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.

The Nordic Game Discovery Contest (NGDC) is online and on the move with its fifth season, now presenting its most recent qualifier which was won in Brazil, more precisely at the BIG Festival (Brazil’s Independent Games Festival).

"We are very excited and surprised to win! As funny as it sounds - while this is a pretty big project for indie games, we are very used to being the underdog.” says Arnold Nesis, CEO of Capricia Productions. “When we started the project 6 years ago pretty much every investor we talked to told us that what we want to do doesn't make any sense and no one understood why we are doing this in the first place. Getting such great feedback so close to the game's release and seeing people who ‘get it’ and get what we are trying to achieve is incredible and beyond words for us." 

Iterested fans can still check out the short demo for Of Bird and Cage.

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.