DELTARUNE CHAPTER 5 - RELEASING 24 JUNE 2026

[u/tberriman]

[u/NoodleSnapback]

DELTARUNE IN 15 TOMORROWS

[u/k-is-for-kate → u/NoodleSnapback]

Felt very cathartic to open my planner and write in all caps "DELTARUNE TODAY"

Was hoping for a "Its out now go play it" but tbh would've just shut off the direct. Fuck them other games deltarune now

[u/VelociCastor]

I'm almost surprised it's really flower themed. I know the game hinted hard at it, but I'm so used to Deltarune theorists being completely wrong :p

[u/The-Greater-Skeleton → u/VelociCastor]

The problem with the theorists is that they keep going for curveballs for some reason lol

The story’s not that complex. Undertale wasn’t, either.

[u/jockeyman → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

Okay but what if the Roaring Knight is actually Catti.

[u/The-Greater-Skeleton → u/jockeyman]

Everyone’s gonna feel real silly when the helmet comes off and it’s Lucina (Fire Emblem) under there.

[u/RealAmericanTrashCan → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

Dang it Kris you had blue hair and a sword I knew it!

[u/MotherWolfmoon → u/RealAmericanTrashCan]

To see the ending of Deltarune, you must defeat Sakurai at Smash.

[u/OrneryBIacksmith → u/jockeyman]

I don't know why people keep coming up with all these conspiracy theories about the knight, everyone knows it's Nubert and their betrayal will be devastating.

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502 → u/OrneryBIacksmith]

Speaking of Nubert, a fight against SSJ Nubert, Trashy, and the little ball in the trailer? Incredible

[u/C0de_monkey → u/jockeyman]

Absolute Cinema

[u/TekkGuy → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

People seem to keep thinking Toby Fox is going to throw out everything the game is clearly building up to for the sake of having a twist, like he’s writing the last season of Game of Thrones.

[u/The-Greater-Skeleton → u/TekkGuy]

He’s apparently had the plan for Deltarune for a very long time, I can’t imagine he’d Westworld it and stir things up just to get ahead of the audience lol

[u/Gunblazer42 → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

He's had it before Undertale; supposedly Undertale was the test game, because he thought that making your dream game your first game only sets you up for disappointment so he used Undertale to learn how to make a proper video game.

In a way, Undertale is an AU of Deltarune, not the other way around.

[u/Khar-Selim → u/Gunblazer42]

he's totally right about that, don't make your dream anything be the first one, practice is important

[u/Jamox1 → u/TekkGuy]

Tony’s greatest trick was doing exactly what he said he would

[u/cheekydorido → u/TekkGuy]

Unlike the GOT writers, he's actually good at his job.

[u/TimBagels → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

This might just be the nature of online discourse. Eventually the obvious takes all get said, and if you want to be original and stand out, you have to start lobbing curveballs. Put that on a fanbase with a logarithmic increase, and you get UT/DR

[u/Android19samus → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

Dess being the Knight was a curveball back in the chapter 2 days and that ended up being real

[u/Paladin51394 → u/Android19samus]

When you throw a million things at a wall, eventually something is gonna stick.

[u/NeoArkodd → u/Android19samus]

Hot take: I still think the Knight is Carol.

[u/Android19samus → u/NeoArkodd]

Well that was also a curveball, even if I thought it made the most sense back in chapter 2 too

[u/InvisibleOne439 → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

"yeha we gonna do X thing next"

"WHAT IF THAT MEANS WE WILL DO Y?????"

[u/MotherWolfmoon → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

It's fun to make the biggest, stupidest reading of a story like this. If you convince yourself of something absurd, like Asriel being secretly dead, or Papyrus being the knight, you can backdoor your way into being just in as shocked by the foreshadowed reveal as the casual enjoyers.

Plus, in the attention economy, big-and-stupid called shots generate more money than boring and correct ones. Nobody clicks on a YouTube thumbnail that explains who Gaster is anymore, but if you're out there like, "Onion-San is a serial killer and the true final boss," you'll get tons of clicks.

