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Home Safety Hotline

Night Signal Entertainment · 2024-01-16

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jan 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 20, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 20, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Sep 20, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Sep 20, 2024 (Xbox One), Sep 20, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

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 a Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $10.49, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 2955 reviews).

3
playing now
91%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
12,293
twitch viewers (latest)
12293.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
64/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (307 downloads)
4.37★
PlayStation Store rating (317 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$10.49
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Home Safety Hotline is a 2024 horror puzzle video game developed by Night Signal Entertainment. In the game, the player works for the titular Home Safety Hotline, providing callers with correct information on how to deal with ordinary and supernatural household hazards. The game was created by independent developer Nick Lives, who was inspired by the bestiaries from Dungeons and Dragons and the mythology of legendary creatures. Released on 16 January 2024 for Windows, the game received generally positive reviews, with praise directed to the game's concept, visual presentation, and narrative, and criticism about the game's length and difficulty level.

Trailer

Home Safety Hotline trailer thumbnail

Home Safety Hotline - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2024

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 400 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~50/week).
  • · Review velocity up 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 29,131 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 59k–133k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,955 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2026-01-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 16 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
55355320242026Week of 2024-01-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 36 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2222026-09-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 8 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 9 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 17 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 18 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 15 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 17 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 12 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
949Jan 2024Aug 2026Jan 2024 — avg 94 · peak 257Feb 2024 — avg 31 · peak 107Mar 2024 — avg 29 · peak 131Apr 2024 — avg 18 · peak 54May 2024 — avg 13 · peak 44Jun 2024 — avg 13 · peak 42Jul 2024 — avg 16 · peak 46Aug 2024 — avg 11 · peak 36Sep 2024 — avg 24 · peak 130Oct 2024 — avg 36 · peak 148Nov 2024 — avg 17 · peak 63Dec 2024 — avg 36 · peak 150Jan 2025 — avg 24 · peak 93Feb 2025 — avg 15 · peak 51Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 41Apr 2025 — avg 9 · peak 33May 2025 — avg 13 · peak 39Jun 2025 — avg 19 · peak 50Jul 2025 — avg 15 · peak 43Aug 2025 — avg 14 · peak 35Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 25Oct 2025 — avg 13 · peak 43Nov 2025 — avg 13 · peak 50Dec 2025 — avg 18 · peak 67Jan 2026 — avg 27 · peak 137Feb 2026 — avg 11 · peak 37Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 27Apr 2026 — avg 10 · peak 29May 2026 — avg 12 · peak 34Jun 2026 — avg 17 · peak 52Jul 2026 — avg 13 · peak 33Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 36
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$7.492024-01-162026-10-092024-01-16 — best price $13.492024-03-14 — best price $13.492024-04-04 — best price $13.492024-05-13 — best price $13.492024-06-27 — best price $13.492024-08-01 — best price $13.492024-10-01 — best price $10.042024-11-27 — best price $11.992024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-01-27 — best price $11.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-24 — best price $11.992025-05-01 — best price $11.242025-06-09 — best price $11.242025-06-27 — best price $11.242025-08-11 — best price $11.242025-09-29 — best price $10.492025-10-27 — best price $10.492025-12-18 — best price $10.492026-01-16 — best price $7.492026-02-23 — best price $10.492026-03-19 — best price $10.492026-04-27 — best price $10.492026-06-13 — best price $10.492026-08-17 — best price $10.492026-09-04 — best price $19.992026-09-18 — best price $19.992026-10-02 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

124362026-05-30 — 54 pageviews2026-06-03 — 94 pageviews2026-06-07 — 47 pageviews2026-06-11 — 61 pageviews2026-06-15 — 84 pageviews2026-06-19 — 62 pageviews2026-06-23 — 58 pageviews2026-06-27 — 66 pageviews2026-07-01 — 73 pageviews2026-07-05 — 78 pageviews2026-07-09 — 54 pageviews2026-07-13 — 63 pageviews2026-07-17 — 48 pageviews2026-07-21 — 51 pageviews2026-07-25 — 65 pageviews2026-07-29 — 57 pageviews2026-08-02 — 49 pageviews2026-08-06 — 44 pageviews2026-08-10 — 42 pageviews2026-08-14 — 46 pageviews2026-08-18 — 42 pageviews2026-08-22 — 57 pageviews2026-08-26 — 62 pageviews2026-08-30 — 61 pageviews2026-09-03 — 43 pageviews2026-09-07 — 43 pageviews2026-09-11 — 42 pageviews2026-09-15 — 63 pageviews2026-09-19 — 54 pageviews2026-09-23 — 52 pageviews2026-09-27 — 71 pageviews2026-10-01 — 48 pageviews2026-10-05 — 95 pageviews2026-10-08 — 75 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
94.5%
earned "Monday"
58.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-01-16, latest 2024-09-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,96122%11
PS5 (PlayStation)38762%12
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)18144%11
PS4 (PlayStation)9881%12
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FMV1990'sHorrorTypingMysteryLore-RichMythologySimulationText-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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