2024Christopher Ryan Chan
- Videos
- 29
- Creators
- 23
2 - 5 players45 minLight weight

2021Christopher Ryan Chan, Chris McMahon, Rosswell Saunders
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. The Night Cage is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 25 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 14 recorded sessions, 11 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
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...
The Night Cage has 62 videos from 55 creators: 25 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 14 playthroughs, 11 unboxings and 6 other videos. They date from 2020 to July 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "The Night Cage - How to Play - (Quackalope Games)" by Quackalope, which runs 29 min. For a quicker teach, "How to make The Night Cage Black Sugar Cookies! | Board Game Bakes" by Board Game Bakes runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "The Night Cage Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 23 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "The Night Cage playthrough!" by GloryHoundd, one of 14 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Stalk Exchange, The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow, Push Push Penguin and Portents, also by Christopher Ryan Chan. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2021.
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2024Christopher Ryan Chan
2 - 5 players45 minLight weight
2024Christopher Ryan Chan, Chris McMahon, Rosswell Saunders
1 - 5 players40 - 60 minMedium weight
2025Christopher Ryan Chan, David Gordon (I), TAM
2 - 6 players10 - 20 minLight weight
2022Christopher Ryan Chan
1 - 2 players20 - 30 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
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...
Designers
Christopher Ryan Chan, Chris McMahon, Rosswell Saunders
Artist
Christopher Ryan Chan
Publisher
Smirk & Laughter Games
Categories
Mechanics