To anyone who hasn't played this; I'm a huge adventure game fan, been playing them my whole life, and I couldn't stand this game.

The protagonist is insanely unlikable (and not in a good way), and the puzzles weren't terribly fun in my opinion.

It has nice art, and the world is cool, but just beware that it's very much a marmite sorta game (love it or hate it).

In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.

Did someone say https://rufus.ie/en/

It's a fun premise but there are game breaking bugs. Be sure to make multiple saves within close proximity of each other. I ended up uninstalling after realizing I pulled a pin out of a map too early and couldn't interact with it later to set off explosives.

I love their games. I already own Deponia and some others. But I still didn't own some of the other games. So I bought the whole pack for 5€ 🤩 Thanks for sharing!

There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it's a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to "look, we dare to be this inappropriate."

Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist's behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of "just like that", it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people were used as slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

And then there's also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it's super inappropriate in a way, but it's not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

I've never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.

why does it look like Penny arcade the video game

I tried playing the first one, but the boomer humor was really bad.

Combined with the ole inflatable duck to recover keys type problem solving, it's slop

Looks like a strategy to boost sales for the rest of the series, which are also 90% off.

I haven't heard of this game, but I do love adventure games.

The comments below aren't encouraging though.

But the ultimate question is: free on steam or $0.99 on gog.com? I prefer supporting gog over steam...

Ruuuuuufuuuuussss

I already own this (and its sequels) and I like it, even with it's flaws. But in order to enjoy the game for what it is, you need to understand and accept that the protagonist, Rufus, is a huge piece of selfish shit. He isn't evil, he's just a dickhead.

If that's not to your liking, I totally understand and would not recommend this. If you like absurd humor and seeing some naive jackass basically ruin lives, give it a shot or watch a playthrough on YouTube.

Boomer humor cringe

It’s fun. If you liked the secret of monkey island, this is similar in play, puzzles, and humor.

So I already own this whole series and I cannot say I'm a fan of it.

The puzzles are all to often moon logic, which okay I can deal with it in today market but the story and the main protagonist just absolutely ruined the game for me, especially with the subsequent sequels.

I think I'll copypaste my comment from the Linux Gaming comm to here as well... So, here goes:

There are a bunch of jokes in this game that I absolutely am not okay with.

Yeah, the whole point of the game is the main character being a horrible asshole.

But then, the game for example makes jokes about a black woman ending up a slave. She ends up as a slave not because the main character is being thoughtless. Yes, his actions affect the result, but it's a pure coincidence he could not have reasonably predicted. The joke boils down to "look, we dare to be this inappropriate."

Some of similar jokes could maybe read as commentary on horrible bigots who really do behave towards other people in the way the protagonist of this game does, because technically the bad things happen to those people because of the protagonist's behaviour. But when the same things sometimes happen to them kind of "just like that", it puts the rest of the jokes in a very different context: The developers of the game actually are making fun of the fact that black people used to slaves or that women often experience sexual violence.

And then there's also the transsexual who turns out to be the worst stereotype of a transsexual that a MAGA person ever could imagine. And, and, and.

Some of the jokes are kind of more neutral: At one point the protagonist needs to feed some ten-ish children to a monster, camouflaging them as hot dogs and covering them in ketchup and mustard. And then the children do indeed get eaten and the game progresses. I mean, okay, it's super inappropriate in a way, but it's not perpetuating hate speech. But a surprisingly large share of the jokes are punching at various minorities.

I've never seen as much bigotry in a game as I saw in the Deponia trilogy when I played through it.