Secret Neighbor is a multiplayer Social Horror game set in the Hello Neighbor universe. A group of kids try to sneak into their creepy Neighbor's house. Events of the game take place between Act 1 and 2 of the original Hello Neighbor game. 6 players sneak into the house, trying to get into the locked basement door -- only to realize one of them is the Neighbor in disguise.
Playing as the Neighbor
As the Neighbor, you choose from several classes and use everything in your power to prevent intruders from succeeding. Initially, you are in disguise, and it's up to you to gain trust of other players to lure them away form the group and have them go missing. Your arsenal consists of useful gadgets such as bear traps, a secret control room, smoke bombs, and more. The best players in the game are the ones who convince groups of people that someone else is the Neighbor. It feels like that scene from "The Thing" where characters test each other for who's the traitor. Practice your roleplay skills.
Playing as the intruders
A group of friends are searching for their missing friend. Everyone thinks he's locked in the creepy Neighbor's basement. The only logical thing to do is to break into the neighbor's house and into his basement. Intruders come equipped with classes and different abilities. Bagger will have extra storage space, Brave will be able to give everyone a speed boost, the Detective knows where the keys are, and more.
Steam User 39
Don't trust your friends
Steam User 62
Good game. You could say good enough to have the downstairs neighbours call the cops on you thinking there was a horrendous murder going on in my apartment in the middle of the night. Not sure why, I was only yelling "HES GOT ME!", "I NEED TO GET AWAY!", "HELP! HELP ME! HELP ME!", "HES KILLING ME!", with shrill screaming in between. Only to have the cops watch my house for an hour and finally bang on the door to find young girl that lives alone saying they were "playing a scary video game with my friends where a neighbour comes to kill you" I'm sure they had a laugh after they were done searching my place.
Yeah, good game.
Steam User 31
You Wont trust your friends after this game....
Steam User 29
I really like this game, I play it with my friends all the time, but it does have some flaws. I wish this game had a party system because when I play with my friends, we have to try to press the join button at the same time to get in the same lobby, and it would be much easier if we could have parties in general. Also, I think the neighbor is too OP, I would love if the time runs out the children win instead of the neighbor. Overall I adore this game and would recommend it if you like teamwork and horror.
Steam User 45
balls
Steam User 26
Good game. You could say good enough to have the downstairs neighbours call the cops on you thinking there was a horrendous murder going on in my apartment in the middle of the night. Not sure why, I was only yelling "HES GOT ME!", "I NEED TO GET AWAY!", "HELP! HELP ME! HELP ME!", "HES KILLING ME!", with shrill screaming in between. Only to have the cops watch my house for an hour and finally bang on the door to find young girl that lives alone saying they were "playing a scary video game with my friends where a neighbour comes to kill you" I'm sure they had a laugh after they were done searching my place.
Yeah, good game.
Steam User 18
Secret Neighbor is a 5 vs 1 multiplayer game where 5 players try to gather keys and escape the house and one player tries to blend in and pick off the enemy team one by one. This game is fun to play with friends and is alright to play with randoms as well.
Teamwork among the kids is important, but the game is still winnable even if communication isn't great, although it is more difficult, especially if the neighbor is good. This is good because, if you queue with randoms, a lot of the time people don't do a lot of actual communication. It's especially annoying because the voice chat is not push-to-talk by default, which means in a lot of games you'll be subjected to echoing audio and screaming children. It's a shame a lot of the communication isn't better, because the voice chat system, where you can only hear the people near you and you can't hear kids that are missing is a pretty good idea. There aren't many maps now, but the map editor that was recently added is a promising response to that.
If you're playing with a group of friends, you can't queue for a quick game together, which means you have to go into a custom game together. This is fine most of the time, but any time there are an especially large number of players, such as a free weekend, it can be really difficult to fill a custom game, because there are too many custom games in the browser.
Overall, 7/10
(Edited for formatting 07/25/20)