History VideoGame / HelloNeighbor

* AdultsAreUseless: It seems only the kid Protagonist hears the scream coming from the basement, despite it being very loud and in the middle of the street. In fact, apart from an occassional passing car, there don't seem to be any adults other than the Neighbor around at all.

* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Sometimes when the kid protagonist is caught, they can get short interactive dreams/visions hinting at some sort of tragedy in the Neighbor's life.

** In the opening segment of the game, you can see dozens of "Missing" (or "simming") posters on the streets, which foreshadows [[spoiler:what's in the basement, as well as the protagonist's fate at the end of Act I]].

The game was released on December 8 to mostly negative reviews. Players praised the artstyle and the story, but criticized the [[ObviousBeta sheer number of bugs]], the difficulty in evading the AI, and clunky physics and controls.

''Hello, Neighbor!'' is a FirstPersonPerspective {{Stealth|Based Game}} SurvivalHorror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement. The Neighbor's A.I. is highly advanced, and ''will'' learn from what happens in the game and [[AdaptiveAbility adapt tactics to stop you]]. Really enjoying climbing through that backyard window? Expect a bear trap there. Sneaking through the front door? There'll be cameras there soon. Trying to escape? The Neighbor will find a shortcut and catch you.

The game, while originally slated for release on August 29, 2017, has been pushed it back to December 8 to allow more time for QA testing.

* ChaseSequence: The first act ends in one of these, leading up to [[spoiler:a locked door, and the protagonist getting captured by the neighbor]].

The game is currently in Beta 3 and, while originally slated for release on August 29, 2017, the developers pushed it back to December 8 to allow more time for QA testing.

* AIBreaker: In Alpha 1, the Neighbor could be lured into your house, and his AI would promptly break, allowing you to freely explore his house.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: During one of the {{Nightmare Sequence}}s in the pre-Alpha, [[spoiler:the Neighbor turns into a giant and tries to capture you inside your bedroom.]]

* GameBreakingBug: Happens a couple times, since the game isn't finished yet.

* NoEnding: Since the game isn't finished yet, [[spoiler:once you unlock the basement door in the pre-Alpha, the player will find that there's no actual basement room or any secret (yet)]].

** In the Alpha the Neighbor's house was revamped, ''and it becomes even weirder.'' For one, that train whistle you hear? ''There is a small trolley car on the side of his house.''

** At the end of Beta 3, [[spoiler: You find a giant Neighbor in the basement, and you have to get inside the house on his back to beat him]]
* BearTrap: The Neighbor lays these all over his house AND even throws them at you in pre-Alpha 3, where he throws glue instead.

* CrazyPrepared: In all five versions currently available, the Neighbor boards up his basement door and outfits it with a keycard lock. In the pre-Alpha, Alpha 1, Alpha 3, and Alpha 4, he eventually places beartraps and motion detectors around his house as well. In the aforementioned Alphas, he will board up his windows to prevent you from getting in through them a second time. In the pre-Alpha, in addition to boarding up his basement and using a keycard lock, he also uses a number keypad. In Alpha 1, he has a [[spoiler:tiny robotic shark to attack intruders]]. In the second alpha, he boards up the room with the keycard in it and locks up the room with the crowbar and carries the key on him at all times. In the fourth alpha, he keeps the keycard frozen in a block of ice in the fridge, so even if someone were to find it, they would have to melt the ice to retrieve it, with the generator to the fridge being at the top floor of his house. He also keeps the crowbar in a room attached to a pair of electrical cables, so even if someone found it, they couldn't pick it up with their bare hands while it was still hot.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Whatever his dark secrets, your Neighbor starts out as an ordinary-looking man trying to keep up a façade of ordinary-looking life, and even treats his invading neighbors with ordinary mercy. As you blatantly invade his privacy, steal his stuff, wreck his belongings, and refuse to take a hint at the fact that this is highly illegal, he grows more and more unhinged in his attempts to keep you out. To be fair though, he was likely not a normal person to begin with, and if he didn't have something strange or illegal to hide, he could've simply called the police.

* GeniusBruiser: While he is a TopHeavyGuy, the Neighbor is quite strong and fast enough to chase you around his own house. He is also smart enough to place cameras, motion detectors, bear traps and other household items to make sure that you can't get into his basement.

* NoEnding: Since the game isn't finished yet, [[spoiler:once you unlock the basement door in the pre-Alpha, the player will find that there is no actual basement room or any secret (yet)]].
** [[spoiler:The Teaser Trailer shows that there indeed is something in the basement. Behind a very long corridor leading downwards is something looking like a corpse in a room full of candles, looking like some kind of ceremony or something and at least another room which is not shown, only the door leading to it. So as it looks, the basement will be its own part of the house to discover.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: While there's no way to kill the Neighbor, it's possible to torture the said bastard by throwing stuff at him such as a garbage bin, which will knock him out [[CrossesTheLineTwice as the latter screams in pain]]. Unless if he survives from getting knocked down and finally gets you, [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment though]].

* WorldLimitedToThePlot: While there is a, very detailed, outside world in the game, it bears no, as far as we know, relevance to the plot. It's merely scenery behind the InvisibleWalls.

* BearTrap: The Neighbor lays these all of over his house AND even throws them at you in pre-Alpha 3, where he throws glue instead.

* MadWomanInTheAttic: [[https://youtu.be/O41H9yESyHA This trailer]] implies this is what's in the Neighbor's basement, since [[spoiler:when the player enters the basement, there are silhouettes of other figures, and the sound of a woman sobbing, before the voice of a young girl screams "RUN!!!", causing the lights to go out, and the woman's sobs to stop. The player tries to see who or what made the noise, [[NothingIsScarier but doesn't find anything]]... Until the end of the level where, right when the Neighbor is about to drag the protagonist from his hiding place, the little girl screams, causing the Neighbor to ignore the player, and go after the little girl's voice]]. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The implications of this scene are...]] [[FridgeHorror disturbing, to say the least]].

