Daedalic is running a big Steam sale and you can grab Deponia for free

German studio Daedalic Entertainment is running a big Steam sale, and as a headliner, you can grab the first Deponia for free – until March 16.

Daedalic was once widely regarded as the rightful heir to LucasArts' point-and-click throne, and for good reason – the studio's catalog has plenty of genuinely solid entries in the genre. Deponia, released in 2012, is one of its best-known works. It's a slapstick farce with a heavy streak of absurdism, where the protagonist Rufus – a deeply unlikable guy with no particular charm or wit – tries to rescue a woman who has fallen from an orbital utopian space station into his literal garbage dump of a world.

Think Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, except Rufus has none of the coyote's charisma or intellect, and the unpleasant outcomes just keep piling up. The sequels fall off pretty sharply and are hard to recommend, but the original holds up well – and right now it costs nothing.

The broader publisher sale has some serious deals across the rest of the catalog too. Night of the Rabbit – arguably one of the best things Daedalic ever made – is 90% off at $2.49. For $2 each you can pick up the grim fantasy adventure The Dark Eye: Memoria and the wonderfully unhinged Edna and Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes. Chains of Satinav, another solid entry in the Dark Eye universe, is the same price – it doesn't quite reach Memoria's heights, but two bucks is two bucks. Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, The Whispered World Special Edition, and its follow-up Silence are all in that same price range as well.

Everything runs until March 16.