Home Safety Hotline - Scary Game Squad

[@pairot01]

The moment Jesse heard the sound imitqtion she said "mouse, for sure", then they hear the sound recording in the mouse entry that is EXACTLY like the woman made, Jesse is immediately "no, I'm team raccoon, even thought they don't squeak". Yup, I'm watching SGS alright lmao

[@RobertoRafaf]

It was insane to me they failed the mouse one. The voice actor basically made those 2 sounds and they were like hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm don{t know, sounds like a fucking raccoon. Love this guys.

[@lydiahood7725]

These guys really have a tendency to ignore clear indications of something and go in the wrong direction because they somehow can't accept simple reality and have to go for the most obnoxious mental twist instead, its a thing I noted Jesse is particularly prone to do.

[@TheOnlyGhxst]

Jesse also just tends to be blind/deaf and miss a lot of things... for a perfect example go watch his Saints Row 3 playthrough with Crendor lol@@lydiahood7725

[@brittneyleigh9662]

Okay I am glad I am not the only one that was frustrated by that.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@lydiahood7725 seems more like an Alex thing. if anything Jesse seems the least likely to do that, still does it, just less.

[@rooroolaboo]

Everyone: It's mice. It's mice. IT'S MICE!!!!! SGS: Maybe it's a racoon.

[@Caelinus]

Their reasoning on it made no sense too. "It included the word attic" while the mouse one *literally had a whole ass sound file.*

[@torreykat]

I'm screaming over here, the over-think it's so confusing

[@tierdra9513]

I'm hearing this eek ekk and the cheese I've been leaving out is has been disappearing and my cat has been making all sorts of racket... SGS: Cheese. Cow.

[@Raktus]

My problem was more the length of time it took. Five minutes going back and forth over two options. Imagine if this was real and not a game... you'd be on hold for half an hour waiting for these chuckleheads, lol.

[@oilygarch]

Jesse out here acting like a bad search engine. "Here, lemme fixate on one keyword, pulled out of context, for you."

[@ItSosej]

The mice bit made me full on DORA The Explorer screaming at the screen "MICE! PICK MICE!" Jesse and Alex : "It's Racoon" FUCK

[@Joelseph2001]

The real nightmare, work a call center job without knowing what you are doing

[@simplykeno]

So, just working at a call center then?

[@daemonbane1]

that's uhh... basically how call centers work, sink or swim, training your staff is only a suggestion.

[@Rytonic69]

The game is about fairies, and your boss is part of the Aen Sidhe, the people under the hills. In Irish folklore, fairies live in Otherworld, which is under the ground. You proved that you are knowledgble of the fae and earned the right to live among them

[@writershard5065]

Okay but I'm kinda down tbh. Fae folk seem fun (if a bit deadly).

[@Eventide215]

@@writershard5065A lot of the fae in myth are tricksters but extremely deadly. There's things like the hobbs that will clean for you, but if you disturb them whatsoever you'll never be found again. You see how most things in this database just mimic real things or live in something barely disturbing people but doing *just* enough that will drive someone crazy. The fae are basically completely bipolar where they can be cute and fun one moment and the next extremely deadly in a variety of ways. Leave it to the Irish to have myth like that.

[@echoedsoul9355]

You know I could kinda see it. Especially saw it's merits first when they got their employee coupon and it was an iron horseshoe?! That's some fae protection shit.

[@ElFreakinCid]

@@echoedsoul9355 How about the fact that nearly every "solution" given for a fae-related problem amounts to either "Give up and embrace the impending demise of yourself and/or your loved ones", "Appeasing it is your life now, deal with it" or "Abandon your home, it's theirs now"?

[@MikeSakaru]

@@writershard5065I'm like 95% likely to be down. But I'm strongly worried about what I'd be eating.

