Home Safety Hotline

Home Safety Hotline: The Analog Horror Call Center Experience

Home Safety Hotline is a unique analog horror experience that puts players in the role of a telephone operator working for a mysterious home safety service. Created by Nick Lives, the developer behind NiGHT SIGNAL and A Wonderful Day For Fishing, this eerie simulator challenges players to diagnose strange occurrences in callers' homes—while dealing with the horrifying consequences of their advice.

A Hotline for the Unexplained

At first glance, Home Safety Hotline appears to be a mundane customer service job. Players answer calls from concerned homeowners and consult an extensive safety catalog to identify potential household hazards. However, as the calls become increasingly unsettling, it becomes clear that the threats lurking in these homes go far beyond rats in the walls or faulty wiring.

The game’s 90s-inspired analog aesthetic—complete with grainy CRT-style visuals and an outdated computer interface—adds to the tension, immersing players in an unsettling world of half-truths, cryptic warnings, and eldritch horrors disguised as everyday dangers.

Gameplay Features

• Telephone Operator Simulation: Answer calls from distressed homeowners and determine what’s lurking inside their homes based on their descriptions.
• Extensive Safety Catalog: Navigate an outdated computer system to diagnose infestations, electrical hazards, and supernatural anomalies.
• High-Stakes Decision Making: Your guidance determines the fate of each caller—giving the wrong advice may leave them to suffer horrific consequences.
• Jazzy Lo-Fi Hold Music: Composed by David Johnsen, the relaxing yet eerie soundtrack plays while callers are on hold, lulling players into a false sense of security.
• Phobia Toggles: Accessibility settings allow players to disable images that might trigger arachnophobia, claustrophobia, and other common fears.
• Unlockable Art Book: Dive into the game’s development history and see how its eerie aesthetic was brought to life.

A New Take on Analog Horror

Home Safety Hotline blends the dread of analog horror with the tension of real-time decision-making. Every call is a new mystery, forcing players to question whether they are dealing with a simple household pest or something far more sinister. The game’s unsettling atmosphere, dark humor, and cryptic storytelling make it a truly one-of-a-kind horror experiment that lingers in the mind long after you hang up the phone.

Would you pick up the call?