What is "deponia"

Deponia may refer to:

• One of several places named Deponija
• Deponia (video game), a 2012 point-and-click adventure game
  • Chaos on Deponia, second installment in the series
  • Goodbye Deponia, third installment in the series
  • Deponia Doomsday, fourth installment in the series

Deponia is a point-and-click adventure game following the misadventures of Rufus, a guy with wild dreams of escaping his village Kuvaq, located on a junk covered world called Deponia. Developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published on 27 January 2012 in Germany for Windows and Mac, the original game was entirely in German (the name Deponia is a reference to the German word "Deponie", meaning a landfill site) and was the first in a planned trilogy of games by Daedalic with the second, Chaos on Deponia, being published on 12 October 2012 in Germany and the third Goodbye Deponia, being published on 15 October 2013. The English version of the first game was released on 7 August 2012 with entirely new voice acting across the board. In July 2015, Daedalic Entertainment announced that the series would be heading to iPad, with the first chapter releasing in mid-August. Deponia received generally positive scores from reviewers, with 74 out of 100 being listed on Metacritic. Although it was originally a trilogy, a fourth installment Deponia Doomsday was released on 1st of March 2016. According its designers the fourth installment is not a prequel nor sequel, but a "parallelic".