Deponia: The Complete Journey
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 26.3h
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 256 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended), 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
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
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 119 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 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).
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 26.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 557 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 231 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
58% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 26.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
31 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
Absolut großartige Point & Click Trilogie, die mit albernen Rätseln, grotesken Szenen und viel Humor daher kommt. Insgesamt bekommt man hier 3 Spiele, die alle ihren eigenen Charme haben, aber overall einfach mehr-davon bieten. Für meinen Geschmack ist Chaos der beste Teil, aber es ist durchweg eine hohe Qualität und manche Szenen aus Teil 1 sind für mich das absolute Highlight. Definitive Empfehlung!
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Deponia: The Complete Journey scores 64/100 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/292910/deponia-the-complete-journeyThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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