The original game sits at a 38 percent on Metacritic, with its user score barely scraping a 4.5 - which would typically mean curtains for any other game. Related: Rule of Rose: The Extremely Expensive PS2 Game is NOT Worth the Controversy All of this is set against a colorful, suburban backdrop that has a vague hint of something sinister lurking beneath - think Rear Window, if it was directed by Tim Burton.
Its simple premise feeds directly into the stealth gameplay, which has players infiltrate the titular neighbor's house to discover what dark secrets lurk within.
This prompts him to go inside and find out what's going on. In Hello Neighbor, players take the role of Nicky Roth, an ordinary, small-town boy who hears a blood-curdling scream from his neighbor's house when he's outside playing one day. However, the game has since become a wildly popular franchise, largely due to social media. Some praise was lavished upon the colorful art direction and easy to grasp gameplay, but every other aspect of the game was uniformly hated.
Critics were not kind to Dynamic Pixels game Hello Neighborwhen it launched in 2017, with some evening going so far as to label it one of the year's worst releases.
