You awaken in the dark, your skin cold, your mind blank. You have
nothing but your fear, a flickering candle, and a question: How long
will your light last?
Trapped and crawling your way through a pitch-black labyrinth,
equipped with nothing but dim candles, you must work together to explore
the maze and escape. Unfortunately, your weak candlelight illuminates
only your immediate surroundings. Worse still, horrifying Wax Eaters —
monsters who despise the light — lurk in the suffocating darkness for
their opportunity to strike.
The Night Cage is a fully co-operative,
horror-themed tile-placement game that traps 1-5 lost souls within an
unnatural labyrinth of eternal darkness. To win, players must each
collect a key, find a gate, and escape as a group.
Escape won't be easy as each player's visibility is limited by the
weak light of their candle. They illuminate only tiles directly
connected to their own, and when players move, tiles that fall into
darkness are removed from the game. Doubling back the way you came only
opens new paths, the old ones being lost forever with critical keys and
gates vanishing if your light move away from them...