If you played Undertale, you have to play Deltarune

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Last week, Subtitle designer Toby Fox released a new free game called Deltaruneand you may wonder if it's worth it. Well yes. Yes, that's it. If you liked Subtitle even a little bit, you really should go play Deltarune AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

We do not know if Deltarune is a prequel, a sequel or a version of an alternate universe of Subtitle. (As you may have heard, the two names are anagrams suggesting parallel worlds.) What we do know is that it contains a lot of identical characters, that's all. he explores similar themes and ends with a cliffhanger with wild implications for both games. . It's as charming, funny and punchy as Subtitleand I urge you to check it.

Well, you should play Subtitle first. If you do not do it, what do you do?

The soundtrack should be a sufficient selling point. Subtitle It was a great game made awesome by his incredible music, all composed by Fox, who uses leitmotifs to play with your emotions and evoke feelings of warmth and friendship. (See this in-depth analysis for a lot more about this.) Deltarune play with similar themes and you can experience many influences from JRPG music from the old school while you play.

The current playable version of Deltarune is chapter one of what promises to be a much bigger story. It's technically a demo, but it's meaty, about two hours long and full of secrets. It plays a lot like Subtitleexcept that, instead of fighting monsters yourself, you fight alongside party members, giving rise to interesting mechanical and narrative twists that I will not spoil. You play as a character named Kris who enters a closet that turns out to be a tunnel leading to an underground world. Shenanigans ensue.

Hardcore fans have already started to spot all the links between Deltarune and Subtitle. Here is a personal favorite: in Subtitle, released in 2015, you can actually find a room where a dog (Toby Fox's avatar) is working on a new mystery game – a room with a door that carries a "delta rune".

The bad news is that we will wait a long time for the whole story. Fox said on Twitter last week that he planned to form a team to finish Deltarune-Because ending this demo took him "a few years" -but he has not hired anyone yet, so it'll take a long time.