Deponia Doomsday is a fascinating and polarizing installment in the Deponia series, a point-and-click adventure franchise developed by Daedalic Entertainment. Released in 2016, this fourth entry takes a dramatic shift in tone and narrative structure compared to its predecessors, blending science fiction, absurdist humor, and time travel into an ambitious—if at times convoluted—tapestry. Fans of the earlier games will recognize familiar characters, recurring motifs, and the distinctive cartoonish art style, but they may also find themselves surprised by the thematic weight and emotional stakes introduced in Doomsday. The game attempts to serve both as a sequel and a retcon, trying to mend the controversial ending of Goodbye Deponia while also expanding the universe’s scope and complexity. The story follows Rufus, the series' egocentric yet oddly endearing protagonist, who once again finds himself at the center of an apocalyptic scenario involving Deponia’s destruction. However,...

I thought for a good bit after finishing this game on if I recommend it cause it's still kinda deponia puzzle wise and character wise or not cause overall story wise it's kinda...... pointless.... then a friend explained that the only reason it exists is cause of some people that didnt like the ending of the main trilogy as daedalic doubling down. So here we are, Deponia Doomsday, the 4th game of a trilogy, and that's how i'll always label it cause there's not really a reason for it to exist. By the end of chapter 3 the game kinda reveals its primary twist and that's not even halfway through the game, then at the beginning of chapter 4 there's a group of knights sitting around a campfire and one of their lines of dialogue is a classic daedelic knock on the 4th wall but instead of humor or a reference it is kinda just 3 lines of the writer scolding a specific group of fans. And then the last stretch of the game (2-3 hours) is a series of set pieces that basically amount to "we need to ...

YES PLEASE PLAY ITS SO PEAKKK

Really goofy plot