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90s Call Center Horror Game ‘Home Safety Hotline’ Tasks You With Dealing With “Pests” [Trailer]
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, you call the Ghostbusters. But what about something happening in your own home? Developer Nick Lives and Night Signal Entertainment (the creators behind Night Signal) has the answer with Home Safety Hotline, their upcoming 90s call center horror title.
Releasing on Steam on January 16th, Home Safety Hotline tasks you with assisting callers about their questions about what pests are inside their home. Using the totally-not-Windows 98 interface (and accompanied by David Johnsen‘s lo-fi score), you field incoming callers’ questions about what “pests” they’re experiencing inside their home. Using the catalog of common pests and household hazards, your must do your best to become an expert in home safety.
Of course, you could always just hang up and leave them to their problems. But as you might expect, regardless of your actions (or inaction), you will be held responsible for what happens.
Seeing as you will be dealing with some real-life phobias, the game does feature an accessibility option known as “Phobia Toggles” that allows you to disable in-game images for common phobia triggers, just in case. And for you keeners, there’s also an unlockable art book that details the game’s development history.
Lastly, if you’re the “try before you buy” type, you can also check out the demo on the Steam page.
Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!
The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.
“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”
For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.
You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.
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