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Revision as of 21:18, 30 August 2022

Neighbours from Hell
Neighbours from Hell cover
Developers
JoWood Vienna
Publishers
Retail (Europe) JoWood Productions
Retail (North America) Encore
Digital Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows June 20, 2003
macOS (OS X) June 22, 2017
Reception
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Stealth
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy
Series Neighbours from Hell
Neighbours from Hell on HowLongToBeat
Neighbours from Hell on IGDB
Neighbours from Hell on MobyGames
Neighbours from Hell on Wikipedia
Neighbours from Hell
Neighbours from Hell 2003
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation 2004
Neighbours Back from Hell 2020

General information

Official website
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Demo is available here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH1\gameoptions.xml
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\Neighbours From Hell 1\gameoptions.xml
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260750/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH1\userdata.ngh
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\Neighbours From Hell 1\userdata.ngh
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260750/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600 supported.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Edit %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH1\gameoptions.xml and set fullscreen="false"
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped.Animations vinculated to low fps
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
overall, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Gibberish for speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Retail only.
Czech
Retail only.
French
German
Hungarian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian
Fan translation by ripper1692, [1].

Issues fixed

Game hangs at intro screen

Edit game configuration[1]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH1\gameoptions.xml
  2. Set backbuffer="1"

Low sound quality despite the "High sound quality" setting

Replace the sfxdata.bnd file[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\
  2. Delete or rename the sfxdata.bnd file.
  3. Copy the sfxdatahigh.bnd file and paste it in the same location.
  4. Rename the copy file to sfxdata.bnd

Notes

Regardless of the settings, the sound quality will be high.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.5b

Modding

The game data is stored in <path-to-game>\data\gamedata.bnd This file is actually a ZIP archive with XML game data inside.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum[3] Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 130 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.6
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 227.9 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. GOG.com Community Discussions - Windows 7 compatible?
  2. Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-11
  3. Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-09
    Official README file.