Hello Neighbor

Hello Neighbor

Fair · Shooter · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$29.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.75/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 33,714
Genre rank
Top 39% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 70% off ($8.89) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
8h
To 100%
18.1h 2.3x the story
Achievements
17

Price and sales

Sales
82 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 March 2026
Sale every
36d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
166 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
72% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

28% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

82 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Hello Neighbor Alpha 3 (free, scores 36).

More about Hello Neighbor

22 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 325 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 3,122 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 8 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.3 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds22 of 799 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Honestly, such a nostalgic game. The Neighbor is creepy, the puzzles are fun, and exploring the house is still really enjoyable. The atmosphere is amazing, and I still love coming back to this game. Definitely a classic.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 4.0h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game can be really really buggy and it honestly makes it way funnier to play
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 1.8h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I don't understand why everyone praises this game so much in reviews when it's full of bugs and other issues. Based on my own playthrough, here are the pros and cons: Pros: [*] Interesting storyline [*] Good game concept Cons: [*] A massive number of game-breaking bugs. (Countless times I couldn't progress to the next act simply because the game let me in too early-for example, before I had even unlocked the double...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 10h64 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Hello Neighbor is 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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GTX 770 and up, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Hello Neighbor scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/521890/hello-neighbor
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperDynamic Pixels
PublishertinyBuild
GenreShooter
Released2017
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17