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

jesse: coffee grounds lookin droppings in the kitchen? definitely NOT cockroaches --is roaches also jesse: sqeaking sounds from the attic at night? definitely NOT mice --is mice the roaches and mice secretly living in jesse's house: 😎

[@Baleur]

That mouse / racoon second task was the largest example of the donning kruger effect ever.. "I hear squeeking sounds in my attic." Obivously mice. The very definition, meme, the whole character of mice in a house, is that you hear squeeks. Then follows an extremely convoluted overcomplicated roundabout way to say its raccoons, which has nothing to do with the squeeking. When people are trying to be extra intelligent by thinking outside the box, you're missing what is unbelievably easy and simple inside the box, and you'll still be wrong despite taking the more complex path..

[@flamedance58]

Great to see you bunch play this game. [Edit] To those curious there is 2 endings. You either get through the whole week and win or you give wrong answers enough and you lose (Not gonna spoil that). Most if not all the phone calls can have bad endings if you give them wrong answers anything from "Oh no it's worse!" to "MY FACE MELTING!". The game gives you a catalogue so you can read over everything and an option to see your entire run's results as in names of the callers and whether you got it right or not. Afaik there's no 100% ending but you do get to see all the coupons. There's options to make things easier or skipping certain things too.

[@Mr.Am-Ace-Ing]

I feel like there's more than two. I definitely saw something about typing a code in when you clocked out to get an item.

[@flamedance58]

@@Mr.Am-Ace-Ing Are you referring to the "discount coupons" you get if you get 80% or higher? Their just flavor text.

[@Vekuyo]

I love well written ARG horror like this. All three in unison going “shes got woods secretions” in a completely matter of fact tone like thats not an unhinged phrase. Debating the differences between a common hobb and pipe hobb and whether the customer needs cheese or cream. Its just crafted so well that the weirdness isn’t weird anymore and just a totally acceptable facet of reality.

[@jasonschuler2256]

This isn't what an ARG is. I think the term you're looking for is The Secret World, or the broader Urban Fantasy.

[@Vekuyo]

@@jasonschuler2256 ahh. That’s fair. I’ve heard the term used for any sort of game that crosses into reality, but does seem the intended use is actual physical cross-media stuff. My bad.

[@darko1295]

Alex, I caught your Spiderwick Chronicles reference/mention at around 28:00 and I want you to know that it is appreciated. Those books, alongside Narnia, were my childhood, and I feel like the series has remained relatively underrated and unknown for how entertaining it is

[@Sad_Homunculus]

house of leaves joke and kafka joke in the first 5 minutes, my bookshelf is happy.

[@Ananasboat]

Jesse snuck in a Enigma of Amigara Fault reference too later on. I recommend!

[@Sad_Homunculus]

@@Ananasboat I noticed that lol!

[@toadfake4588]

Happy Bookshelf, Happy Life

[@CadPlaysGames]

Sorry I missed your Kafka joke, I turned into a giant bug and it's just been a lot to deal with right now.

[@Apolleh]

"Finally managed to get over my immense interest in Home Safety Hotline over the past couple days. Now I can focus on my stream backlog!" "Oh hey a new SGS-"

[@tinybee7780]

I don't know which is more horrifying - the caller hearing the "please hold" and having to wait for a real time response from the responder while actual s**t is going on in their house, or the responder f***ing up and giving the caller the wrong way to deal with the problem. This was such a nice concept for a game. Also, I definitely recognize some of those caller potraits 😂 from the internet.

[@levilore_7126]

i like to think that before you press the please hold the person hears breathing on the other end of the phone or SGS debating what shit is going on lmao

[@GendoRokabundi]

I do love how every solution is “use our proprietary service”

[@weakamna]

@@GendoRokabundi Which is either corporate/capitalism _or_ it's cause they are the only ones actually trained to handle the supernatural bs

[@Eventide215]

@@weakamnaThat's why the supervisor tells you not to tell anyone else about what you have access to in the database and why you start off with only normal things then move to more fae stuff. You're the only ones with the information on how to deal with it. Even the police apparently won't deal with it and send people to HSH instead. So it's apparently established. It reminds me of Control with the FBC (Federal Bureau of Control). No other place is equipped to deal with what they do. It'd be like if your house is on fire and you call a plumber and they say they can't do anything and you have to call firefighters.. that's not "corporate/capitalism" it's just they're not trained to deal with it.

