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You’re not getting away that easily with tinyBuild. The developer has announced Hello Neighbor 3, alongside a new developer diary video for the upcoming sequel. The only platform announced so far is Steam, with no release date as of yet.

Details on the follow-up to 2022’s Hello Neighbor 2 are sparse, though franchise creator Nikita Kolesnikov and a small team of developers are modelling the approach of the first game’s development with Hello Neighbor 3. “Really excited to keep the development of the Hello Neighbor 3 in an open format, sharing our journey,” said Kolesnikov. “Fingers crossed, early alphas will soon be available to try out!”

Meanwhile, the dev diary features Kolesnikov discussing how Hello Neighbor 3 came about, including an early prototype where players would invade other players’ games, attempting to break into their houses and “steal their stuff.” Eventually, this shifted from competitive to cooperative gameplay to “focus on a journey, rather than a destination.” Eventually, this was changed again to the single player game in its current form.

In Hello Neighbor 3, you arrive in Raven Brooks as a stranger. You find yourself in a forgotten, half-abandoned town where every citizen has relations, desires, and goals. Should you decide to intervene, your actions will ripple through the town, changing the course of events.

Raven Brooks is now a sandbox, simulated in real-time, where residents act based on their personalities and circumstances. The system-based nature of this game will allow you to achieve your goals in complex ways.