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More specifically, for the next week, all PC users with a Steam account can grab Daedalic Entertainment’s Deponia for free. For those who do not know, this is the first game in the four-game Deponia series. It was released in 2012, followed by Chaos on Deponia in 2013, Goodbye Deponia in 2013, and then Deponia Doomsday in 2016. All four games are narratively connected, unlike the upcoming Deponia game, Surviving Deponia, which is a spin-off in a completely different genre. That said, with the series returning for the first time in a decade, now is a good time to check it out.
2012 Adventure Game
Deponia released to a solid 74 on Metacritic back in the day, a decent return for its publisher and a game of its scope. And this more or less lines up with its user review score on Steam. After 2,946 user reviews, Deponia has a 77% approval rate, which nets it a “Mostly Positive” rating, the fourth highest rating possible on the platform.
In the point-and-click adventure game, you play as Rufus, a man born in the lowest social class, destined to live his life in a literal mountain of trash, but who dreams of ascending to the floating city in the cloud above him, where the rich live. Luckily for him, an attractive, rich lady by the name of Goal has plummeted from the sky to the earth, and she needs Rufus’ help to get back.