[@BalthorYT]

@@weakamna It's definitely both: they're obviously the only ones capable of handling those situations - given how the police, and by extension, the state, defers it to them - but they approach it from a corporate and likely also profit-driven perspective; either a product of the time they live in or a willing choice of profit over human life (and perhaps fey life as well). Definitely a good tactic in terms of hiding their true nature: they'd raise far more suspicion as a shadowy government organization, paramilitary force, etc., than as a pushy company with a weird advice hotline and mixed results solving problems.

[@232324287u]

What a great video! I'm a little disappointed they didn't notice the changing desktop image (I didn't check if it changed before Saturday but that's the first one I noticed - that person was DEFINITELY not there before - and then Sunday there was a massive hole in the ground).

[@alantarazona]

The ending was INCREDIBLE

[@christinezwergle1613]

Nearly 3 hour SGS!?!?! Sign me tf up!!!!!

[@lemongrassass]

seriously it’s awesome we’ve been getting so many episodes recently these videos bring me so much joy and a little terror

[@Mock_immorality]

Right??? The best ever! 😍

[@whitehawk3638]

The devs of this game are huge dorks and Its great.

[@troin3925]

I never realized that until you brought it up. The Fae Folk stole that woman's cat!

[@RouxLioux]

This is such a cool idea for a game. Playing an analog horror is something I think all of us have wanted to do before

[@GIChiyo]

lol only a few minutes in and they are already overthinking it This is gonna be good

[@flamedance58]

I gotta give it to the devs for when they show you certain options during the game. You start off with normal stuff and then you start getting the weird things and you immediately think everything is going to be the weird fantasy stuff. It kinda goes back and forth and sometimes an entire day is all paranormal stuff. It really makes players expect trends but sometimes those trends are meant to mislead you. The funny thing is that quite a few ppl I've watched stream this game tend to forget that you just need to read what the ppl say and read your descriptions of stuff and you get your answer.

[@Eventide215]

The amount of overthinking in this video is wild.. it's equally hilarious and terrifying when they see something talking specifically about mice, sounding like mice, and yet they're like "IT'S A RACCOON BECAUSE THEY SAID ATTIC!" as if mice are banned from living in an attic.. then later when the woman says to not tell anyone they take that as "don't tell anyone anything not normal" when it was more like an NDA where you're not supposed to take all the information from that database you have access to and just tell everyone.. so then the boys are sitting there just going through the list of things looking for something else you use milk/cream for.. like what is wrong with this group? They'll be *spot on* for things then immediately not trust themselves because they start making each other second guess everything for no reason..

[@Eventide215]

@@flamedance58But then we have this group that read what the people say, read the descriptions in the database, listen to the audio, realize it all matches *perfectly* for mice then they choose raccoon anyway just because the woman said "attic"..

[@Hoztyle619]

​@@Eventide215 this was infurating because she specifically says you can tell the caller if that's what their issue is...

[@Eventide215]

@@Hoztyle619Yeah the point of the message was basically "we have a database of problems and solutions we can't have everyone knowing the solutions or else we're out of business." Somehow the guys were like "DON'T TELL ANYONE ANYTHING THEN!"

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

I could FEEL the entire audience yelling 'IT'S MICE' at the screen like a bit from a kid's panto

[@mybelovedchaos]

The whole beginning of this episode proves the boys rarely leave the house and they definitely don't own a house either. I have to deal with a bad case of bed teeth so often I wish I rented so I can just call my landlord about it!

[@Graycata]

Baking Soda. Rub it with a cloth. (Do Not Touch) Also the cream thing

[@Skyia93]

Love your guy's videos! My husband has been binging SGS for 3 days lol

[@Sad_Homunculus]

congrats on being the first real comment!

[@Pixelynx]

Sounds like Jesse never had to deal with mice either. They ain't coming out during the day when people up and aboot. 🤣😭

[@DeltaEntropy]

I’ve caught multiple mice during the day.

[@liraelgirl8]

Jesse.... how is squeaking not a mouse 😂

[@TheGrinningViking]

"We are many, we are above, we have a queen" "Termites? Ants?" FFS Jeraldo.

[@agentverona]

I'm bedbound with an arthritis flare-up, so I appreciate the hell outta this.

