The Gilded Cage Windows, Mac game

Features:

• Kinetic novel
• 12k words, 1 hour gameplay (or 2 hours depending on how deep you go down the investigation rabbit hole)
• Interactive characters (you can thrust your collar on their faces present items and characters, think Ace Attorney)
• Animated main menu, credits and visual effects
• Animated sprites
• Mutable bleeps (if you count that as a feature)
• Point-and-click investigation (just click wherever you like on the background, no guarantee you could get anything, mind you!)
• 26 CGs
• Original soundtrack (if there is ever enough funds, that is)

Content warning:

This game contains:

• Themes of captivity and abuse
• Emotional manipulation
• Gun violence
• Gore and death
• Subtle implications of sexual propositions

Player discretion advised.

If you enjoy the demo, please consider donating or becoming a patron. No pressure. Just do it if you feel like it.

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Full credits

(In alphabetical order)

• Story / coding / character design & modelling / background design / sprite / animation / GUI design
  • echanart
BGM
• Ashibe Heitaro
• Kamaboko Sachiko
• Sound of Incense
• MOMIZizm
• Musmus
SFX
• Floraphonic
• Joseph Sardin
• Komori Taira
• Noru
• On-jin
• OtoLogic
• Pixabay
• Sound Effect Lab
• Springin' Sound Stock
• Zapsplat
3D assets
• alixor22
• Chellew

• Cyril43

• Eduardo Kuhn

• Enrique Poppe

• Hamilton Imaginations

• James V Tong

• Jamie McFarlane

• Jeremy E. Grayson

• Jorada

• Kisielev Mikhail

• Mad_Lobster_Workshop

• magiccreator

• nuts

• romullus

• Samuel Francis Johnson

• Sebastian Sosnowski

• Shedmon

• Shintokin

• 3d-dojo

2D assets
• Freepik
• struckdumb