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Hello Neighbor Alpha 1
This is Alpha 1 of Hello Neighbor, a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
31 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The last actually good alpha of hello neighbor in my opinion, and this is what the final game should have been like”
“Fun Puzzle/'horror' game with a interesting art style, the adaptive ai is a fun twist and impressive for such a small game.”
“Hello Neighbor Alpha 1, developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild, marks the first substantial step toward what the series would eventually become, capturing a version of the game that feels raw,…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Fun Puzzle/'horror' game with a interesting art style, the adaptive ai is a fun twist and impressive for such a small game.”
“my FAVORITE Hello Neighbor Alpha by far. The art style is absolutely amazing, the game is actually quite scary, and as always with Hello Neighbor.. the optimization sucks.. But overall, this is great. Please play it.”
“I dont care what anyone says this alpha is MILES better than the actual release of the game. The neighbor is not just a annoying Npc who gets stuck all the time. The chase music is actually scary. Not filled with…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I don't even know if people still play this game but its still super fun, absolutely worth playing”
“I know this game is old, it's turning 10 years now. I mean it's free so that's amazing. Worth playing”
“A realy OG and iconic game-get your self a treat and try the game 4 FREE”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“fine i guess. mr neighbor got stuck on our 2nd encounter remembered that one yt vid speedrun strat got the hammer and lockpick got blinded from the ending door then got buried alive 6/10”
“Game crashed to me staring at a wall 11/10”
“Version with most polish outside of the demons that haunt the lawnmowers when you try to steal everything from the house”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“this alpha of hello neighbor 1 is one of the worst of the alphas in my opinion but I say that because not that I don't like it it's just not as good as the other alphas. my ranking on this game: 7/10 very good game but…”
“a step up from the Pre-Alpha, but still very Janky but yeah, that's what you get when you play Hello Neighbour! you gotta love it for the Jank!”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Very short and old game but carries a bunch of nostalgia, great physics, but neighbour is too slow in this alpha providing not a big challenge to escape him.”
“Probably one of the best alpha version of HN. Definitely better than the final game, that's for sure. Sad thing is the game is pretty short :(”
“I was expecting something bad, but this alpha was actually very nice! It's on the second place, tied with alpha 4. Go give this alpha a try if you're looking for something short and sweet.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Very short and old game but carries a bunch of nostalgia, great physics, but neighbour is too slow in this alpha providing not a big challenge to escape him.”
“This is a good Alpha the puzzles aren't that challenging compared to act 3 of the final game very enjoyable #This is my neighbor”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I broke into my neighbors home, did puzzles, tried opening the basement just for my neighbor to show up and beat me up. After that I went home to play Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 just to find out my microwave laptop can't…”
“my FAVORITE Hello Neighbor Alpha by far. The art style is absolutely amazing, the game is actually quite scary, and as always with Hello Neighbor.. the optimization sucks.. But overall, this is great. Please play it.”
“it doesnt run anymore my screen keeps crashing and resterting”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Alpha 1 the start of it all. This game had a great concept, and a functional AI. Same thing for alpha 2 but after that it started going downhill. alpha 3 was the worst of them all unfinished textures very dark bad ai. Alpha 4 fixed the light and the textures but the bad Ai…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“the game is fun to mess around with, i found out i could stand on top of his own house, got inside the house during the tut, fun game”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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tinyBuild's hosting a carnival of games at PAXSouth
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https://i.imgur.com/1es15gx.gif Good news, everyone! Secret Neighbor, the multiplayer spin-off of Hello Neighbor, is coming to Steam on October 24th. That's exactly in 2 weeks! https://i.imgur.com/LH4
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Cartoony · Horror · Survival Horror · Investigation · 3D Platformer · Sandbox · Stealth · Difficult · First-Person · 3D · Story Rich · Detective (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://helloneighborgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 8 and up Processor: 2Ghz and up Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated video card is required DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: Stereo. Play with good stereo.