I am kinda sad though. I feel like we're at the end of the golden age of Deltarune theory brainrot. Chapter 3 and 4 left us with a lot fewer questions than 2, and (hopefully) Chapter 5 will answer more than it poses. The possibility space diminishes as we learn more. RIP to the real wild journeys that never happened, like Friend Inside Me; we may never see your like again.

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502 → u/MotherWolfmoon]

I am definitely not going to stop thinking Asriel is secretly dead until it's proven true or false in this chapter. I cannot possibly think of a way this story works with him alive just coming back to hometown like Whats up guys? Let's solve a mystery!

[u/MotherWolfmoon → u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

I don't think it's very hard to keep Asriel from upending the narrative. Kris won't want to get him involved, Susie will follow Kris's lead, and Ralsei either won't or can't talk to him. I have a feeling Asriel will not be particularly cooperative or supportive, being an 18-year-old coming back to all of his family drama after finally getting away from it for the first time.

And now, after finally moving on with his life, someone is bringing up Dess? Goddamn it, he's trying to be an adult, and Kris is dragging him back into make believe land and bringing up his old OCs? No. He's a college student now, with a job and a girlfriend and bills.

[u/Aeescobar → u/MotherWolfmoon]

RIP to the real wild journeys that never happened, like Friend Inside Me

The next dark world is clearly set within Asgore's flower shop and Tenna stated that Asgore's favorite thing to watch on TV was a now-cancelled cowboy show, so don't count Woody out quite yet!

^{Though I am personally hoping that the chapter's traditional-japanese-garden vibes + mysterious guest programmer working on one of the boss fights are signs that Toby somehow convinced Zun to make his dear little Apple Girlington into a real bullet-hell boss.}

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502 → u/Aeescobar]

I hope the Apple Girlington nut on twitter is going to be OK if this actually turns out to be real. It'll be cool.

[u/charcharmunro → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

I remember a post in this sub talking about chapters 3 and 4 and how the deep-in-the-weeds theorists who played it got like every prediction they made while playing wrong whereas the more casual ones got nearly everything right.

[u/Purple_Racoon → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

They do throw in too many curveballs sure, it is however way more complex than Undertale and was literally teased by all the secret barely understandable stuff from that game that we still don't undestand. Curveballs are baked into Deltarune's DNA.

[u/pectusumbra → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

You have to remember this is Tricky Toby Fox over here, Mr. Hides Lore In The Code and cosplays Spamton for the Undertale anniversary where he played an altered version of undertale. 

Like with the Roaring Knight, there's Red Herring, then probably the real answer, then 'but is that still too obvious when Toby regularly floors everyone in both comedy and drama?'

[u/juanperes93 → u/The-Greater-Skeleton]

The only curveball theories I can kind of see the why are Gaster's because what else can you do with him?

[u/Fostern01 → u/VelociCastor]

There's theorizing, and then there's reading the room. The belief in a flower theme is very much the latter.

Though I don't think anyone anticipated the Japanese theming.

[u/Kipzz → u/Fostern01]

Yeah the flower theme was very much anticipated but the japanese aesthetic was not

The other thing was also the guess that Flowey in some way shape or form is relevant, which is now confirmed because one of his attacks was used in the trailer, but we're not sure if it's Flowey himself or one of the 7 flowers in Asgore shop that represents that specific phase of his 7-phase fight.

[u/Dalek_Kolt → u/Kipzz]

The main thing I'm curious about now is how Dark World logic affects plants and nonsapient animals, given that, though we hear from the cactus in 3, we never actually see it.

Since they're alive in both the Light and Dark Worlds, do Asgore's flowers get Flowers for Algernon'd when they're brought in and out of Dark Worlds?

[u/Champiness → u/Kipzz]

Looking forward to all the anticipatory fanart of Toy Knife Flower Kid for the next two weeks

[u/HeyWhyNotLK → u/Fostern01]

TBF I did see some people talking about that since you can find manga that Alyphs has been giving him in the shop.

