The end result is a game that mixes the traditional point-and-click inventory-based puzzles of previous instalments with the mind-bending logic of time travel and a sprinkling of mini-games.

During others, the decision is completely out of your hands. In some parts of the game, the player can control when time ‘rewinds’. Unless he sets everything right, the events of the previous games will never happen and Deponia will be destroyed. Rufus being Rufus, it isn’t long before he’s made a small mess into a major catastrophe. Time travel is a major component of the plot and it factors into many of the puzzles too. What follows is a lengthy adventure game (15+ hours) that is very much reminiscent of the previous Deponia games… with a twist. Then Professor McChronicle – a quirky temporal scientist – turns up and accidentally messes up the space-time continuum. When he tries to fix the problem with the help of Rufus and his time machine, a mysterious pink elephant (!) turns up and thwarts their plans. Rufus wakes up in a daze, vaguely remembering a crazy dream/nightmare where he met the girl of his dreams, uncovered an Organon conspiracy and saved the planet, before growing old, growing a moustache (oh, the horror!) and blowing the planet to pieces.īeing Rufus, he simply shrugs it off and starts planning his latest crazy scheme to reach Elysium, the floating city in the sky.

We’re then whisked back to long before the events of the previous games – or indeed, old Rufus blowing up post-apocalyptic Deponia – happened. The tutorial (which can be skipped if so desired) is much more streamlined than in pervious Deponia games, simply giving direction during the opening moments. Rufus, the last man alive, must break into a derelict facility – with the occasional mini-game thrown in for good measure – before blowing up the entire planet. The trash planet of Deponia is now trapped in a nuclear winter, overrun with giant lizard monsters. It’s the first voice you’ll hear in Deponia Doomsday, only this time it’s coming from the mouth of a grizzled, older, ‘Solid’ Rufus! It’s the first of many surprises. If you’ve ever played a Metal Gear Solid game (with the exception of The Phantom Pain), you’ll no doubt be able to immediately recognise the gravelly voice of David Hayter as Solid Snake. The ending of Goodbye Deponia (the final game of the original trilogy) seemed pretty definitive (and indeed, divisive) so… how is Goodbye Deponia even possible? Two words: time travel! Deponia Doomsday is the fourth instalment in the Deponia trilogy developed by Daedalic Entertainment… wait a minute, come again?! That’s right! Following on from Deponia, Chaos on Deponia and Goodbye Deponia, Daedalic has surprised fans of the series around the world by releasing yet another point-and-click adventure game starring Marmite anti-hero Rufus.

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