If you’re a fan of the first game’s characterisation, great news! Chaos seems to hit a lot of the same notes here, with Rufus being his normal, reckless self, and Goal being a bit of a snob and largely unaware of what life is like on Deponia, with both getting into all kinds of mischief along the journey. Oh, and the bad guys from the first game are seemingly back, and threatening to put the whole of Deponia at risk. After the events of the first game, Rufus and Goal run into some slight troubles, causing Goal to lose her memory, and leaving Rufus to come up with a way to restore her memories and make their way together to Elysium. Elysium is the upper echelon of society on the Earth-adjacent post-apocalyptic world of Deponia, a world which has been largely forgotten by the people of Elysium, who see the planet as little more than a waste disposal unit. Chaos on Deponia follows the aloof hero Rufus and his love interest/macguffin Goal as they journey back to the floating city of Elysium - Goal’s homeland. Full disclosure: I have not played the first Deponia game, but the opening of Chaos gives a pretty thorough explanation of its events.
In my time with the second game in the series on Switch, Chaos on Deponia, I have found myself frustrated, offended, and perhaps most of all, utterly exhausted. The Deponia series is perhaps the biggest of these titles for the company… but I question whether it’s the best. But some companies are still churning them out, and German developer Daedalic Entertainment is one of them.
Since the days of my youth, the genre has fallen by the wayside, with releases becoming few and far between, and major releases rarer still.
Some of my very earliest memories were sitting next to my mum in the loungeroom, helping to solve fantastic little environmental puzzles in the PS1 release of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. I’ve always been a huge fan of point-and-click adventure games.
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