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As Rufus tries to avert a catastrophe on Deponia, he investigates time anomalies in a hand-drawn point-and-click adventure.
Released 01 Mar 2016
Untangle Time Loops
Solve Inventory Puzzles
Explore Deponia and Elysium
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
Developed by Daedalic Entertainment · Published by Daedalic Entertainment
Play as Rufus, Deponia’s chaotic would-be hero, after a nightmare leaves him worried about the planet’s fate. With the help of temporal scientist McChronicle, he encounters time anomalies and a time machine that send the adventure across different moments in Deponia’s history.
Explore hand-drawn locations, talk with eccentric characters, collect objects, and combine them to solve point-and-click puzzles. The story’s comic situations and dark humor accompany Rufus as he tries to make sense of events that keep shifting around him.
Time loops make revisiting places and changing the order of actions part of solving problems. The adventure moves between locations on Deponia and Elysium, with occasional timed sequences and minigames alongside its dialogue, exploration, and inventory puzzles.
Players who enjoy Deponia’s offbeat comedy often praise its absurd humor, memorable characters, hand-drawn settings, and return to the series’ point-and-click style. Some also enjoy the time-travel premise and puzzles, though opinions differ sharply on the story and ending. Other recurring criticisms include confusing puzzle logic and time-loop sequences that make players repeat actions under pressure.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 36 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
