Deponia

You play as a villain who wants to be a hero for villainous purposes... and hilarious chaos follows

there was one bug that caused me to have to reset a portion of my save. despite that i didnt quit and jsut wanted to fix it to get on with the story. looking forward to playing the second one now

Installer via GOG Galaxy is not running. After downloading 2% of the game the download stops. GOG please fix that issue! Thanks!

For me, the most important part of a Point-and-Click Adventure is its world, and Deponia is quite a lovely one. Even though it's a planet largely covered in junk, the bright colors and construction of its areas really paints a charming picture. That's what matters most to me, because even if it's filled with moon logic puzzles, you can always resort to a walkthrough, and continue on touring the world. And you probably will; in the beginning, puzzles can be a little unintuitive, but everything is structured in such a way that you have limited options, and each inventory item will eventually be consumed in a very satisfying way. The further you get, though, the less true this becomes, and some of the later puzzles are completely incomprehensible, unless you really like trial and error. The main character is also just awful, and to make things worse, he thinks that everything about him is great; I can't stand people like that, and this forces you to play as one! At the very least, the jokes do land about half the time, and when they do, they're a riot, or at least worth a snrk. Ultimately, I am glad to have experienced Deponia, but it's certainly not without its drawbacks.

Deponia is a point and click game, you know how they go. They are slow, provide no adrenaline but instead the satisfaction or solving weird puzzles and if they are done well, they come with a memorable story and characters. Deponia gets almost everything wrong sadly. What Deponia has going for it is the worldbuilding. It's nothing original, the typical upper class denies entry to lower class trope, but the art is nice and it works out nicely when things really do look a lot prettier once you leave your little slum. But the rest is more misses than hits. On Deponia we're Rufus, a self centered ambitious guy that wants to leave Deponia and escape to upper class Elysium, a city floating up in the sky. Nobody seems to tolerate his attitude and for good reason, the humor just lacks skill. His ambition and drive take a backseat to plenty of poor lines about how deluded and conceited he is and we have to tolerate that for almost half of the game too. Luckily the charade is dropped when things get serious in the end, and the cliffhanger ending is kind of earned. The other characters you sympathize a bit more, they don't have any depth other than accepting their fate but at least they're not such a PITA. Our other important character is Goal, an Elysian girl that falls from the sky and spends sleeping for most of the game so she doesn't really stand out here making her the weak part of that ending. So the characters and story aren't great, then we have the puzzles. Like on most games of this genre a some are satisfying and some are headscratchers, things that don't really make sense and you stumble upon out of luck or cheating. However, there are game breaking ones, things that lock you out and require you to load a save from Daedalic's official website in order to continue. I got this at the pigeon puzzle, and needless to say lost faith in the game from that point on. The experience ends up becoming more frustrating than fun in the end, sadly.