Deponia Doomsday

Deponia Doomsday is Daedalic’s fourth Deponia game, a time-travel farce in which Rufus tries to undo the ending of Goodbye Deponia with a temporal physicist, a pink elephant and a great many Fewlocks. This walkthrough covers all eight chapters, the twelve hats and every Steam achievement (given here by their in-game descriptions where the localised names differ). One warning up front: every rewind empties your inventory, so take only what you need at that moment.

How the game plays

The tutorial explains itself. I or the mouse wheel opens the inventory; the double gear cursor is the left button (act) and right button (examine, on screen or in the inventory); Space highlights hotspots and skips lines, Esc skips dialogue and cutscenes; the striped arrow leaves a location, double click to jump. Combine items by dragging one onto another. Do not use the minigame skip if you want every achievement. Saves: AppData\Local\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\Deponia 4\Savegames.

Prologue

Take the tutorial. Down the stairs and right: a gas canister by the locked tower door, combine with the lighter for a flamethrower, melt the ice off the toolbox by your rover, take the blowtorch and put it back (achievement: return the torch). Take it again, back to the tower, light it (hold the button until it flames) and cut the lock: heat three bars red, glance at a passing shadow for the distraction achievement, then finish all four. Click fast to open the door until the bar fills green; inside, tear off a pipe and beat the Fewlock’s paw; click fast to close the door, then quickly bar it with the pipe. First hat: pompoms. Red button, climb the bomb, kick the clamp, kick the Fewlocks several times (achievement), kick the clamp again and fall with a monster. The minstrel sings; welcome back to Deponia.

Chapter 1: a trap for a pink elephant

Take the wrench from the worktop, leave the balloon, click the pyramid of glasses (they need wrapping), fetch the bubble wrap from the balloon floor, and watch a stranger park on the glasses. Right: Professor McChronicle of the Porta Fisco junk university studies anomalies on the fourth axis; talk everything through, press Go three times, get distracted by the pink elephant, and he crushes the glasses again; agree to wait. At the crossroads Tuck the drunk suffers; pick “I’ll find out how to help you remember”. Ask the professor why you remember and nobody else does: the foil hat with a straw. Through the tunnel past the musicians into the village square; right, at the bar, Lotti, formerly Lotto. Second hat, the windmill, top right. Lonzo’s bar: Toni does not believe the glasses are dead; poster; take a straw, then the glass; pull the dart and throw it: Lonzo’s prize is a current inverter. The foil-baked potato on the square is too hot. Down to the Nothing-o-mat by the professor: glass in the ice niche, top door, inverter in the left slot, red button: the Chill-o-mat gives ice in a glass. Set it on the barbecue lid, step away so the grill restarts, take the cooled water, pour it on the right potato, take it, click it to peel the foil, foil plus straw makes a foil hat; give it to Tuck. Rewind again with the professor, Go three times: the car parks properly, the glasses live. Talk to Tuck, then Zoon the barbecue barman at the gates: an elephant blowgun needs a licence, and pros hunt small game, ducks or rats. The musicians: Zoon will not hear their hit “Rudi Got Dumped”. Lotti gives a bra underwire; bar: straw, glass, Lotto’s beard off the wall, talk Toni out and call her along; the dart hits Rufus, no prize. Square: Wenzel; nobody wants to play the rotten-fruit game and the rat boy is too small. Toni slaps you at the crossroads. By the glasses examine the shards, take one and the glowing pink shard: tachyon radiation, which makes the elephant’s tracks visible when you sweep the shard over them. Sweep ahead, under the bridge, past the signs to the crossroads, round the bridge and back; from the glasses right, towards the dump, round its top, down, along the path to the crossroads, right to the abandoned wheel, left across the dump to the path, round the cactus: a secret lever. Cutscene.

