Fear the Spotlight — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$635Kest

grossAtFullPrice $635K · promo blend

Net to developer

$409Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

31,749▼ 100.0%

143 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$62K10% of LTD

4K units · $14.39 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 1,114 reviews collected over 1.5 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

4,27513.5%

Tail · units

27K

27,47486.5%

Launch · gross

$62K

$62K9.7%

Tail · gross

$573K

$573K90.3%

Net to dev

$409K

$409K64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier D · ▼ 7 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

57%

→ 9

Score history · 30d retention

23 (14d ago)9 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Fear the Spotlight · 9 inbound · top 9 shown

qualityScore 9

Wretched Depths550 reviews · 97% pos · Wretched Devs LLC · 2023

+2.7

Late Homework | 遅れた宿題389 reviews · 96% pos · sodaraptor · 2024

+2.5

Ceramic Soul149 reviews · 63% pos · Soul Soup · 2022

+1.4

Greek Tragedy9 reviews · 88% pos · Cute Spooks · 2025

+0.9

Pseudo-Haunting11 reviews · 72% pos · ApeHardware · 2024

+0.8

Out Of Memories3 reviews · 100% pos · Flat Voxel · 2024

+0.6

Exfiltrator: Cyber Stealth Missions0 reviews · 0% pos · iwilliams

+0.0

PARAVOID0 reviews · 0% pos · JamiieDev

+0.0

The Beast Awoke To Eat Your Darlings0 reviews · 0% pos · QUIRKIGAMI

+0.0

03 Fear the Spotlight’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

0%0

#4DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

0%0

#8FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE

86%2.1K

Review score

9/ 9

Overwhelmingly Positive

% positive

97.4%cohort 71%

1,152 pos · 31 neg

Total reviews

1.2Ktracked

1,183 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

41 this month

Steam-purchase rate

92.6%flat

7.4% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

21 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

63.9%75697%

RURussian

7.0%8394%

ESSpanish

6.4%76100%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

6.3%74100%

FRFrench

3.2%38100%

ZHSimplified Chinese

3.0%3597%

KOKorean

2.5%29100%

ESLatin American Spanish

2.0%24100%

DEGerman

1.5%18100%

PLPolish

0.9%11100%

JAJapanese

0.8%10100%

TWTraditional Chinese

0.8%9100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 20

85%positive

1.7% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 1,117

97%positive

94.4% of reviews

10-100h 46

100%positive

3.9% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 1,152Negative 31

977349240

23·0924·0224·0824·1225·0425·0825·1226·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

1,183 reviews

Free product

18/ 1,183

1.5% of total100% positive

Early access

0/ 1,183

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

69/ 1,183

5.8% of total100% positive

Steam Deck

93/ 1,183

7.9% of total95% positive

Steam purchase

1,096/ 1,183

92.6% of total97% positive

Recommended

1,152/ 1,183

97.4% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

31/ 1,183

2.6% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

1,183/ 1,183

100.0% of total97% positive

1,114 reviews · 97% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.