(Fun fact: “deponie” means “landfill” in German.) The 2D hand-drawn aesthetic is more refined than in last year’s Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, but equally colorful and distinctive, featuring a number of idiosyncratic supporting characters who help bring Deponia to life. The steampunk cartoon art style depicts a gleefully oddball world made up of the garbage dropped from above. But when other, questionably trustworthy Elysians enter into the mix, a larger plot begins to show itself-larger than this one game can address, in fact, as Deponia is just the first installment of a planned trilogy.įrom the artwork to the people to the humor, everything in Deponia is just a bit off, and for the most part it works. With this finally achieved, he’s free to tout the still incapacitated princess across the rubbish-strewn countryside to another possible escape route. First Rufus must convince the townsfolk to release the unconscious Goal to his custody, a deceptively complicated task riddled with puzzle-solving that ends up taking more than half the game. Rufus sees her as his ticket out of here (and also hopes to make her his new girlfriend), but he’s not the only Deponian with his sights set on the pretty damsel in distress. This early attempt ends with Rufus falling back to the surface with a pretty Elysian princess, Goal, in tow. What could go wrong?Įverything, of course, and very quickly. The game opens with Rufus prepping his latest escape attempt, which involves lighting a parcel of dynamite to shoot a makeshift escape pod into the sky at the very moment an orbiting Elysian vessel flies past. Problem is, no one has ever managed to get there. His only escape option is Elysium, a utopia floating far above. It may have some rough edges, but this unflinchingly traditional point-and-click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment has a lot to like-garbage and all.ĭeponia’s protagonist is a wanderlust named Rufus, a young man who’s singularly fixated on getting off his junk-filled planet as soon as humanly possible. The puzzles… well, actually, those aren’t half bad. The items you stuff in your pockets are trash. No, wait, that’s a compliment! At least, it’s a statement of fact, as this game takes place, quite literally, on a trash heap. I’ve played some trashy adventures in my day, but none quite as trashy as Deponia.
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