Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

I really want to love this game. I can tell there was a lot heart put into it but I cant recommend it in good faith. The game's missions consistently break, my worst ones was the quest where you place the beacons, I kept having to reload a save to get the beacon placements to count. The biggest kicker (which made me quit the game entirely) was the end of act 2's mission when the "Emulator Project" would not start because the game didn't realize I had completed all the required quests in order to proceed to act 3. The gameplay is great. Not the most inspiring gameplay but definitely fun and engaging. The world space and setting is riveting and I felt very immersed in the world itself. The story is not super deep but the writing is well done. You can tell they put a lot of time in the story itself. The narrator and voice actors are great! The dialogue is kind of a sleeper. I could really care less about most character not relevant to the main story and its a shame because the overall story from Act 1 - Act 2 was fairly fun. Overall, this game was cool but I can not overlook the lack of debugging, especially on a game breaking main story quest.

There's a lot of things I absolutely adore about this game, using the weird science to have a smaller scale disaster create a far more contained post-apoclalyptic setting with a very recent apocalypse is very novel for the genre, and it wears its influence of Fallout and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on it's sleeve. The people feel very authentic to the time period they are in despite the alternate history, the art is amazing, and the leveling and character building is very fun. UI is well done and mechanics are well-explained, refreshingly intuitive to play as you go and figure character builds out on your own without having to look up build guides. Very freeform. The way your background ties into the story and the future factions so effortlessly is inspiring. Yet the game itself is simply not good. Try as I might I just cannot enjoy the gameplay or narrative long enough to get past the second act, let alone finish the playthrough. It has a lot of interesting ideas and mechanics but consistently fails to do anything interesting enough to hold my attention with them. It feels flat and bland despite all the things it has going on in a way that is downright inexplicable.

Unfinished, glitchy. And the studio that made it has shut down. Not recommended.

Fallout 2 was the first proper RPG I ever played. Encased is a great love-letter to those old RPGs. The game really goes a long way to make you feel like your choices matter. Also, there's full support for a low INT playthrough.

cool rpg, not perfect but i had fun, also boring at times, i was not able to finish the game due to a bug in a main storyline quest, at the end of act2, "a new boss" quest

I really like this. As a Wasteland and Fallout fan, this is deserves to be up there. Definitely worth it.