Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

Encased is of the line of sci-fi rpgs like Fallout 1 and 2. And there is much to like about the game. You have a large degree of versatility in character creation. The story is not mind-blowing but also not dull. The companions I encountered were solid. And combat was satisfying if not top-notch tactical. Dialogue however... Profanity has become more and more present in RPGs and I am not here to debate the merits or demerits thereof. Stupid use of profanity on the other hand... The F-bomb should never be used as often as it was in this. In the introductory area, a professional building no less, the f-bombs were easy to find and totally unnecessary. So I docked a star for overuse of harsh profanity. I docked a half star for the inconsistency of the survival system. I traveled over a day's distance through harsh terrain on foot and without camping and was docked only for slight fatigue. Using only a few skills(first aid, lockpick, force, mine clearing) can cause that fatigue to shoot up like wildfire. The last half star I deducted for the camera. Especially when the character walks below objects like arches, roofs, etc... it can be quite hard to make out objects. Now they may still recover one star by making tweaks to the camera and survival system. But for future reference a language filter would have saved them the other. Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics all had one and it made the game more inclusive to all players. Which in turn makes more money. Just a thought.

I don't own the game (yet), so I have no reason to "white knight" the game or the studio. But lets look at these two DLCs through a sane lens. One is a character portrait pack for 5 USD. The other is gives you a pair of boots and a gun. Neither of these are in any way necessary for you to progress. It's definitely shady for them to charge money for extra portraits, but do you *need* them to play the game? No. I'd be more likely to have nothing good to say about the devs if they charged 10-20 USD for the packs, or if they pulled a Dragon Age 1 by sticking in DLC ads for quests but they haven't. They are giving us bonuses items to help support the game. If it were up to me, I wouldn't have used portraits for a DLC because that's kinda scammy.

if you want to play this, on linux mint or ubuntu, you will need to download the windows version and use wine... so far the linux version will not work at all, also the vulcan version does not work at all as well... i played a version (was still in development at the time) of this before buying it when i was still using windows 7, it worked good then.... it is an ok rpg despite the pushing of the 'trans' bullshit, and yes it is bullshit... the story was ok at the time, but limited, the gameplay was mostly good but was limited and in many ways clunky. i hope they fixed the bugs and limitation and added proper more deep story to the game... (also if they are going to push fake nonsense and least go full bore and make it a full adult game)

I can't believe I was somehow tricked to buy this on heavy sale. This has to be one of the worst abominations in the game industry selling unfinished extremely overpriced low quality wannabe clone of Fallout but with amateur writing. It would not surprise me if it turned out this result is not very different from the "in dev" versions that started to sell DLCs for in dev game.

i dont know what the fuss is about. they are NOT gating any actual content.. only some unique items. and anyone complaining.. i hope you have done the same exact thing regarding the VAST number of games under MUCH bigger publishers that release this kind of DLC. also, as others have mentioned the game was kickstarted so it didnt have an EA publisher behind them... and many kickstarter games have these kind of items as rewards for backing them. so if you've purchased a kickstarter game, you've likely purchased other games with this kind of DLC release. the 3 star rating is because i do see the other side of the argument to an extent. i would also prefer ALL items were included as part of the base game price. but again, this was a kickstarter. and as long as the DLCs are items and not story DLC, quests, etc. i can live with it. its really no different than game magazine codes or game genie cheats that were released back in the day.