Games like Deponia: The Complete Journey
If Deponia: The Complete Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deponia Doomsday, Goodbye Deponia and Back to the Future: The Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its protagonists narcissism fuels humor, comedic and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Deponia: The Complete Journey is a point-and-click adventure released in 2014 by Daedalic Entertainment, priced at $29.99. The game offers challenging puzzle-solving that incorporates inventory combination, dialogue-heavy sequences, and an optional hint system, alongside achievement tracking. Players and reviewers describe the experience as comedic, funny, and occasionally unsettling, with a whimsical tone throughout. The cast of quirky characters consistently attracts attention, and the cartoonish art style evokes nostalgia among fans of classic adventure games. Players note that the protagonist's narcissism fuels much of the dark humor, while puzzles often require out-of-the-box thinking to solve. The complete collection bundles all four episodes into one package, and the game runs as playable on Steam Deck. The title holds an 80% positive rating from 1321 Steam reviews.
About Deponia: The Complete Journey: 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.
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Deponia Doomsday
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Top pick for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
Goodbye Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Second-strongest match for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
More chaos, more destruction, more Rufus. Not one, not two, but three Rufuses cause all kinds of crazy mayhem in the long-awaited adventure comedy Goodbye Deponia!
Back to the Future: The Game
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Shares puzzle solving with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Third-strongest match for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
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Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Ranked #4 for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
Grim Fandango Remastered
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Shares puzzle solving with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Ranked #5 for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Shares a funny mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Ranked #6 for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Deponia
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Shares puzzle solving and a funny mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Ranked #7 for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
The Book of Unwritten Tales
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Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Ranked #8 for Deponia: The Complete Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deponia: The Complete Journey at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~67% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
PEAK
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Priced ~73% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~50% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Inscryption
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Priced ~73% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
It Takes Two
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Priced ~53% under Deponia: The Complete Journey on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Daedalic Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Daedalic Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Deponia
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Shares puzzle solving and a funny mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
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Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Blackguards
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Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Deponia Doomsday
WHY THIS
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
The Night of the Rabbit
WHY THIS
Shares hint system and a whimsical mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
Chaos on Deponia
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Shares inventory combination and a comedic mood with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
The Dark Eye: Memoria
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Shares puzzle solving with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Deponia: The Complete Journey. Shares Adventure with Deponia: The Complete Journey.
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.
Frequently asked about Deponia: The Complete Journey
- Does Deponia: The Complete Journey run on Steam Deck?
- Deponia: The Complete Journey is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Deponia: The Complete Journey cost?
- Deponia: The Complete Journey is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deponia: The Complete Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deponia: The Complete Journey are Deponia Doomsday, Goodbye Deponia, Back to the Future: The Game.
- Who developed Deponia: The Complete Journey?
- Deponia: The Complete Journey was developed by Daedalic Entertainment.
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