With that being said, the game offers plenty of ways for you to build up your character, as well as your party by providing a pretty diverse range of companions. ![]() ![]() The combat is pretty bog-standard and should feel extremely intuitive, even if you’re not a hardcore fan of turn-based RPG combat. As long as you aren’t expecting something groundbreaking in the gameplay department, then I’m sure you’ll be pleased with what the game has to offer. As an RPG, it’s pretty good and roughly at the same level as its peers. As far as gameplay goes, Encased doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it doesn’t actually need to. In a way, perhaps that’s to its own detriment. In any case, once you’re thrown into the actual Dome, Encased feels extremely familiar if you’ve played any CRPG before. It’s a system designed to segregate everyone under the Dome, but it works great from a gameplay perspective, as it functions as a pretty straightforward faction system. There are the prisoners and ex-convicts from the Orange Wing, the technicians from the Blue Wing, the guards from the Black Wing, and so on. As an employee of CRONUS, you belong to one out of five different wings, with each encompassing individuals with a specific set of skills. Right at the start of the game, you create your own character, a new employee of CRONUS. It’s a pretty interesting premise as far as I’m concerned, and it allows players to open multiple doors both in terms of roleplay opportunities, as well as in terms of gameplay. However, the problem presented by this mysterious and massive structure is that once you’re inside of it, there’s no coming out. With all of Humanity uniting under the goal of exploring the Dome and its riches, CRONUS is created, a megacorporation dedicated to unlocking the secrets and technologies under the Dome. The game takes place in an alternate timeline during the 1970s, where the discovery of a mysterious Dome led to an abrupt end of the Cold War. The developers, Dark Crystal Games, have clearly been inspired by the old-school Fallout games, and this reflects itself not only in Encased’s gameplay but also in its setting. Regardless, Encased is another great example of why the recent CRPG Renaissance has been such a thrill to experience. It’s clear that a lot of care and thought was put into creating such an imaginative world, but it seems like some things just didn’t make it into the final game in time, or they were just scrapped during development as the Early Access period stretched on. While I’m happy that I’ve finally played through the entire game, I must say that the game feels rushed in a lot of aspects. Although I prefer to wait for when a game is no longer scheduled to receive any more content, so that I can play everything in one playthrough and then move on to the next thing, it just got to a point where I felt like I finally needed to dive into this one. This period was a long and arduous one, and despite being out for about 4 months now, the game is still receiving updates. ![]() ![]() After about 2 years of Early Access on Steam, Encased finally released its 1.0 version into the wild back in September of 2021.
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