Home Safety Hotline

Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

Home Safety Hotline is a horror, 1990's and interactive fiction game developed and published by Night Signal Entertainment.
Released on January 16th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,995 reviews of which 1,839 were positive and 156 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Home Safety Hotline into these genres:

Horror 1990's Interactive Fiction Point & Click Simulation Text-Based FMV Typing Alternate History Atmospheric Dark Comedy Lore-Rich Mystery Lovecraftian Mythology Psychological Horror Satire Supernatural Choices Matter Multiple Endings

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Windows

OS: Windows 10

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

i really like this! it turns out the creators worked at the failed theme park Evermore, which you might know from jenny nicholson's long video about it on youtube -- if not, check it out. i'm happy to see the talented people from that poorly conceived park find new projects to succeed with that are in the same vein and inspired by those times. also, all the old timey windows dropdowns gave me bad memories of learning visual basic (complimentary).

June 2024

pro tip, have another window open so you can play solitaire like the minimum wage employee you are

April 2024

The real horror is being employed as a customer service agent.

March 2024

**UPDATE: Since my review, the developer has added a 'survival mode' that unlocks after beating the game. This mode picks from a library of randomly-selected cases and asks you to solve it within 2 minutes, with a scoring system to encourage streaks of right answers. The cases don't have voice acting due to the nature of adding a surplus of cases to the game all at once, but it still scratches the itch I felt when I first wrote this review, and I think it is an excellent addition. Original review now follows.** While some people may balk at the price tag for a 2 hour game, I feel the charm of Home Safety Hotline plus its excellent puzzle-solving gameplay make it well worth the extra money. Home Safety Hotline has you take on calls for people concerned about the safety of their home or themselves. At the start, you're diagnosing household issues as evidence of mice, black mold, and other common issues. However, the further you go in the work week, the more issues you can diagnose, and the more wild and fantastical those issues become. Solving the calls is a delight; the caller will give you a few nuggets of information and you have to scour through your book of issues to find something that matches what they're describing. Some callers will present red herrings, or information in an odd way, which makes the "aha" moment feel so much better when you figure out what the problem is. Sometimes that is quickly followed by an "oh" moment when you read the full issue entry and realize the caller on the other end is about to suffer a terrible fate. The only complaint I have was that I wish there was more! Each day has pre-set callers calling in, with no element of randomness. I would have liked either for each day to have a larger bank of randomly-selected callers the game could pick from, or more days of the week with pre-set callers. Either way, the game does have some replay value by giving you a selection of "cheat sheet" options so you can go back to days you flubbed and get a perfect score. And the art book at the very end is a lovely insight to the developer's mindset while making the game. If the price tag for 2 hours of gameplay is a bit too steep for you, I recommend adding this game to your wishlist and grabbing it at a more agreeable price. Otherwise, I feel the quality and character of the game was well worth the price tag.

Jan. 2024

Fun but very brisk horror-ish experience. It could have been so much more with just a few gameplay expansions, but the simple core loop of HSH manages to not overstay its welcome and deliver a solid measure of entertainment in the end. Cliff notes: - There’s an interesting take on a concept that still isn’t overused in the genre. You get calls from strangers about “something” in their house and must match their call to a catalogue of such nuisances (or dangers) you have on your desk to prescribe correct treatment. For the most part it’s easy but still makes you think and sort things out in a Papers, Please-esque way. - Unfortunately, the sequence of calls is short and scripted, but they are fun to listen to and to deal with on the very first playthrough. Some sort of sequence randomizer would have added a great deal to the replay value. - The aesthetic is neat – analog horror wrapped in old Windows desktop feels just right for this idea, keeping the horror-light component from losing its power, as there’s a bit of comedy going on as well. - There are a lot of things here that serve this aesthetic, and I wish they’d serve gameplay instead. There’s a weird caller (with just about the most awesome dialogue I’ve read in a while), there’s a strange email thread, there are enigmatic videos appearing on screen, there are cool work coupons you get if you completed your day with flying colors… There’s all this delicious, mysterious goodness of stuff that could have been expanded on story-wise or gameplay-wise (would be rad to have a little store front and order things with coupons to deal with things in your own house, for example), but it doesn’t really gets explained or grow into something bigger. It only adds to the background of the game, which makes the atmosphere richer but gameplay - singular and locked in. - And it’s precisely because there’s only one mechanic you can engage with, and it’s fully scripted, it starts to feel repetitive towards the end. HSH is too brief for it to truly bring about the tediousness, but the second playthrough certainly isn’t as fun. - Voice-work is nifty, but you can also hear the same people reading for different characters before even seeing the credits. In a way, though, it meshes well with the whole “analog” part that tends to be barebones and raw, so it was more amusing than anything. I can tell the actors gave it 100%. - A little story of how this game came about was a nice bonus. I actually thought that one of the concepts developer abandoned was a swell idea, and I’d be interested in such a game. This novel, stylized horror (with lighter flavorings mixed in) has great foundation of a solid, short entertainment – cool visual and lore, VO, dandy gameplay. It is also very scripted and teases you with extra mysteries while only letting you do one thing – answer calls - never resolving them, making an almost palpable lack of interesting features. Still, there’s fun to be had, especially the first time around, and the richly invested-in aesthetic makes it all the groovier. Looking at extremely cheesy but cool credits sequence, I can only hope the developer will go bigger and bolder next time.

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14.79€

8.8

1,839

156

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Night Signal Entertainment

Publisher

Night Signal Entertainment

Release 16 Jan 2024

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