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Fear the Spotlight review – lo-fi horror that’s light on scares but big on heart

Why is it that games don’t draw more often from the realms of musical theatre? I’d argue they’re just as much a part of our cultural fabric as films and TV shows, but for whatever reason they very rarely manage to get a look in. Sure, they might not be the first thing that 30-something-year-old white men look for on their tapestry of pop culture references, but for a certain sub-section of the gaming population, a dialogue exchange riffing on the lyrics of Les Misérables, say (shout out to Subsurface Circular), is just as likely to elicit a delighted fist pump from me than yet another Twin Peaks reference in something like Alan Wake, for example.

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Source: Eurogamer.net

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