Maybe youвЂ™ll huck a box as gently as possible into a wall or the ground only to have it phase through solid matter thanks to the gameвЂ™s serious clipping issues. That becomes an issue almost immediately in the gameвЂ™s very first puzzle, which calls for careful crate stacking. ThereвЂ™s no option to drop objects you pick up, for instance, only varying degrees of hurling them. But itвЂ™s really a puzzle game-one where you poke around for the right objects to open the right doors or flip the right switches at the right times. You need to dodge the clutches of the mustachioed neighbor or face being teleported back to the beginning of a given level. Hello Neighbor is nominally a stealth game. That quickly becomes a problem as you realize nothing works as it should, from avoiding your pursuer to stacking crates to sneak in through windows. ThereвЂ™s also no tutorial or anything like a basic breakdown of the controls, either. It has to be, since there isnвЂ™t really any dialogue in Hello Neighbor. ItвЂ™s your job to learn who or what.ДЄll of this is implied through imagery. His titular neighbor has shoved a shrieking somebody (or something) into his basement. The player character, a young boy presumably native to the breezy street where the game takes place, sees something he shouldnвЂ™t. Empty, twisted cookie-cutter houses embody a cartoonish paranoia. ItвЂ™s like a suburban take on Rear Window set in the world of PsychonautsвЂ™ Milkman Conspiracy. ThatвЂ™s a shame, because the premise is promising enough. As of now, the first-person stealth puzzler is the worst game I can remember covering in a long time. I can only pray that it will be the worst. Hello Neighbor wonвЂ™t be the very last game I review this year.

Hello neighbor house layout