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Graphics:
+ wonderful backgrounds
+ good hand drawn animations
+ beautiful cutscenes

Balance:
+ optional object display
+ always fair
- no journal or puzzle help

Sound:
+ nice dynamic backround music
+ good english speakers

Game Size:
+ 10+ playtime
+ many scenes
- barely replayability
- fast ending with outstanding issues

Others:
+ pretty secondary characters
+ fantastically funny writing
+ compelling love story

Deponia stars Rufus who is probably the least likely person to be a hero in a game I’ve played in ages. He’s lazy, stubborn, not exceptionally bright, unorganized, and he keeps chucking himself into the sky only to come crashing down; you’d think he would’ve gotten the point by now and learned the sky isn’t having none of his shenanigans. Did I mention that he also reeks of Guybrush Threepwood charm? Fortunately enough all this makes for the perfect combination of characters in a story that’s just as wacky as the inhabitants of a city made of trash.

The only downside to the wonderful animation is that it's often difficult to pick out objects you can interact with, given that they blend so neatly into the background.
Rather handily, you can press the spacebar to highlight all the interactive objects in a scene, but oddly, this rather useful feature isn't pointed out to you at all during the game.
Objects that you pick up like Rufus' mouldy sock are placed into your inventory, which means that yes, you have to make sure you pick up everything in a given scene, lest you have to trek back for it later in order to solve a puzzle.

Still, while some puzzles leave you scratching your head in confusion for a while, the mostly sensible solutions make for a satisfying experience.
Breaking up all the object puzzling are simple minigames, such as solving a jigsaw of broken mosaic pieces, or testing your spatial awareness with rotating block puzzles.
There's even the odd conversational puzzle to deal with too. A process of trial and error means they're hardly taxing, but thanks to some fantastic writing and voice acting and the collection of characters, those exchanges are wonderfully entertaining.
Best of all is an exchange with a malfunctioning postal robot that mixes clever wordplay with a ludicrous subject for a charmingly funny and increasingly complex barrage of rhyme.

Unfortunately, it all ends rather abruptly. Just as things really begin to heat up and you think the many questions raised are to be answered, the game stops. It's a crushing disappointment. To add insult to injury, the game flashes up a "The End…?

So the game looks absolutely gorgeous. Everything is beautifully drawn and the characters animate well enough. I’d say my only complaints are that things you can interact with are completely blended into the environment due to the art style and that the animations could use a few more frames.
Thankfully the first issue is alleviated by pressing the space bar to show an icon on any objects you can interact with. The voice acting has the right amount of charm to it as does the music.

Score: 86 / 100


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A fantastic adventure game, featuring some extremely intelligent riddles that require deep thinking. At the same time, it narrates a beautiful story, one that takes place in a setting very different than those of most games.

If you love story/point and click games. This HAS to be in your collection, the entire trilogy <3

I really, really want to like this game. I really, really do. The art is pretty, and I usually love point-and-click adventure games with comedic bends, but Deponia just falls flat. Some of the jokes are pretty funny, but Rufus falls on the wrong side of the line between "charming/witty/loveable jerk" and just plain "jerk" more often than not. It's really difficult for me to enjoy playing a game when the main character grates on me so badly.

Awesome point and click adventure!

One of my favorite adventures of all time - and I've played Quest for Glory, Kings Quest (and all others "Quest") and Monkey's Island A LOT. This game is full of win only by being together on this list with such glorious games from the past.

It's good enough to remind me a lot of good games from Sierra and Lucasarts - which I have great respect and a forever earned place on my game shelf as they made my childhood gaming -, while remains original and fresh at the same time.
Not by case, Daedalic used to be called "Lucasarts from Germany". You do not earn a "title" like this by not being awesome, folks.

The graphics are astonishing for an adventure that simple.

The story is rich and lovely, part of a 3 chapters arc - Deponia, Chaos on Deponia and Goodbye Deponia (buy all the series at once if you can and enjoy the full experience).

The gameplay has nothing new, LMB, RMB will be your bread and butter. The scroll wheel is your utility knife to open and close the inventory.

The puzzles are amazingly made, fun to complete. Some of them will make you think hard.

At last, no definetely not the least, the humour... ah, the humour! The cherry and cream of the top at the same time. You'll be caught so many times laughing so hard. The characters are finely developed, the voiceover fulfils its role (you may want to try it on German aswell, the original language, while using subs). Hard to tell some of those genial jokes without spoiling the details.