In the ruined mall talk to both; Tuck wants a gun before he stays. Up the ramp and down to Bernert’s hut: settle things with Toni, take a rocket from the firework barrel (shard on it for gunpowder), wrench on the fuel tank tap. Tap into the honey dispenser, beard on it, sticky beard on the rat boy: a rat man; wax from the dispenser drawer. The fruit game is noughts and crosses with a rat that moves like a knight from the last fruit and eats what it lands under; for the achievement open anywhere but the centre; one win: centre, middle right, top right, bottom left. Prize: a rat, which eats your near-licence. Wax to Lotti for a depilator, use it on the rat boy for a proper bee; rat to Zoon, then dart, straw and bee for the blowgun, and take the shotgun right of the counter. Blowgun on the dartboard; take the throttle limiter and inverter from the counter. Cold water again, the long way: glass in the Nothing-o-mat, inverter left (Kill-o-mat), limiter right (Strangulation), red lever (Grill-bot), green (Infect-o-mat), blue (Terror-tron), red open (Infect-o-mat), blue open, green open, pull the limiter (Chill-o-mat), button, ice (achievement: all Kuvaq minigames). Water, potato, peel, into the slicer, halves plus underwire make headphones for Zoon; the band plays; take the bottle brush; junk from the balloon’s junk bag. Give Tuck the shotgun, then powder-loaded, then junk-loaded, then with the brush as a musket (achievement: every weapon). Into a shaft, the third hat, the hunting cap, under the lever. Up the ladder: rewind, empty inventory. Wrench and wrap again; wrench unscrews the signs, open the hatch, through the shaft to the china shop: shelves fall; keep grabbing toilet seats for the achievement, wrap on the antlers, take a whole seat, fix it to the mount up top, pull the handle below, surface, rope on the seat, loop onto the hatch: elephant trap. Talk to the professor, Tuck, fetch Toni from the bar, the trap works; at Bernert’s hut the house burns, take the burning log, into the balloon’s stove, untie the rope Toni’s mother clings to; the balloon falls on the town. Lever on the cactus as soon as it is active (achievement: before the elephant speaks). Into the UFO, button between the seats, confirm.

Chapter 2: dreams come true, and don’t

Knock left, try right, the balloon poster, the balcony over Elysium, wrecked too; the Elysian on the right cannot be freed; pull the jointed tube, pry the storeroom: fourth hat, the platypus; ignore the paintball gun, press the main fuse; Ronny the talking flower by the poster. The ice cream lift: order five (achievement). Ask Ronny about extinguishers; into the time capsule, talk to McChronicle, the lid on his right; he hands down the extinguisher. Extinguisher on the lift, order: a rope with a hook falls; hook it on the pipe on the right (if it tightens, order again); it falls with a cable drum; click the cable twice, drum into the flower box; tube into the floor crack, three clicks, then click fast to break the railing. Goal appears on the ledge; talk; rope onto the remaining beams, climb, pull up twice, revive her, click the hanging cable (achievement if you never took the paintball gun). Crash landing on the lower platform.

Chapter 3: the beautiful far away

Lift button; hide and overhear Cletus and Goal; reach into the bag twice: a mousetrap, then the antidote for the plague monitor, Snookums to her, Viper to him; free Viper; while Cletus lures it, slide down, talk to the professor stuck in the pipe and push him, back to hiding, laser pointer on the pipe left of Cletus: lead Viper through the flap maze to the far end, one route: left, left, down, right, up, left, down, up, right, down, left, left, up, right, down, right, up, left, down, up, right, down, left, left, up, down, right, right, up, left, left, left. Right pipe puts Rufus behind Cletus: lift the access card, antidote to the professor, lift, card. Terminal by the lift; Goal and Ulysses’ flat, bathroom; Goal passes, run to the terminal (timer): lift camera, intercom, she leaves. Lift keypad twice, Ronny offers the fun zone: ball pit, hit five children; pool, click fast for bubbles; golf, 5000 max, power on the bar, direction in the green; racing, hold the mushroom until 9,999 (achievement: almost 10,000). Rewind to the bathroom. Take Ulysses’ helmet, tongs by the fire, tongs on the piano for a white key, monster slippers by the door; walk round for Tanner and Hennah. Lift to the airlocks: mallet, lizard skin off the pipe, talk to the professor in the vent. Mallet on the lift counterweight: free travel. Rest zone, petting zoo: the first Elder; unscrew the red lamp over the chicks; cocktail bar left: fifth hat, the magician’s; second Elder; white key in the Sausage-o-mat for a sausage key; spa up the stairs, third Elder. Council zone: sixth hat, police, in the tree; the fourth Elder; take the drink, fish a plastic ball from the pool, infrared lamp into his bedside lamp, straw and reflector from the floor, sausage key on the lamp for a red key, balls on it for molten plastic. Red key into the lift’s empty slot: the computer core; reflector plus straw is a foil hat; rip the PC’s wiring, hat on the hard drive, explain: 10,000 fun registered; skin in the scanner: data carrier 01.

