Deponia
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 14,836
- Critics
- 74 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Narrative
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 69% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.1h
- To 100%
- 10.3h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 135 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 May 2015
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 29 now
- Recent reviews
- 69% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
135 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Chaos on Deponia ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Deponia Doomsday ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Deponia
74 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 69 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 923 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The main character is an insufferable. narcissistic and borderline sexist. finished the game out of pure spite just to get it over with. Shame as the artstyle and music is cool, puzzles are meh.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Deponia scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214340/deponiaReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.