[@IrishIHadAPotato]

I hope you feel better soon, friend

[@TheGrinningViking]

Same here, with the fibro. It's weird being a grumpy old man online. lol

[@yungskrrskrr6550]

Sounds like mice to me.

[@CaptainMcAnnis]

Don't worry, I saw the hand holding the banister. Also I used to work in pest control and sometimes this video is torture.

[@beebomcgroober9316]

That ending song and sequence is straight out of the movie "Troll" 1986. I mean it's not the same song but clearly an homage to it.

[@troin3925]

That's exactly what I thought when I played it for the first time! It's also intentional since the developer is a huge fan of that film and is a huge inspiration for this game.

[@fredericksmith5568]

The ending alone was worth it

[@FluffyDragon]

The ending was a soothing balm to my blood pressure after watching him click the wrong menu every goddamn time during the trial. Every. Time.

[@TylerSmittles]

some of these... it felt like they jumped to one solution and couldnt leave it lol like the bed bug for nightmares and such gotta love them

[@Yog-slagunar]

A gremlin telling you to buy NFT's is the only reason that thing made sense

[@nyxmoonveil]

I understand not knowing about the cockroaches because you don't really see them in some areas of the world. But not getting the mice even though the woman is clearing making squeaking noises???? And that's just the beginning of the video lol!

[@Cobalt360Degrees]

YESSSSS I LOVE THIS GAME!!! It's such a fun, weird little experience! In case you guys didn't look through it at the end, please check out the little behind the scenes gallery! It's so much fun and you can see how so much love and time went into this game, it's so great.

[@koleasert]

WE NEED AMNESIA: THE BUNKER JESSE!!!!!!! I also fucking adore this long format. Keep it up!!!

[@thelaughingrouge]

Damn I did NOT expect the ending credits to be an homage to the original Troll movie!

[@SoulWhiteAngel]

So if you get 'fired' the only other ending, you get turned into a mouse. Also there is extras and i love the thought process that went into the game. F.E the warlock thing is thier old halloween costume.

[@troin3925]

I actually recognized the mask right away.

[@Rayweo]

These regular SGS uploads are amazing. Also thanks for making them a longplay gang! Bless.

[@dragonprism]

man...as a SGS fan, i've been feasting with all these uploads. haven't missed a single one! thank you guys :)

[@Baleur]

I love these ultra long videos. I put em on after work at around 9-10pm, and just chill out until the ghosting hour, with tea or coffee. Then you microwave a meal. Then you have another cuppa. Then you bedge and have nightmares.

[@tommyg3031]

A professional voice actor was paid to squeak like a mouse. SGS plays the voice actor squeaking. "Eh thats a definitely a raccoon clanking around up there!"

[@aureasmortem]

going from "Oh hey that looks like the trail to Timpanogas Cave in Utah!" to "oh no it literally is Timpanogas Cave, it said right on the sign" was fun. Super cool spot, lots of cool formations and the occasional cave demon.

[@fox.mulder.]

Y’all are the only gameplay KZbinrs I still watch, thanks for keeping ‘em coming, boys!

[@sweetlikepapaya442]

2:03:50 I live near this hiking trail! The clip of the plaque is from the Mount Timpanogos cave in South Salt Lake, Utah lol. Pretty confident all of the footage in this segment is from the cave/trails near there. Always nice to see games reference places I know 🥰

[@wjhull]

23:29 - That SGS feeling when you feel like you're sitting there watching your grandma open extra windows while panic-tabbing away from Internet Explorer, only to realize that YOUR GRANDPARENTS HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS! Spooooooky!

[@lychirose]

I keep coming back to this video because the chemistry is just as good as the Until Dawn or Outlast 2. "The Dorcha comes to getcha" has to be one of my favorite lines

[@SimplyConeh]

I just watched the squad playing Stories Untold a few days ago, looking forward to this one! Edit: Maybe not after the soundbite tutorial section which was obviously mice :P

[@danielle-on-p9]

You guys dont understand how much seeing a new SGS cheers me up. Thank you guys for giving us these

[@CatbaronAle]

The ending always makes me crack up. The acting in this is so much fun ❤

[@BernardoOrel]

Oh neat a quick SGS video before bed (it's midnight over here :))

[@flamedance58]

Quick? 3hrs is a quick video? Lol 😅

[@bleepbloop375]

I am so disappoint I didn’t get to see their reactions to the ending where your turned into a mouse, but then again it after house of ashes I should have know they’d do great (despite picking raccoon)

[@joshualevine8345]

The Kafka joke was intellectual, yet, low hanging fruit, but still good, Jesse. 8/10.

