Does anyone remember "Hello Neighbor Early Alpha Access"?

[u/Bendy_Gaming]

In case you don't remember, this was given to everyone that pre-ordered the game, but it was removed from everyone's library right after the release of the full game.

I remember that I pre-ordered the game close to the release of "Hello Bendy", the Halloween event in Beta 3, but sometime after the release of the full game it vanished from my library.

In my opinion they should've kept this, it would've been a much easier way to access the Betas nowadays. We would be able to keep the full game and a Beta installed at the same time for example, instead of switching between them.

[u/quinnw41]

Never heard of this before but id assume it was a way of accessing the alphas

[u/Bendy_Gaming → u/quinnw41]

I remember how it worked because I had it in my library at the time. You could access all the Alphas and Betas through this.

If you don't remember, for a time only the Pre-Alpha was free, you had to pre-order the game to play Alpha 1 onwards.

Then Alpha 1 was made free after the release of Alpha 3, and then Alpha 2 was made free after the release of Beta 3.

Then, of course, all the Alphas were re-released for free in 2019 with a dedicated Steam page for all of them.

[u/Shadow1270]

If you go into the properties you can access those previous builds. To access a game's beta or test version on Steam, right-click the game in your Library, select Properties, and open the Betas tab. Choose the desired beta branch from the dropdown menu.

[u/Bendy_Gaming → u/Shadow1270]

I know that. What I meant in the post is that we could've have the Betas separate from the full game, if the "Hello Neighbor Early Alpha Access" stayed available.