Chaos on Deponia

Chaos on Deponia

Fair · Narrative · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

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

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9990% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.00/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 3,196
Critics
78 players 12 higher
Genre rank
Top 9% Narrative

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 13% off ($17.47) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10h
To 100%
13.4h 1.3x the story
Finish
8% reach the ending
Achievements
34

Price and sales

Sales
137 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$1.99 November 2016
Sale every
31d last October 2026
Lowest now $19.49 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
11 now
Cheaper than
6% of its genre
Better reviewed
92% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

59% start to 8% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

137 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Inferno ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Deponia ($9.99, scores 65).

More about Chaos on Deponia

Critics scored it 78. Players sit 12 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 443 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 181 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement8% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 443 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Deponia 2 (or Chaos On Deponia) is in every way an improvement to the original Deponia. The sequel was made by German developer "Daedalic Entertainment" in the same year, making the story feel like one whole. In this game, I feel like they improved on everything, be it animations, cinematics, the writing and even the jokes! The art and music are as usual great. The 1st act plays on the Floating Black Market and is...
JAIRORecommendedafter 24h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
Again…don't bother even trying to play this game without a guide. I like the story but it's a miserable experience trying to understand what to do since lots of solutions make no sense.
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔRecommendedafter 12hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
Description from the Steam store page.
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

BANG Score badge
Chaos on Deponia scores 66/100 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/220740/chaos-on-deponia
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics78
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 3,196 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDaedalic Entertainment
PublisherDaedalic Entertainment
GenreNarrative
Released2012
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements34