Deltarune Chapter 5 Progressing “Excellently”, Still “Several Months” Away From Release

Toby Fox has released the latest installment of the Undertale newsletter, which includes an update about Deltarune Chapter 5.

In the letter, Fox shares a progress update on the Chapter, which is proceeding excellently with many key aspects already finished and playable. He estimates that realistically, it will still be a few months before it is ready for release. He also teases that the dev team will probably be moving on to working on Chapter 6 in a few months.

You can read the relevant section of the newsletter below:

Progress is going excellently!

We have begun the localization process! We extracted the text from the game… 8-4 and I annotated all of the text with notes for the translator.

After localization reaches its final stages, we will begin testing with a professional testing team.

We also need to examine how the game operates on consoles. We will start considering that in January.

If I had to give a realistic estimate, I believe that it will take several months to release the game from where we are now.

It feels crazy to say this even though only 6 months ago you guys only had Chapters 1 and 2, but in a few months, much of the team will probably already be focusing their attention on Chapter 6…

A FEW MORE DETAILS

• All the rooms in the game are more or less done, minus polish to the backgrounds.
• Almost all the scenes in the game are complete. A single digit amount of them need visual polish.
• Most of the battles in the game are done, except for a couple. These unfinished battles function from beginning to end, but need adjustments to their pacing and bullet patterns to be considered complete.

The game contains hours of fun!

The full newsletter contains a lot more behind the scenes info about Deltarune and a few more sneak peeks, and you can check it out here.

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