Deponia: The Complete Journey
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Alcohol is present in the world's seedy settings, with drinking and bars part of the background scenery.
The setting is a bleak, decaying trash planet and the protagonist is written as callous and self-serving, giving the comedy an undercurrent of grimness and a downbeat ending.
The player-controlled protagonist cons, tricks and pilfers from other characters as comedic puzzle solutions.
Cartoon slapstick violence in a comedic adventure; characters are knocked about and hurt in exaggerated gags with no blood, wounds or gore.
Flirtation and a running romance between the lead and another character, with occasional suggestive comedic dialogue; nothing is shown.
Mild comedic profanity in the dialogue, on the level of 'damn' or 'hell'.
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What it is
Deponia: The Complete Journey collects the three-part comedic point-and-click adventure set on Deponia, a planet buried under endless trash. You play Rufus, a self-absorbed schemer forever hatching hare-brained plans to escape his junk-heap home, and progress by solving inventory and logic puzzles across absurd hand-drawn scenes. The tone is broad slapstick comedy, though it plays out against a genuinely bleak backdrop and a downbeat streak that runs through the ending. Content is light: cartoon knockabout violence, flirtation and mild suggestive humor, occasional mild profanity, alcohol in the world's dingier corners, and a hero who lies, cons and swipes things from people to get his way. There is no gore, no explicit content, and no online play, purchases or chat.
How it's framed
The game plays its protagonist's selfishness and petty dishonesty for laughs rather than presenting them approvingly, and its trickery and slapstick are framed as absurd comedy. Underneath the jokes it leans into a melancholy, fatalistic view of its dying world, and the trilogy's conclusion is deliberately bittersweet.
Details
- Developer
- Daedalic Entertainment
- Publisher
- Daedalic Entertainment
- Released
- Jul 8, 2014
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