TinyBuild is returning to the city of Raven Brooks with Hello Neighbor 3, and now gamers can too with an open playtest. The “cozy but eerie” sport duties gamers with exploring–and ultimately escaping–the now-half-abandoned city of Raven Brooks.
The sport’s second playable prototype was introduced in a video by lead developer and franchise creator Nikita Kolesnikov, who additionally provides a basic rundown on what gamers will be capable to uncover within the playtest. The most recent model of Hello Neighbor 3 options an all-new map that is “a lot nearer to what it is meant to be,” Kolesnikov.
The participant is tasked with exploring the homes that make up the city of Raven Brooks to search out helpful gadgets, with the prototype’s final purpose being to flee earlier than a storm hits the city. Among the homes are occupied, however–and the occupants could also be lower than pleased with the participant’s intrusion.
In Hello Neighbor 3’s “system-based world,” gamers can strategy each scenario otherwise, utilizing stealth, agility, brute pressure, and even diplomacy. The sport’s main promoting level is that the city of Raven Brooks is a dwelling, reactive sandbox–its inhabitants go about their lives if undisturbed, however also can react in new and alternative ways to participant actions, opening up new pathways within the sport.
Gamers can request entry to the brand new prototype’s playtest on Hello Neighbor 3’s Steam page.
Whereas the primary Hello Neighbor sport was reviewed poorly by critics on launch, writer TinyBuild has nonetheless managed to spin an entire franchise out of the sport, together with a number of spin-off video games, books, and an animated present.