Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG is a crpg, turn-based combat and strategy game
developed by Dark Crystal Games
and published by Prime Matter.
Released on September 07th 2021 is available on Windows and Linux
in 8 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 4,507 reviews of which 3,490 were positive and 1,017 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.06€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG into these genres:
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Windows
- OS *: WINDOWS® 7, 8, 8.1, 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3.3 GHz or better, or AMD Equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660m or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x (2GB of video memory)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectSound (DirectX® compatible sound card)
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3.3 GHz or better, or AMD Equivalent, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660m or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x (2GB of video memory)
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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Baldur's Gate but with a sci-fi setting. + Very good quality of UXUI, design, sound - it's fantastic just to be in the game, click those buttons and interact with items. + Great performance - I have 240fps on ultra + Voiceover for many dialogues! wow! + Great engaging story ( mom I'm a stalker! , music, atmosphere - it's like the game by Strugatski's brothers book. + Interactions with items and surrounding is deep, but not too deep (you can interact with sertain items but not with all of them witch is good otherwise it will be tedious) - I will say the battle system is a little boring in the begining - you just shoot, take dmg, shoot, take dmg, reload. Probably it will be intresting with bigger number of skills. - Graphics are a little glossy, I will say it looks a little old, probably lacking some shadows. Overall it's a great game with a wonderful setting. Hoping for the next part or for an another masterpiece from the studio.
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I could play as a sneaky diplomat from start to finish and it was funny, that's good enough for me.
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A game that starts off strong, but the more you play it, the weaker it becomes. Encased puts you in a strange world. You are still on Earth, but inside some kind of alien bubble. Humanity has only recently discovered it, somehow, and only recently been able to get inside. Think Roadside Picnic, where sometimes the laws of physics no longer work the way they should, where technology so advanced it could be seen as magic, and what is alive and what is dead is a blurred line. It is a fantastic premise, and the game starts of extremely strong. The starting area shows off tons of different class/skill specific challenges and dialogue options. It builds a highly detailed area for you to explore and get used to, before dumping you outside; where little by little, the game slowly.. erodes away. Some areas of the game world are highly developed, mostly the areas where you start the game, and some areas in the mid game. As you go along you stop finding places like this, where there are tons of ways to proceed in the game, tons of skill and dialogue checks, and you can see where they had to cut stuff out and slim stuff down in order to finish the game. On the whole, I enjoyed the game. There were some things that really annoyed me, like inventory management (there is just so much useless trash and crafting materials), how crafting worked, and how upgrading weapons worked. The last part there is the biggest thing for me. I did not realise that there was no stronger progression of guns as you work your way through the game. Instead you craft your gun to have a higher level, thus doing more damage on top of other things. I got extremely unlucky in what merchants I encountered, and what they had in stock, and was unable to purchase weapons in my skill class at a higher level, and had to rely on crafting. I didn't mind making my character more of a crafter to compensate for this, as at the start of them game it opened up other avenues despite making my character weaker overall, but in the end it wasn't worth it. I found the story and characters to be interesting, but also slightly confusing. The area you play in eventually splits up into different factions that oppose each other, but it isn't like Earth has been destroyed, or that contact will never be remade. So a lot of the things people do, don't really make a lot of sense when you keep in mind that the rest of the planet will eventually remake contact. The sheer randomness of some encounters, the merchants you run into, what merchants have in stock, can make it so that you waste a lot of time on the world map, or having your character sleep. There is apparently something that happens at some point in the game if you wait too long, but I never encountered it. Combat is interesting, but it doesn't feel like there are a lot of viable abilities or skills for it. You mostly just use your base attack or one or two skills that are actually alright based on the action points they cost. You encounter and fight a good amount of different kinds of enemies, and your choices do matter in terms of who you want to help, and who you don't. Though, at one point they kind of force you to help out everyone, including people you may really not like; unless you are good at stealth and stealing. Otherwise you will just have to kill them all and then suffer through constant attacks from that faction from that point on. Overall, I enjoyed my time playing the game. It is not a perfect game, it is really a just finished game, and you can feel it. But you can also feel that a ton of effort was put into this. I would recommend it, if you don't have anything like Wasteland 3 or Baldurs Gate to play; and only on sale. You can easily get it on sale going up to 90% at times. Get it then.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Pixel ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boy ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leader boards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 ================================================================== If you are fan of Fallout series from old times previous Bethesda then this is for you.
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Excellent experience that takes may queues from the early Fallout 2D games. Rich story, crazy encounters, and plentiful voice acting. Stealth is a bit obnoxious, but combat, and exploring is where this game shines. They can't alert anyone if they're dead, right? I did kinda feel the game cut short and the ending was a bit "meh," but the ending result slideshow was certainly fun. I would seriously love to help kickstart another 2D game by these folks. Well worth it! I'll probably play it through again as an Serial Killer Orange for giggles... I mean stress relief... and mean.. nevermind.
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Developer
Dark Crystal Games
Publisher
Prime Matter
Release
07 Sep 2021
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