Hello Neighbor

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4.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 328 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 109 out of 328
  2. Mixed: 52 out of 328
  3. Negative: 167 out of 328

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  1. BlueRazor274
    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    … Expand
  2. Dinura
    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. Daven_Seaworthy
    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. ODHAWKINS64
    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. Ruudra
    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. Rockstaar9
    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. WashedPotatoes
    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. hyunwest123
    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. fidocrew
    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. JuksBr
    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. Seminho
    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. Psycho74563
    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. EternalMail
    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. MrYawn
    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.    … Expand
  15. maure88devil
    Jul 26, 2018
    1
    Embarassing, sad, bad, ugly, boring, buggy, clusmy! This is just an epic fail game.
  16. SammyBoy207
    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).    … Expand
  17. Sabotower
    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. worldfire2020
    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.    … Expand
  19. Toastclaimer
    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. Meeerko
    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. Naruto78909
    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. reb0rn
    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. Tchernyshov12
    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. GTherion
    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. Review123
    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. Fitz_Red
    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. Syl20
    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...    … Expand
  28. CyberRobotnix
    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. Lowd01
    Jan 8, 2018
    1
    Interesting concept very poorly executed. Played for about an hour before it lost all of its charm...
  30. nooblox85
    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
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 17 out of 19
  1. Games.cz
    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.
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  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]
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