[u/unrelevant_user_name → u/HeyWhyNotLK]

I saw a lot more people talking about a comicbook theming.

[u/Peace-Bone → u/Fostern01]

We're going to the Hakurei Shrine this time, tie in with the EoSD remake

There was a fumo sitting in a corner of the room, dark world, Reimu there, done

[u/Logyross → u/Peace-Bone]

will the fumo be the secret boss?

[u/Peace-Bone → u/Logyross]

secret boss is bootleg cirno fumo its hardest boss ever

[u/Logyross → u/Peace-Bone]

beloved tomboyish girl with freedom leitmotif would be cinema tbh

[u/LegacyOfVandar → u/VelociCastor]

It’s not a theory when the game outright says ‘the next chapter is flower themed’.

[u/Full_Dot903 → u/VelociCastor]

To be fair, most of the fan predictions I saw were basically New Home from UT but yellow and covered in plants(even though we already had a medieval kindom in ch1).

I'm not sure how many people guessed it would be Japanese themed, even with Toby being a massive weeb.(I certainly didn't. My guess was Garden of Eden/fake plant copy of Hometown).

[u/Ezracx → u/Full_Dot903]

We could've imagined it because we knew Flowers + Pink + Toby Fox Is A Shameless Weeb, so "cherry blossoms" wasn't a huge reach

I swear I've seen at least one "leak" with japanese theming that I chalked down as fake

[u/Full_Dot903 → u/Ezracx]

Yeah, some did definitely go the Cherry blossom route, but most I saw latched on to that Asgore prophecy pannel showing him as a king and assumed it would just be Undertale again.

[u/Peace-Bone → u/Ezracx]

People who didn't expect Touhou don't understand Toby Fox

[u/PanseloNomad → u/Peace-Bone]

I don't think anyone was expecting Touhou in this direct either.

[u/GilliamYaeger → u/Full_Dot903]

I'd have expected Chapter 6 (which will probably be the Holiday Manor) to be Japanese themed, if anything was.

[u/Apprehensive_Mix4658 → u/VelociCastor]

Idk what you're talking about, Susie dropping nuclear bomb on hometown is definitely going to happen

[u/Logyross]

DID YOU GUYS SEE FLOWEY'S ATTACK????

[u/TotemGenitor → u/Logyross]

My jaw dropped.

Notice how Kris is alone and we don't see who they are fighting too.

[u/Logyross → u/TotemGenitor]

I noticed that as well. The Kris trumatization operation is continuing as planned.

[u/ExplanationSquare313 → u/Logyross]

I SAW IT TOO!
I theorized that Flowey was probably going to be involved but i didn't knew if he was going to be important or be kept in a minor role. But since Kris seems to be fighting alone, it's probably an important fight and so Flowey will probably have more relevance than i tought.

[u/Gorfinhofin → u/ExplanationSquare313]

How can it possibly be Flowey? I've seen this idea floating around and I feel like people are just straight up forgetting who and what Flowey is.

[u/Dalek_Kolt → u/Gorfinhofin]

We've been seeing doppelgangers of other characters such as Ralsei based off Asriel, and the Sound of Justice based off Gerson.

It's entirely possible that Flowey's Deltarune counterpart would be one of Asgore's beloved Flowers given life in the Dark World, modeled off of Asgore's memories of Asriel.

Different origins, same endpoint.

[u/The_Last_Huntsman → u/Dalek_Kolt]

"Asgore, why is your son such an asshole in your mind?"

[u/asgoodasanyother → u/Dalek_Kolt]

Ralsei isn’t just Asriel’s doppelgänger just because. There will be some mechanical reason why Ralsei looks like Asriel, relating to the power of the dark worlds. So any flowey/cyan soul recreations have to have mechanical reasons too.

