Trivia / Hello Neighbor 2

• Lying Creator: One of the biggest early selling points early on was the use of neural network AI for its characters, with several repeated claims that the various enemies would develop and grow through machine learning to adapt to player behavior and patterns. This was indirectly ousted as fake when in November 2022, a mere two days before the game's scheduled pre-order early access, the game's Steam description was edited to remove the line "the Neighbor is controlled by an AI that learns from the players! As time passes, his behavior will change and surprise you!", replaced with the much less promising "each Neighbor is controlled by advanced AIs!" When then-lead designer Alexus Kravchenko was pressed on the matter on the game's official Discord server, he denied that the neural network AI was scrapped, but there appears to be no trace of the system in the game's release.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Based on the very early ARG teases of the game, this title was originally just a spinoff titled Hello Guest before it was dolled-up and became Hello Neighbor 2 partway into the public alpha. Subsequently, the Guest went from being the threat to an unexplained jump scare in the final product.