Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

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 4,443 reviews of which 3,450 were positive and 993 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.


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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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Dec. 2024
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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Oct. 2024
---{ 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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Aug. 2024
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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March 2024
I'm writing this review as someone who's never really played games like this. I'm a "cozy" gamer. I like Stardew, the Sims, Animal Crossing etc., I also haven't finished the main story line either. I like this game, a lot. I've always loved the Fallout games but was never able to play them because I suck at combat. This game eliminates that problem for me. It's very "Fallout" themed, but the turn-based combat is a win for me. I can see as other people who've played games that have actual combat would not like this game. I also really enjoy the story line so far, and the characters. I enjoy the semi-laidback feel of this game. It's challenging enough for me where I don't want to give up the game completely. But what do I know? I'm just a cozy gamer, trying something that fits my game play style while also wanting to fight weird zombie like monsters and travel though a dystopian universe without it being to difficult for me.
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Feb. 2024
So it's 343 hours spent on this game and i guess i am ready to write my review. If there exisited "Strong but medicore" score i would put it on this game. Encased is game between two contrasts - at first it seems like your classic Fallout adventure with strong elements of Roadside Picnic or STALKEr but in depth there bit...different picture. Story and Quests - Some quests sounds really cool! Some secondary quests have nice vibe and feel but in end they feel like unrewarding enough. I mean - my PC just passed some death-row labyrinth, witnessed horrors and rewarded with some medicore artifact. Feel bit unfair but well reward is reward and this is just one spoilerless example. Main story feel nice but yet not very branching and somehow cut on edges. Factions ain't feel so alive cause they have one or two side quests and no unique rewards. But still story feel good and somehow complete. Companions and Items-weapons-armors-relics-crafts - Companions are very nice edge between "Weird" and "Unique" - there just few people who will follow you in Dome and barren-lands - They are typical archetype of "Ranger", "Melee" and "mage" but in some mixes and matches. They look cool, they feel unique yet somehow they are dull and lack of "personal quests" yet they feel like they SHOULD have some but been cut that idea on release. There lot of things that can Player use - from drinks, foods, stims to some cool gadgets and weapons but some of weapons and relics feel somehow useless or too repetive to use. I haven't find my "favorite" type of weapon or item in Encased yet i feel most of them have potential that haven't been released. Psionics feel very situational and mostly awesome but impractical at some moments (Like onehit kill but only when your opponent is tired enough), some guns and melee feel like "magikarp power" - they start to be useful after good dedication of upgrades and resources on them. Relics are bit dull - they sound like their artifact analogues from STALKER - giving some benfits with some negative effects , and some unique quest rewards give benefits only but...I didn't found anything cool and most of relics been sold or salvaged except some few for my psionic-melee build. Yet they still feel like something - i wish there could be more relics, maybe some should be "weaponized" more, or give more abilities but well we have what we have now. World and Gameplay - World feel unique. There some nice feel between Gothic's 1 Prison dome and strong sense of "Roadside Picnic" in a world of "Atompunk" of Fallout 2 vibe. Shame that only few unqiue random-encouters and after 1/4 of game random encouters became very repetive and lose their vibe between "Horror" and "Science wonder of exploration". Also as small cherry on top there craft system - it's nice. I reallt like it. but some objects feel very "uncrfaty" - for example you can craft pistol, rifle and machinegun bullets but shotgun shots are buy-only and can't be crafted from same polymetal ore. There few items that seem to be must be useful but ended up in my endless stash and never came out. But on 90% craft system is nice Atmosphere and Gameplay - Yes we came to moment WHAT saves it all and why i played 300+ hours in Encased :D. It's awesome and unique world and atmosphere build-up. I am finishing my 2nd playthrough and beside all dull and questionable moments i still like this game. Verdict? - It's a solid good rpg that have lot of potential in form of DLC OR...Sequel. Yes. Sequel with all reworks and mistakes fixing would be great. Cheers!
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Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
7.5
3,450
993
Online players
34
Developer
Dark Crystal Games
Publisher
Prime Matter
Release 07 Sep 2021
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