The Night Cage | Playthrough | With Mike 

0:00 - Introduction 1:04 - Overview of Play 4:40 - Playthrough

19:34 He says you can't trade a key, but you may give your key to an adjacent Prisoner that doesn't already have one.

Also according to the rules, the monster doesn't actuallly disappear after an attack, but rather becomes a pit.

You can actually give the key to another prisoner who doesn't have a key.

"Would it have KILLED these prisoners to bring flashlights instead of candles!?" Ah, but then they would have had to face Battery Eaters!

I see someone has already pointed out the correction at 9:05; when staying, if you discard a monster, it is to replace an illuminated tile for that prisoner. Additionally at 14:55, you move off of a crumbling tile that should become a pit, then move back to it at 16:24 Thank you for the play through. I didn’t know if the monsters were removed once triggered, or only when they hit a prisoner. It made it quite difficult.

This game will be so much fun to play in the dark with just a few candles lighting up the table. Cinema of the mind, as all the best horror movies are. A thematically scary game without being Halloween themed. Thanks for the video Mike, loved it!

I just bought this game yesterday at Barnes and noble and I like it the sense of dread mixed with the board and pieces really makes you feel like your in the game

Lots of fun to watch! Thank you for the playthrough!

A crazy thematic and crazy fun looking game. Thanks for the video!

Dude broke so many rules in this play through…

Thank you for the playthrough. A small correction. 9:05 if you stay and the tile to discard is a monster you have to replace one of the adjacent tiles to your current position with the monster.

Just bought the game cause it seemed so fun, cant wait untill sunday to play with my family and have fun together ( or die in a dark pit idk)

I went to turn on captions and found that I could have them in English or Klingon! Hahahaha....subscribed.

Thanks for the play through. Just a note, though I don’t think it would have saved you, but players CAN pass keys as a free action to any adjacent connected prisoner. So in the end purple could have passed a key to red, and then immediately picked up the key from the tile they were on. However red still would have been isolated when the key tile turned into a pit there at the end. There were so other tile / illumination shenanigans but so far I have yet to play a clean game without messing up a tile or two of illumination at some point. It does help to have multiple knowledgeable players all keeping track of correct illumination states.

Looks very interesting. Minor corrections I have spotted: 1. After purple actually takes its turn you should have flipped the tile. 2. On 20:00 you should not removed the pit cause red was with line of sight to it.

9:28(ish) I’m pretty sure yellow wouldn’t get hit. Page 12 of the rule book says an empty space without a tile creates an interruption that a Monster cannot see past. Similarly Pits interrupt the path. Thanks for the video! I just got the game and am still learning and making some mistakes.

I really want this game.

is the not a rule how to alline the cards in the pile so the keys are not all on top or on the end? I saw a video with 4 piles and every pile has like 2 key, 1 gate, some monster and so on and then the piles get suffeld and stacked on.

19:34 Page 11 of the rule book mentions that characters may pass a held key to to another adjacent prisoner.

Oh man... this game gave me a headache. But I still really want to get it at some point 😍 I might need a few more tutorials yet 😆

Still waiting for my copy, looks like fun.

Tile E4 should have been removed at 7:50. At 9 minutes when Yellow stays, the tile he draws to discard is a monster. That monster should have been laid to replace one of the tiles adjacent to Yellow. At 9:47 when Yellow goes lights out, the areas Yellow was illuminating should have been discards before Blue relit Yellow and Yellow would draw tiles for their new light of sight. 15:37 should have removed tile B2 after Blue moved. 19:42 You CAN give a key to another player if they're right next to you to hand it off on either of the touching players' turns. 20:15 Tile A2 should have been removed when Blue moved. 22:32 Tile B2 should have been removed. 23:28 Tile A5 Should have been removed when Purple moved.

They should include a six sided die so when you fall in the pit it is a random roll on where you start.

Do you think the game woild benefit if the set up deck had a bit more structure akin to the likes of Pandemic where you shuffle the path and monster tiles together and divide into piles equalling the number of keys, each pile then have a key shuffled in so that players can expect a ket to come at certain portions of the game?

Am I on the right track if I’m getting sort of DungeonQuest meets Escape the Dark Castle vibe from this?

Just played this for the second time and I think both times we missed some of the rules 😂 this definitely helped clarify. Do u have a video for the advanced play?

15:42 shouldn't the tile next to the monster be removed?

FYI I am not getting an option for Klingon subtitles. Not sure if it is on my end or not.

8:07 remove the straight piece (row 4, column 5), since now no one can see it

So if you have to discard tiles and one of thems a gate. You’ll play the rest of the game not knowing this until you get to the end. Sounds like a waste of time not being able to win and still playing?

18:05 red would be attacked

This is filled with mistakes, came here to learn but only got more confused, so many tiles that shouldve been removed but were not. Like what... im so confused

A bunch of mistakes in whole match