History VideoGame / Encased

* LostForever: The quests in Magellan station will be lost forever once you leave Magellan station. The game gives you plenty of warning that there is no turning back from there.

* AlternateHistory: The discovery of The Dome in 1971 had led to the end of the Cold War and 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 The Maelstrom, however, had led to the situation rapidly evolving, to the point a nuclear war occurred while the protagonist was trapped inside the "mental sphre.

* FishOutOfWater: The Main Character, originating from 1974, in a technologically advanced world, finds themselves thrown back in 1978, in a post-apocalyptic world, devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, which caused the collapse and decay of civilization.

** 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.

''Encased'' is a [[AfterTheEnd Post-apocalyptic]] WesternRPG, developed by the Russian studio Dark Crystal Games and published by Black Tower Entertainment. It was released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] in UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on 26 September, 2019.

* TheCult: The Sect of Cybersattiva, a New Age-like religious sect, founded by a guru called Jootha Jones, which is based on the spiritual aspects of Forefathers and Dome technologies, religion venerates the Forefathers as gods, like gods supreme, believing that they were a spiritually superior civilization and that the Forefathers, had evolved and progressed to a higher stage of existence, believe that even advanced and advanced technologies such as Robots and Androids, can have a soul and that the advent of a "Singularity" can make the human race progress and evolve spiritually.

** 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 player character can throw bolts and screws to detect, disrupt and discharge anomalies, just like in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.
** The Servoshell is an obvious one towards Fallout's power armor.
** The structure of C-13 Nashville's interior and Vault 15 is rather similar.
** 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 "Roadside Picnic" by Boris and Arkady Strutgavskiy.
* ThePrecursors: The mysterious alien civilization of the Forefathers, which colonized the Earth at the dawn of time and space. They created the Dome and then the Maelstrom, but had mysteriously disappeared afterwards.
* 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.

* Expy: the gas station where the protagonist arrives, before reaching the C-12 Nashville, is called Roadside Picnic, which is a reference to the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Boris and Arkady Strutgavskiy

* Shout-Out: The game has multiple of these towards other post-apocalyptic/survival games.

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%%* LostTechnology: The technologies of the Forefathers.

%%* ScavengerWorld: The Post-Apocalyptic society inside the Dome, after the awakening of the Maelstrom.

* PoweredArmor: The "Servoshell", a heavy military armor used by the Cronus soldiers, mainly used by the "Black Wing", that is, the Cronus Foundation Army.

* TheCult: The Sect of Cybersattiva, a New Age-like religious sect, founded by a guru called Jootha Jones, which is based on the spiritual aspects of Forefathers and Dome technologies, religion venerates the Forefathers as gods, like gods supreme, believing that they were a "spiritually superior" civilization and that the Forefathers, had evolved and progressed to a higher stage of existence, believe that even advanced and advanced technologies such as Robots and Androids, can have a soul and that the advent of a "Singularity" can make the human race progress and evolve spiritually.

%%* LostTechnology: The technologies of the "Forefathers".

The story begins in 1971, when a geological expedition to the archaeological zone C-12 Nashville discovered a mysterious alien mega-structure called The Dome. Further archaeological remains of a civilization named "The Forefathers" were found there. An international organization called the Cronus Foundation was founded in order to explore the Dome and exploit the technologies of the Forefathers.

The story begins in 1971, when a geological expedition to the archaeological zone C-12 Nashville discovered a mysterious alien mega-structure called "The Dome". Further archaeological remains of a civilization named "The Forefathers" were found there. An international organization called the Cronus Foundation was founded in order to explore the Dome and exploit the technologies of the Forefathers.

The protagonist is one of the Foundation's employees, who discovers an artifact inside the dome and comes into contact with an entity known as "The Maelstrom". They accidentally free it, which causes a global cataclysm, and wake up five years later, in a world that was profoundly changed by the awakening of the Maelstrom.

Encased is a Post-apocalyptic survival RPG, the game was released in pre-access 26 september 2019

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the action begins in 1971, when a geological expedition, discovered the existence of a mysterious alien mega-structure, similar to a dome, called "The Dome", this leads to the discovery of archaeological remains, of a mysterious alien civilization, called "The Forefathers", to exploit the technologies of the Forefathers and explore the dome, an international organization is created, called "Cronus Foundation", which launches to conquer the Dome
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the protagonist and an employee of the "Cronus Foundation", which after the discovery of a mysterious artifact in the archaeological zone C-12 Nashville, inside the dome itself, comes into contact with a mysterious entity called "The Maelstrom", which the protagonist frees accidentally, causing a cataclysm ...
the protagonist, after that meeting, fallen into a long sleep, wakes up five years later, in a world devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, a world changed radially and profoundly ...

the videogame is developed by Dark Crystal Games and Black Tower Entertainment

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AfterTheEnd: the actual plot takes place after the awakening and liberation of the Maelstrom by the protagonist, the awakening of the Maelstrom, caused a world catastrophe, causing the collapse and disintegration of civilization, causing the destruction also of the "Corus Corporation ", after the Maelstrom, took the mental control of many human beings, plunging society into chaos and anarchy, plunging the world into an age of darkness and barbarism ...

but first, it turns out that when the main character was asleep, the major world powers had started a race for the control and domination of the advanced technologies of the "Forefathers", causing the situation to degenerate into a nuclear war

AdvancedAncientAcropolis: the ruins of the ancient and mysterious cities of the "Forefathers" inside 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 ...

