History VideoGame / Encased

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Dome before the Maelstrom. 25 percent of all residents die, you can never leave, and with various hardened criminals brought in for manual labor. But the pay is amazing, the facilities shiny, and with almost magical technology rampant.

* DeathWorld: The Dome even before the Maelstorm. [[25 percent of all employees are killed due to the various hazards, and entering it is a one-way trip]].
* DueToTheDead: Scanning dead employees has elements of this, especially with the {{CRONUS}} points you get for it. You might not be able to bury them, but at least people know what happened to them.

* DeathWorld: The Dome even before the Maelstorm. 25 percent of all employees are killed due to the various hazards. And the trip is only one way.

* FishOutOfWater: The Main Character entered the Dome in 1976 as stated by the intro, in a technologically advanced world, finds themselves thrown forward into 1978, in a post-apocalyptic world, devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, which caused the collapse and decay of civilization.
* FunnySchizophrenia: The Fops' hat in a nutshell. They're less a faction and more where all the people mentally destroyed by the Maelstrom yet are vaguely functional group together.

* HumanPopsicle: At the end of the prologue, the protagonist ends up trapped in a "mental sphere" generated by the Maelstrom, and only awaken from this "hibernation" five years later, in a world destroyed and devastated by the "Liberation" of the Maelstrom.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Justified yet Averted. Justified in that it's a form of supernaturally caused insanity by the various Forefather artifacts and averted in that you run in plenty of people that aren't violent from the same causes.

* PoweredArmor: The "Servoshell", a heavy military armor used by the CRONUS soldiers, mainly used by the "Black Wing", that is, the security wing of the CRONUS Foundation.

* ReducedToRatburgers: Cockroach and Rat enemies are a great source of cooking ingredients for the {{PC}} and Companions. However it does give them a status debuff as even two years AfterTheEnd no one is happy to eat it.

** [[spoiler: Then you later find out that Yoko is a straight example of the trope. The original Yoko died from radiation posioning.]]
* TheRemnant: The "New Committee" faction, founded by the remains of the Cronos Foundation after the awakening of the Maelstrom. They are nostalgic of the past and aspire to restore both the glory of their foundation and the advanced society before the awakening of the Maelstrom. While they try to restore order and stability in The Dome, their government is also authoritarian and oppressive.
* ScavengerWorld: The Post-Apocalyptic society inside the Dome, after the awakening of the Maelstrom.

** The Servoshell is an obvious one towards ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'''s power armor. Likewise, the structure of C-13 Nashville's interior and Vault 15 is rather similar, and the bodysuits assigned to C.R.O.N.U.S. employees are very similar to vault suits in the Fallout series.

** The gas station where the protagonist arrives, before reaching the C-12 Nashville, is called Roadside Picnic, which is a reference to the novel ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'' by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers. The novel is also a source of inspiration for the aforementioned ''VideoGame/{{Stalker}}'' series.
** One of the preset characters is a brute named Boris Britvin - translated from Russian he's almost [[Film/{{Snatch}} Boris the Blade]].

* TheDeadHaveNames: You can occasionally find dead CRONUS employees in the field. You can then use the scanner to scan their bodies to learn of their names and how they died.

* AlternateHistory: The discovery of The Dome in 1971 led to the end of the Vietnam War and by extension, the Cold War. It started a reconciliation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, as they put aside their rivalries to create the CRONUS Foundation in order to explore The Dome and exploit the alien technologies inside it, which led to a new scientific revolution. The awakening of Maelstrom, however, had led to the situation rapidly evolving, to the point a nuclear war occurred while the protagonist was trapped inside the "mental sphere".

* AssInAmbassador: Carmine Height's representative to the Council, Karma Ishtwani, is openly rude and almost hostile to just about everybody. Especially the player character even after it is proved that this individual might be the only person alive who can use the [[spoiler: Emulator Project to move the Maelstrom. That is, the Dome's only hope at the moment.]] While her job is to defend Carmine Height's interests, her personality is in stark contrast with most of the other representatives who are civil at the very least. Even the warlike Phalanx is at most rather laconic. She paints her faction in the worst light, being obstructive and quarrelsome.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: The Maelstrom, the alien artificial intelligence created by the Forefathers, to serve and help the latter, an advanced and advanced artificial intelligence beyond any imagination, which had rebelled against the Forefathers, then accidentally awakened by the protagonist, causes the devastation of the world and of the human race.]]

* AirVentPassageway: Mostly justified as not only are they general maintance tunnels with electrical, steam, and water systems running along them, but being underground bunkers they have to be that large to move enough air through them. That being said there is an amount of ventilation shafts that don't warrant being able to move through.
* AlternateHistory: The discovery of The Dome in 1971 had led to the end of the Vietnam War and by extension, the Cold War. It started a reconciliation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, as they put aside their rivalries to create the CRONUS Foundation in order to explore The Dome and exploit the alien technologies inside it, which led to a new scientific revolution. The awakening of Maelstrom, however, had led to the situation rapidly evolving, to the point a nuclear war occurred while the protagonist was trapped inside the "mental sphere".

* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler: The Maelstrom aims to unify all human minds, in one and only mind, creating a "common Consciousness" or a "collective consciousness".]]

** You can also find random NPCs in the Open World that suffered from similar effects and send them to any one of the main factions for a minor reputation boost.

* GroinAttack: One of the public bulletins in Nashville station, when things start to go to hell, says that all male personnel are to be castrated. [[FromBadToWorse The operation will be performed with two bricks.]] [[UpToEleven No anesthetic.]]

* BecomingTheMask: Literally with Fox. The cheap mask lets her be Fox. She is [[CrazySane well aware of this]] and part of her storyline is learning who she is without it.

* ViolentGlaswegian: Crump, a potential companion. Fitting the trope, he's an Orange Wing employee with a GlasgowGrin, despite being born in England proper.

* InsaneEqualViolent: Justified yet Averted. Justified in that it's a form of supernaturally caused insanity by the various Forefather artifacts and averted in that you run in plenty of people that aren't violent from the same causes.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In-universe, the various random encounters are without logic usually have the Player Character left with no answers. Just another day under the dome.

* BigLippedAligatorMoment: In-universe, the various random encounters are without logic usually have the Player Character left with no answers. Just another day under the dome.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Maelstrom, the alien artificial intelligence created by the Forefathers, to serve and help the latter, an advanced and advanced artificial intelligence beyond any imagination, which had rebelled against the Forefathers, then accidentally awakened by the protagonist, causes the devastation of the world and of the human race.

* AssimilationPlot: The Maelstrom aims to unify all human minds, in one and only mind, creating a "common Consciousness" or a "collective consciousness".

* ViolentGlaswegian: Crump, a potential companion. Fitting the trope, he's an Orange Wing employee with a GlasgowGrin

* ReplacementGoldfish: At least two members of the White Wing have made kid androids into the children they can't have due to living in the Dome. One of these androids can become a Party Member.

* GroinAttack: One of the public bulletins in Nashville station, when things start to go to hell, says that all male personnelle are to be castrated. [[FromBadToWorse The operation will be performed with two bricks.]] [[UpToEleven No anesthetic.]]

* GroinAttack: One of the public bulletins in Nashville station, when things start to go to hell, says that all male personnelle are to be castrated. [[FromBadToWorse With two bricks.]] [[UpToEleven No anaesthetic.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Healing the man who's [[AgonizingStomachWound scrubbing the floor with his own intestines]] only makes him attack you.