- Playtest ends tomorrow (13th September) - 12 September 2026
Heyho everyone, Just a quick heads up: The Playtest will be closed tomorrow (13th September) evening around 7pm CEST. If you want to get in a few more hours of playtime - now is the moment - but don't be afraid to miss out on anything. Everyone who is signed up/taking part in the playtest right now, will stay on the list for future playtests as well. Best Regards and thanks for taking part in our testrun + survey! Daedalic Entertainment & AtomicTorch Studio
- Playtest is re-opened! - 14 August 2026
Heyho everyone! As some of you might have already seen in our Late Night Show(case), Penta had to sugarcoat his own mistakes and thus, promised to open up our recent playtest again…. … Well, now we gotta do it, right?...The playtest is officially re-opened! We are additionally aiming to deliver new content for another playtest, later this year - so don’t worry too much if you 100%-ed the playtest already. (Pssst - if you want to brush up on your lore-knowledge again, we have heard a rumor there might be the first Deponia Game for free right now….) Please take your time as well to fill out the Playtest Survey if you haven't already before - your feedback helps us bring the game to the best version it can be. Until then! AtomicTorch & Daedalic
- New Look, New Show - Still Daedalic - 6 August 2026
Heyho everyone, The recent years have been an exciting journey for us. We've welcomed incredible indie developers, published games across all kinds of genres, and continued to grow alongside the amazing communities, like yourself. Today, we're excited to share the next step in that journey. Over the past two decades, we have grown from a game developer into an international publisher working with talented indie studios from around the world. While a lot has changed, one thing hasn't: our passion for unique games and the people who create them. To reflect who we are today - and where we're heading next - we're introducing our new visual identity. The iconic feather remains part of our logo as a nod to our history, while our updated colors, typography, and overall design give us a cleaner and more modern look that better represents the diverse games and developers we work with. But a new…
- End of Playtest - 27 April 2026
Heyho everyone,Normally we would start with saying that we hope that you enjoyed our playtest - which is ending right now after 4 weeks of runtime - but thanks to your great participation in our survey, we already know how you feel - very clearly. Almost 600 of you answered our survey - that is a rough participation rate of 18% - which, if you know a little bit about online-surveys, is an exceptional rate. Thanks again for your dedication and warm embrace! Now it is time for us to go back into our tinkering-cave and transform your feedback into meaningful changes, adjustments and refinements. Obviously it won’t be possible to tackle each and every thought you had after playing - but there are some clear focus points that shine through most of the answers.(The rule of 3 says that it’s funny when we thank you again, right?!)So thanks again \awkward pause for laughter] for your participati…
- Closed Beta Playtest Start - 30 March 2026
Heyho everyone, the time has finally come - our Surviving Deponia Closed Beta Playtest is starting today! We are incredibly excited to open the doors and let you take the first look at our newest narrative-driven survival experience. Over the past months, the team has put a tremendous amount of work into shaping the game’s systems, flow, and storytelling - and now it’s your turn to jump in and help us make it even better. Playtest Access & Rollout Starting today, the playtest will be gradually rolled out to all selected participants. If you signed up and were selected, you will receive a notification via Steam once the build is available for you to download. Please note that access may not unlock for everyone at the exact same time - we are releasing it in waves to ensure stability. Additionally to Keyboard and Mouse, Steam Deck and Controller support is integrated. For controller we re…
- Closed Beta Playtest ahead! - 13 March 2026
Heyho everyone, It has been a while since we reached out the last time - we know - though, considering what we are preparing for you right now, we hope that you can forgive us in some way: We want to invite you to our first official closed beta test for Surviving Deponia, our newest narrative-driven Survival spectacle! In the past months we have put blood, sweat and a looots of tears into the game, made decisions, eventually changed those decisions again and reworked chunks of the general game flow. Obviously, the fine tuning ahead of us is redundant if we don’t listen to you, our dedicated Deponia Community, that supported us through all those years. This is why starting 30th of march, we will have our Surviving Deponia Closed Beta Playtest running. You will be able to play the first area of the game and get familiar with the gameplay and storyline. Afterwards we would appreciate it if…
- Secret Leak #3 - 2 September 2024
Day ... - I don't know anymore how long I am stuck here. I am still hiding between the walls of the Daedalic office to bring you the newest leaks. Murmuring between the desks has indicated that the development will take until 2025 - I have heard the words "voice acting" and "high quality, hand drawn cinematics" being thrown around, as well as "console version" - seems everyone is in good faith, though - they laugh around a lot. This summer heat is driving me insane though - and the critters in the walls make a big circle around me since I ran out of food reserves - I'm not sure how long I still can keep this up for you - send help! Signed, A (slowly being cooked) Friend
- Secret Leak #2 - 24 July 2024
Day 52 - I've been hidden for roughly two months now. My bones are aching, but it is all worth it. It's been now almost 2 months since I hid myself in the Daedalic Office to share the newest leaks with you - they STILL didn't find me. They found out though that something is up - they stocked up on guards - and now they are even armed. I will need to be more careful - take this for now: Hopefully I'm not suffering the same fate as this old geezer... Signed, A Friend
- Secret Teaser Leak - 26 June 2024
Day 34 in the walls of the Daedalic Office. They still didnt find me. I've been able to hear enthralling sounds and melodies from another planet for a while now - some even spark memories of long forgotten tales. But do you hear those noises, dear... friend? I think I'm going to snap - all this clickedy-clickedy-clickedy-clap! I've got to go, someone is coming again - Here take this! Signed, A Friend
- Change of Path - 29 November 2023
Heyho everyone, It's been some time since you heard from us and the questions are becoming louder and louder again - here we are to deliver at least some of the answers! Surviving Deponia's development process is thriving more and more and even though we soon-ish would be at the point of being able to start the Early Access period, our gathered feedback and planning of the development process led to the revelation that this is not the path that we want to go. Let us elaborate a bit more: One of the most pressing reasons there could ever be, is, that you, the community, voiced relatively frequently that you would prefer a 1.0 Full Release rather than an Early Access - but this is not the only reason: On the more technical side, when generating the story for Surviving Deponia the outline and plot were easy to finalize, but getting more and more in depth with the individual corner points o…
- Frequently Asked Questions - 13 June 2023
Heyho everyone, we just revealed that we are opening up the books of Deponia again and the reactions have been as expected - very loud. It fills us with joy, that after all those years our community is still that dedicated - you rock! We were aware as well that there will be a lot of questions in the beginning so this is our first step to answer the most burning ones: “Is this a Poki- Game? Where is he?” No, Jan “Poki” Baumann is not with Daedalic Entertainment since roughly 2019 and is concentrating his creative outbursts into his music - you can check out and support him and his band over at their bandcamp site. Even though Poki is inevitably bound together with the titles of Deponia (and more), it was a culmination of several people who brought it to life in the form that we all love to play even years after their initial release. Surviving Deponia is created by people telling a new…
- Daedalic turns one of its classic point-and-click adventures into a life-and-death survival game, and it feels a little weird - 10 June 2023
new Deponia game was unveiled today at the Future Games Show, called Surviving Deponia . But unlike the previous games in the series—all comedic point-and-click adventures—this one is a "story-driven survival" game where you'll "Explore, craft, build and fight your way through the harsh landscape of Deponia.".. Read more.
