Undertale reached its 10-year milestone in 2025, however the sport’s expanded universe continues to thrive. Undertale’s spinoff title, Deltarune, has launched 4 chapters thus far, together with Chapters 3 & 4 in 2025. The following installment, Deltarune: Chapter 5, is deliberate for a 2026 launch.
Creator and developer Toby Fox offered an replace on Chapter 5’s growth in his current quarterly winter e-newsletter. Here’s what he shared:
Progress goes excellently!
We have now begun the localization course of! We extracted the textual content from the sport… 8-4 and I annotated all the textual content with notes for the translator. After localization reaches its closing phases, we’ll start testing with an expert testing crew.
We additionally want to look at how the sport operates on consoles. We’ll start thinking about that in January.
If I needed to give a practical estimate, I imagine that it’ll take a number of months to launch the sport from the place we at the moment are.
It feels loopy to say this although solely 6 months in the past you guys solely had Chapters 1 and a pair of, however in just a few months, a lot of the crew will most likely already be focusing their consideration on Chapter 6…
Up to now, every Deltarune chapter has had its personal distinct gameplay options and storytelling fashion. Toby Fox stays tight-lipped on any Chapter 5 options, characters, or story. There aren’t any official screenshots or trailers that showcase any gameplay footage. Given his earlier successes, it’s onerous to think about that this subsequent installment received’t be one other exceptional addition to the franchise.
For these but to expertise Deltarune, try Aleks Franiczek’s evaluations of the first two chapters and most current two chapters. For all Undertale-associated information because it occurs, look no additional than RPGFan!
Deltarune Screenshots (Chapters 1-4)