AlternateHistory: the plot takes place in an alternative story where in 1971, a geological expedition in a desert of the Earth, discovered and discovered a vast and immense alien structure, called "the Dome", discovering us inside, a vast and immense territory , littered with advanced and advanced alien technologies, unknown technologies, more advanced than common terrestrial technologies, which first caused a great scientific-technological revolution, causing a global scientific-technological rush and the premature and premature advent of advanced and advanced technologies already in the 70s of the 20th century, changing and transforming the world balance ...
** the discovery of the "Dome" in 1971, caused the end of the Cold War and a reconciliation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, which put aside their rivalries, uniting in the conquest and exploration of the Dome and financing the creation of the "Cronus Foundation", the discovery of the Dome has "pacified" world society, leading to a new "age of exploration" towards the "Dome"

ArchaeologicalArmsRace: conducted first by the "Corus Corporation" to control and dominate the technologies of the Forefathers inside the Dome, then by the major world powers, to control and dominate the advanced and advanced technologies of the "Forefathers" and exploit it in their favor and advantage ...

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

CrapsackWorld: the territories within the Dome, dominated by alien war-robots and Forefathers military drones, escaped from any control, which kill or destroy everything that comes their way, marauder and raider bands, ferocious wild animals, one Extremist and fanatical religious sect, a hostile territory made of Marshes, Deserts, arid and rugged lands and ruins of ancient alien civilizations that have disappeared ...

FishoutofWater: the Main Character, originating from 1974, in a technologically advanced world, finds itself thrown back in 1978, in a post-apocalyptic world, devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, which caused the collapse and decay of civilization

HumanPopsicle: the Main character, after he entered the underground cave of the C-12 Nashville complex, coming into contact with the Maelstrom, he finds himself trapped in a "mental sphere" generated by the Maelstrom, which keeps them trapped, in a kind of mental states, similar to a hibernation, awakening five years later, in a world destroyed and devastated by the "Liberation" of the Maelstrom

PoweredArmor: the "Servoshell", a heavy military armor used by the Cronus soldiers, mainly used by the "Black Wing", that is, the Cronus Foundation Army

TheCult: the Sect of Cybersattiva, a New Age-like religious sect, founded by a guru called Jootha Jones, which is based on the spiritual aspects of Forefathers and Dome technologies, religion venerates the Forefathers as gods, like gods supreme, believing that they were a "spiritually superior" civilization and that the Forefathers, had evolved and progressed to a higher stage of existence, believe that even advanced and advanced technologies such as Robots and Androids, can have a soul and that the advent of a "Singularity" can make the human race progress and evolve spiritually ...
** the Church of the Maelstrom, a religious organization, spread inside the Dome, after the awakening of the Maelstrom, a sect that venerates the Maelstrom, as a God, as a supreme deity ...

ThePrecursors: the mysterious alien civilization of the "Forefathers"; a mysterious and evolved alien civilization, which colonized the Earth at the dawn of time and space, before the advent of the human race, the Forefathers were aliens from another planet who colonized the Earth in ancient and remote times, first creating the Dome and then creating the Maelstrom, but that civilization and mysteriously disappeared and fallen, whose remains and ruins, are discovered and found around the world ...

TheRemnant: the "New Committee" faction, founded by the remains and fragments of the Cronos Foundation or Cronos Corporation, after the awakening of the Maelstrom, are what remains of the Cronus Foundation after the collapse of the latter, due to the awakening of the Maelstrom , they are nostalgic of the past, they aspire to restore the ancient glory of the Cronus Foundation and to re-establish the advanced society before the awakening of the Maelstrom, they try to establish a government of the dome and to restore order and stability in the Dome, but in reality aim to establish by force, an authoritarian and oppressive government ...

LostTechnology: the technologies of the "Forefathers", advanced and advanced technologies, beyond any imagination and mental concentration, the most advanced technologies existing in the Earth, completely strange and bizarre to ordinary human beings, technologies recently rediscovered by humans ...

CassetteFuturism: the action carried out in a 1970s retrofuturism of the twentieth century, in an alternative version of the 70s of the 20th century, the action takes place in 1976, but in a world where there are customs and customs together of the 70s with advanced and advanced technologies, with futuristic technologies together with technologies of the 70s of the 20th century, a retrofuturistic version of 1970-1980 ...

ScavengerWorld: the Post-Apocalyptic society inside the Dome, after the awakening of the Maelstrom

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 race ...

FishOutOfTheWater: the Main Character, originating from 1974, in a technologically advanced world, finds itself thrown back in 1978, in a post-apocalyptic world, devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, which caused the collapse and decay of civilization

PoweredArmor: the "ServoShell", a heavy military armor used by the Cronus soldiers, mainly used by the "Black Wing", that is, the Cronus Foundation Army

TheCult: the Sect of CyberSattiva, a New Age-like religious sect, founded by a guru called Jootha Jones, which is based on the spiritual aspects of Forefathers and Dome technologies, religion venerates the Forefathers as gods, like gods supreme, believing that they were a "spiritually superior" civilization and that the Forefathers, had evolved and progressed to a higher stage of existence, believe that even advanced and advanced technologies such as Robots and Androids, can have a soul and that the advent of a "Singularity" can make the human race progress and evolve spiritually ...

ScavengerWorld: the Post-Apocalyptic world, after the awakening of the Maelstrom

FishOutoftheWater: the Main Character, originating from 1974, in a technologically advanced world, finds itself thrown back in 1978, in a post-apocalyptic world, devastated by the awakening of the Maelstrom, which caused the collapse and decay of civilization

Transistorpunk: the action carried out in a 1970s retrofuturism of the twentieth century, in an alternative version of the 70s of the 20th century, the action takes place in 1976, but in a world where there are customs and customs together of the 70s with advanced and advanced technologies, with futuristic technologies together with technologies of the 70s of the 20th century, a retrofuturistic version of 1970-1980 ...