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DELTARUNE News
2025
April 2
⚫︎ Toby Fox’s DELTARUNE Chapters 1-4 is set to launch alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025, bringing players deeper into its parallel story to UNDERTALE. This release marks the debut of Chapters 3 and 4, continuing the adventure beyond what players have previously experienced.
March 14
⚫︎ As the Steam Spring Sale commenced in for March 2025, DELTARUNE'S predecessor, UNDERTALE, was brought down to merely $1, allowing people who have yet to experience the original game the chance to do so in its most accessible state.
March 11
⚫︎ Toby Fox reveals that those who have held onto the character-flavored teas that can be obtained in Chapter 2 will given a surprise when they start Chapter 3, as any unconsumed teas will be turned into Rotten Teas, presumably as a gag relating to the length of time between chapters.
March 4
⚫︎ Toby Fox shares an uplifting update that the day before his post, they team only received one bug report, compared to the over 500 when they commenced bug testing on the PlayStation 5. As per his words, he likens the squashing of bugs as the team "slurping the last drops of soda from between the ice cubes now."
February 25
⚫︎ For the fourth straight week, Toby Fox updates his current BlueSky updates thread and provides news testing for the PlayStation 5 has commenced. They had also fixed a bug where wearing a hat previously crashed the game.
February 17
⚫︎ On the third consecutive Sunday update on his BlueSky account, Toby Fox updates fans that console testing is going smoothly, where he teases a seeminly new character named 'Pluey.'
February 11
⚫︎ Toby Fox shares on BlueSky that he has had family members and friend play through some DELTARUNE minigames, in which they proceed to tell him that they look to be "a cry for help but in a good way."
February 3
⚫︎ Toby Fox provides an update on the Bluesky social media website that Chapter 4's translation is almost finished for the PC, and that they will be commencing testing for consoles the day after.
January 7
⚫︎ TobyFox shared an update on his Twitter/X and Bluesky accounts, stating that DELTARUNE Chapter 4 is now undergoing bug-testing on the PC, where its release will follow soon after.
2024
August 1
⚫︎ After years of waiting for the upcoming chapters of 3 & 4, Toby Fox has confirmed that the pending chapter 4 is close to being completed. He mentions how the chapter is in its finishing touches with polishing, where its maps and battles are all set, with only a few tweaks needed left. In the meanwhile, Chapter 3 has been finished for quite some time, and he plans to release both paid chapters simultaneously across platforms, which he explains is the major reason development has been bumpy, as they have to "take the extra time to make sure it’s perfect."
2021
December 23
⚫︎ Heidi Kemps from Gamespot goes into an available alternative route in DELTARUNE’S Chapter 2, where, as typical for Toby Fox games, allows players to either get through all combat encounters with pacifism, or absolute victory by defeating all monsters. The article goes into a deep dive of the ‘Snowgrave’ route, wherein the new character, Noelle, can be forced to freeze all of the Queen’s subjects, slowly transforming the shy and timid party member into a subservient mage at the players’ biddings.
2018
November 3
⚫︎ A few days after the sudden reveal of DELTARUNE, creator Toby Fox took to a twitlonger post to clarify for fans what the game truly is, advising how fans should try to not associate the new game with UNDERTALE, as doing so "&could actually hurt the experience for them." He reassures UNDERTALE fans that both worlds are entirely separate, "Undertale world and ending are the same as however you left them. If everyone was happy in your ending, the people in the Undertale world will still be happy."
