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CAGE-FACE | Case 1: The Mine

Alex Olinkiewicz · A.O.Games · 2021-10-06

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 06, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Escape from the mine tunnels while hunted by an unstoppable beast and slowly being affected by a mysterious illness.

CAGE-FACE | Case 1: The Mine is a 2021 Action, Adventure, and Indie title receiving Positive reviews (85% of 27 reviews) and is free-to-play.— census verdict as of 2026-09-29

85%
positive of 27 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

What seemed to be a standard missing person's case became much more when you discovered that the person you were looking for was caught in their own search for an unnatural being that seems to hunt people down in tunnels. Your investigation soon leads you to a VHS tape of a survivor of this monster giving his accounts of the horrors he faced. This is Cage-Face: Case 1 - The Mine, a short first-person survival horror game where you play as a teen who made the mistake of entering the mine tunnel to spray-paint it - Now his goal is to escape the tunnels as a mysterious entity stalks him.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520212026Week of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Census log

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Similarity via IGDB.