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Hello Neighbor

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Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighbor cover
Developers
Dynamic Pixels
Publishers
tinyBuild
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows December 8, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 38
OpenCritic 42
IGDB 37
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Shooter, Stealth, Survival horror
Themes Contemporary
Series Hello Neighbor
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General information

Official Discord server for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when launched directly from executable.[2]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere
Windows
Steam
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Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows
A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam: steam://install/562080.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\HelloNeighbor\Config\[Note 2]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\HelloNeighbor\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\tinyBuildGames.770145A14A21_3sz1pp2ynv2xe\LocalState\HelloNeighbor\Saved\Config\UWP
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/521890/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\HelloNeighbor\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/521890/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud
Not mentioned on the Steam store page.[3]
Xbox Cloud
Not mentioned on the Xbox/Microsoft store page.

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game uses desktop resolution; in-game resolution options only affect clarity of render. Use the -ResX=XXXX -ResY=YYYY -FullscreenMode=1 -Fullscreen command line arguments to set a custom resolution (switching back and forth to windows mode using Alt+ Enter may be required for changes to take effect).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Image is Vert-. FOV cannot be properly adjusted to compensate.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Press Alt+ Enter to toggle.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate capped at 60 FPS. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Field of view (FOV)

Set FOV calculation to vertical[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following to the end of the file and save it.
[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

Notes

This solution dramatically increases the FOV. Only recommended for multi-monitor set-ups or for those who want an extremely high FOV.

High frame rate

High frame rate[5]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\HelloNeighbor\Config\DefaultEngine.ini. Change one or a combination of settings to control frame rate:
    1. Set a higher UpperBound value within SmoothedFrameRateRange.
    2. Remove the frame rate smoothing cap entirely by setting bSmoothFrameRate to false.
    3. Modify the rate cap by setting bUseFixedFrameRate to true and set the FixedFrameRate value
  2. Save the changes and close the editor.

Notes

May cause unintended gameplay effects.

Input

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

VR support

Issues fixed

Game crashes during startup or in a menu

See Bypass OpenSSL SHA bug on Intel 10th gen and later CPUs.[6]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 10, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Vorbis

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.20.2.0[1]
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/521890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (521890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-12-06
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-12-30
  3. Hello Neighbor · AppID: 521890 · Steam Database - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  4. Verified by User:Joylock on 04 Feb 2019
  5. Verified by User:Joylock on 12 May 2018
  6. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-04-03