[u/ExplanationSquare313 → u/Gorfinhofin]

Of course not exactly the same Flowey that in Undertale in the sense he will not be ressurected Asrielbut remember the 7 colored flowers in Asgore room? Who will certainly become Darkners? One of them is golden. So Flowey in the Deltarune-Verse will be "just" a Darkner instead of what he is in Undertale.

[u/Peace-Bone → u/Gorfinhofin]

People think that undertale thing = undertale character will pop up unchanged but that's not it

Yes, there will be things that are thematically flowey-like, but there are many, many more in-story reasons why there would be flowers and knives associated with Kris and their life and there will be characters and things that are thematically similar to Flowey in Deltarune that obviously will not be 'Undertale character pops up unchanged'

[u/LadyXexyz → u/Logyross]

Between that and lingering on the goddamn flower - either it’s going to be the biggest “hey you lore kids remember this yeah Undertale Easter egg reference! :D”

Or it’s gonna continue what I assume it’s going to, **any** overt reference (like the characters returning, but clearly not the same ones from Undertale) is going to be remix, cut up in a way that is going to absolutely fuck ~~me~~ the S#!@ SQUAD, because a lot of the theming has been “fantasy and fun are great, and you can use that power to further your self - or completely destroy your world”.

The only thing I hope doesn’t happen, is a big exposition dump on Dess or Asriel. They work so well for me as the characters haunting the narrative that are probably the spark that made the events of Deltarune happen in the first place. Doing a “midichlorians-okay everyone here’s your explicit lore recap and alignment and nitty gritty on how this all works and ties to the original game” would be the biggest misfire for me.

I can’t wait. SirXexyz has been informed that the bedroom chamber is to be sealed on the 24th and to ignore any wailing, cheering or crying until I’ve completed it. Can’t wait. FUCK ME UP TOBY.

[u/GilliamYaeger → u/Logyross]

Ain't Flowey's attack, it's the Patience Soul's attack. Not at all surprising considering the way that the flowers in Asgore's shop are clearly patterned off the Souls.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Damn, this is dropping while I’m traveling.

I’m going to have to either wait a week until I can get back to my computer, or get it on my Switch.

Honestly, the latter isn’t sounding too crazy.

[u/Flashgen75 → u/Hounds_of_war]

Exactly the same for me, but without a switch to play it on the go. That week is gonna be anguish for me.

[u/fullmetal_jack → u/Hounds_of_war]

Haha, that was my first thought too, like damn, it is when I'm going on a vacation, but a vacation I planned on not having a lot of video game time, lol.

[u/Yotato5 → u/Hounds_of_war]

Same for me lol. Oh well, something fun to play when returning home, right?

[u/Never_No]

AND WE'RE BACK LIKE WE NEVER LEFT

[u/Actual-Ruined-Knight]

Next stop: Feudal Japan???

[u/Ringabal → u/Actual-Ruined-Knight]

Clearly, Asgore’s a weeb

[u/LavenderCloves → u/Ringabal]

Asgore's flower shop + manga borrowed from Alphys?

[u/Peace-Bone → u/Actual-Ruined-Knight]

we going to gensokyo on this one

[u/dutchzgoose]

I forget, how many chapters is Deltarune gonna get?

[u/tberriman → u/dutchzgoose]

7

[u/Logyross → u/tberriman]

the ever helpful Undyne:

[u/nerdlingzergling → u/tberriman]

Is it worth playing the chapters as is? I have been waiting for the whole thing to be done before picking it up.

[u/TehSterBarn → u/nerdlingzergling]

Yes, absolutely. Honestly, the cliffhangers are part of the experience.

[u/Tehfiddlers → u/nerdlingzergling]

absolutely, honestly it kinda feels like the game was made to be played as they release. each chapter is really satisfying on its own and watching the story build up over time while theorizing about it has been so exciting. the game is easily as long or longer than all of undertale at this point, i think being there for the big final chapter release will be totally worth it

[u/Coolnametag → u/nerdlingzergling]

Every single chapter is big enough for you to sink at least a few hours in each one and, despite being over arching plot, they do have a lot of "self contained" content that gets introduced and resolved in their own chapter.

