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Fear the Spotlight worked just fine as a three-hour horror game about an asthmatic high school girl.

Fear the Spotlight is now the tip of the spear for Blumhouse’s six-game push into interactive horror.

Fear the Spotlight

And it only needed 10 minutes at aSummer Game Festdemo to get me properly absorbed.

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What could go wrong?

Fear the Spotlight is a love letter to ’90s horror in the truest sense.

The setup can’t help being predictable but the game presents it well and moves along at a clip.

Fear the Spotlight

This will sound far-fetched: the seance goes wrong.

You are a tiny high school girl with asthma, and it feels like it.

Environmental puzzles are both intuitive and mechanically satisfying, and reinforce the feeling of vulnerability.

Fear the Spotlight

“We didn’t even know that we were allowed to think about more,” Singh says.

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