Home Safety Hotline

Home Safety Hotline offers a unique analog horror experience, simulating a telephone operator tasked with answering callers' inquiries about their homes. Delve into a comprehensive catalog of household pests and hazards, striving to become an expert in home safety. Correctly identify callers' home hazards to avert disaster, or face the chilling consequences of your mistakes. There are "Phobia Toggles" for accessibility, allowing you to tailor your experience to avoid triggering common phobias. Please note that this game has not been rated by PEGI or ESRB.

• Release date: 01-16-2024
• Developer: Nicholas Lives
• Publisher: Nicholas Lives
• Platforms: Windows PC

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Arachnids

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  House spiders are depicted in a photo in the game (this can be avoided by using the phobia toggle). A fictional spider called a Dream Weaver exists, but no callers ever call about either of these.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Dogs

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  Cynophobia (fear of dogs) -- related imagery can be avoided using the phobia toggle. No dog deaths are directly shown, but one is heavily implied in a situation described by one of the callers, who asks her dog behaving strangely shortly after noticing a bad smell she describes as rotten. This gets diagnosed as a creature that kills pets and replicates their appearance.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Fictional Creatures

  • Can't be avoided

• Insects

  Bees, carpenter ants, cockroaches, flies, termites, ticks, bed bugs, stair slugs

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  Several other entities are also bug-like. You can avoid images of insects using the phobia toggle.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Racoons

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  False Artifacts, Cellar Grottos, Pipe Growth, Pipe Hobb, The Fair Folk, Mirror Nymphs, Bad Teeth Fungi, Unicorn Fungi, Whistling Fungi, Dorcha, Kobolds, Pookas, Soap Sprites, Memory Wisps, Toilet Hobbs, Desk Hobbs, Trash Gnomes, Warlock Remnants, The Horde, Travel Gnomes

  • Can't be avoided

• Parasites

  False Beet

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  False Beet is a parasitic creature that will latch onto the innards of its victim to leech their nutrients until they're dead.

  • Can't be avoided

• Rodents

  Gophers, mice, moles

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  Characters can be turned into mice by Carol (your boss)

  • Can't be avoided

Crime

• Being Held Against Will

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  We hear about someone imprisoned in a false artifact and floor roots claiming a victim.

  • Can't be avoided

• Home Invasion

  • Can't be avoided

• Kidnapping

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  One caller talks about his baby being kidnapped by a monster. In the real estate advertisement video, there is an amber alert. Children are also taken and killed by entities, though this is only hinted at and not shown/heard.

  • Can't be avoided

• Murder

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  Autumn Vines are vines with orange-red leaves which release pheromones that cause a state of bliss and lightheadedness. One caller affected by it keeps mentioning how "things are good", despite her brother telling her about his suspicions towards the vines. If you fail to solve her problem correctly, she'll kill her brother, all while still being in a state of bliss.

  • Is avoidable

Death & Loss

• Death of Child

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  Multiple unavoidable child deaths happen, and some avoidable child deaths can happen if you make mistakes in the call. None of these are depicted, only audibly described.

  • Is avoidable
  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Parent

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  many callers are parents, and if you fail to give them the right advice, it's implied that they died/will die.

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of pet

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  No dog deaths are directly shown, but one is heavily implied in a situation described by one of the callers, who asks her dog behaving strangely shortly after noticing a bad smell she describes as rotten. This gets diagnosed as a creature that kills pets and replicates their appearance. Pookas are known to kill a homeowner's pets, shapeshift into them, and live in their place to watch homeowners eat and sleep.

  • Can't be avoided

• Missing Person(s)

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  One caller is a mother whose son has gone missing

  • Can't be avoided

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Clicking Sounds

  • Can't be avoided

• Distorted Voices

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Eerie Noises

  Baby crying

  • Can't be avoided

• Scratching

  • Can't be avoided

• Screams

  • Can't be avoided

• Wet Sounds

  • Can't be avoided

Drugs & Alcohol

• Intoxication

  In a state of bliss (not drunk/high)

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  Autumn Vines are vines with orange-red leaves which release pheromones that cause a state of bliss and lightheadedness. One caller affected by it keeps mentioning how "things are good", despite her brother telling her about his suspicions towards the vines. If you fail to solve her problem correctly, she'll kill her brother, all while still being in a state of bliss.

  • Can't be avoided

Financial & Resource Management

• Homelessness

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  There are not homeless people, but a caller immediately suspects homeless people when she finds used syringes piling up in her home.

  • Can't be avoided

Gore

• Amputation

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  An entry will potentially mention the risk of a finger or toe being bit off by a certain monster, but this is never shown or described in detail.

