing is for some reason ITS SO BUGGY! There's many bugs that you can beat this game in 5 minutes just by clipping and glitching. The entire thing feels like a rushed mess and has no replay value. 4/10 Expand
  55. May 12, 2023
    3
    This game is so difficult and the neighbour is clearly stupid and i dont like this game because its too hard 3/10
  56. Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Love it. The neighbor had sex with me. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Amazing game.
Metascore
38

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 19
  2. Negative: 17 out of 19
  1. Apr 24, 2018
    40
    Unfortunately, only an amount of frustration and badly made game is hidden in the tempting package. For a good horror adventure, you must go elsewhere.
  2. CD-Action
    Mar 14, 2018
    35
    The concept for the game is great, level design is solid and the visuals are sometimes nice but the whole thing is painfully underdone. [02/2018, p.46]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 16, 2018
    40
    The game is embarrassingly simple in its gameplay, but at the same time it’s incredibly difficult due to a poor technical state and a terrible game design. [Issue#282]