Home Safety Hotline news & patch notes

Attention Employees!

The creators of Home Safety Hotline have launched our latest experiment in '90s horror - Forbidden Solitaire! We've been working on it for the past year and change with our solitaire-expert collaborators over at Grey Alien Games, and we're thrilled to finally share our latest creation with you all!

Extra Discount: Night Signal Entertainment Bundle

Home Safety Hotline owners can even grab Forbidden Solitaire for an additional discount by grabbing it as part of the Night Signal Entertainment bundle! Thanks for all your support as always! We hope you enjoy the horrors Forbidden Solitaire has in store for you.

Attention Employees!

Home Safety Hotline and 150+ other 'Fake OS' games are on sale during the first-ever InterfaceX Virtual Expo - an event dedicated to interface-based games! We're even trying to make a 'Fake OS' tag a thing on Steam to make finding more games like these easier in the future! If you want to help, you can check out the event details and the Steam sale page on the official website here: https://interfacex.net

Forbidden Solitaire is Launching This Week!

Additionally, if you haven't seen the news - our next horror game Forbidden Solitaire is launching THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH! We announced the news during the Second Wind Games Showcase last week with a brand new in-universe trailer straight out of 1995, which you can watch above.

Be sure to WISHLIST the game below if you haven't already so you'll be notified when it launches later this week! We can't wait for y'all to see what new horrors we've been cooking up with the folks over at Grey Alien Games for the past year and change...

Attention, Employees!

If you haven't yet heard the news, I'm excited to share that Spooky Pictures, Image Nation and Longevity Pictures have partnered to adapt Home Safety Hotline into a feature film! Michael Matthews (Love and Monsters) is attached to direct, with the screenplay written by Nick Tassoni!

For more details, you can read the full announcement at The Hollywood Reporter. It's not every day I can say our weird little indie game is getting the film treatment. 😳 I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us and our projects this far, we would not get to make our little freak games without you! 💜

Wishlist Our Games!

Speaking of which - if you like our work, be sure to add our upcoming horror games to your wishlist!

Our 90s-inspired CD-ROM horror Forbidden Solitaire is quite nearly finished, so expect an announcement about a release date very soon.

Meanwhile, our console troubleshooting horror Please Insert Disc is still quietly ticking along in the background...

Thanks again for all your support. Genuinely.

Best,

-Nick Lives

Attention Employees!

We can't resist having something new to share around Halloween, so we made some new Home Safety Hotline merch to celebrate the witching season!

We now have limited stock HSH Sticker Sheets (only 100) with 6 original designs by the ever-talented hmnprsn.org - as well as a new Junior Supervisor shirt for those of you who have descended below the soil!

You can grab these as well as all of our other merch here:

https://robaroba.gg/collections/night-signal-entertainment

UPCOMING HORRORS

Meanwhile, if you are hungry for a new horror game from us - fear not! We have not one, but TWO new games in development! Be sure to add them to your wishlist so you'll be the first to know when they launch!

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

Additionally, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some awesome stuff from our community.

If you didn't know - a fellow by the name of "Gasterbuzzer" created an HSH Modding Tool and many members of our Discord have been running wild with it!

"ICY" shared this look at one of their mod's creatures - a Sewer Gnome:

While "Normaliv" shared this enigmatic screenshot with the caption: 'yeah this is where life peaks'

Meanwhile, "Neo-Shinryu" has apparently been working on a Halloween-themed campaign for some time, having apparently finished dozens of entries - and recently showed off their modded desktop here, seemingly titled "Night Shift"

Attention Employees!

We just launched a new gameplay trailer for our upcoming horror game about unearthing the contents of a cursed 1995 CD-ROM, Forbidden Solitaire! You can check it out now, and be sure to wishlist the game if you haven't already!

Home Safety Hotline Modding

We also have some very exciting Home Safety Hotline news to share, and that's that creating custom campaigns, entries, calls and more is now a thing thanks to the efforts of savvy player Gasterbuzzer!

There's already several mods in the works as well as instructions on how to use/access these tools over in a new modding channel on our Discord, so go check it out if you want to get in on the action! This is by no means an officially supported tool, but we thought this was an insanely cool thing Gasterbuzzer created and just had to spread the word!

Image Credit: Discord user TheEnderDwonk

Last Chance to Own a Hobb

Finally, if you haven't gotten the chance to grab one of our Common Hobb plushies yet, this is your last chance as they've very nearly sold out, with less than 20 now left in stock! You can grab one here, assuming you are up for the responsibility.

☎️ ORDER HERE!

GET IT NOW! ⬇️⬇️

Features:

• A new 4-day storyline set during the holiday season.
• 28 new horrifying entries to discover, featuring the art of Trevor Henderson, Eduardo Valdés-Hevia, Lou-Ellen Allwood, and Omega Black.
• Meet new fully voice acted characters and callers, featuring the talents of Longmont Potion Castle, Granny, Mo Mo O'Brien and more!
• Live to attend the annual office Christmas Party.

Translations Coming Soon!

Summerween Sale

What's Next

• Added a fix for softlock "forever answering" bug during Call Trainer Mode.
• Fixed day not ending properly when failing a day while using the unemployment immunity toggle.
• Added a fix for setting the correct default native resolution on Steam Deck.
• Tweaked fade in timing for Call Trainer Mode.

"Call Trainer" Mode

Our Next Game: Please Insert Disc

• Fixed day skipping bug caused by using NG+ call skip feature.
• Fixed NG+ not triggering game over when using call skip feature.
• Fixed text display issue on Delete Save popup.
• Bed Bug now properly labeled to be hidden when using the insect phobia toggle.
• Added missing phobia labels to several other entries.
• Added limit for how many error messages can display on screen at once (5).
• Fixed accuracy text not displaying on clock out screen.

QOL Features

• Jr. Supervisor Options: These are new toggles that will appear in the Options Menu after successfully finishing the game to assist with replays. These include:
  • Unemployment Immunity: Makes it impossible to be fired to make exploring Consequence Calls more convenient on replays.
  • Always Display Accuracy: Displays a live current accuracy level for the day in the upper right corner of the menu.
  • Skip Call Wait Period: Adds a button to the call window that allows players to skip the waiting period and get right to the next call.
• Weekly Report: After finishing the game, a new application on the desktop will appear that will display every caller in the game and whether you correctly deduced their problem or not. (NOTE: All callers from Day 7 will appear as incorrect due to a saving oversight before this patch went out.)

Fixes & Changes

• "Bed Bug" image replaced for accuracy.
• Fix for some machines not being able to display in-game videos properly.
• Fixed typos in numerous entries.
• Fixed typo in ending credits.
• Fixed Day 7 callers not being saved after completion of Day 7.
• Reworded Delete Application to be more accurate. (The application does not delete your entire save, but rather simply resets your weekly progress. Post-game unlocks will remain unlocked.)