Deponia Full Scrap Collection

Deponia: The Complete Journey is a version of the first three Deponia games that adds developer commentary and a chapter select map with all 13 chapters. This is not that version. This is just a plain, boring game bundle. Doesn't really have a reason to exist when The Complete Journey is available elsewhere.

The Deponia series centers around egocentric antihero Rufus. If you enjoy dark humor, you're in for a treat. You'll find yourself being a menace to all around you, resorting to increasingly questionable actions in order to progress. The main focus of your attention is romantic interest and damsel in distress Goal, who is often in distress because of you. At the end of the day, Rufus aims to do the right thing, but whether he's a net good overall is for you to decide. I particularly enjoyed the background artwork and the voice acting for Rufus and Goal. I had no issues with the English localization. It's among the better point and click adventures and I never miss an opportunity to recommend it to fans of the genre. With the start of the Point and Click Adventures sale today, this bundle has finally received a 90% discount, making it a worthwhile purchase compared to the individual games.

Originally, I played them on Steam, but here's my review: Deponia was an episodic point-and-click singleplayer lightweight (runs on potato hd4000) game franchise (Deponia 1, 2 and 3) that captivated the fans so much the developers had to make a final game (Deponia doomsday - a.k.a. "Deponia 4"). Overall, the mechanics are vert simple (it's a point-and-click game) but with some very complicated, stupidly funny puzzles and dialogs that makes the player go "wait..what, WTF, WHY? oh, that's why... this is soo dumb" The characters are very charismatic, the story is a beautiful good-humored, well written and designed mess. As for achievements, you will have to be very patient since a lot of them needs you to go through many steps and levels and not miss a thing (some very repetitive, in the case of Deponia 4). I only recommend buying the 4-game bundle/collection because it's all packed. I recommend waiting for a discount (in my case). But for $10 bucks and it is better than many games nowadays. Go for it if you want. It's a fun game, lots of levels and laughs. You should try.

This game bundle started out as great fun and I'm a fan of this style. However, it's full of bugs: items that take an age to pick up from the inventory and puzzles that won't work and stop you progressing, like the magnetic field thing with the pigeons and the mine cart switches. There may be more but I could get no further so I requested a refund and deleted the game. I note, through searching online, that this has been reported to the developer who say they are looking into it but nothing has been actioned so far. Pity, as I was enjoying it to the mine cart part. I even tried deleting and reinstalling but then the problem with the magnetic field board cropped up and I just gave up after that. Not a fan of continuously restarting to encounter yet another bug!