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Act 2: The Nightmare Unfolds
Hello Neighbor

Act 2: The Nightmare Unfolds

Navigate the chilling Act 2 of Hello Neighbor. This guide details how to escape the basement, manipulate valves, find keys, and ultimately break free from the Neighbor's house.

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Act 2: The Nightmare Unfolds

Navigate the chilling Act 2 of Hello Neighbor. This guide details how to escape the basement, manipulate valves, find keys, and ultimately break free from the Neighbor's house.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Wake up in the basement. Look through the door's lock, observe the cardboard cutout, leave the room, open the vent, and crawl through. Climb the ladder to exit the basement.
  2. 2
    Understand valve mechanics: parallel to the pipe means water flows, perpendicular blocks it.
  3. 3
    Main Gate Exit Path:
    • Enter the house. Turn the first valve in the living room.
  4. 4
    In the backyard, stack boxes and a crate near a pipe, climb them, and turn the valve (2/3).
  5. 5
    Go to the right side of the house, turn the valve behind the fence (3/3).
  6. 6
    A valve falls off a pipe in the fence. Retrieve it.
  7. 7
    Break a window to enter the storage room. Turn the valve on the pipe near the boiler. Take the valve back.
  8. 8
    Go to the kitchen and get the wrench from the top of the fridge.
  9. 9
    Go to the backyard, open the ladder, and climb it. Walk on the pipes, place the valve, turn it, and take it back.
  10. 10
    Climb the ladder near the front exit and turn the valve.
  11. 11
    Grab 2 boxes, climb the backyard ladder, use the boxes to reach the fence, place the valve, and turn it. Wait for water to stop, then take the valve back.
  12. 12
    Reach the top of the new part of the house (accessible via the backyard ladder). Take the shovel.
  13. 13
    Go through the door in the area where the Sharkotron was. Climb down the ladder, unblock the door, go through it, and unlock the door on the first floor.
  14. 14
    Go to the backyard and dig in the spot without grass to find a key in a coffin.
  15. 15
    Go to the dollhouse room, unlock the dollhouse, and open the door inside.
  16. 16
    Enter the newly unblocked room and turn the valve.
  17. 17
    Climb the ladder and turn the valve. You can now walk on ice.
  18. 18
    Go through the doors, then the next door, and take the red key.
  19. 19
    Go down, open the main gate, and exit.
  20. 20
    Hole in the Fence Exit Path:
    • Go to the kitchen, get the wrench from the top of the fridge, and open the backyard ladder.
  21. 21
    Enter the house. .
  22. 22
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  24. 24
    . Retrieve it.
  25. 25
    Grab 2 boxes, climb the backyard ladder, place boxes near the fence, climb them, and turn the valve. .
  26. 26
    Go to the top of the new part of the house. Take the shovel and go through the door on the left.
  27. 27
    Unlock the door with the yellow lock. Climb down the ladder, unblock the door, then reach the first floor and unblock the door using the blue key.
  28. 28
    Go to the backyard and dig in the place without grass to find the dollhouse key in a coffin.
  29. 29
    Go to the dollhouse room and unlock the dollhouse. Open the door inside.
  30. 30
    Go to the bathroom and take the LEGO man from the toilet. Place him on the toilet inside the dollhouse.
  31. 31
    Return to the bathroom. A larger LEGO man is now on the toilet. Take the crowbar from him.
  32. 32
    Use the crowbar to remove nails from the fence boards. Escape through the fence.
  33. 33
    Trampoline Exit Path:
    • Go to the kitchen, get the wrench from the top of the fridge, and open the backyard ladder.
  34. 34
    Enter the house. .
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  37. 37
    . Retrieve it.
  38. 38
    Grab 2 boxes, climb the backyard ladder, place boxes near the fence, climb them, and turn the valve. .
  39. 39
    Go to the top of the new part of the house. Take the shovel and go through the door on the left.
  40. 40
    Unlock the door with the yellow lock. Climb down the ladder, unblock the door, then reach the first floor and unblock the door using the blue key.
  41. 41
    Climb the backyard ladder, jump onto the pipes, and turn the valve.
  42. 42
    Climb the front ladder and turn the valve.
  43. 43
    Break a window to access the storage room. Turn the valve on the pipe and the one on the boiler.
  44. 44
    Go to the machine next to the blue lock door, turn the valve, and pull the handle. The trampoline is now open.
  45. 45
    Climb the front ladder, jump on the trampoline, and jump over the fence to escape.
Tips
  • Remember that if a valve is parallel to the pipe, water flows; if perpendicular, it's blocked.
  • The wrench is found on top of the fridge in the kitchen.
  • The shovel is found at the top of the new part of the house.
  • Keys (red, blue, yellow lock) and the dollhouse key are crucial for progression.
  • The LEGO man puzzle in the dollhouse is key to obtaining the crowbar.

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