Cocktail bar Elder wants drink and food: glass from the counter, blender: big glass into the blender; small glass with fish into the empty big glass; some blender into the big glass with fish; big glass with fish into the empty small one; small glass without fish into the blender; it blends; offer it; then the giant grub into the blender, red button (achievement: drinks first, grub after), mince into the Sausage-o-mat, sausage to him, ask him to Council. Spa Elder: slippers on his back, then molten plastic, click his back for black hair. Hennah trades it for three patterns; scan them: the sabre-striped bear’s DNA and two non-biological; Rufus’s hand scans as clown clone. Three cartridges: monitor, bear, humanoid; test them in the zoo drum and hear the Elder. The jackalope generator: cartridges in the two slots, buttons for extremity, mood, hair, build, colour. Achievement 1001 jackalopes: all 243 combinations, three per visit, 81 visits, changing one parameter each visit and cycling the others every third, ninth and twenty-seventh (keep the cartridge order identical every time, never change build since the label matches it); or use a save. Required pets: monitor 01 left, bear 03 right, change positions 2, 3 and 5 on the right: a small, gentle, fluffy striped pet; cartridge 01 in the drum, the Elder promises to attend. Clown 02 left, 03 right, swap positions 3 and 4: a bright clown with a hat, for the bar (03 under the stage); the third, an angry yellow mid-sized pawed masseur, 02 into the computer core slot, switch. All three rooms are wrecked and empty; from the spa left into the sauna: collect sweat from both neighbours, rub your torso (coal dries you out); ladle coals onto the fat man’s towel five times (achievement); his bracelet on the grille, coals again, the grille flies: through the duct to the Council: the terminal minigame, lower every coloured button on three levels: 3-2-4-5-1; 4-5-1-3-2; 1-3-5-2-4 (achievement: all Elysium minigames). Take the code note, read it aloud, rewind to the bathroom. Helmet, run to the terminal before the timer ends, helmet on it, next, handset, intercom, “If you don’t agree I’ll start the self-destruct”, self-destruct, enter code; the lift opens on Fewlocks; feel for the button left of the door, then the arrow to jump.

Chapter 4: park of the forgotten period

Click Goal’s hand (achievement). Junk knights, the seer chiselling commandments (seventh hat, executioner masks); the entrance: camera and mechanical arm (leave them), the turbaned seer, take the ball polisher and bowling ball; square: the ducks are out of reach; bridge of love: the two hosts need a couple’s photo for the boat, sausage voucher; click the dolphin skeleton (achievement), grab the purple tentacle five times (achievement). Sausage-bot: voucher, then “But I want a sausage” until exhausted (achievement), then “Could you check again?”, pull its fuse; game machine: take the throttle limiter, fuse in, left, activate, grab the mallet and hit the strength tester, the claw picks up plates; right, activate, they magnetise; right, activate, the ducks come: magnetic rod. Middle walkway to the roller coaster: gingerbread heart, watercolours, the drain hides a key, rod on it; key on the ticket booth: eighth hat, paper; coins, brake lever, climb the rails, the professor will not jump, take the morning star after three clicks; four coins in the gum machine: three gum balls, the ring rolls off to a wombat. Tunnel of love: the magazine from the bin (talk to the seer and the hosts first if refused); Goal declines a photo; gum on the ball, paint it; show the seer the magazine, take the orange cloth: a fake Goal head; junk knight trades a retro magazine; limiter into the auto-shutter, head in, shoot: photo one; bite the heart’s letters off, heart on the head, photo two; star, photo three. Seer: retro magazine, then the polisher on his head, the hat magazine, then any fake photo, he goes into trance; camera on him. Show the chiselling seer the photo, temporal jetlag: hammer and chisel, gift him the paints; recruit the legionnaires against the wombat; save; mirror maze: glass shard, only Rufus hurts it; five hits with the squad alive (achievement), and reload for the squad-dies version (achievement): the unicorn ring. Arm onto the fake Goal, ring on it; chisel the professor off the coaster; he presses the shutter: photo four (achievement: all photos). Boat of love.

