Hello Neighbor suffered from two major flaws: a glitchy gameplay experience and puzzles that were so out-of-the-box as to defy reason. All the while, your brother is roaming about and if he catches you, he sends you back to the start of the level. Achieving these objectives requires solving environmental puzzles or using items you will find scattered around the stage. For example, the first level requires you to retrieve several stuffed animals scattered about by your brother and delivering them to a certain location. Each level has a unique look, adding a childlike whimsy to the already surreal art style of the game.Įach stage comes with a set of objectives that need to be fulfilled before moving on to the next. The ceiling and walls now absurdly high above and the ground now taking on the look of a wild grassland. Furniture stretches to preposterous proportions. Through the lens of her imagination, the familiar home transforms into an Alice in Wonderland-like domain. You take over the role of the little girl, trying to outwit her brother. The story opens on a pleasant, sunny morning with Mr Peterson’s son and daughter playing a friendly game of hide-and-seek. It is also an improvement on its predecessor, even though it fails to escape a few shortcomings of its own.

Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek serves as a prequel to the original story, explaining how our neighbor, Mr Theodore Peterson, came to be the way he is.

Who hasn’t, at least in passing, considered how tempting it would be to sneak into your creepy neighbor’s house and find out what sort of sinister deeds he’s been hiding behind his walls?

The premise of Dynamic Pixels’ original Hello Neighbor played on our curiosity. Alisa Hail reviews Hello Neighbor: Hide And Seek on Nintendo Switch.

Hello neighbor hide and seek review