Cage of Roses

Available in English and 简体中文.

Meike is the daughter of the noble von Essen family. Once one of the wealthiest families in Germany, the von Essen name has since been tarnished after a string of bad business decisions led them to financial ruin.

Desperate to be restored to their former wealth and glory, Meike’s parents try to marry their only daughter off to the self-made businessman Walter Gerhardt. Meike possesses no fond feelings towards Walter – she hardly knows the man – but her mother is determined to make the match work, and Meike can see no way out of her impending engagement.

Meike’s future as a wife to the cold, careless Walter seems set in stone – until the carriage bearing her and her family through the forest, to Walter’s home in Augsburg, is set upon by bandits.

Meike’s parents are killed, though Meike is able to escape alongside her faithful maid, Henrieke. The pair dash through the woods, searching for sanctuary – and in so doing they find an eerie, tumbledown castle hidden among the trees.

This castle, as Meike soon discovers, belongs to a young woman called Magdalena. Short of stature, with flowing fair hair, Magdalena looks like a sweet, innocent thing, but there’s more to her than meets the eye.

Magdalena is, in fact, a vampire – and now she has Meike in her clutches, it seems unlikely that Meike will ever be able to escape.

- 95k words of text (approx 4-8 hours of reading)
- A kinetic story with no choices/branches
- Detailed character artwork
- A haunting original soundtrack by Sarah Mancuso
- A large cast of lavishly-designed characters
- One aloof, austere vampire
- A cute maid!!!


Writing/programming: ebi-hime
Character design & CG art: RockCR
Background art: Somate Studio
GUI: Elduator, Haofeng
Music: Sarah Mancuso
Opening video: Phinalgo
Steam publisher: Two and a Half Studios


Note: The adult patch can be downloaded (for free) on its own if you can't access the adult patch on Steam for whatever reason.
Drop the adult.rpa in Cage of Roses's game folder, overwriting the pre-existing adult.rpa file, and you're good to go!