Hello Neighbor is a survival horror stealth game developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild.

[4][5][6] While the initial alpha versions of Hello Neighbor were received positively, the final product was met with largely negative reviews.

The game spawned a franchise, beginning with a prequel, Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek, released in December 2018.

The player's task is to find the details and brutal secrets of the neighbor's house and solve a series of puzzles to gather the items needed to unlock and access his basement.

[10] A boy named Nicky Roth is chasing a beach ball, playing soccer down the street before stopping nearby his neighbor, Theodore Peterson's home.

His childhood town had finally succumbed to its cruel fate, and he finds the house in disrepair while Mr. Peterson's home is also nothing but a pile of ruins.

While inspecting the ruins, Nicky is haunted by a dark shadow-like creature ("The Thing"), which is implied to be a manifestation of fear itself, and he returns to his home where he finds an old picture of himself as a child before the phone starts to ring.

Act 3's Nightmare sequence showcases Theodore putting up missing posters for his children, upon locking Aaron up in the basement.

It was later approved for sale as an early access game by the Steam Greenlight program and a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund further development.

[18][19] For Halloween 2017, a promotional mod was released including multiple elements from the indie game Bendy and the Ink Machine.

The mod includes a black and yellow tint, ink, music from the game and multiple appearances of Bendy.

The long-lost DevGAMM version was released on the Hello Neighbor Games Discord server and Google Drive on September 5, 2024.

Solving puzzles and outsmarting the guest, a learning AI similar to the neighbor from the first game, all while attempting to restart the roller coaster.

Despite this, the game is still available for download on Xbox and PC as a "Hello Neighbor 2 Pre-Alpha" and the Guest character continued to be an antagonist of several pieces of media in the franchise.

The story is told through cutscenes in-between levels, which reveal that the children's mother dies in a car crash sometime during the events of the game.

The children are represented by different classes, each with their unique skillsets and abilities, and must collect keys required to unlock the door to the house's basement.

Hello Engineer, a multiplayer machinery-building construction game set in the Hello Neighbor universe, was announced on October 20, 2020.

In Hello Engineer, the Rescue Squad explore an open world based on the abandoned Golden Apple Amusement Park and must collect scrap to build various machines while avoiding Mr. Peterson's attempts to catch them.

[7] The game follows Quentin, a reporter who had arrived to Raven Brooks to write about the story of the disappearance of Aaron and Mya, however he would soon learn that Mr. Peterson has taken refuge in the closed museum, to which he must sneak inside the homes of the other residences of Raven Brooks in search for keys in order to enter it.

As Quentin progresses, he would eventually learn about the deep secrets about the town and avoid a strange figure known as "The Guest".

[34][35] The pilot was watched by more than 11 million viewers within the first week, which to tinyBuild's CEO Alex Nichiporchik, "demonstrated the strength of Hello Neighbor as a franchise".

[36] A teaser was released on tinyBuild's YouTube channel on 1 December 2022, as well as the title for the show, Hello Neighbor: Welcome to Raven Brooks.

[citation needed] The series follows Trinity Bales, a new kid who just moved to Raven Brooks into the house across the street from Mr. Peterson's residence.

Along the way the kids soon discover a major conspiracy within the town relating to golden coins causing accidents, a strange reliance on crows, and a crow-person watching their every step.

[37][38][39] Criticism was directed towards the gameplay, control scheme and technical performance, though it was praised for its story aspects and art style.