There are two specific funny as hell scenes that I love: one of them involves cats and the other one a post delivery robot and its predilection for bubble wrap.

It's getting harder and harder put the hands on titles like this, focused on a new and captivating story, with a fine sense of humour.

This game, trust me, definitely worths its full price, but if you see this marvelous piece of art with a discount, so, man, what you waiting for?? Grab it! Grab multiple copies and install on all yours PCs, give it to your mom, give it to your GF, ex-GF, ex-wives, spread and sow the seeds of love and awesomeness to all yours friends!

This is the funniest game I've played in a long time and also a new favorite. Point and click games were never really my thing but this one doesn't disappoint. Rufus and crew are hilarious, the story is good and the puzzles are challenging without being frustrating. I highly recommend this to fans of point and click and/or comedy. :D

Good game with a nice story.

✓ Nice story.
✓ Great sound track and voice act.

✖ Sometimes annoying with hard puzzles.
(puzzles can be skiped but the achievement will be missed)

Germany. Elegant cars, cold winter, awesome beer. Ok, I'm definitely relying too much on stereotypes, but from now on we could surely add "very nice point and click adventure games" to that list. Interesting enough, german developers released a lot of good adventure games in the last few years, becoming probably the main contributor to this little "renaissance" of the point and click genre. And Deponia is one the best examples.

Someone described Daedalic as "the European Lucasarts" and I'm not entirely sure I can agree to that, but their games are solid. Very good story, challenging puzzles, polished graphics, everything is surely above average, Deponia is definitely a nice game. Characters are crazy enough to make you often laugh, A LOT of location to explore, non linear puzzle solving, and Daedalic recently added new languages, which is always kind. As a first chapter of a trilogy Deponia works just fine, the player is always pushed to play more to see how the plot will evolve. I got stuck two or three times, which is great in my opinion, 'cause it means they focused a lot on the intellectual challenge of the game and not only on the narrative side.

Definitely worth a shot, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Excellent and pretty easy Point&Click-Adventure. If you like good story telling and humour based on a slapstick AND sophisticated level, then play this trilogy. You'll not regret it.

Awesome adventure game! in depth characters, and great plot! as well as being a challenge, some of the puzzles I definately had to think outside the box a bit... but I enjoyed every minute.

Nice one,looking forward to the 4th of the series.

However its very hard to me because many cases there are not any instructions or tips to let you know what you should do,and lots of stuffs in my inv also sometimes make me confused,but have to admit that the game can give you great experience,beautiful musics and pictures,sometimes they are the only reason i insist on XD.Oh whats more,the story is not good at all,really:(

7/10.

In a nutshell, a cute point and click adventure game. Sad that the main character was completely self-centered, but in the end, as in most games, he redeemed himself. Enjoyed playing it, but the price was a little steep.

This is fantastic adventure game about guy named Rufus. He hates Deponia and wants to leave it, but meeting with one girl induces him to save this world of trash.

Funny characters, amazing world and interest quests will keep your attention till end of the game.
There is 90% off for this game now - do not miss this chance to buy good game for good price :)

Deponia sets new standards for the genre, some bad and some good.

Pros: Graphics, Sound, Controls
Cons: Gameplay, Characters, Performance

Deponia's hand-drawn graphics suit the colorful, cluttered setting perfectly and the voice acting is excellent. The simple controls work well, but perfect controls should be mandatory for any point-and-click game.

However, the gameplay is unfortunately rather standard for the genre with goofy puzzles (wasabi pea on mousetrap to catch toothbrush, duh!). The main protagonist is completely insufferable and there is some lightly disguised sexism (don't agree? let me switch your brainchip). Lastly, there are performance and gameplay bugs that shouldn't exist in as simple a game as this.

Perhaps a no-brainer for point-and-click fans but a cluttered mess for most everyone else.

