Retro pixel arcade · iOS
Cage the ghost.
Revive the desert.
A tiny, tense pixel-art arcade game. Draw a line across the dead sand, trap the ghost in its own cage, and watch the ground you reclaim burst back to life. Then survive one more.
Free on iOS. No ads. No coins. No pay-to-win.
See it move
Every run, a little world reclaimed
Real gameplay, straight from Ghost Cage.
The desert ghost town
Draw your first line
Cut it off, claim the ground
Snap the cage shut
The ghost speeds up
Reskin the whole world
How it works
Move. Cut. Cage.
Three moves, endless tension.
Draw
Swipe to carve a line out across the sand, away from the safe wall.
Cage
Close the line into a loop and trap the ghost inside its own little cage.
Bloom
The moment the cut snaps shut, the reclaimed ground bursts back to life. Score +1. One more.
Why it sticks
Stripped to its tensest, purest form
The timeless claim-the-board arcade loop, wrapped in crunchy pixel art.
One thumb, ten seconds
Pure one-thumb swipe controls. Open it for ten seconds or ten minutes — it plays exactly the same.
It speeds up as you survive
Every ghost you cage makes the next one faster. Fair, readable deaths: every mistake is yours, never the game's.
Revive the world you reclaim
The instant a cut snaps shut, the dead sand blooms back into grass, flowers, sea — even galaxies.
Honest by design
No ads. No energy timers. No daily-reward guilt. No "watch a video to continue." Just a tiny, beautiful arcade game.
Cosmetic only
Change the world you grow
Skins are purely cosmetic — no coins, no currency, no pay-to-win, ever. But each one changes the life you bring back to the sand. Wear the Ninja, the Princess or the Dino — or claim a Legendary and rewrite the whole desert.
Hamster
Ninja
Princess
Dino- ★ Legendary
CosmicFloods the ground with a golden starfield. - ★ Legendary
MermaidDrowns the sand in a shimmering sea.
Good to know
Questions, answered
One more?
Cage the ghost. Revive the desert. Free on iOS.
Made by SCHMUT/WEISS in Vienna.