Hello Neighbor's chief redeeming feature is its art, which is striking, and the often inventive setpieces that it constructs around its central mystery. It's a game whose bizarre logic benefits from quick-cut skip-to-the-solution editing, whose half-functional AI neighbor can be funny when it's not your playthrough that he's disrupting. In fact, Hello Neighbor seems far better suited to Let's Plays than actual play. I had exactly zero fun attempting to crack Hello Neighbor's later stages on my own, and it feels inevitable that you'll be pushed towards YouTube tutorials to figure out the frequently bizarre logic. The house grows into a teetering, unlikely labyrinth full of egregious leaps of logic-think full-on Gabriel Knight 3 cat moustache territory. Controls cannot be rebound beyond changing mouse sensitivity and inverting the Y-axis.Īs Hello Neighbor progresses it becomes distinctly stranger, and the solutions to its puzzles move further and further away from the core premise. A limited number of in-game settings allow you to change resolution, texture quality, anti-aliasing, draw distance and other image quality options, but there's no way to alter the FOV. I've had him run past me unfazed because I've got one ankle concealed in an inch of shadow and I've had him launch at me like a heat-seeking missile from 20 yards away when I was sure he was looking in the other direction.Įven on a stable PC that comfortably exceeds the recommended settings, Hello Neighbor suffers from inconsistent FPS, freezing, and crashes.
Hello Neighbor doesn't clearly communicate what he can see, what he will be disturbed by, or what will trigger a search. He has no routine that you can plan around or try to disrupt. There's no real distinction to be made between the neighbor's dynamism and his inconsistency. The initial charm of the art style and premise quickly gives way to trial-and-error drudgery, and the atmosphere that Hello Neighbor tries to cultivate is quickly punctured as the game's mechanical issues are starkly exposed. Unfortunately, Hello Neighbor doesn't deliver: after months of alpha versions, the launch version of the game is buggy, inconsistent, and frustrating. It's an ambitious idea with a lot of promise: Alien: Isolation by way of The 'Burbs and Home Alone, a kid-friendly stealth horror sandbox.
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