It’s a prequel, and one that focuses on the Neighbor’s son and daughter. With Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek, Dynamic Pixels finally fills in some of the blanks. Fans have continued to theorize, picking apart the game’s four, fairly brief acts to find some meaning.
However, as you play Hello Neighbor you get the sense that it’s trying to tell a much deeper story, as evidenced by the occasional game over cutscene and fairly unassuming clues scattered about the house. You never really learn who he is or what exactly is going on in that basement.
After escaping the house your character moves to the city only to return to Raven Brooks many years later, facing off against the Neighbor in a bizarre dream sequence, his home gradually turning into a rickety fortress held together by boards and nails. On the surface, Hello Neighbor doesn’t have much of a story. Not only did this imbue Hello Neighbor with a more unique sense of character, but it also meant that the game could target a younger audience that would, in turn, grow into a thriving fanbase. Since it was revealed a couple of years ago, the game became increasingly more stylised, the end result looking like a Lemony Snicket/Cartoon Network crossover – peculiar and eccentric with a sinister undertone. It’s an interesting, creepy premise though the game wasn’t without its fair share of issues from confusing puzzles and rough first-person platforming to the Neighbor’s sporadic AI and a myriad of bugs.įor Dynamic Pixels, one thing that worked in the developer’s favor was a shift in art direction. What follows is a series of puzzles that often require you to build platforms, flip switches, and collect key items from around the house including a variety of tools. As a child, you decide to enter the Neighbor’s home and investigate just what is going on while making sure you aren’t his next victim. Children have been going missing in the small suburban town of Raven Brooks and it doesn’t take long to work out who is behind these strange disappearances. While baffling to some there’s obviously a demand there, no doubt driven by the game’s popularity among YouTubers and streamers.įor those who’ve never heard of Hello Neighbor, it’s a bizarre, janky hodgepodge of genres: a first-person stealth puzzler with a healthy dose of platforming. There’s now a Hello Neighbor “universe” with two more games, a novel series, and merch that includes a Neighbor Funko Pop and even a range of McFarlane playsets and figures. Hello Neighboris somewhat of an anomaly: a game that was largely panned by critics at launch (sitting on a tepid OpenCritic average of 42) yet boasts a surprisingly large fanbase. Find out why in our Hello Neighbor Hide & Seek review. A deeper look at the tragic past of a villain, but the returning horrors are not welcome ones.
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