Games like Home Safety Hotline
If Home Safety Hotline is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life Eater, Yeli Orog and Strange Aeons — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Home Safety Hotline is a 2024 indie simulation where players work as operators at a home safety company, answering calls and identifying mysterious entities threatening callers. The gameplay centers on call-center logic, archive-memory puzzles, and entity cataloging within a branching narrative, while players progress through employee ranks and hunt for collectibles. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric vhs-style visuals and audio, noting that the retro aesthetic enhances immersion into its mysterious alternate history setting. The creature designs and lore are consistently praised for their creativity and originality, and players describe the progression system with its discounts and promotions as rewarding. The game holds a 91 percent positive rating from over 2300 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Home Safety Hotline: 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.
Players who liked Home Safety Hotline also play
Steam players who put hours into Home Safety Hotline also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Life Eater
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object search, resource management, horror and an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Top pick for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Yeli Orog
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Yeli Orog is a short atmospheric FMV game about an immense archaeological discovery: A bizarre stone tablet written in the Celtiberian language found buried underneath an ancient dolmen in northern Spain.
Strange Aeons
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
You are stuck in gnostic cyber-hell. The followers of your cult are summoning you. Chat with an offline neural net AI through the microphone to escape hell and return to the land of the living.
Murder Meet Cute
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
Speed Dates
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, indie and a challenging mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Ranked #5 for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Embark Speed Dates, where you control first dates with 18 attractive women in this interactive FMV game. Shape your story with charm and humor for a personalized romantic journey.
Her Story
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Ranked #6 for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Ranked #7 for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Not For Broadcast
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Ranked #8 for Home Safety Hotline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Home Safety Hotline
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Not Tonight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
That's not my Neighbor
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving, indie and a mysterious mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.
I'm on Observation Duty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
SCP Foundation: ITTLG - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
SCP Foundation: ITTLG Chapter 1 is a visual novel about, SCP-105 & SCP-105-B and her friendship with you. Trying to escape the foundation, in the end. They find out the dark truth behind their existence.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Buddy Simulator 1984
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a dark mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Duskers
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Home Safety Hotline.
Reviewers of Home Safety Hotline cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Home Safety Hotline at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Home Safety Hotline on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home Safety Hotline.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Home Safety Hotline.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Home Safety Hotline.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Home Safety Hotline
- Does Home Safety Hotline run on Steam Deck?
- Home Safety Hotline is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Home Safety Hotline cost?
- Home Safety Hotline is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Home Safety Hotline?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Home Safety Hotline are Life Eater, Yeli Orog, Strange Aeons.
- Who developed Home Safety Hotline?
- Home Safety Hotline was developed by Night Signal Entertainment.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Home Safety Hotline.
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