Deponia Doomsday
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| Developer(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Jan Müller-Michaelis |
| Producer(s) | Tom Kersten |
| Designer(s) | Florian Floer Jan Müller-Michaelis Rene Anhaus Simon Nguyen Marcel Timm |
| Writer(s) | Jan Müller-Michaelis (Story) Rene Anhaus (Story) |
| Series | Deponia |
| Engine | Visionaire Studio |
| Platform(s) | PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
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| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
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| GameRankings | 73.71% |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
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| Hardcore Gamer | 3.5/5 |
Deponia Doomsday is a point-and-click adventure created by Daedalic Entertainment and released in March 2016. It is the fourth installment of the Deponia franchise. The first three parts are considered as a trilogy. This installment is a "paralellic".
The game follows the principles of a classic point-and-click adventure: the user controls Rufus as he travels across highly detailed backgrounds as the plot continues. Rufus can startup conversations with other characters and put items in his inventory for later use. These items, combined or not, are used to solve puzzles and advance the story. Furthermore, the game has some optional minigames.
In the intro, Goal explains briefly the history of Elysium. Her ancestors started a small settlement on Deponia. The settlement became a town, a city... Buildings became higher and higher, technology improved... At certain moment they built a spaceship called Elysium and left. During next decades Elysians forgot their own history and were sure Deponia was only a dumping ground where nobody lived anymore. That's why they wanted to blow up the planet. Things changed unexpectedly thanks to Rufus who could convince the Elders (= leaders) of Elysium he lives on Deponia thus the planet is inhabited. In an attempt to avoid a crash of Elysium, Rufus fell literally out of Elysium and died. As a result, nobody is aware Rufus is the hero who saved Deponia. Goal finishes her story but wonders what she should change if she was able to travel back in time and if these actions should lead to a better ending of her story. Next, the game moves to Deponia, now an ice planet due to a nuclear winter, where an old Rufus, followed by the Fewlocks (big yellow dangerous predators), arrives at the tower which should have destroyed Deponia in the original plan of the Elysians. Not much further, a fallen Elysium can be seen. Rufus activates the bomb on which the planet is about to explode.
The young Rufus awakes from a nightmare. He is about to leave to Elysium with an air balloon. He only has to wrap up some crystal glasses, currently standing outside, and to pick up his girlfriend Toni. Once outside, he gets déjà vu and thinks all of this happened before: the crystal glasses will be destroyed, Toni and he will split up and there is a conspiracy of the Organon. Not much later the glasses are indeed destroyed by the car of professor McChronicle: an expert in temporary physics and the fourth dimension. His car is actually a time machine to travel back at some point in near past. He is not eager to use the device as it will create a time split and the consequences are not fully known. Rufus activates the machine and time is turned back until some seconds before McChronicle arrives at the balloon. McChronicle arrives with the car and Rufus tries to give parking instructions. He is however distracted by a pink elephant thus the glasses are broken again. Rufus reactivates the machine, but identically the same scenario repeats. McChronicle is somehow astonished Rufus could remember the future: normally this is only possible when the time travelers wear a special hood, but he doesn't question further. Rufus also realizes everything that's happened in the Deponia-trilogy must have been a dream as the time frame in which those events take place still have to come.
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