Game catalog

WAGE ships with eleven games. Each is a single ruleset under apps/wage-engine/src/games/, so each is also a worked example you can read and learn from. The “demonstrates” column points you at the mechanics each one shows off — handy when you’re building your own.

Game	Players	The pitch	Demonstrates
Tag	2+	One is It, everyone runs.	Interactions, role handoff, bots
Zombie	4+	One infected; the horde grows.	Spreading infection (no handoff)
Freeze Tag	4+	Frozen until a teammate thaws you.	Disable + revive, team win
Bomb Tag	3+	Pass the hot bomb before it blows.	Timers, random reassignment
Assassin	4+	You have a target; you are a target.	Target chains (assign_cycle)
Capture the Flag	4+, 2 teams	Steal the flag, race it home.	Teams, items, drop-on-tag
King of the Hill	2+	Hold the hill alone, a point a second.	Zone occupancy, per-second scoring
Sardines	3+	Hide; once found you join the hunt.	Visibility rules, last-one-standing
Sharks & Minnows	6+	Sprint shore to shore past the sharks.	Nested zones, crossing objective
Pirate’s Booty	4+, 2 teams	Raid the island, ferry chests home.	Carry + tackle, item spawns, timer
Bots vs Humans	1+ & bots	Outlast the engine’s hunters.	Asymmetric teams, behavior trees

Each game’s README.md (shown to players in-app as how-to-play) is reproduced on its page here, along with the feature notes.

Read the source

The single best way to learn ruleset authoring is to open the matching game.yaml / game.json under apps/wage-engine/src/games/<id>/ and read it alongside the Ruleset reference. They’re thoroughly commented.