Chapter 5: martyr of science

Lecture in the professor’s place: open the platypus cage, take the bucket, basket under the desk, basket on the platypus, onto the hamster wheel: an ordinary anomaly. Umbrella left of the door; outside the goat by the left flag, weeds by the wall, ninth hat, horned; notice board (read), flag switch up and down until the goat has jumped enough (achievement). Show the students the breakfast note: fresh sandwich; right door, up the tower, right click the scaffolding (achievement), basket on it; fresh bread is wrong, anomaly makes it stale, bait: the albino platypus, onto the wheel: intermediate-time simulation; the bell; umbrella on the wheel. Dean’s office: pipe from the wall, bird sticker off the window, glass shards; pipe plus weeds for the dean, take the lab key; the trashball players; lab: bucket on the bronze tap, waste oil. The students examine the time machine: it needs feta for tachyons and 4D glasses. Oil down the tower chute; lift the lecture chair for gum, into the dean’s ashtray, nicotine gum to him, take the denture cream; switch, the goat slips on the oil into the trap; the allergic player drops his nose glasses; glasses plus shards plus cream: 4D glasses; touch the goat: feta; into the tank; glasses show a portal; click the tank three times; outside, glasses, the udder glows; the portal is small, tank twice, a bigger one under the carpet. Fetch Goal, pick up the photo of Goal with a fake Rufus.

