Cage Game opens on an unsettling hook: you are a displaced stranger who has stumbled into the Wandering Village, and not everyone here is what they seem. Somewhere among you lurk the Skin-Painters and Basket Masters, and the whole thing plays out as a hidden-role card game where knowing who to trust is the entire battle.

Your side decides your goal — the strangers hunt down and eliminate the lurkers, while the evil side tries to wipe out the strangers instead. Turns follow a clean loop: Judge, then draw two cards, play your cards and skills, discard down to your Sanity, and end. That Sanity cap on your hand is a neat pressure valve, forcing you to spend rather than hoard.

It is a social-deduction card game with a distinctly eerie folk-horror dressing, free to play in the browser. If bluffing, reading the table and unmasking a hidden traitor is your idea of a good time, Cage Game is worth gathering for — and it sits among the rest of our card games.