Although an online sensation of its own, Hello Neighbor was critically panned at release, sitting at a solid 38 on Metacritic. The sequel looks to play fairly similar to the original, but this time hosts players in an open-world with a supposedly fully dynamic AI stalker far more advanced than in the first game.
Related: All 27 Games Revealed In Microsoft's Xbox Series X Showcase Hello Neighbor 2, unveiled during Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase, is set directly after the events of the original, where the new protagonist is a journalist looking for a series of missing people, leading them to the neighbor’s house from the original game that is now occupied by a strange raven creature. The child sees the neighbor aggressively locking the door to his basement and decides to figure out what’s going on inside. The events of Hello Neighbor have players take the role of a child living across the street from a very strange, creepy middle-aged man. Since release, a prequel and multiplayer game have been released, with Hello Neighbor 2 being a direct sequel to the original. The game’s development attracted a number of streamers and YouTubers that formed a large community online, making the new IP much more popular than when it was raising funds. After failing to secure funds for their Kickstarter in 2015, Eerie Guest Studios (formally Dynamic Pixels) decided to continue working on the game anyway and managed to secure a publisher with tinyBuild. The original Hello Neighbor game has quite an impressive history. Hello Neighbor is getting a sequel for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC.