Being a homeowner is a special kind of nightmare: silverfish creeping along the baseboards, stinkbugs buzzing around the windows, the slow and terrible process of descaling an ancient shower head. Real-life house problems are gross, frustrating and endless, but at least none of mine ever left me possessed. Home Safety Hotline, the newest retro-horror puzzle game from Night Signal Entertainment , takes ordinary homeowner fears and twists them into something stranger, darker and more unsettling. The game looks like an old Windows 95 desktop and feels like a cursed employee training CD, setting the stage for an experience that’s equal parts call center drudgery and analog horror dread.

The premise is simple and brilliant: You play as an operator at the titular homeowner hotline, fielding c

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