TinyBuild is returning to the city of Raven Brooks with Hiya Neighbor 3, and now gamers can too with an open playtest. The “cozy but eerie” sport duties gamers with exploring–and ultimately escaping–the now-half-abandoned city of Raven Brooks.
The sport’s second playable prototype was introduced in a video by lead developer and franchise creator Nikita Kolesnikov, who additionally provides a common rundown on what gamers will be capable of uncover within the playtest. The latest model of Hiya Neighbor 3 options an all-new map that is “a lot nearer to what it is meant to be,” Kolesnikov.
The participant is tasked with exploring the homes that make up the city of Raven Brooks to seek out helpful gadgets, with the prototype’s final aim being to flee earlier than a storm hits the city. Among the homes are occupied, however–and the occupants could also be lower than pleased with the participant’s intrusion.
In Hiya Neighbor 3’s “system-based world,” gamers can strategy each scenario differently, utilizing stealth, agility, brute pressure, and even diplomacy. The sport’s main promoting level is that the city of Raven Brooks is a residing, reactive sandbox–its inhabitants go about their lives if undisturbed, however also can react in new and other ways to participant actions, opening up new pathways within the sport.
Gamers can request entry to the brand new prototype’s playtest on Hiya Neighbor 3’s Steam web page.
Whereas the primary Hiya Neighbor sport was reviewed poorly by critics on launch, writer TinyBuild has nonetheless managed to spin a complete franchise out of the sport, together with a number of spin-off video games, books, and an animated present.
