Smirk & Dagger2021Christopher Ryan Chan & Chris McMahon & Rosswell Saunders
The Night Cage
- Ships from Hudsonville, MI. Free in-store pickup.
- Returns within 7 days in original packaging.
Is it for your table?
Plays solo, or with up to 5 at the table.
About an hour, start to finish.
A few rules to learn, then it flows. A good gateway game. (2.1 / 5 on BGG)
Recommended for teens and adults.
About the game
The Night Cage is a board game from Smirk & Dagger, designed by Christopher Ryan Chan and Chris McMahon and Rosswell Saunders (2021). It plays 1–5 players in 40–60 minutes, for ages 14+. BoardGameGeek players rate it 7.1 out of 10 and call it medium-light (2.1 / 5 weight).
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...
1-5 players
Ages 14+
40-60 minute play time
Details
- Publisher
- Smirk & Dagger
- Published
- 2021
- SKU
- SND1007
Ratings, player counts, play time and weight are from BoardGameGeek.
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