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My Friendly Neighborhood

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S • 2023

Should you play it?

Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.

What works
  • Engaging survival horror gameplay with puzzle solving
  • Unique and charming puppet characters with humorous dialogue
  • Strong narrative with meaningful themes and multiple endings
  • Replayability through cheat modes and secrets
  • Polished mechanics inspired by classic resident evil
Things to keep in mind
  • Short game length for full price
  • Limited enemy variety and repetitive voice lines
  • Some minor bugs and control quirks reported
  • Backtracking can feel tedious at times
  • Save system may frustrate some players

What to play next

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

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  • Autonomy

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

My Friendly Neighborhood: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Survival, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Expression.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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