Quote Originally Posted by Nestama View Post
Drakengard is a world where magic and dragons aren't exactly strange and the only way they even travelled through that 'rift' was because of Queen Grotesquerie (unsure how, but that's what happens. Seere probably 'helped'). They wind up on the 'real' planet Earth, a world that is pretty much like ours (no magic and dragons and all that fantasy stuff) and even after defeating the Queen, they die (shot down by the army or something) and because the Queen is on Earth, a world devoid of 'magical medicine,' they inadvertently cause the apocalypse.

Skip a few thousand or something years later and we have NieR. Skip a few more thousand years later and we have Automata... which is still new, so I can't say much on that due to spoilers.
No, NieR: Replicant/Gestalt takes place only a few decades after the White Plague event (the year is 2053). NieR: Automata takes place thousands of years into the future.