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The Night Cage

#306709BGG ↗

2021 · 1-5 players · 60min · weight 2.15 · 3,420 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
306709
Name
The Night Cage
Year
2021
Rank
1691
Min players
1
Max players
5
Playing time
60
Min playtime
40
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.1467
Num weights
75
Bayes avg
6.35491
Average
7.09104
Users rated
3420
Num owned
8716
Wanting
185
Wishing
2654
Num comments
686
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:54:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Cooperative GameGrid MovementPieces as MapSudden Death EndingTile Placement
Categories (3)
FantasyHorrorMaze
Description (1173 chars)

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...

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.