Caged: FIGHTER MANAGER

A tournament of MMA legends, every fight simulated for real

CAGED: Tournament of Legends is a free demo of CAGED: Fighter Manager, a mixed martial arts management game. Build a bracket of the greatest fighters of every era, set the rules, and find out who really was the best when everyone fights at their prime.

No canned animations, no dice roll that picks a winner. Every bout is fought second by second: footwork, strikes, takedowns, scrambles, submissions, cuts and knockouts.

Build your tournament

• Brackets from 16 up to 1024 fighters
• Pick the eras: the pioneers of the 90s, the golden era, the new era, today, or any range of years
• Fill the bracket automatically with the most famous names, or hand pick the fighters you want
• Everyone fights at middleweight, so a flyweight genius and a heavyweight giant meet as equals
• Watch any fight in full, or simulate it in a second and follow the bracket to a champion
• Your bracket is saved automatically

Write the rules

Start from a ready rule set or build your own.

• Modern unified rules in the cage
• A Japanese ring from the 2000s: ten minute first round, soccer kicks and knees on the ground
• The first tournament of 1993: no gloves, no judges, the whole bracket in one night
• Bare knuckle, a one night Grand Prix, amateur rules, a grappling pit and a strikers' show
• Or set everything by hand: cage, ring or open floor, glove size, rounds and minutes, judges or no judges, house rules like 12-6 elbows or yellow cards

In a one night tournament the damage and fatigue of every fight carry into the next one.

Fights that feel real

• Fighters move in a real space: they cut off the cage, pin each other on the fence and fight off their backs
• Every strike has its own motion and has to actually land to count
• Fatigue, cuts and damage build up round by round. The doctor checks the cut, the corner talks between rounds, the referee steps in
• Judges score every round on damage, control and aggression, and split decisions happen
• Fighters think: they panic when hurt, grow confident when it goes their way, stick to the game plan or abandon it
• Each legend's skills are built from his real record, how he won and how he lost, and he brings his own signature finishes. More than 300 techniques in the game
• Hand drawn 2D fighters with generated portraits that resemble the real men, a 3D camera underneath, walkouts, a live crowd and blood on the canvas

More to play with

• Bet chips on every fight. The underdog pays more, and upsets happen
• What if: replay any fight 50 times and see who really was the better man
• Champion's path: the story of how the winner got there
• Generated ambient music and full fight sound
• English, Ukrainian and Russian

The full game

CAGED: Fighter Manager puts you in charge of a fight promotion inside a living world of tens of thousands of fighters. Leagues sign and cut fighters, champions rise and age out, rivalries remember, and the world keeps turning without you. Contracts, money, injuries, press conferences, your own rules for your own league.

The full version is coming to Steam, with a complete career mode, a fighter generator that can recreate any fighter, Steam Workshop support and the extended rule set.

If you enjoy the demo, leaving a comment or following the game helps a lot.

How to play

• Unzip the archive
• Open the CAGED Tournament Demo folder
• Run CAGED Tournament Demo.exe. No installation needed
• F11 switches full screen

System requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• 4 GB RAM
• 1 GB free disk space

The fighters are fictionalised versions of real athletes for a fan made what if tournament. Names are changed. Not affiliated with any MMA organization.