Episode 322: Home Safety Hotline

This month we picked up the phone for Home Safety Hotline, a game that looks like a daft bit of admin but quickly turns into one of the most unsettling shifts you’ll ever work. On paper, you’re just answering calls and giving out advice to worried homeowners. In practice? You’re frantically flicking through a dusty binder trying to decide if that thing in the cupboard is a harmless spider… or something that definitely shouldn’t exist in your house.

It’s retro, it’s creepy, and it’s way funnier than it has any right to be. Half the time you’re second-guessing yourself, the other half you’re laughing at how bizarrely polite people are while describing absolute horrors in their loft.

So pop the kettle on, take a seat at the world’s least reassuring call centre, and join us as we try to keep the neighbourhood safe one questionable bit of advice at a time.

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