Of Bird and Cage is the first rock/metal album produced entirely as a story-driven narrative video game, aspiring to establish a new gaming genre of interactive musicals.

You’re not just listening to a music album—you’re inside. Experience the overwhelming power of metal music like never before. Dive into a dark, twisted game specifically tailored to its music. Let symphonic metal lead you through a two-hour-long story of trauma, violence, and madness based lightly on ‘Beauty and the Beast’. 

Play as Gitta Barbot, a 25 year-old drug addict, who tries to escape the physical and mental prison of her captor—Bres Lupus. Make quick choices that will have dire consequences and watch how your actions reveal new paths while struggling to keep your sanity.

Will you take revenge or grant forgiveness? Ultimately, the choice belongs to you.

Capricia Productions is glad to announce the release of a short demo for Of Bird and Cage.

Players will be able to experience the tutorial and the first two time-limited levels, which full length is about 20 minutes of gameplay, from today until May 18th. 

The studio also just released a dev diary interviewing Kobra Paige, leader of Kobra and the Lotus, who voices the protagonistof this unique take of narrative games as a hybrid of storytelling and music. The Canadian singer plays Gitta Barbot, a 25-years-old girl drug addict with a troubled past, trying to escape the mental and physical prison of her captor in a dark, twisted tale based lightly on Beauty and the Beast.

Kobra shared her thoughts on the experience of voicing the character and how she managed to get in tune with Gitta’s feelings: “I feel that I brought me to the character […] because I’m using my voice to contribute to her, I think it’s my sound”. You can see the full interview in the Youtube video below these lines.

Key Features:

• Look: Single-player FPP story-driven adventure
• Listen to a two-hour-long symphonic metal album in the form of a new, fresh interactive experience – the first of its kind! With original songs by the composer Arnold Nensis.
  • Kobra Paige (Kobra and the Lotus)
  • Davidavi 'Vidi' Dolev (Gunned Down Horses)
  • Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses)
  • Rob van der Loo (Epica)
  • Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation)
  • Casey Grillo (ex-Kamelot)
  • Rocky Gray (ex-Evanescence)
  • Mike Lepond (Symphony X)
  • Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria)
  • Tina Guo
  • Snowy Shaw (ex-King Diamond, ex-Therion)
• Shape the story through your decisions and lead Gitta to multiple endings.
• Choose wisely, but quick enough: the world is fully synced with its soundtrack, so the time to act will be always limited to the length of each song.

Of Bird and Cage will be coming to PC (Steam) on May 20, 2021, with console versions being considered.