Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

think the story was good, but the game feels like an EA bug and things that feel like it was on the way in the game but removed. pilot skill but you can only drive the car short distance not on the map. so you buy it in the belief that it is a finished product and notice that it is not finished.

It's wickedly funny and achingly sad in equal measure, a combination that probably won't lend itself to your average dragon-killing story or similar to come down the line. It's a game that wears politics — not necessarily your politics or someone else's, but politics in general — on its sleeve and is extremely sympathetic to people while viciously criticizing any given sector of belief.

Encased is an absolute great example of crpg storytelling and gameplay. The original inspriration for the Fallout series, it's easy to see. My only hope is that we will see it grow into a new series, as this is a game deserving of more than a few sequels.

Deeply sorry I backed this on Kickstarter, complete waste of money. The game as you can see was never finished. They claim it was, but it never came out of early access on GOG or Steam, so you're buying an incomplete game. Further, they made DLC without finishing the game. But to the game itself. It is sadly not playable. There is a lot of promise here, but it's so broken you literally can not get more than a couple hours into it before it's impossible even on easy. Combat is pretty much always fatal. Early run in with thugs? Dead. So you have to avoid the whole encounter. Try to get through the next phase to get to the first base? 3 rats kill you trying to find some way around the fact you aren't the right class to disable the generator that powers the instakill turrets. The difficulty is horribly out of balance, the interface is clunky, the tutorial is broken, and mechanics are even worse. Which is to say, if I started over it might be possible to get further in the game, but there is an early point you simply can not pass from what I can see unless you are a certain class that has a certain skill. That means the other classes are not playable, so the game is just broken from the start. Since it has seemingly been abandoned, it does not seem these fundamental crippling issues will be fixed. On a final note, it seems horribly inefficient given the install footprint to the actual game content. There are much better games of this genre in every way that are a quarter of the install size.

I loved this game in the first few hours I spent only in dialogue choices and character customization. As soon as I got into combat I wanted to quit, there is no cover system, movement in combat is pointless due to high movement costs, and again without a cover system where would you even run to? I haven't finished the game yet and my opinion may change, but for the time being I've quit and am hoping for updates to make the combat system at least a little more varied or smarter.