6/10

I should like this game. I’m always on board for ye old point-and-click adventure, and Deponia knows it predecessors. It forgets, however, that their fan base is now living the year 2014. You know, where annoying manboy protagonists are not at all endearing. Manboy Rufus is bad enough without his town of whiners. Every character you speak with has to either insult Rufus or recall some stupid thing he’s done in the past. Everyone. I put two hours in before I found a kernel of a plot that didn’t involve someone proclaiming Rufus as a failure or the ginger-haired damsel in distress that fell from the sky. Her name is Goal, by the way, and, she’s spent most of my playthrough unconscious. Rufus claims that Goal belongs to him and that he will save her. The only other female character is Rufus’ roommate/ex-girlfriend, who’s your typical, annoying girlfriend that never stops complaining.

The puzzles are solid, I’ll give it that. I found a few head scratchers. I even laughed a couple of times. But, after a few hours of the game, I couldn’t deal with Rufus and his friends. The story seemed to be circling the disappearance of Rufus’ father, the former mayor that abandoned him years ago. I wanted more of that and less of Rufus’ attempts to woo the woman in the tight jumpsuit.

I can officially call this game, in my books, the definition of an adventure point and click puzzle game.

Fantastic story, great humor, difficult puzzles and riddles.
This game has everything. I really enjoyed it, and it was worth the 2 euros (I bought it off a 90% deal) and I'll make sure to buy the rest remaining of the trilogy.

10/10 for me.

Deponia! This game is breaks all the rules. Without going into too much detail and spoiling the whole thing, I would just like to say that I found myself enjoying a game that I thought I would hate. The opening sequence (not the tutorial) should have been a key indicator of what was about to go down. The humor plays a huge role in this game. Although not outrageously funny, it provided a few chuckles on occasion. The art style is not my favorite, but I also admit that this particular game would not have been as good without that pacticular style. The puzzles were a key piece to making the game. I did find a few moments throughout the game where I was unsure what to do next. The game is good at letting you know what needs to be done, but not necessarily how it is to be done. Even so, I found a majority of the puzzles had a good balance. They were neither too hard nor too easy and they always seemed have a unique variety to them. Although on the outside the game might seem like a pile of garbage, the game has so much more to offer. The story (not the greatest, but pretty well thought out), the music (you'll see what I mean), the locations (Kuvaq was one of my favorites), the puzzles (probably the best thing about the game) will all transport you to Deponia and unlike Rufus you won't want to leave!

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This game genuinely captured the old point-and-click humour that has been so cripplingly missing in recent years. It was my gateway drug into more contemporary P&C Adventures like 'The Book of Unwritten Tales'. Play this, it's amazing.

Overall, I found the trilogy enjoyable. I loved all the art in this. The backgrounds were very interesting, detailed, and beutifully portrayed a wide variety of the many towns cities landscapes, and other areas of this trash-heap of a planet. The character designs had this simplistic "kiddy" style that I found particularyly appealing. I think that the characters designs were pretty effective in expressing each characer wtih a huge variety of characters of many shapes, sizes, and postures. The art of the game, while playing, overall reminded me of pajamasam, being a point-and-click adventure with upbeat, "kiddy" looking characters in combination with a vast world of many areas drasticly differeing from one another in tone and atmosphere.

Now with gamplay, well... Puzzles in this game, thinking back now, where ususally ridiculously hard to solve. I was stuck several times only to look at a walkthrough only to find that the answer makes me think "how in the world was I supposed to figure THAT out." Without the walkthrough I porbably would not have finished the game. I already spent like a good hour sitting there trying to think of answers. I did NOT have the patience of trying EVERYTHING on EVERYTHING so it was either use my own logic to its most abstract limits or the walkthrough. There were sometimes were I was on a roll in solving puzzels and that was pretty satisfying.

The voice acting was pretty decent. It sure beats Dream. My friend told me he quickly got tired of Rufus' voice but I wasn't too bothered. I was pretty invested in the story. The story was the otherthing besides the art that kept me playing. It has some cool twists and reveals that suprised me. Aand I think the ending of the trilogy beats Mass Efect's.

I am huge fan of Monkey Island, and this is the first game I've found that comes close. It has good humour, nice exploration and beautiful illustrative artwork (think MI3). Downsides are that you're launched straight into a tutorial, rather than given time to watch the scene be set; in addition, the voice recordings aren't great in that a) the artists haven't received full direction, so sometimes they stress the wrong word and ruin the joke, and b) there isn't enough variety in responses. The game is also fairly short but is actually a lot longer than most, and definitely longer than your average Indie game. In all, really, really good. Enough to make me buy the sequel :)