  • Can't be avoided

• Animal Violence

  • Can't be avoided

• Body Horror

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  The Fae Flu is very body horror-like, with plants growing in people. The photo is not too jarring, but still conceptually creepy. Additionally, some entities plant parasites in people. Other body horror is implied through auditory cues. For example, if you get the "The trees are watching me" call wrong, you will hear the man's head essentially explode. You do not see it, though. Getting the call with the crying child wrong will result in the child's teeth getting injured. This is verbally described in minor detail, but not shown. Bed teeth.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Gore

  Audio

  • Can't be avoided

Hate & Discrimination

• Ableism

  Sanism

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  If you fail to give a certain caller the correct advice, she calls back to tell you her family is admitting her to a mental institution, and you can hear her attacking the people trying to take her away.

  • Can't be avoided

Horror Themes

• Ghosts & Hauntings

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  There is an entity that appears in mirrors and causes ghost-like activity in a home.

  • Can't be avoided

• Infection Horror

  • Can't be avoided

• Mind Control

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  its not explicitly said, but its implied in some calls, particularly of a woman being influenced by intoxicating vines and a man being influenced from mysterious lights.

  • Can't be avoided

• Monsters

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  Fairies, Leprechauns, Trolls, Whistling Fungi, False Rose Bushes, Hobbs (household goblins), Boggarts, Spriggans

  • Can't be avoided

• Possession

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  its not explicitly said, but its implied in some calls, particularly of a woman being influenced by intoxicating vines and a man being influenced from mysterious lights.

  • Can't be avoided

• Psychological Horror

  • Can't be avoided

Mental Health

• Anxiety

  Many callers are in severe distress

  • Can't be avoided

• Dissociation

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  One caller panics, screaming, "I'm not me" and claims something stole her identity away.

  • Can't be avoided

• Psych Ward

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  If you fail to give a certain caller the correct advice, she calls back to tell you her family is admitting her to a mental institution, and you can hear her attacking the people trying to take her away.

  • Can't be avoided

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Altercations

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  Some entities are described to injure individuals' hands if provoked.

  • Can't be avoided

• Child Endangerment

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  A lot of the hazards predate on children in various ways. False Artifacts lure children into themselves to starve, False Rose Bushes abduct them and Wood Secretions look and smell like candy to children while turning them to wood if they eat it.

  • Can't be avoided

• Emotional Abuse

  Punishing child for crying

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  In the call with the crying child, getting it wrong will result in a desperate father yelling at his child before realizing there is a valid reason for the crying.

  • Can't be avoided

• Gaslighting

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  As one of your coworkers goes missing and sends calls for help, future emails tell you to disregard it as some sort of prank.

  • Can't be avoided

• Harassment

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  You get multiple prank calls from one individual

  • Can't be avoided

• Magical Violence

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  Characters can be turned into mice by Carol (your boss)

  • Can't be avoided

• Mutilation

  • Can't be avoided

• Stalking

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  There are several creatures that are said to stalk home owners, watching them sleep and attempting to kill pets/children. Some callers also complain of having a possible stalker.

  • Can't be avoided

Phobias

• Arachnophobia

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  House spiders are depicted in a photo in the game (this can be avoided by using the phobia toggle). A fictional spider called a Dream Weaver exists, but no callers ever call about either of these.

  • Can't be avoided
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• Automatonophobia

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  Animations are described as humanoid objects come to life, and one is depicted in its entry. Hobbs look a lot like drawing mannequins, with no face. The Floor Roots entry depicts a doll, though this is just a normal doll.

  • Can't be avoided

• Claustrophobia

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  False Artifacts imply sealing someone away, though the claustrophobic nature of this sealing is only hinted at and never depicted. You can avoid in-game photos involving claustrophobia using the phobia toggle.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Katsaridaphobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Melissophobia

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  You can avoid images of insects using the phobia toggle.

  • Can't be avoided
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• Misc. Phobias

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  Cynophobia (fear of dogs) -- related imagery can be avoided using the phobia toggle. Scopophobia (fear of being watched) -- related imagery can be avoided using the phobia toggle

  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Nyctophobia

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  You can avoid in-game photos involving darkness using the phobia toggle.

  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

• Traumatophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Trypanophobia

  Mentioned

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  used needles/syringes are mentioned, but only twice, and just to talk about their presence.

  • Can't be avoided

• Trypophobia

  Seen (image)

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  You can avoid images of Fae Flu using the phobia toggle.

  • Has options to remove or avoid trigger

Physical Health & Body Issues

• Hospitalization

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  If you fail to give a certain caller the correct advice, she calls back to tell you her family is admitting her to a mental institution, and you can hear her attacking the people trying to take her away.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Physical Health & Body Issues

  Struggling to breathe

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  Some callers complain of experiencing severe allergies/asthma due to an entity in their house. There is a caller who is constantly sneezing and can't catch his breath.

  • Can't be avoided

• Terminal Illness

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  The Fae Flu is an illness which cannot be cured and can kill.

  • Can't be avoided

Religion & Sects

• Religion

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  One caller discusses events she believes to be the work of Satanists, and talks about things like D&D in a puritanical way.

  • Can't be avoided

Traumatic Events

• Structure Fire

  Image

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  There is a photo of a house fire for the house fire entry. You can avoid looking at this entry.

  • Is avoidable

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