Deponia
Deponia is a fast-paced comedy of errors and one of the most unusual love stories in gaming history. The twist-filled story takes its off-beat characters all over trash planet Deponia, a unique game world in…
Deponia is an adventure developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 7 August 2012 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. It currently starts at $0.79 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 7.7 hrs to finish.
What Deponia is
Deponia is an adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Visionaire.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rufus is not a pleasant guy. Ill-tempered and entirely too convinced of his own greatness, he lives at the edge of a small settlement somewhere in the most remote sector of the garbage-covered planet Deponia. He dreams of a better life in the floating cities of wealth and beauty high above the planet surface. When the angelic Goal falls from these privileged spheres down into a neighboring trash heap, Rufus sees his chance. He decides to bring the unconscious beauty back to her home. Only a vague hope of making it off Deponia at first, he soon formulates an unscrupulous plan, as he learns that he is a dead ringer for Goal’s upper-class husband. The planned handover is only the beginning of…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Deponia holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 205 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 11 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $0.79, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story, or $0.07 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.5 GHz (Single Core) or 2 GHz (Dual Core), 2 GB RAM and OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.79 at Fanatical, 92% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Deponia launched on 7 August 2012, within three weeks of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Deponia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 19
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