Deponia (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows OS X Linux iPad PlayStation 4 |
| Release | 27 January 2012 (German) 7 August 2012 (English) 8 July 2014 (Linux) August 2015 (iPad) |
| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| GameRankings | 72.79% (19 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 74% (33 reviews) |
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| Destructoid | 7/10 |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| RPGFan | 80% |
| The Escapist | |
| Adventure Classic Gaming | |
Deponia is a point-and-click adventure game following the misadventures of Rufus, a guy with wild dreams of escaping his village Kuvaq, located on a junk covered world called Deponia. Developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published on 27 January 2012 in Germany for Windows and Mac, the original game was entirely in German (the name Deponia is a reference to the German word "Deponie", meaning a landfill site) and was the first in a planned trilogy of games by Daedalic with the second, Chaos on Deponia, being published on 12 October 2012 in Germany and the third Goodbye Deponia, being published on 15 October 2013. The English version of the first game was released on 7 August 2012 with entirely new voice acting across the board. In July 2015, Daedalic Entertainment announced that the series would be heading to iPad, with the first chapter releasing in mid-August.Deponia received generally positive scores from reviewers, with 74 out of 100 being listed on Metacritic. Although it was originally a trilogy, a fourth installment Deponia Doomsday was released on 1 March 2016. According to its designers, the fourth installment is not a prequel nor sequel, but a "parallelic".
Core game play is focused around 2.5D levels of varying sizes, in which the player must interact with objects in a variety of different ways, including picking up smaller items, activating machines and combining objects together, all in the pursuit of solving puzzles to further advance the plot line.
"There is a lot to say about Rufus, but not much of it positive. He is a selfish, ill-tempered egocentric who believes that he is destined for something better. He has no regard for others and when somebody gets hurt during one of his poorly conceived and constantly backfiring plans Rufus is totally unable to admit that it is his fault. Rufus is surrounded by chaos. He is a magnet for catastrophe. The nicest thing you could say about him is that he does not intend to harm anybody, but this is only because he does not care about anyone but himself. In short, Rufus is a narcissist. That is, until he meets Goal…"
"Goal is the iconic girl from the upper spheres Rufus falls in love with. She is beautiful, amiable, goodhearted and clever. But Rufus wouldn't know in the first place, because she is rendered unconscious after she falls onto the surface just before their first encounter. Her brain implant is damaged. Due to this he can project his idea of perfection onto her: a noble maiden from above in need of rescue."
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