i've VERY recently found that one of my favorite setups to a video game is 'hey, congrats, you're hired for a new job!' hsh absolutely nails the delights of sitting in a little cubicle and answering phone calls, which i think is a simple and ideal job. the sort of puzzle solving gameplay hsh provides is perfect for my brain - you're presented with a description of someone's called in issue, and you're tasked with sending a little information kit to send to them, which ranges from... mice, ants, big slugs, little guys who clean (and turn into fucked up dudes who fucking GET you if you displease them), plants, not plants(?), the cellar wizard who moves in and makes your basement wet... it goes on!

i don't really want to spoil all of the phone calls and the funny guys in this game, but i think a lot of the attention to detail is fun! being the GAMER that i am i hardly ever really failed and if i ever did it was over fairly inconsequential things, but whenever you fail and give a caller the incorrect information, you get a call back that says that you were wrong, pretty much. since they were always inconsequential stuff on my end, i never really got any except like 2, but failing when it comes to ACTIVELY dangerous and malicious entities are CRAZY. you get to hear people just straight up getting mauled if you fail and it's serious... or just get called and yelled at that they didn't fix the mice in their house.

on THAT note, the voice acting for this game can be... like, extremely hit or miss. some of the voice acting is STELLAR, with may's call (which's details i won't spoil) proving to be ACTIVELY upsetting and stomach turning. i also DEARLY adore our beloved supervisor carol, especially as her role progresses during the story, but... i will say, a few of the calls feel either very underwhelming when it comes to the pressing matter at hand, or otherwise just feels very much like a forced 'i am 20 something and i am trying to imitate and old person', but what can you do? i do think for sure that the good voice acting outweighs the bad by a lot.

my only like... actual gripe with the game beyond that is that the game is very short! i do think that the 15$ price tag is pretty fair considering this is a small dev project, and considering that the presentation and quality of the game itself is VERY good, but it can easily be finished in a roughly 3 hour game session. in a perfect world i would like a little more crumbs...

HOWEVER, my general takeaway is that this game fucking rules. if you're a bit :/ about the price tag, definitely catch this game when it's on sale (if you buy it and then refund it after finishing despite liking it i will GET you). i'm definitely very interested in seeing more from this dev, especially if they decide to do any work in this setting!

... ON THAT NOTE, literally right as i'm about to finish up this review, they just released 1. an endless mode which i will add an addendum to this review on once i get the chance to play it, and 2. the steam page for their next game, please insert disk, which from the couple screenshots ALRIGHT delights me. ANYWAYS.

check out the game here, and if you decide to grab it good luck at your first shift!
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