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Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha

Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha

The Original Pre-Alpha 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.

Released Oct 10, 2019 Developer Dynamic Pixels Publisher tinyBuild Platforms Windows HorrorStealthSandboxInvestigationSurvival Horror
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

90.6%positive1,996 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Its been 7 years since the Hello Neighbor genre started with this game. What do you expect, its a Pre-Alpha so don´t have high expectations. In my opinion it is the scariest version of all, newer version are less and less scary.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Honestly the Pre-Alpha of Hello Neighbor is in my top three titles in this series. Which is ironic because as a developer you'd think the Pre-Alpha is the worst version but the atmosphere, the CPU of the Neighbor-everything is just some of the best in the series. The Pre-Alpha…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha, developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild, is the earliest playable form of a concept that would later evolve into a widely recognized stealth-puzzle experience. In this stage, the game feels unmistakably experimental—less a complete…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 10:18 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

14playing at last check
2124-hour peak
143all-time peak
0 25 50 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 22 avg · Nov 2025

Price tracking

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Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
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Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 16, 2020
tinyBuild's hosting a carnival of games at PAXSouth

https://imgur.com/ZCsV3pc.gif Hello gamers! I've not been posting much to our publisher page because cross-posting is currently very wonky, so it's been mostly to individual pages of games. This weeke

Oct 22, 2019
2 Days Left / New Footage

https://i.imgur.com/3CNsAqM.gif Howdy ho, Neighbors! It's only 2 days left until Secret Neighbor launches on Steam! Today I bring you brand new footage in the form of a How To Play video. It's recorde

Oct 10, 2019
Secret Neighbor coming Oct 24 / Pre-Alpha of HN live

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

Sep 26, 2019
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek coming in December

https://imgur.com/IVEIFgi.gif Howdy there Neighbors! We are gearing up for the Halloween-ish launch window for Secret Neighbor, and the whole team is working non-stop to make sure we get a good game t

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsHorror · Stealth · Sandbox · Investigation · Survival Horror · First-Person · Difficult · 3D · Survival · Psychological Horror · Funny · Detective (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player
LanguagesEnglish
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://helloneighborgame.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 and up Processor: i5 and up Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 770 and up DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: Stereo. Play with good stereo.