Home Safety Hotline

About this game

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 an analog horror inspired telephone operator simulator where you answer incoming callers' questions about what's inside their home. Read through a vast catalog of common pests and household hazards, and do your best to become an expert in home safety. You will be held responsible for what happens.

A new horror experiment from Nick Lives, the creator of NiGHT SIGNAL and A Wonderful Day For Fishing.

• Navigate a vast catalog of safety information using the latest in 90's technology.
  
• Listen to original jazzy lo-fi music by David Johnsen while you place callers on hold.
  
• Correctly deduce what's in your callers' homes or else leave them to suffer the consequences.
  
• Learn about the various untold horrors that live inside your home.
  
• "Phobia Toggles" - An accessibility option that allows you to disable in-game images for common phobia triggers including arachnophobia and more.
  
• Unlockable Art Book detailing the game's development history.

Latest news

• Announcements·19 May 2026Official

  Steam Trading Cards Now Available!

  Attention, Employees!Better late than never, or so the saying goes! Well, we've finally managed to release some Steam Trading Cards for Home Safety Hotline, complete with Badges, 5 Emoticons and 7 Profile Backgrounds! Now you can more easily share your love of The Ones Beneath The Soil with The Ones Lit Only By Monitors here on Steam. ːHSHSymbolː ːHSHCarolː ːHSHBeetː ːHSHPookaː ːHSHHobbːThose of you who have clocked in overtime hours already should have many of these appear in your profile instantly! Happy trading! Forbidden Solitaire is now Overwhelmingly Positive!In other news, our latest game Forbidden Solitaire now an OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE review score at 96% positive! If you have yet to play our latest take on 1990s' analog horror, you can grab it now!Our Next Game...Additionally, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for more info on our upcoming game about the horrors of troubleshooting a 2000s gaming console, Please Insert Disc - which you can wishlist below!
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• Announcements·30 Apr 2026Official

  Our Latest '90s Horror FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE is OUT NOW!

  Attention Employees!The creators of Home Safety Hotline have launched our latest experiment in '90s horror - Forbidden Solitaire! We've been working on it for the past year and change with our solitaire-expert collaborators over at Grey Alien Games, and we're thrilled to finally share our latest creation with you all!Extra Discount: Night Signal Entertainment BundleHome Safety Hotline owners can even grab Forbidden Solitaire for an additional discount by grabbing it as part of the Night Signal Entertainment bundle! Thanks for all your support as always! We hope you enjoy the horrors Forbidden Solitaire has in store for you.
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• Announcements·27 Apr 2026Official

  InterfaceX Sale & Forbidden Solitaire Launch Date!

  Attention Employees! Home Safety Hotline and 150+ other 'Fake OS' games are on sale during the first-ever InterfaceX Virtual Expo - an event dedicated to interface-based games! We're even trying to make a 'Fake OS' tag a thing on Steam to make finding more games like these easier in the future! If you want to help, you can check out the event details and the Steam sale page on the official website here: https://interfacex.netForbidden Solitaire is Launching This Week!Additionally, if you haven't seen the news - our next horror game Forbidden Solitaire is launching THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH! We announced the news during the Second Wind Games Showcase last week with a brand new in-universe trailer straight out of 1995, which you can watch above.Be sure to WISHLIST the game below if you haven't already so you'll be notified when it launches later this week! We can't wait for y'all to see what new horrors we've been cooking up with the folks over at Grey Alien Games for the past year and change...
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• Announcements·9 Apr 2026Official

  Home Safety Hotline is Becoming a Movie!

  Attention, Employees!If you haven't yet heard the news, I'm excited to share that Spooky Pictures, Image Nation and Longevity Pictures have partnered to adapt Home Safety Hotline into a feature film! Michael Matthews (Love and Monsters) is attached to direct, with the screenplay written by Nick Tassoni! For more details, you can read the full announcement at The Hollywood Reporter. It's not every day I can say our weird little indie game is getting the film treatment. 😳 I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us and our projects this far, we would not get to make our little freak games without you! 💜Wishlist Our Games!Speaking of which - if you like our work, be sure to add our upcoming horror games to your wishlist!Our 90s-inspired CD-ROM horror Forbidden Solitaire is quite nearly finished, so expect an announcement about a release date very soon. Meanwhile, our console troubleshooting horror Please Insert Disc is still quietly ticking along in the background...Thanks again for all your support. Genuinely.Best,-Nick Lives
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• Announcements·3 Oct 2025Official

  New Home Safety Hotline Merch!

  Attention Employees! We can't resist having something new to share around Halloween, so we made some new Home Safety Hotline merch to celebrate the witching season! We now have limited stock HSH Sticker Sheets (only 100) with 6 original designs by the ever-talented hmnprsn.org - as well as a new Junior Supervisor shirt for those of you who have descended below the soil!You can grab these as well as all of our other merch here:https://robaroba.gg/collections/night-signal-entertainmentUPCOMING HORRORSMeanwhile, if you are hungry for a new horror game from us - fear not! We have not one, but TWO new games in development! Be sure to add them to your wishlist so you'll be the first to know when they launch!COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTSAdditionally, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some awesome stuff from our community. If you didn't know - a fellow by the name of "Gasterbuzzer" created an HSH Modding Tool and many members of our Discord have been running wild with it!"ICY" shared this look at one of their mod's creatures - a Sewer Gnome:While "Normaliv" shared this enigmatic screenshot with the caption: 'yeah this is where life peaks'Meanwhile, "Neo-Shinryu" has apparently been working on a Halloween-themed campaign for some time, having apparently finished dozens of entries - and recently showed off their modded desktop here, seemingly titled "Night Shift"
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