Solving a puzzle usually didn’t give me a sense of satisfaction. In fact, they’re worse in that the combination of items and actions needed to progress often don’t make any logical sense whatsoever, which turns it into pure trial and error. The later two acts felt better from a stealth standpoint thanks to more room to maneuver, but they featured some of the most bizarre and frustrating, “guess what I’m thinking” puzzles since the days of the ‘90s adventure game boom. A Town Uncovered Solving a puzzle usually didn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

Act 1’s modest cottage, for instance, was a pain to infiltrate due to the sheer lack of space between me and the neighbor. However, because the house’s floor plan gets larger and more elaborate across each of the acts, it creates some pacing issues and a strange inverse difficulty curve where stealth is much harder to maintain in the beginning.

Hello Neighbor is essentially a stealth game in which the ultimate goal of each of its three acts is to find a way into the neighbor’s basement and uncover what he’s hiding while he roams around trying to catch you and kick you out. Using these abilities, players need to scavenge the house for basement keys, and valuable loot they can use to upgrade their skills and equipment. Bagger will have extra storage space, Brave will be able to give everyone a speed boost, the Detective knows where the keys are, and more. Intruders come equipped with classes and different abilities. The only logical thing to do is to break into the neighbor’s house and into his basement. Everyone thinks he’s locked in the creepy Neighbor’s basement.

Playing as the intrudersĪ group of friends are searching for their missing friend.

It feels like that scene from “The Thing” where characters test each other for who’s the traitor. The best players in the game are the ones who convince groups of people that someone else is the Neighbor. Your arsenal consists of useful gadgets such as bear traps, a secret control room, smoke bombs, and more. Initially, you are in disguise, and it’s up to you to gain trust of other players to lure them away form the group and have them go missing. As the Neighbor, you choose from several classes and use everything in your power to prevent intruders from succeeding.

Hello neighbor secret room