* GeniusBruiser: While he is a TopHeavyGuy, the Neighbor is quite strong and fast enough to chase you around his own house. He is also smart enough to place cameras, motion detector, bear traps and other household items to make sure that you can't get into his basement.

The game is currently in Beta 3 and, while originally slated for release on August 29, 2017, the developers pushed it back to December 8 to allow mroe time for QA testing.

The game is currently in Beta 2 and is slated for release on August 29, 2017.

The game is currently in Beta 2 and is slated for release in August 29, 2017.

The game is currently in Beta 1 and is slated for release in Summer 2017.

The game is currently in Alpha 4 and is slated for release in Summer 2017.

* AscendedMeme: In the first three alphas, the Golden Apple was an UrbanLegendOfZelda. In Alpha 4, it's actually in the game. [[GuideDangIt it's a pain in the rear to get]], but once you do, you can put it in a funnel hidden to the side of the Neighbor's property to unlock a short secret cutscene. [[spoiler: It's from the Neighbor's point of view, and features the Shadow Person.]]

* DevelopersForesight: You'll be surprised on just how smart the Neighbor's A.I. is.

* MinimalistCast: There are two characters -- [[PlayerCharacter You]], and The Neighbor. [[spoiler:There might be more, if you count the shadow person and/or the people in the basement.]]

* ThreateningShark: In the Alpha, [[spoiler:the Neighbor has a pet shark on the 2nd floor, that can and will attack you. It turns out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytH6P6Cu7Mo it's actually a robot]]]].

''Hello Neighbor'' is a FirstPersonPerspective {{Stealth|Based Game}} SurvivalHorror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement. The Neighbor's A.I. is highly advanced, and ''will'' learn from what happens in the game and [[AdaptiveAbility adapt tactics to stop you]]. Really enjoying climbing through that backyard window? Expect a bear trap there. Sneaking through the front door? There'll be cameras there soon. Trying to escape? The Neighbor will find a shortcut and catch you.

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[[caption-width-right:350: You are an ordinary resident... aren't you?]]

The game is currently in alpha V.4 and is slated for release in Summer 2017.

** [[spoiler:In the pre-alpha, there is one room in the Neighbor's house that is locked from every door. However if you manage to go through the window you can see a dark red room where all the furniture is on the ceiling and a small rat-sized door on the corner.]]

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: During one of the {{Nightmare Sequence}}s in the pre-alpha, [[spoiler:the Neighbor turns into a giant and tries to capture you inside your bedroom.]]
* BearTrap: The Neighbor lays these all of over his house AND even throws them at you (though in Alpha 3, he throws glue instead).

** [[spoiler:Again, in the ending of the alpha.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In all five versions currently available, the Neighbor boards up his basement door and outfits it with a keycard lock. In the pre-alpha, Alpha 1, Alpha 3, and Alpha 4, he eventually places beartraps and motion detectors around his house as well. In the pre-alpha, Alpha 1, and Alpha 4, he will board up his windows to prevent you from getting in through them a second time. In the pre-alpha, in addition to boarding up his basement and using a keycard lock, he also uses a number keypad. In Alpha 1, he has a [[spoiler:tiny robotic shark to attack intruders]]. In the second alpha, he boards up the room with the keycard in it and locks up the room with the crowbar and carries the key on him at all times. In the fourth alpha, he keeps the keycard frozen in a block of ice in the fridge, so even if someone were to find it, they would have to melt the ice to retrieve it, with he generator to the fridge being at the top floor of his house. He also keeps the crowbar in a room attached to a pair of electrical cables, so even if someone found it, they couldn't pick it up with their bare hands while it was still hot.

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Can quite easily happen to you if the Neighbor catches you.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:In the alpha, once you unlock the basement door, the Neighbor knocks you out. Eventually, the protagonist wakes up and finds out that he's been BuriedAlive.]]

** In Alpha 1, the Neighbor will sometimes enter your house. While this would severely freak out players, it was also an AIBreaker, and the Neighbor wouldn't move away once he was there, meaning you got free reign of his house.

* GuideDangIt: Getting the hidden cutscene in Alpha 4. You have to first find a seed hidden in a hard-to-reach part of the Neighbor's house, plant it in the dirt patch in his yard, water it with a watering can, wait four hours (real time) for the tree to grow, knock the golden apple off its (very high up) branch, and then put it into the funnel hidden to the side of the Neighbor's property. Once you do this, you'll be rewarded with a short cutscene [[spoiler: from the Neighbor's point of view, featuring the shadow person]]. Note that there is no in-game hint towards this.

* InvisibleWall: Some of these block you from the neighborhood in the background. Interestingly enough, in the Alpha at least they're not insurmountable, because they aren't infinitely high and there's a glitch that allows you to ascend above the map in a trashcan.

* MinimalistCast: There are two characters -- You, and The Neighbor. [[spoiler: There might be more, if you count the shadow person and/or the people in the basement.]]

* NoEnding: Since the game isn't finished yet, [[spoiler:once you unlock the basement door in the pre-alpha, the player will find that there is no actual basement room or any secret]].

* OminouslyOpenDoor: In the beginning of the pre-alpha the Neighbor's basement door seems to be open, [[NightmareSequence but then...]]

* ThreateningShark: In the Alpha, [[spoiler: the Neighbor has a pet shark on the 2nd floor, that can and will attack you. It turns out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytH6P6Cu7Mo&list=PLnG_Wm-iC3dpw3aUkadVUkPnCVml45nAy it's actually a robot]]]].

* MinimalistCast: There are two characters -- You, and The Neighbor.