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Upgraded player markers to LED candles
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Upgraded player markers to LED candles

The Night Cage (2021)

Players
1–5
Best: 4
Playing time
40–60 min
Age
14+
7.08
Average rating
3,626
Ratings
2.14/5
Weight
#1689
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Piège Obscur +2 more
Designer:Christopher Ryan Chan, Chris McMahon, Rosswell Saunders
Artist:Christopher Ryan Chan
Publisher:Smirk & Dagger Games +4 more
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.3, Theme 7
Strategy7.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.3
Theme7.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

FantasyHorrorMazeTile PlacementCooperative GameGrid MovementSudden Death EndingPieces as Map

Overview

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...

Expansions

The Night Cage: The Endbringer promo
The Night Cage: Monster Pack – Pathbreaker/Light Eater
The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow
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