Having not played the first game in the series, I felt lost and overwhelmed rather fast, especially during the last part of the beta. The game doesn't hold the player's hand to find these solutions, instead leaving it up to the player to discover and solve the random assortment of puzzles. Hello Neighbor 2 has no dialogue and is meant to be contextual and discovery-based, the aim of the game is to solve puzzles, and those puzzles open up a final solution. The last is more about exploring the town, learning the townspeople's habits, and solving a larger puzzle. The next part is the start of the game, aiming to get into the basement of a currently police occupied dwelling and ongoing investigation. The first section is the tutorial to familiarise the player with the controls and concepts. There are a couple of sections playable right now during the short beta.

The beta is put forward as an investigation sim with learning AI but is closer to a point and click game in the way puzzles are set up, at least as far as this beta is concerned. Unfortunately, this beta does not demonstrate the game's potential as well as the developers might have hoped. Hello Neighbor 2 is an interesting concept. You quickly retrieve your camera and take a picture of 'The Guest', who, after having its photo taken, bursts through the door, causing a bright light to startle Quentin, who awakes, realising he is behind the wheel of a news van and had fallen asleep at the wheel and the bright light is the headlamp of a passing car. Find a key to unlock a door, and then climb the ladder. The prompts give you keyboard and mouse inputs for interacting with the world. Following the hints, you explore the barn, finding various clues and prompts. The first step of this goal is to retrieve your camera, which is stuck hanging from a beam of wood where you fell from and take a picture of 'the guest', a strange bird beaked humanoid. This part of the game is a tutorial the goals are written out on a blackboard near where you have fallen.

We first see Quentin climbing an old barn, stumbling, falling through the roof, and landing on some hay precariously close to a pitchfork and a blackboard. The beginning of the Hello Neighbor 2 beta starts with your character, a local journalist named Quentin, arriving in a new town as a journalist investigating murders and disappearances.

Welcome to Raven Brooks, a quiet little town where everyone has a secret.

Hello neighbor 2 the guest