Summary
👥 A game for 1 – 5 players
⏳ Playing time is around 15 minutes
🏢 Publisher is Horrible Guild
Introduction
Spotlight is a cooperative search game in which you use a trusty flashlight to search for wacky characters and objects that are hidden. The goal is to find as many as possible so that your pawns move forward on the track, after 5 revealed cards the game ends and you have won if none of the players have been overtaken by the moon.
Let’s get in on the table
Spotlight is played over five rounds. Each player has their own board and a flashlight with a larger white area on one side than on the other with which to illuminate their surroundings.
At the beginning of each round it is determined which hidden object to look for by looking at the top card of the pile. Once everyone is ready, the hourglass is turned over and players begin searching their board for the object or character with their magic flashlight.
When the hourglass is empty, everyone stops searching. After this, players set their dial to the number they think they have found on their game board. After this, the card is turned over and the back of the search card is revealed, showing how many were actually found. The more you have found, the further your pawn advances on the track … but beware, the Moon pawn moves along too! If you think you have found more than the number on the map, you may not even move a pawn!
If one or more players are overtaken by the Moon, you have lost. But you can still use a rush token in the beginning to get one spot ahead of the Moon. As soon as you run out of rush tokens, the game is over and you have lost! If 5 cards have been revealed, and you have not been overtaken by the Moon then you are the winner of Spotligth!
Spotlight is a fun and really fast game, searching with the flashlight is really cool. Searching for people and/or objects with the flashlight is very well done. It can sometimes be very difficult to find an object properly and especially within the time limit because before you know it the time is up and you want to have looked in as many places as possible and that can create a challenge. In the end, does it matter much if you get one or two wrong? No not really, as long as you manage to stay ahead of the moon. Replayability is very high due to the amount of cards but after a few games I had seen this game. It is a nice game, but unfortunately we will not play it more often.
We want to thank Horrible Guild for this review copy and the opportunity to write about this game.
