As such, the game is meant to be played more than once, as each playthrough is supposed to offer different challenges as The Neighbor gets smarter. If you attempt to escape a lot, the neighbor will become more aware and take shortcuts to catch you. If there's a certain door you often find yourself going through, a trap may be set there to prevent your preferred approach in the future. This feature monitors how you play the game and may change your experience to try and trip you up. Hello Neighbor's big gameplay gimmick is its adaptive AI. You'll also have to complete puzzles which are inspired by the death traps that have become so prevalent in today's horror films. You'll have items you can find that'll help you stay hidden and access different areas of the house. The chief goal is to hide and make sure you're not caught by the neighbor, which would result in you getting taken back to the dungeon, or worse. In terms of gameplay, Hello Neighbor has a mix of stealth and puzzle elements throughout. The official descriptions for the game also suggest as much with the expectation that you'll be playing as the neighbor's daughter and witnessing how the two children deal with the loss of a family member. Other theories suggest the mother died in a car crash which led to one of the children reacting to that ordeal in a negative manner. This could be a nod to themes of domestic violence, which may be a clue as to what happened to The Neighbor's family. Looking closely, you can see that they're playing with a doll that they've squirted ketchup all over as if the doll is bleeding from its head. The cover for the game shows two children playing inside a room with The Neighbor watching over them. While there aren't many details on the plot point just yet, it's likely we'll learn more about The Neighbor's history, which supposedly includes a family that was no longer around by the time the original game took place. He was the one who was kidnapped, and this game is like living in the nightmares he still has about it to this day.Īs for Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek, the game is officially billed as a prequel. It's never confirmed, but it's believed that the boy is actually reliving his own horror throughout this game. This time when he went to check the house, it was back, and bigger, and more mysterious than ever, with a whole new weird and scary set of circumstances to battle and experience. Hello Neighbor (Image credit: tinyBuild Games)īut that night upon falling asleep, he is awakened by a scream, not unlike the one he heard as a boy.
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