Posted on: August 1, 2025
PolluxTheSinister
Verified ownerGames: 125 Reviews: 1
Perfect turn based RPG
Intriguing quests and great overall
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Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Description
A classic isometric RPG set in a dystopian enviroment allowing you to fight enemies, explore the hostile wasteland, level up your character and join one of the forces in the ruined world that survived through the horrific Incident, isolated from the rest of the world.
Start the game in one of the five divisions of the CRONUS Corporation — Wings, each with its own features, mechanics, and game options.
Go on a one way trip under the Dome from which you cannot return. Avoid radiation and anomalies, fight mutated animals and search for unique artifacts.
Start the game as an ordinary company employee and become the driving force behind the story that takes place before, during, and after the disaster that became known as the Incident.
After getting familiar with the world, dive into an open world full of freedom and danger. The old order is gone, now five powerful factions rule over the wasteland. Join one of them or be a lone wolf. Change the future of the Dome and its inhabitants or go your own way.
Threaten your enemies out of battle: persuade important people to give you favors. Don't have charisma for that? Then bribe them! Encased story is deep, each quest can be completed differently, depending on your stats and choices and those choices will really matter in the end, thanks to multiple game endings. Kill everyone, be a pacifist or choose anything in-between, the game will adapt to your playstyle.
Level up your own unique character: will you specialise in stealth, melee combat, sniper rifles, psionics or diplomacy? Will you be a lone wolf or a party leader? Or maybe even try to play through the game as low intellect hero? It's all up to you.
Go on a journey and learn dozens of useful abilities like hacking, mechanics, thieving or even driving. Study relics to reveal technological secrets of the Dome and then explore the lands, finding new places, anomalies and rivals. Not all of them will be humans, by the way.
Make difficult decisions: steal, assasinate or help despite any concequences. Build your reputations with one faction or try to please them all, but remember that sometimes compromises are impossible.
Repair and craft: forge robotic armor — Servoshell, build unique guns and upgrade them. Maybe even cook something. After all, you can't survive on an empty stomach.
Start the game in one of the five divisions of the CRONUS Corporation — Wings, each with its own features, mechanics, and game options.
Go on a one way trip under the Dome from which you cannot return. Avoid radiation and anomalies, fight mutated animals and search for unique artifacts.
Start the game as an ordinary company employee and become the driving force behind the story that takes place before, during, and after the disaster that became known as the Incident.
After getting familiar with the world, dive into an open world full of freedom and danger. The old order is gone, now five powerful factions rule over the wasteland. Join one of them or be a lone wolf. Change the future of the Dome and its inhabitants or go your own way.
Threaten your enemies out of battle: persuade important people to give you favors. Don't have charisma for that? Then bribe them! Encased story is deep, each quest can be completed differently, depending on your stats and choices and those choices will really matter in the end, thanks to multiple game endings. Kill everyone, be a pacifist or choose anything in-between, the game will adapt to your playstyle.
Level up your own unique character: will you specialise in stealth, melee combat, sniper rifles, psionics or diplomacy? Will you be a lone wolf or a party leader? Or maybe even try to play through the game as low intellect hero? It's all up to you.
Go on a journey and learn dozens of useful abilities like hacking, mechanics, thieving or even driving. Study relics to reveal technological secrets of the Dome and then explore the lands, finding new places, anomalies and rivals. Not all of them will be humans, by the way.
Make difficult decisions: steal, assasinate or help despite any concequences. Build your reputations with one faction or try to please them all, but remember that sometimes compromises are impossible.
Repair and craft: forge robotic armor — Servoshell, build unique guns and upgrade them. Maybe even cook something. After all, you can't survive on an empty stomach.
Prime Matter is a division of Koch Media GmbH, Austria. Prime Matter and its respective logos are trademarks of Koch Media GmbH
Popular achievements
Cain
Get your first kill.
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52.77%
It's Just the Beginning
Leave Concord.
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54.94%
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27 hMain
37.5 h Main + Sides
70.5 h Completionist
39.5 h All Styles
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GameSpace
7/10
Encased can suck you into it for dozens of hours for exploration and complex, difficult battles with various tactics but also leave you frustrated with the way it approaches the story and characters.
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7.5/10
Encased is a strategy RPG with lots of depth and options that suffers from stiffness and imbalanced gameplay
Read full review »PC Invasion
9/10
Some jank does not stop Encased from being one of the most ambitious and greatest CRPGs in years.
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Posted on: October 5, 2025
manselmi
Verified ownerGames: 268 Reviews: 3
Almost as good as Fallout
The game reminds me of Fallout 1 & 2. Could have used some more mechanics. Feel like the traps system was left incomplete. Doesn't make sense why you can't fix up a vehicle and drive on the map.
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Posted on: September 28, 2019
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puff-d-magic-dragon
Verified ownerGames: 106 Reviews: 14
Brought those warm fallout memories back
This game shows a lot of promise, even in its current state. it feels right, the story and quests are interesting (so far), there's already plenty of choice built-in. its awesome there's multiple ways to solve most situations. it looks great, sounds good and it has a story to tell. it plays like what you might imagine a new fallout will. (yeah, not *that* fallout) other than that, I reserve judgment until more is added. recommended! buying a game like this in early access is an invesment in its future. if you like what you see so far, get it. it will help make it better.
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Posted on: June 9, 2025
stevensonNr2
Games: 92 Reviews: 6
Decent game but room for improvement
The look and feel is pretty close to other newer isometric RPGs like Wasteland 2&3 or ATOM RPG. If you liked those Encased might be for you as well. The good: The story is pretty unique and the game allows for a variety of different play-styles. Combat system is solid, just make sure that you are decently skilled in at least one type of weapons or the fights will get frustrating. The graphics look good for an Indy game and I didn't encounter any technical difficulties in ~40 hours playtime. The meh: The pacing is slow, especially at the beginning of the game. At lot of the dialogues are forgettable and often your choices barely influence the progress of the story. Snooping around and poking into every container adds loot and XP but gets boring eventually as there are so many of them. You also can get relic artifacts as results of quests or tough fights but most of them are rather underwhelming. Be cautious when building your character - the are very few chances to permanently modify base stats later on via perks. Best approach for me with this type of RPG - create a character, play a few hours, start fresh with a build that supports the intended play-style, as the impact of certain choices is not obvious at the beginning.
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Posted on: July 23, 2024
GB609
Verified ownerGames: 60 Reviews: 3
Unstable Native Linux Version
Game Version: 1.3.5.1517.1645 I want to like this game, but it is very unstable. I had frequent crashes with the linux version on area transitions. 1. Leaving the big city back to junktown was close to impossible, 9/10 tries it crashes on the loading screen of junktown. The only way to get out of the town was through by a detour through the sewers. 2. When leaving to the world map with Ursula, crashes happen frequently as well. I had to first leave on foot, then go back to pick up ursula, or the game would crash to desktop in some situations. Because of this i've made it a habit to quick-save on every corner, always waiting in fear of the next crash. 3. I can't finish the game. Area transition to Concord - Landing Pad crashed on 17% every single time. No workarounds helped. This issue has been reported on reddit 2 years ago already and even was acknowledged, yet it still is there. As cool as the game would be otherwise, given its terribly unstable state on linux it's a "don't buy" from me.
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