Chaos on Deponia
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2016. 135 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Deponia ($9.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Deponia Doomsday ($19.99, scores 59).
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 says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 180 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Really fun point-and-click adventure with a lot of crazy humor and weird characters. Rufus is such a ridiculous character that I couldn't help but laugh at some of the situations he gets himself into. The hand-drawn art style looks great and fits the game perfectly. The puzzles are pretty fun, although a few of them can be really strange and make you think outside the box 😄. I also really liked the soundtrack and...
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.
Chaos on Deponia - Same as Deponia 1 but less annoying protagonist I struggled to write a positive review for this game, not because its bad, but because its just more of the same you saw in the first game, so if you liked Deponia 1, you'll get a kick out of this one, but if you didnt like Deponia 1, you likely won't change your mind too much Gameplay vise , Chaos on Deponia is a sidegrade, as in there are...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Chaos on Deponia scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220740/chaos-on-deponiaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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