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Lagoween
The Hollow got loose on Output Lag. They are hiding on our pages, peeking out from the edges. Banish 13 before Halloween and the Lanternwatch has a reward for you.
The Hollow Hunt
You have banished 0 of 13.
Readers have banished … Hollow so far.
Community goals
Every Hollow anyone banishes counts here. Each goal unlocks something for everyone.
- 100Lagoween profile pictures for everyone
- 250Hollow Hunters wallpapers
- 500Rare Hollow appear, worth 3 each
- 1,000Boss night on October 31
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Spot oneRead anything on the site. On some pages a Hollow peeks out from the edge of the screen. Different pages each day.
Banish itClick or tap it. It shatters, and your count goes up. Each one only counts once.
Reach 13Banish 13 and unlock Lagoween wallpapers for your phone and desktop. Your progress saves in this browser.
Boss night: the Hollow King
The readers reached 1,000. The Hollow King comes for the door on October 31. Hit it together until it breaks.
Epilogue: The night the Hollow ran
On Halloween night the Hollow made one last push for the door. They gathered into a single shape, a king made of every broken frame they had ever taken, and it climbed the edge of the Drift toward Output Lag.
It never got in. Every time it reached for the door, someone inside banished another piece of it. A thousand Hollow had already fallen that month, one click at a time, and the king was built from whatever was left.
Cairn held the pumpkin lantern high. Flicker shouted the warning to every page. Vex called the whole thing "fine, honestly a bit derivative." And Lag went out into the Drift, a beat behind as always, and arrived exactly on time.
When the king broke, its crown of doorways fell open, and for a moment every one of them glowed with colour again. The Lanternwatch thanks you. The door stays lit.
The guild dressed up
Trick or treat? I already ate the treats.
Is there a horror showcase? Tell me there is.
Jump scares are not a personality.
Stay close. I mapped the haunted parts.
Vex’s horror verdicts
Scary games we played to the end, scored honestly.
Cairn’s maps for the dark
Guides for the horror games people are stuck in right now.
Flicker’s scary watchlist
Horror games on the way, from the Wire.
Ontos is Frictional Games’ next horror, a lunar station of brain experiments coming 2027
Onyx: The Dark Grip revealed, a Bloober Team horror game for Switch 2 in 2027
Signal Veil, 90s anime-inspired survival horror, announced for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC
Perceptum is a first-person horror game starring a grandmother, due Spring 2027
Tarae is a Korean folk-horror action game from Krafton and Boundary: ‘I called to the gods, none of them answered’
Concrete Burial, blood-fueled horror adventure, lands on Steam
Join the Lanternwatch
Members get the Lanternwatch log every Friday. The Halloween edition lands October 31.
