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 the style of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Matt Groening. From Kuvaq, an improvised village built inside a giant trash heap, to the swimming black market and the dark corners of the elevated planetary railways: The new adventure game from the makers of The Whispered World, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout and A New Beginning is brought to life with detailed hand-painted backgrounds in widescreen format and top-quality cartoon animation.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence. He is part of the lowest social class, doomed to live his life in literal mountains of trash. He hopes for an opportunity to get into the world of the rich, who live in a floating city high above the clouds. Fate seems to smile on the snotty good-for-nothing when one day the attractive lady named Goal from the higher sector plummets into one of the trash heaps. Rufus decides to help the young woman out by taking her back to her husband. When he notices that Goal’s husband is a dead ringer for himself, he hatches a diabolical scheme to gain access to the upper world. However, things don’t work out quite as planned, since he has feelings for the beauty which limits his usual unscrupulousness.
Deponia Trilogy Key Features:
1, Unique comic style with hand-drawn HD resolution 2D graphics
2, Bizarre characters and wacky humor
3, Challenging puzzles and hours of dialogue
4, Unique universe in the tradition of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Terry Pratchett (Discworld) and Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama)
5, From the creators of the award-winning games Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes and The Whispered World
6, DirectX®:9.0c
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 a wild chase across Deponia full of twists, turns and mystifying mix-ups…
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2500+ | Intel Pentium D 950 3.4GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ |
| CPU SPEED | 2.5 GHz (Single Core) or 2 GHz (Dual Core) | 2.5 GHz (Single Core) or 2 GHz (Dual Core) |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| OS | Win Xp 32 | Win Xp 32 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 315 512MB / AMD Radeon HD 5450 512MB | nVidia GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB / AMD Radeon HD 6530D |
| Direct X | DX 9 | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Yes |
| HDD Space | 5 GB | 5 GB |
| Game Analysis | 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 the style of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Matt Groening. From Kuvaq, an improvised village built inside a giant trash heap, to the swimming black market and the dark corners of the elevated planetary railways: Deponia is brought to life with detailed hand-painted backgrounds in widescreen format and top-quality cartoon animation. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | 2 GHz (Dual Core) Intel | |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | |
| OS | MacOS X Lion (10.7) | |
| HDD Space | 3.5 GB HDD space |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 2.5 GHz Single Core Processor or 2 GHz Dual Core Processor | 2.5 GHz Single Core Processor or 2 GHz Dual Core Processor |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | 2 GB RAM |
| OS | Ubuntu 12.04 (64 Bit only) | Ubuntu 14.04 (64 Bit only) |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 256 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended) | OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 256 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended) |
| SOUND CARD | OpenAL compatible | OpenAL compatible |
| HDD Space | 1.8 GB HDD space | 1.8 GB HDD space |
Just finished part 3 of this trilogy (Deponia, Chaos on Deponia and Goodbye Deponia) and decided to write a review for the whole series. Of course it’s only right to place it here, where the story starts.
At heart this is a classic point and click adventure. A genre claimed to be dead, but getting “ressurected” from now and then by talanted indi-storytellers. This time it’s Daedalic, a company of which I’ve never heard before (though they do seem to have several pretty critically acclaimed games out at this point, so it might be just my ignorance) with their take on humour, creativity and random fun. =)
This game reminds me of the Runaway series, witty and charming main protagonist goes through unlikely events during a trilogy growing up and becoming a bit better.
Actually, just play this game if you miss the point&click fun, you won’t regret.
PS. The ending somewhat… left me hanging. >_<