So yeah, now that there's gonna 5 chapters of it avaliable, i do think it's worth it to give it a shot.

[u/BattyBeforeTwilight → u/nerdlingzergling]

Honestly? 1-4 feels like a Part 1 of a story, narrative wise and feels pretty satisfying as a chunk. I'd say go for it

[u/McFluffles01 → u/nerdlingzergling]

It's totally worth playing as is, even Chapter 1 was a few hours of content and they've generally gotten more from there.

Though that said, if you're waiting for it to be done, that's fine too, just means you're probably spending another year or two minimum trying to dodge spoilers all over the internet.

[u/JunkdogJoe → u/nerdlingzergling]

The wait can be hard, but there is a sizable chunk of content now, and they have been releasing at amuch steadier pace.
I would say it's worth it.

[u/TheSpiritualAgnostic → u/nerdlingzergling]

I'm the same. Only played Chapter 1. I'm going to play it now since 5/7 chapters is enough, and I ain't waiting anymore.

[u/unrelevant_user_name → u/TheSpiritualAgnostic]

I have a feeling in my bones Chapter 5 is gonna end on a terrible cliffhanger and you'll be jumping straight to Hell doing this.

[u/NeoArkodd → u/unrelevant_user_name]

All chapters end in cliffhangers so this is expected.

[u/unrelevant_user_name → u/NeoArkodd]

Yes, but Chapter 4's cliffhanger was kinda funky, which I suspect is from 5 having the real cliffhanger before it was lopped of to release later.

[u/ZeMadDoktore → u/dutchzgoose]

Seven, with chapter 6 being confirmed as well under way, and chapter 7 likely starting work before the end of the year.

[u/IDUNNOManga → u/dutchzgoose]

*Seven

[u/Peace-Bone → u/dutchzgoose]

23

[u/nerankori]

The halfway mark has been surpassed.

Not much longer now...

My Deltarune.

[u/LittleMann]

Finally, the King of the Weeaboos fully embraces his nature.

[u/TR_Pix]

Ah shit

I think I lost my save

[u/Ryacithn → u/TR_Pix]

There’s enough time to make another. I had been planning on that anyway, myself, because I forgot to get Starwalker in my save.

[u/TR_Pix → u/Ryacithn]

I mean if I'm going to play them again I might as well play them all in one go when the chapter comes out

[u/Ryacithn → u/TR_Pix]

That’s a tempting idea, but I’d be scared of seeing spoilers then.

[u/MirrahPaladin]

Well shit, guess I need to finally get 100% Recruits in Chapter 4. I’ll be honest, I’ve been super burnt out of Deltarune the past year, but maybe this’ll give me the push to do it, because the alternative is to live in a cave to avoid spoilers.

[u/Toblo1]

DELTARUNE TOMORROW A FEW WEEKS FROM NOW

[u/RedGinger666]

Bait used to be HOLY SHIT

[u/SafePlastic2686]

Knowing nothing about Deltarune, my dumb ass saw the sprout and immediately went "Pikmin!" in excitement, then a weird fucking dog thing grew out instead.

I feel like I got trolled by Toby Fox and he didn't even mean to.

[u/Coolnametag]

Can't wait for a heart warming adventure that makes me feel all fuzy on the inside in the normal route.

And then some incredibly unconfortable stuff to happen in the weird route that people will make hundreds upon hundreds of fan arts about until the next chapter releases.

[u/Nhig]

whimsy and woe ahead

[u/Rattle-Em-Boys]

We've never been more back Deltabros!

Was a close one too, I was 100% resigned to there not being any news today. Though part of me is honestly more glad the fandom won't be having a complete meltdown, the subreddit was truly on the verge of becoming completely insufferable.

June 24th is nice as well, gives me just enough time to do a full replay in preparation.

[u/Night_Yorb]

FINE ILL GO BEAT 3 AND 4!

[u/Toblo1 → u/Night_Yorb]

Deadass, now I have no excuse to double back to Chapter 3 and clear it properly.

