YMMV / Home Safety Hotline

• Accidental Aesop: The safest kind of house is a clean house, and don't shirk on the smaller bits. Many different hazards of often supernatural but mostly mundane origin manifest only as a result of poor household management, some as small as forgetting to dust, properly handling trash, cleaning your house pipes or not checking the quality of your floor and walls.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • By having their clients allow HSH's workers to enter homes to solve their issues, Home Safety Hotline cleverly exploits Loophole Abuse when it comes to The Fair Folk limitation of needing to be invited to a house.
  • Some of the calls you'll get are from clients complaining about how they received bad info "last week" (ie. before the player began their job at HSH) and asking you to fix it. Now we know why Mike got terminated.
  • Why does Carol punish you so harshly for too many bad calls? Because by calling the Hotline, the callers have entered into a pact with The Fair Folk and by doing a bad job you are not fulfilling it. And pacts are Serious Business for The Fair Folk both ways.
• Fridge Logic: If you give wrong information, the callers phone back to blame you for their terrible fate. This makes sense in cases where your information would have saved them, but in a lot of cases the advice you send is useless at best and effectively non-existent at worst, so it's unclear what exactly changes when you get it right. May calls back in inconsolable grief if you give her wrong information, but if you do tell her that her son slowly died in agony while she was unable to hear his screams, she's apparently fine with it and doesn't see any need to follow up on the matter.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Despite the amount of care put into the game and some genuine thinkers for puzzles, the 15$ price tag on what amounts to a 3-4 hour game is a common complaint in negative Steam reviews.
• Narm: While the game has plenty of intentionally funny moments in it, the caller Jules is obviously voiced by a woman who isn't even trying to sound like a man. Additionally, there are other voice actors in this game that do a better job at voicing characters opposite of their gender.