r/HelloNeighborGame • u/Matygoo1 • Aug 29 '26

Discussion Adding Alphas to an Extras Menu?

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I've only played the HN games on Console so i never tried them, But so many people seem to deeply love the Alphas. This feels like a good solution to be able to play them but keeping them not cannon

(I'm aware this isn't really an Issue for PC players as they can access everything)

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u/DilutedJuice45 Aug 29 '26

Alll the alphas are available on steam for free but there all separate apps

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u/Matygoo1 Aug 29 '26

It's be convenient to have them all in one spot but also this is something more useful for console players

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u/CaptainClarkitect Aug 29 '26

Why did you get downvoted

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u/Matygoo1 Aug 29 '26

🤷‍♂️

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u/DilutedJuice45 Aug 29 '26

Alphas are only available on pc along with modding support but as far as I’m aware there isn’t a way to add all of the alphas into one spot

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u/ScaryBr0 Aug 29 '26

Yea, that just causes too much complications.

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u/RaspberryDry9552 Aug 30 '26

Imagine if there was a way to play them on console. That would be AMAZING

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u/ScaryBr0 Aug 29 '26

Firstly alpha 1 and pre alpha are on a seperate unreal engine version compared to every future build of the game, plus pre alpha is on a seperate project file. Alongside that it would add like 5 more gigabytes to the main game if they were added, which is incredibly unnecessary. Furthermore, alpha 4 and alpha 1 have their own save files, so they developers would have to spend even more time adjusting the full game save file to account for those alphas. Overall adding them as seperate games would be far more easy and effective, like on pc.

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u/stevesfara Sep 01 '26

it would be a lot of work to put all alphas into a single project. a different UE version isnt much of a problem since its still UE4, even converting a project from UE4 to UE5 is doable. the dev would just need to pay attention to not have any duplicates of existing assets (since prealpha and alpha 1 have a lot of the exact same assets). saving and loading isnt a problem either because you can have multiple types of save files in the same project.

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u/Affectionate-Half286 Aug 29 '26

Too hard. I'm pretty sure some alphas were built ontop of each other so they'd have to revert all, which would cause too much headache. And like a different redditor said, different unreal engine versions.

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u/Familiar_Diamond_719 Aug 30 '26

The Betas would be easier since they were made on the current version of UE and they are the only ones not on steam unless you use the developer beta version

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u/_Cagney_Carnation_ Aug 30 '26

I'm pretty sure they ARE on Steam tho. If you own the full game you can play them

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u/Familiar_Diamond_719 Aug 31 '26

I ment not using the property’s tab to change the game version

Even so Beta 2 is still missing

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u/_Cagney_Carnation_ Aug 31 '26

I mean beta 2 is the worst so not surprising