An item of note is the key to the dollhouse buried out back in a shallow grave. Labyrinthine in design, it provides several opportunities for escape if the player can find the proper tools. The house is now a prison yard that makes no sense and full of danger.

He is given an opportunity to escape, but only by finding a way around the walls now built up around the neighbor’s house. The neighbor finds the player delving into the basement he tries to keep locked away from the world and seems to lock him away as well.Īct 2 picks up as the player wakes up imprisoned in this same basement, trapped in a room that projects false freedom through its windows. The player is left to discover this secret but finds only his own darkness. The neighbor, angry at and terrorized by a thing we don’t see, desperately fights to hide a dark secret behind a pleasant facade. Act 1 begins with the loss of the player’s childhood as he innocently chases a ball down the street. The neighbor is both a character (possibly an abuser) and a metaphor. We’re moving through the stages of the player character’s life and how he deals with personal trauma. However, it’s more than just the passage of time. Hello Neighbor in three actsįirst of all, telling the story of the game over the course of several years through multiple acts is amazing. Hello Neighbor is billed as a stealth horror game, but that doesn’t scratch the surface of what this game really is. I was completely unprepared for the level of emotional depth and storytelling that I found in the final release build of the game.

While mine was one of the glitched versions that never actually ended, the ending itself was little more than a title card. The third beta has been a staple of my streaming routine–I know it inside and out. It’s an entertaining game, but that’s about all I got from it. I thought of it as a goofy game with often weird physics and the occasional jump scare. This entire article is one big spoiler for the story of Hello Neighbor.įollowers of our podcast and Mixer channel know that I’ve been playing a bunch of Hello Neighbor in recent months.

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