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12 Days of free games: Day 12 – Download Hello Neighbor from Epic Store

Epic Games store will be giving away one game per day until 1 January 2020, for free. It’s Day 12 of the freebie frenzy; here’s what you need to know about ‘Hello Neighbor’.

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Epic Game Store’s holiday special kicked off on 19 December 2019, when the curated digital storefront announced that they’d be giving away one free game every day for 12 days.

We are one Day 12, and the previous game in the festive freebies lineup was The Talos Principle. Epic games releases a new free PC game every day until 1 January 2020, and gamers have until 18:00 the following day to bag it.

Today, you can download Hello Neighbor for free. Ready? Let’s dig in!

Festive freebies: Day 12 of Epic’s 12-day sale

Hello Neighbor:  30 – 31 December 2019

Developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild two years ago, Hello Neighbor is an horror-themed stealth and Indi game that carries an age restriction of 10+ for violence. Sorry, kiddos.

Hello Neighbor is all about sneaking into your neighbour’s house and trying to get to the basement. Your neighbour is hiding something in the basement, see, and it’s up to you to uncover his secret.

You will be playing against an advanced AI (artificial intelligence) which learns from your actions, so don’t expect an easy-to-master game. Want to climb through the window? It’s a trap.

Watch: Hello Neighbor trailer

The gameplay is constantly evolving as the AI learns how you operate. I won’t lie, it freaked me out at some places. Give a go, see if it gets into your head too…

“Hello Neighbor is best thought of as a puzzle game where you’re frequently set back to the start of a section with very little you can meaningfully do about it. Puzzle solving also suffers for floaty movement, inconsistent physics, and bugs – such as key items vanishing – that can completely derail your progress.”

Chris Thursten, PC Gamer

Download Hello Neighbor for free here; the offer is valid until 18:00 on Tuesday 31 December 2019.

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The Talos Principle

Developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital back in 2014, The Talos Principle is an action indie philosophical puzzler. It’s basically a first-person philosophical sci-fi game. What’s not to like?

The developers warn that you’ll find yourself in a “strange, contradictory world of ancient ruin and advanced technology”. You will need to solve a series of complex puzzles to advance.

“The game is a thought experiment of a kind, and you’ve got to be willing to engage with some heavy-going back matter to get the most out of it. It’s well worth engaging with, in my view, but I’d forgive you for not wanting to pause to parse 20 lines of computer-corrupted ‘Paradise Lost’, having just exhausted your faculties rearranging lasers.”

Chris Thursten, PC Gamer

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