[@drudle]

"It's making an 'eee eee eee' noise." > Mouse file plays: "eee eee eee!" "Hmmm. I don't know. Play the raccoon again?" > 30m later "Okay, the carpenter ants one more time?"

[@Maradrafts]

2:49:10: this got me good because funnily enough I was in a similar ballpark when playing to get the bad ending... I named my own run 'Oops! all raccoons!' because... Well, you know why. :D I may be EXCEEDINGLY late commenting on this, but I wanted to leave some words nonetheless- I haven't been able to watch a full episode of SGS in a long long while and chose this one to dive back because I've been feeling nostalgic of this game already... And this was an absolute joy to watch. I feel like you guys's brand of humour and that of the game gelled in a very fun way, and some bits like the Night Wisp NFT improv had me laughing like a loon in front of my PC for a good minute or three - thanks for the good vibes!! (also foreshadowing _both_ the Leprechaun and Spriggan before they were even unlocked? Pure skill. Oo)

[@BlueJeiVA]

SGS: The kings of overthinking shit. I, unabashedly, love it

[@MiffoKarin]

This game gives off very strong GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT vibes and I am here for it.

[@troin3925]

It's also a complete genre inverse. While Gemini Home Entertainment is an apocalyptic science fiction story about an alien invasion, this is a fantasy about fairies and other such creatures living among humans in the modern day.

[@jamessummers6366]

Spooky team channel coming in hot w a 3 hour episode!

[@GradnLordTad]

Oh shit! I watched Secret Sleepover Society play this and it was awesome. Looking forward to seeing you guys play. 😊

[@TheKumaKhan]

Glad to see I'm not the only one in that venn diagram!

[@Arrakiz666]

On another rewatch, I love the tiny detail of your supervisor actually having two first names, because the Fae do understand the concept of names very keenly, but not so much the concept of surnames.

[@mr.kittysavestheworld695]

Prank call timestamps: Twig Sigmund: 18:30 Buzz Goober: 34:16 Fred Pinball: 56:22 Gub Rubber: 1:22:31 Flipper: 1:45:15

[@crowpalm]

Wouldn't be an ep without an under the radar House of Leaves reference from Alex

[@Shizuku.Tsukishima]

Yo! An almost 3hr episode of SGS? Hell yea, you guys are still awesome

[@omegalazerbilly9653]

Down with the flu all day, this is exactly what I needed, 3 hours of the scary game guys team!!

[@nintha1]

2:46:41 congratulations you have been promoted! You are now one of my elite employees!

[@MEYGOAD]

Best ending to a video game ever

[@samcar06c]

Woohoo!!! What a wonderful surprise, an extra long SGS!!!!!

[@xenokatana]

I'm so happy that you are posting more SGS!

[@Pixelynx]

The way I hit my head when Jesse said "False Flower is not it". 🤣🤣

[@Sad_Homunculus]

SO Happy you guys played this!

[@pairot01]

StalagMites are on the ground, because the M looks like 2 upward spikes. StalagTites hang from the ceiling, just like the flqt top of the T and the sharp bottom.

[@phoeniceae]

went looking for this comment! i learned it stalaGmites (g = ground) / stalaCtites (c = ceiling)

[@shoken4421]

I'm glad I watched till the end Carol is one cute wood elf ❤️ nice going guys

[@Mick_Chicken]

No kidding, I was bewitched

[@cherniza_]

If you’re into this sort of old internet vibe, another great one is Hypnospace Outlaw (Alex has already played it). It’s by no means horror, but nails the mid-90s vibe and is very well done as a narrative experience.

