This short horror title uses a vintage visual style and vast bug bestiary to simulate a creepy call center in the ’90s.
Home Safety Hotline sees you manning a call center that helps people with the strange creatures and critters infesting their homes. And hopefully, your advice doesn’t get anyone killed. You’d at least get written up for that.
Game Developer spoke with Nick Lives of Night Signal Entertainment, creators of this supernatural call center, to talk about what interests brought ’90s chat support and cryptids together, the wild ideas that came from mixing folkloric monsters and Windows 95-era corporate software, and the complexities of creating the game’s fail state that stop players from purposely trying to botch calls to experience the interesting, morbid things that happen when you gave the wrong answer.