Chapter 6: Paradox City

The farmer is a former student. Square: Rocco McChronicle, the grandfather; the parked time car; the cafe: Rita wants a ring, Ungh the Neanderthal trades herbs for stone-age art, the young traveller is out of Fewlock ribs, the old one waits for rib soup, the toilet traveller needs a laxative, old Vince needs a portal map; eat a peanut, the peanuts are sentient and want a reason to die; press the jukebox until it plays (achievement). Stairs behind the cafe to the Elysium cluster: skeletons across the moat, a guard forbids the bridge; containers. Between town hall and workshop: the professor, the broken churn, the farmhouse with old and young Goal, the portals vanish; take the unfinished sculpture, the battery platypus, the hairbrush. Rocco trades the churn for a cylinder head. Building site: the architect, the builder with a hat magazine, sculpture down the borehole, round stone, siren (timer): run to the cluster, platypus into the containers, lever, grab a skeleton, back. Ribs to the young traveller for soup, soup to the old one; again, soup plus hairbrush, and the young one replaces him: his car key. Stone to Ungh: laxative to the toilet man, used banknotes from the floor buy toast and milk. Ask Rita about Rocco, tell Rocco someone likes him; he needs a ring and a tailcoat; tell Rita again; peanuts: “For love”, “I want to marry Rita and Rocco”. Car key, the car dies, one cylinder missing: head plus peanuts, plus milk, onto the engine: peanut butter, onto the toast. Architect wants proof; builder trades the sandwich for the hat magazine (turbans next season); show it: portal map to Vince, ride to the deterministic future: the seer, Vince, the crystal ball, ask about hats, “Hat fashion. Again.” until he reads; take the crystal ball; the gravedigger swaps jobs if you can dig: shovel on the sharp junk, sheet off the corpse, his suit is Rocco’s tailcoat, paint; the ball is a portable portal: reach through for the drill, drill the ball, paint it, bowl it: the seer forgets. Paradox City wedding: suit to Rocco, ring from the fake Goal’s finger on the planning table, to Rocco. Button, confirm: Lost Time, Momed the legionnaire, broken clock hands, crossbow from the tent, hands in it, dip it in the pond under the capsule: tachyon bolts; click the capsule, shoot the portal ring, through. Ruined Paradox City: Rocco married Goal; unicorn ring by the skeletons, tenth hat, space helmets; ring on the jukebox; the farm, the small portal to the frozen lab, take your 4D glasses, shoot the right-hand portal; back in, shoot the bean jar three times, jukebox opens it, beans on frozen Strudel, they fall through, shoot the right portal, enter: the lab alive, half an hour later; the tachyon key, fix the valves through the small portal, pump, jump. Stop the wedding, show Goal the bolts, follow her; glasses, two portals, open the one over the hill, follow, jump; Rocco on the tower refuses the bridge; Goal distracts, shoot, jump to Elysium: Ronny clones the masseur daily, that is the Fewlocks; “You have no hat, Ronny”, “Silly hat”, the paper plane: foil hats are fourth; shoot the foil hat, jump; between worlds shoot again, water floods you into the desert, shoot again; ruined city, crowbar left, garage, no capsule, the crossbow is drained; car key: the engine’s butter is tachyon cheese, crossbow on it; glasses, floor portal, through with Goal: a blooming desert, eleventh hat, pirate; hill portal, city portal, Elysium portal, between-worlds portal; legion camp, glasses, shoot, Paradox City: Rocco and Rita in the car. Team tank build by screen number and item: 4 roll, 4 pliers, 2 table, 3 switch, 1 bench, 3 tyres, 1 coupling, tape, file, pipe, screwdriver, 2 crate, 2 wrench, 2 tools, 2 capsule, 2 hole, 2 engine, 2 wrench, 2 saw, 3 fridge, 3 can, 3 armour, 3 chips, 2 torch, 2 hammer. Drive out, glasses, aim, click the tank part, through: the elephant’s lair under Kuvaq (achievement).

Chapter 7: countdown

Out a shaft, watch your UFO leave; behind the villagers down to the burning chronomobile: the Utopians; offer to turn the crank; kick the Nothing-o-mat, limiter in place of the amplifier (or into the socket), crank. Caves again, right shaft, click the capsule fast; hit by the chronomobile; the professor’s suicide. Left towards Kuvaq: a second Rufus. The Utopians will wipe one Rufus and freeze the other. Kick their machine, talk to Tuck: “Tuck, can you hear me?”, “You must beat the Utopians”, “On three”, “Me”; kick again, call Tuck, click the inverter before Rufus headbutts it (achievement). Click fast to be pulled up. Ice-age Kuvaq: stand still until the countdown ends (achievement); round the Chill-o-mat, the snowed-in chronomobile, crank. Balloon: replay the start, glasses, wrap, out.

Chapter 8: total recall

The pink elephant in the living room; corridor right, goat milk from the lovers’ step, round and back into the capsule (timer): button, confirm, right-select four times, confirm twice: Goal’s home when she was small (timer): TV on, panel left of the lower ramp, milk inside; swap the cello book from the table with the piano book on the floor; talk to little Goal, her lollipop into Ulysses’ lunchbox; twelfth hat, the house hat, on the rack. Bathroom: denture cream and glasses; the loop brings two bottles of milk back (timer): panel, goat cheese, milk on cheese (achievement: paradox); tongs, pull the clock hands, bow by the capsule, push the vase, shards, cream plus shards plus glasses: 4D glasses; bathroom, portal over the toilet; bow plus hands plus cheese: tachyon bow; shoot, enter, run. Minigame: fall into three portals first (achievement), then shoot the approaching portals and dodge the open ones. When the elephant stares into the portal click the junk plate fast, then the pipe; into the capsule: “No, not this time”, “You have to let go”, “None”. The ending (achievement: everything returns).