Hello Neighbor is a stealth-horror game about the perils of living next door to a really creepy guy—although the fact that you are the one who keeps breaking into his house to poke through all his stuff makes me wonder who the creepo here really is. The issue of legal and moral culpability notwithstanding, it does sound like fun, and going head-to-head with an AI in a break-and-enter battle of wits is certainly an interesting idea. It's currently scheduled to come out on August 29, but you can get a taste of what it's all about right now, and for free, with the demo that was released on Steam and GOG last week. 

The demo is "pre-alpha," which I assume drops it somewhere between the alpha version that's available now to anyone who pre-purchases, and the pre-alpha build that we looked at last year. It may actually be the same build we played with, although with nine months passed between then and now, I would assume (or at least hope) that it's newer and updated to some extent. Which is good, because while Chris described that October version as "good fun" and said he was looking forward to playing a more polished build, it was obviously incomplete and suffered from some technical wonkiness.

I haven't tried the Hello Neighbor demo myself so I can't opine as to whether or not it's any good. I can say with absolute certainty that it is free, however, and that's a pretty good starting point.  A closer examination of how the game works is available in the video below.

The new Humble Tinybuild Bundle offers up to a dozen different games from—you guessed it—publisher Tinybuild, ranging from an educationally-inclined "math puzzler" to a train ride across post-apocalypse Russia and a game about murdering your neighbors because they just won't keep it down. Speaking of bad neighbors, the top tier will score you a preorder of the creepy Hello Neighbor, including access to the alpha, and everyone can claim a free copy of the Party Hard 2 alpha just for signing up. 

At the "pay what you want" level, you'll take home Divide By Sheep, Road to Ballhalla, No Time to Explain Remastered, and SpeedRunners. Things get a whole lot more interesting at the "beat the average" tier, a little over $6 right now, which will add the aforementioned neighbor-murder-sim Party Hard, the excellent Russian railroad adventure The Final Station, the big-rig surfing game Clustertruck, early access to Guts and Glory, and Punch Club Deluxe, the game that helped catalyze the beef between Tinybuild and G2A. 

Continuing on, $15 will add the recently-released Final Station DLC The Only Traitor to the mix, and the Early Access release of Streets of Rogue. And for $40 or more, you'll get Hello Neighbor, "a stealth-horror game about sneaking into your creepy neighbor's house," which looks like it could be really cool. Tinybuild recently rolled out the alpha 4 build of the game, along with a new trailer you can check out below. 

The Humble Tinybuild Bundle is live now and will remain that way until May 23.

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