Fear the Spotlight worked just fine as a three-hour horror game about an asthmatic high school girl. Originally released in September 2023, it earned 98% positive Steam reviews before it was un-released specifically to be expanded and soon re-released under Blumhouse Games, a new publisher from Five Nights at Freddy's film producer Jason Blum. Fear the Spotlight is now the tip of the spear for Blumhouse's six-game push into interactive horror. It's due this year and it's been upped to a roughly five-hour adventure that folds in console ports and additional languages. And it only needed 10 minutes at a Summer Game Fest demo to get me properly absorbed.
