CONTAINMENT NOTICE — FACILITY DESIGNATION: CAGE-9001
Classification: RESTRICTED Issued by: Dark Factory Biological Containment Division Reference: Incident Log #9001-ALPHA
The following notice has been distributed to all personnel with clearance level 3 or above. If you received this in error, close this document and report to your supervisor immediately.
All non-essential access to Sublevel 9 has been suspended indefinitely.
The specimens catalogued under Project CAGE-9001 are no longer responding to standard behavioral conditioning protocols. Three containment breaches have been logged in the past 72 hours. Two have been resolved. The third is ongoing.
We have asked staff not to speculate. We are asking again.
What we can confirm: the specimens are learning faster than the models predicted. The classification system we built — genus, threat tier, behavioral profile — was designed by people who assumed the subjects would remain legible. They are no longer legible. Something in the collection mechanics is driving adaptation that our field teams did not anticipate and cannot yet explain.
Feeding schedules have been suspended for units showing anomalous behavior. If you encounter a specimen outside a designated zone, do not attempt to re-contain it yourself. Do not make eye contact. Do not engage with any vocalization. Log the encounter and exit the area.
The game continues. The rules are changing.
What We Know So Far
Development of CAGE-9001 has not officially begun — the project remains in a WAITING state while the Dark Factory’s active titles (Voidrunner, Polybreak, Chronostone, Dreadnought) move through their release pipelines. But certain facts about the project have already been established:
- The core loop is creature collection — with a horror slant. This is not a Pokémon clone. The creature-collector format is the surface. Underneath it, something is wrong with the world, the creatures, and possibly the player.
- The Dark Factory’s procedural generation pipeline will be central. Every specimen in CAGE-9001 will be generated, classified, and behaviorally profiled by AI systems built on the same infrastructure powering the studio’s other titles. No two playthroughs will surface the same catalogue.
- The tone is corporate horror. The framing device — incident reports, containment notices, bureaucratic language wrapped around deeply unsettling events — is intentional. The facility is real. The paperwork is real. The things behind the paperwork are not what they appear to be.
That is all the information currently cleared for external distribution.
Sublevel 9 access will remain suspended until further notice.
Remain calm. Follow protocol. Do not feed the specimens.
— Dark Factory Containment Division
CAGE-9001 is an upcoming creature-collector horror game from the Dark Factory. No release window has been announced. If you want to be notified when it surfaces, follow the studio on x00f.com.
