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Chaos on Deponia cover art

Chaos on Deponia

Daedalic Entertainment · 2012-11-06

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 06, 2017 (Xbox One), Nov 29, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 06, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 06, 2012 (Mac), Dec 06, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Nov 14, 2014 (Linux)

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.

Chaos on Deponia is a 2012 Adventure and Indie game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 3149 reviews).

11
playing now
90%
positive of 3.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (110 ratings)
4.32★
PlayStation Store rating (740 ratings)
17h
to beat · rushed 8.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Chaos on Deponia is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment. A sequel to Deponia, it continues the story of the main character Rufus as he attempts to escape from his home planet Deponia.

Trailer

Chaos on Deponia trailer thumbnail

Chaos on Deponia – Trailer | PS4

≈144,545 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 242 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~30/week).
  • · Review velocity up 178% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 29,201 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 126k–252k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,149 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$1.59-92%
Steam$1.99-90%
GOG$1.99-90%
GreenManGaming$2.00-90%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2022-03-05) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 178 of 213 observed days · $0.59 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
717120182026Week of 2018-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

10952026-09-16 06:00 — 18 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 36 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 25 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 13 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 20 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 28 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 29 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 33 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 15 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 26 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 31 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 38 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 35 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 73 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 45 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 29 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 22 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 24 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2328Nov 2012Aug 2026Nov 2012 — avg 92 · peak 337Apr 2013 — avg 17 · peak 61Sep 2013 — avg 23 · peak 64Feb 2014 — avg 22 · peak 69Jul 2014 — avg 37 · peak 108Dec 2014 — avg 45 · peak 157May 2015 — avg 19 · peak 65Oct 2015 — avg 57 · peak 177Mar 2016 — avg 70 · peak 206Aug 2016 — avg 25 · peak 58Jan 2017 — avg 42 · peak 144Jun 2017 — avg 35 · peak 91Nov 2017 — avg 46 · peak 182Apr 2018 — avg 32 · peak 130Sep 2018 — avg 15 · peak 50Feb 2019 — avg 20 · peak 62Jul 2019 — avg 14 · peak 42Dec 2019 — avg 19 · peak 65May 2020 — avg 39 · peak 101Oct 2020 — avg 14 · peak 43Mar 2021 — avg 22 · peak 66Aug 2021 — avg 15 · peak 43Jan 2022 — avg 19 · peak 63Jun 2022 — avg 20 · peak 52Nov 2022 — avg 12 · peak 40Apr 2023 — avg 13 · peak 38Sep 2023 — avg 11 · peak 33Feb 2024 — avg 15 · peak 44Jul 2024 — avg 14 · peak 40Dec 2024 — avg 18 · peak 57May 2025 — avg 12 · peak 38Oct 2025 — avg 12 · peak 37Mar 2026 — avg 232 · peak 1,385Aug 2026 — avg 29 · peak 215
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$59.99$1.142015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $2.212015-04-03 — best price $7.992015-06-27 — best price $4.992015-10-09 — best price $4.992016-02-12 — best price $2.992016-06-30 — best price $19.992016-11-22 — best price $2.992017-06-05 — best price $19.992018-02-20 — best price $2.992018-08-13 — best price $17.312019-01-25 — best price $1.722019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-03-26 — best price $19.992020-07-16 — best price $1.602020-10-21 — best price $19.992021-01-08 — best price $19.992021-04-18 — best price $14.692021-07-12 — best price $14.692021-10-15 — best price $1.922022-01-24 — best price $1.602022-05-17 — best price $16.882022-09-23 — best price $1.992023-02-02 — best price $14.692023-07-21 — best price $1.802023-12-15 — best price $1.802024-04-09 — best price $1.992024-07-21 — best price $2.002024-10-18 — best price $1.802025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-06-20 — best price $1.992025-09-30 — best price $1.942025-12-18 — best price $1.882026-04-10 — best price $1.282026-07-11 — best price $2.002026-09-03 — best price $1.992026-10-15 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7452026-05-29 — 28 pageviews2026-06-02 — 14 pageviews2026-06-06 — 22 pageviews2026-06-10 — 5 pageviews2026-06-14 — 26 pageviews2026-06-18 — 18 pageviews2026-06-22 — 19 pageviews2026-06-26 — 18 pageviews2026-06-30 — 10 pageviews2026-07-04 — 18 pageviews2026-07-08 — 25 pageviews2026-07-12 — 28 pageviews2026-07-16 — 18 pageviews2026-07-20 — 16 pageviews2026-07-24 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 13 pageviews2026-08-01 — 18 pageviews2026-08-05 — 24 pageviews2026-08-09 — 25 pageviews2026-08-13 — 47 pageviews2026-08-17 — 57 pageviews2026-08-21 — 29 pageviews2026-08-25 — 14 pageviews2026-08-29 — 24 pageviews2026-09-02 — 17 pageviews2026-09-06 — 38 pageviews2026-09-10 — 10 pageviews2026-09-14 — 16 pageviews2026-09-18 — 19 pageviews2026-09-22 — 24 pageviews2026-09-26 — 24 pageviews2026-09-30 — 20 pageviews2026-10-04 — 15 pageviews2026-10-07 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
58.5%
earned "Huzzah with booze and so forth"
22.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-11-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9,65220%34
PS4 (PlayStation)3,62369%35
PS4 (PlayStation)1,70978%35
Xbox One (Xbox)81238%34
Switch (Nintendo)560%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieComedyPuzzleClassicAdventureSteampunkDark HumorHand-drawn

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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