[@bearbrain1123]

Yesss ! keep the one shots coming Jesse ! we're forever grateful ! :)

[@Bert_Bertsson]

Always a good evening when a new SGS episode drops! Especially such a long one. HSH is such a great idea for a game, and it's done well.

[@Fluxicity]

"Titantic meets Jurassic Park" 🤣 oh the imagery...

[@mister155]

I've watched this playthrough and even though this game doesn't seem scary for me, I just live the vibes and fae stuff, and that outro was just fabulous. I am going to buy this game just purely to support these creative guys, because that is a clear labor of love I am seeing.

[@Flashjackmak]

I really love this type of game, so good at giving me the creeps. Thanks SGS!

[@Arrakiz666]

Ah, yes, working on the hotline, truly the greatest horror of all.

[@serakayle7903]

As someone who works in a reputable company that requires your presence in front of a laptop from 9 to 5, I just recently realized that the laptop, on an interval, took a picture through the laptop's camera. When I accidentally closed the camera slidy-shutter-lid thingy, it gave me this error "You need to make sure there's sufficient light in your room for the recording to properly capture you and your surrounding" Needless to say I didn't remove the lid ever since.

[@MistressDiz]

Love having more regular SGS videos Also, its very apparent after seeing the end that Jesse has never worked for a corporation hahaha

[@gakulon]

That Metamorphosis image is me going to go grab doritos at 2 am

[@effluviah7544]

I've worked monitored screen desk jobs and call center jobs. This game is a unique level of hell for me, lmao.

[@josephsteven1600]

SGS always puts a smile on my face. Thank you guys so much.

[@tofast4ya]

This gives me "Welcome to Nightvale" meets "Vita Carnis" vibes.

[@Bezvorotniy]

I have watched nearly every sgs video since the start in pt and I still can’t really tell Alex and Davis apart.

[@BingoClamshell]

A stalactite hold on tight, so yeah Stalagmite, might poke you in the ass from below Source: Tenacious D - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXrMYXmnbMiEbpo

[@dennisl9176]

that ending was INCREDIBLE

[@troin3925]

I wish you listened to the audio samples for each of them whenever they're available since there's actually some very terrifying ones (like the Boggart where you hear it opening a door making this distorted growling and presumably charging at whoever is recording it).

[@Ma-Giik]

nearly 3 entire hours of sgs? insane pure gold literally all i could ask for

[@Madrock7777]

I've been sick all day, this was perfect for watching while being lazy all day. Thank you SGS.

[@KikiMofo]

Loving these long ass SGS episodes. Keep it up dudes.

[@Mistress0fMonsters]

I love the SGS but you guys have clearly never dealt with mice and raccoon before and it shows. Mice are always in attics and crawlspaces! And what raccoon squeaks??? 😂😅

[@Mick_Chicken]

This was a particularly good game for SGS as we could "play along" at home. Love you guys!

[@i_inhalefarts9799]

Them not knowing the first guy had roaches blew my mind. Then made me realize all of the boys here had it good growing up. Which makes me happy.

[@jupiterjazz9421]

Same. As someone who lived in a mouse infested house I knew right away the problem that lady was having. 😅

[@Kyosumari]

Cockroaches is less to do with having it good and more to do with location IME. I've had rich friends who were slobs have roaches and poor friends who were slobs not have roaches and everything in between. Pests and infestations like that are heavily reliant on location, not just resources, tho are impacted by lifestyle.

[@MidoriTheAwesome]

I grew up in Iowa where the only times I'd ever seen a roach were someone accidentally bringing them in from a suitcase. Lots of Asian beetles, Boxelder bugs, Stinkbugs, but no roaches

[@Leo0718]

Talking about homes. Have you considered playing Homebody? It's by the team that produces the GameGrumps channel. And it is really fun, you would enjoy it so much.

[@seanhughes5366]

Absolutely love a good sgs vid before sleepy time

[@Leetgrain]

This was great! I do wish you all read through a bit more, but I digress. Loved the reaction to the ending!

[@TomasCyr]

34 min lol Calvin the Hobb, no one noticed that superb joke

[@TomasCyr]

I guessed right...has nothing to do with living for years with mice in the walls at my last residence...