Peterson, symbolizing the last obstacle he needs to face, Mr.
Nicky is in a white void, with a giant Mr. Once he overcomes the obstacles blocking his way into the basement, he ends up somewhere he did not expect. The giant house he faces is a representation what he needs to overcome so that he can leave all this behind forever. He tries giving himself therapy by taking a nap and ending up in a lucid non-dream, where he's in control of a world developed by his fears. The memories of his time here are coming back to haunt him, and he can't live his life normally if he doesn't do something about it. Once Nicky parks his car in the yard of his old house, he tries to shrug off weird feelings he has, but can't escape the trauma. Once Nicky gets evicted due to non-payment and realizes he must leave the apartment within a week, he packs his things and gets out, knowing there's still one place he can live, even if he doesn't want to go back. He hasn't paid rent either, so we can assume Nicky is very low on money. He gives Nicky one last angry look as he goes back to his house.Īfter nineteen years, Nicky has moved outside Raven Brooks to live in a messy apartment by himself, with little space and no proper bedroom. Peterson tries to go after him, but realizes keeping his son in the basement is more important. Nicky visualizes house extensions, prison walls, and stuff trying to keep him in so that he can face Mr. His mind has been distorted by fears, as the house is seemingly expanded, but in reality nothing has changed. Nicky is traumatized from his time in the basement, and once Aaron saves him from his cell room, Nicky knows he has to get out, and he has to do it without being caught again. Aaron was the one who pushed his sister off a roof. He is down there for two months, along with the victim, Aaron Peterson. Nicky knows he has to get inside the house to save the victim, but the Neighbor is an obstacle.Īfter getting in the basement, Nicky is locked in and cannot exit, and starts to regret entering. Nicky Roth, a young teenager, is walking home when he notices his neighbor, Theodore Peterson, attacking someone who is screaming.
The theme park ride nightmare shows that the daughter, Mya (represented by a cardboard cutout) fell from a great height (symbolized as a roller coaster drop), and that she was buried in a yard by Mr. It works with more subtle things creepy neighbors that you cannot trust, mysterious things that go bump in the night, a rural town with a secret, and the feeling of unease when you may be just about to uncover a skeleton in somebody’s closet.Ī year before the events of the game, Theodore and Diane Peterson got into a car collision, resulting in the death of Diane, who flat-lined in the hospital. Hello Neighbor approaches horror in a more delicate way, doing away with the straight in-your-face classic horror aspects of the grown-up world. There is a clear dichotomy between these two genres, but the narrative walks the line by burying its secrets along with its trauma…sometimes quite literally. Peterson.Īt the heart of Hello Neighbor lies a carefully constructed layer-cake of social horror and family-friendly fare. Nicky goes through suspicion, abduction, trauma, and acceptance during this game, all because of Mr. You play as Nicholas Roth, a young boy who is trying to find out the secrets of his neighbor. Hello Neighbor is a game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in his basement.
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