The spiritual successor to Undertale keeps every promise: sharp writing, masterful music and livelier battles. The episodic format frustrates with the wait between chapters, yet each drop is a small event.
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RPG1 player12+
Description
An episodic RPG by Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, whose first chapters landed on Switch in 2025. Kris, Susie and Ralsei traverse a dreamlike Dark World in turn-based battles laced with bullet-hell dodging. Humor, melancholy and unforgettable music extend the Undertale universe without repeating it.
Deltarune review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
MAX
Story
★★★★★
"Masterful"
Toby Fox composes the soundtrack himself with wild inventiveness: leitmotifs that echo across chapters, galvanizing boss themes and pieces of disarming emotion. The music is inseparable from the game's identity and haunts the memory long after.
Toby Fox marries absurd comedy and sudden gravity with rare ease: a joke can tip into existential vertigo in a single line. The writing defines each character through voice alone, and distills a mystery about fate and control that gives every chapter a density far beyond its length.
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Battles blend turn-based play and bullet-hell dodging: each fight asks you to read patterns while choosing to spare or strike. This hybrid, richer than Undertale, makes the gameplay as surprising as it is rewarding to master.
The bosses are showstoppers: each has a personality, its own lines and a bullet-hell pattern that reads like choreography. You can spare or defeat them, and that moral choice gives every confrontation a resonance far beyond simple challenge.
When the game breaks the 4th wall
The game breaks the fourth wall with mischief: it knows your name, comments on your save files, speaks directly to the player and separates the character you inhabit from the will that drives them. These ruptures, inherited from Undertale, aren't gimmicks but the very heart of its message about control and choice.
A questionable morality
Under its humor, the game probes free will: how much do our choices matter when a voice keeps pushing a darker path? Sparing or striking is never trivial, and the game watches the player as much as it lets them act, sowing a moral doubt that grows with every chapter.
