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.
- Release date: 01-16-2024
- Developer: Nicholas Lives
- Publisher: Nicholas Lives
- Platforms: Windows PC
- Not rated by: PEGI, ESRB
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
- 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
- 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
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- Can't be avoided
Misc. Eerie Noises
Baby crying
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Has options to remove or avoid trigger
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
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- 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
- 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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