Deponia is a point-and-click adventure, developed and published by
Daedalic Entertainment. The original version in German was released on
January 27, 2012, with the title a play on the German word "Deponie",
which means "landfill site". An English version of the game was later
released on August 7, 2012. The game's story sees players taking on
the role of Rufus, an inhabitant of the junk planet Deponia, as he
attempts to seek a new life on the floating city known as Elysium.
However, he soon becomes embroiled with the task of helping an Elysian
return to their home and uncovers a plot that threatens his home
planet.The game is the first installment in the Deponia series - a
sequel, Chaos on Deponia, was published on 12 October 2012; a third
installment, Goodbye Deponia, was published on 15 October 2013; and a
fourth installment, Deponia Doomsday, was published on March 1, 2016.
In July 2015, Daedalic Entertainment announced that the series would
be available on iPad, with the first chapter releasing in
mid-August.Like most forms of point-and-click adventure games, players
take on the role of a character who must solve a variety of puzzles.
Objects in the game can be manipulated, or picked up to be used to
overcome obstacles or combined with other inventory items to make a
new item to use. At times, the player encounters people in the game
who can be talked with for clues and trivia. The game's main interface
features a simple system connected to the mouse, in which the player
left-clicks an object/person to use it/talk to, and right-click it to
examine it, while a hint system, indicating interactive elements, can
be activated by holding down the mouse's middle button.
Daedalic Entertainment. The original version in German was released on
January 27, 2012, with the title a play on the German word "Deponie",
which means "landfill site". An English version of the game was later
released on August 7, 2012. The game's story sees players taking on
the role of Rufus, an inhabitant of the junk planet Deponia, as he
attempts to seek a new life on the floating city known as Elysium.
However, he soon becomes embroiled with the task of helping an Elysian
return to their home and uncovers a plot that threatens his home
planet.The game is the first installment in the Deponia series - a
sequel, Chaos on Deponia, was published on 12 October 2012; a third
installment, Goodbye Deponia, was published on 15 October 2013; and a
fourth installment, Deponia Doomsday, was published on March 1, 2016.
In July 2015, Daedalic Entertainment announced that the series would
be available on iPad, with the first chapter releasing in
mid-August.Like most forms of point-and-click adventure games, players
take on the role of a character who must solve a variety of puzzles.
Objects in the game can be manipulated, or picked up to be used to
overcome obstacles or combined with other inventory items to make a
new item to use. At times, the player encounters people in the game
who can be talked with for clues and trivia. The game's main interface
features a simple system connected to the mouse, in which the player
left-clicks an object/person to use it/talk to, and right-click it to
examine it, while a hint system, indicating interactive elements, can
be activated by holding down the mouse's middle button.
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