Hello Neighbor

In Hello Neighbor, you assume the role of Nicky Roth, a curious young boy who notices eerie happenings next door at the home of Theodore “Mr. Peterson” Peterson. Nicky hears what sounds like a child’s scream and spots Mr. Peterson seemingly dragging someone into his basement, which triggers the game’s stealth-horror adventure. Mr. Peterson is the paranoid antagonist: he has suffered tragic losses (including his wife and daughter) and has built a labyrinthine house full of traps, cameras, and secrets—his obsession with hiding what’s beneath his house drives much of the tension. Nicky must sneak into the neighbor’s home, evade capture, avoid detection by the adaptive AI of Mr. Peterson, solve puzzles to obtain keys, and ultimately uncover the sinister truth in the basement. In the wider universe (spin-offs like Secret Neighbor), there are additional characters: the “Rescue Squad” children—such as Leader (Trinity), Detective (Enzo), Scout (Finch), Brave (Maritza), Inventor (Ivan), and Bagger (Delroy)—who attempt to rescue Nicky from Mr. Peterson’s basement. And characters like “The Guest”, “Clown”, “Butcher”, “Ghost”, and “Taxidermist” also appear as alternate antagonists in the franchise. Together, this cast creates a layered story of curiosity, fear, familial tragedy, and the cat-and-mouse game of infiltration and escape that defines Hello Neighbor.