Hello Neighbor Alpha 4 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-30
- Fun and enjoyable gameplay experience
- Highly praised Alpha 4 version
- Engaging and varied puzzles
- Free to play with lots of content
- Frequent game crashes and buggy mechanics
- Performance and optimization issues reported
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,974
- Positive
- 4,98683.5%
- Negative
- 98816.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 415,583
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 13010.47%
- Estimated copies lost
- 9,043
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 13010.5% Avg playtime 0.5h | 19815.9% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 14611.8% Avg playtime 13.5h | 76861.8% Avg playtime 12.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 30 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,406.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,242 total
Organic purchasers1,242100.0%
Voted up: 78%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,242 total
First impression0-2h38430.9%
Voted up: 64%
Mid game2-10h59748.1%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h15912.8%
Voted up: 87%
Endgame20h+1028.21%
Voted up: 82%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
83.3%
Global baseline 77.8%
6 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,974 total.