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Home Safety Hotline cover art

Home Safety Hotline

Night Signal Entertainment · 2024-01-16

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

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.

30
playing now
91%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$10.49
steam price (US)

30 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 30 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 10% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 59k–132k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,933 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$10.49-30%
Microsoft Store$19.99

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 17 of 18 observed days · $12.50 above the all-time low (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

3042026-08-07 00:00 — 25 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 25 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 14 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 19 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 17 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 19 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 17 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 30 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$7.492024-01-162026-08-282024-01-16 — 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 $10.492026-08-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

124352026-05-30 — 54 pageviews2026-06-02 — 65 pageviews2026-06-05 — 49 pageviews2026-06-08 — 80 pageviews2026-06-11 — 61 pageviews2026-06-14 — 81 pageviews2026-06-17 — 62 pageviews2026-06-20 — 52 pageviews2026-06-23 — 58 pageviews2026-06-26 — 64 pageviews2026-06-29 — 53 pageviews2026-07-02 — 54 pageviews2026-07-05 — 78 pageviews2026-07-08 — 64 pageviews2026-07-11 — 57 pageviews2026-07-14 — 45 pageviews2026-07-17 — 48 pageviews2026-07-20 — 55 pageviews2026-07-23 — 124 pageviews2026-07-26 — 53 pageviews2026-07-29 — 57 pageviews2026-08-01 — 43 pageviews2026-08-04 — 41 pageviews2026-08-07 — 51 pageviews2026-08-10 — 42 pageviews2026-08-13 — 42 pageviews2026-08-16 — 57 pageviews2026-08-19 — 54 pageviews2026-08-22 — 57 pageviews2026-08-25 — 35 pageviews2026-08-27 — 43 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

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.

Player tags

FMV1990'sHorrorTypingMysteryLore-RichMythologySimulationText-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

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

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