Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

I dont understand this game.

First half is the best part, would have been more interesting exploring the world without the apocalyptic side personally. Second half it starts to decline and it feels rushed in some points, honestly its good for the price you can usually pick it up for around 5-6 american dollary doos with a sale. Just don't expect it to be as good as fallout 1-2 or other crpgs.

Crap. Might have been alright if they'd bothered to fix things that clearly don't work. Combat is really bad, you miss 100% to-hit shots all the time (you seem to get rather a lot of them, but then you do miss a lot of them). Let me be clear: I know that 100% displayed over the enemy targets comes up a lot as you are moving your mouse near them as it gives the to-hit chance from any position your pointer is over to show your accuracy at that position. I'm missing shots are supposed to be hits when the cursor is over the target and changes to the red gunsight icon to show that the displayed to-hit value is for the shot you are about to make, or miss. Then there's the problem of the target being 'not in the firing line' when it clearly is, even before you get the confirmation of the enemy then firing back from the same position it was in that was 'not in the firing line' and it hits you. This happens mostly when you are trying to shoot from a height advantage. It's made worse by the fact that you cannot advance right up to the edge of your high point because of railings, for example, when clearly this is ridiculous. It also happens with grenades with your targets inside the area of effect marker and a clear line of trajectory. There are all sorts of really stupid ideas like your companions only having one weapon slot because they won't relinquish their personal weapon they were packing when they joined you even if it's absolutely useless for a particular fight with several different enemies who all have different weaknesses and resistances meaning that your companions can't harm some of them as their own weapon is totally unsuitable for fighting any of them and the alternate you've equipped them with is only good for damaging some. You can't level them up as you want either, they pick the skills they develop. Why are they under your control at all in that case? Why don't they just fight automatically? Because it would be crap, or crapper to be exact as this design decision, one of the stupidest I have ever encountered in a game, makes it plenty crap already.

WTF, what kinda drugs were your writers snorting/injecting?

Great great game can't say more about it. 100% it for sure.

This game definitely had potential to be even better, especially with expanding on the NPCs to make them more interesting. Fox, a possible companion, was my only favorite. Despite the relative blandness (it doesn't have the same charisma Underrail or Wasteland 3 do), I really enjoyed the exploration and random encounters. Some of them should have really been instances but they're definitely inspired (running pants, the whale with the fireflies, the doppelganger pit, to name the ones that were very memorable). Collecting the artefacts was also fun just for that dopamine hit of hoarding a bunch of shiny colorful wacky-looking objects in your personal stash. They were the one thing that didn't feel too overpowered as most of them had significant drawbacks, so finding the really good ones felt satisfying. The way I specced my character (white wing, 1 charisma, 10 intelligence), about a third of the way in and playing on Tactics with Fox and Sparrow as my companions, I felt overpowered and swimming in skill points. By the end I was throwing points into 3 or so skill trees I wasn't even using and had no use for more perks. Speaking of perks, the one that gives you guaranteed crits on the first round is busted, and so is stealth for picking off enemies. I don't know how much of a flex it is that I found the game too easy, considering that Underrail on Oddity XP forever changed my perception of difficulty in games (in a good way), but I felt like the encounters could have been ramped up to encourage me to use more of my utilities other than the Decoy (which is also busted for being immune to damage for a while). There's also a huge amount of lootable objects for crafting materials and by the end of the game I had enough supplies to rebuild the Concord 10 times over. Despite its flaws I kinda see myself replaying this in a couple years' time with a self-imposed challenge or two.

It a good game, not a great game, not a life changing game but a good game.