CAGE & MATCH

CONTENT WARNINGS:

• dubious consent (in general)
• violence, mild gore
• nonconsensual surgery (offscreen)
• forced transition ("bitching")
• transition as horror
• gender essentialism & other omegaverse seasonings
• references to: pregnancy, suicide, capitalism

you are SPARE, an alpha gun-for-hire in an underground cyberpunk city who just wants enough of a pay raise that he won't have to live hand-to-mouth anymore. when he scores a major victory against the surface-dwelling lux family, he figures he's got it made. but his promotion comes with a serious downside - an omega lux hostage that spare's bosses want him to bitch and breed so they can suss out the genetic secrets that let them survive on the surface. and it's not just any hostage...

CAGE & MATCH is the first, introductory chapter of a larger BL story focused on omegaverse politics in a cyberpunk dystopia. future chapters will contain erotic/18+ content, but we wanted to focus on establishing the premise in this demo. (: this first chapter is complete aside from some unfinished assets -- loom got injured and had to take it slow. (i'm hoping to update those assets after the jam, when my arm is better!)

we have no set schedule for releases, as we are working on this for fun in our spare time. (: if you're interested in seeing more of it, please let us know! 

created for Yaoi Game Jam 2026, Queer Wrongs Jam 2026, and 🌶️ Genderfreak Jam 🌶️

FEATURES:

• 6 scenes / 9,500  words / about an hour playtime
• omegaverse themes
• original art including CGs
• an enemies-to-???? BL romance (future chapters include a secondary GL romance)
• explorations of transformation, gender essentialism, class differences, and unlikely allies

KNOWN ISSUES:

• reload bug: reloading a save from the main menu can cause some UI elements to disappear, including save/load buttons
• these characters are kind of assholes: this was on purpose.

CREDITS:

• direction: loom & jupiter
• writing: jupiter (starsforscales)
• art, design, programming: loom
• made with Dialogic
• sound effects from: ZapSplat, dmochas, 
• some UI from: crusenho, cvcielo
• some background assets from https://www.hurtnullifiedcatgirlsfor.fun/ & edited
• music from HeatleyBros ("Dark Conspiracy," "8-Bit Zombies"), Elektrobear ("Lobby Time," "Astral House," "Respiratory System"), Matthew Pablo ("Space Sprinkles") and Augmentality ("Story Time")