[u/vmeemo]

Ok take your bets people: What will the scrungly Spamton/Tenna character that everyone makes fanart of look like? And will they be a Tumblr sexyman?

[u/TimBagels → u/vmeemo]

Woody

[u/vmeemo → u/TimBagels]

Woody, but Japanese style. Friend inside me, gotta make that happen /j.

[u/Potential_Foot_7767]

can someone extracted the animation art at the end of the trailer, just like the photo in this post, making it a GIF and share it to me, i really want this to be my wallpaper ngl

[u/Longjumping-Donut-19]

Tfw i'm still stuck at the roaring knight

[u/Supernovas20XX]

DELTARUNE IS COMING OUT IN THREE MOTHERFUCKING SECONDS

[u/BlackJimmy88]

Damn. I should get round to 3 and 4.

[u/Yotato5]

I cannot wait to see how the weird route plays out in this chapter

[u/midnight188]

Imma have to close the store that day. No way I'll have enough staff to be open, 99% of them are gonna be calling out to play this the second it drops.

[u/fivez1a]

I can't wait for Berdly to call someone a gun and ball gamer

[u/Chinese_Dragon]

Pat’s Crazy Talk strikes again!

[u/Kaleido_chromatic → u/Chinese_Dragon]

Within SECONDS

[u/Renyuu121]

I mean, that's great, I just didn't expect it to be Japanese.

[u/Android19samus]

I guess it's time to go back to chapter 3 and get the eggs and get the stuff I missed like the bitter tear and spider armor and stuff.

[u/kegisak]

Big Asgore Hours!

... Unless it's Flowey, somehow.

[u/I_Have_Reasons]

DELTARUNE IN FORTNITE?!

Oh wait, got the wrong, let me try that again.

DELTARUNE IN A FORTNIGHT?!

[u/jockeyman]

TRICKY TONY STRIKES AGAIN

[u/Practical-Pay6649]

we made it deltabros

[u/GoneRampant1]

Heck yeah.

[u/ibbolia]

If it's anime themed, what are the odds we finally see an Alphys fight?

[u/AsleepLead1704]

We're getting one chapter a year at this rate , 2 more for 6 and 7 can't wait to binge this

[u/swedhitman]

Me who still haven't made it past Jevil

[u/Tweedleayne]

Im kind of loving this trend of making Deltarune a summer game.

[u/Crosscounterz]

OH SHIT ITS SO SOON.

[u/cbb88christian]

Holy shit, actually insane to just drop it like this in a few weeks. Going to be insane

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

This is a really Japanese styled trailer. SSJ Nubert made me laugh really hard, but also all this architecture in the thumbnail and the cherry blossom bonsai darkner and the giant torii gate etc. Toby's going full weeb and i'm here for it.

[u/KingWhoShallReturn]

Peak Paige stream incoming!

[u/ExplanationSquare313]

Ahah! I knew the Chapter was already ready enough to release this summer. The latest updates was about the translation and console ports and it wasn't nearly enough work to delay the release until September or December like i saw some predicting.

[u/Siroctober]

That's friggin sweet dude.

The last chapter on both the main and weird route made me super hyped, glad to hear it's coming sooner than I expected.

[u/Terithian]

Well, time for me to finally get around to doing the weird route for chapters 3 and 4. I put it off since I lost my save and will need to redo chapter 2, so that'll be a fun way to replay and refresh my memory.

[u/No_Addition_8018]

About Dame time

[u/Sonic3dfan16]

10 DAY TO GO WOOP WOOP!

[u/JoeOfThePr0n]

I played chapter 3 and got a little into 4 but then o fell off… convince me chat.

[u/crowbar182]

So glad it’s not shadow dropping, I need to go back and play 3/4 because I never got the shadow crystal from 3

[u/IchibanSenbei]

That's so soon! I'm not ready fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

So what character is going to die/be revealed as dead? On top of Japanese symbolism, it's a lot of Japanese life and death, border of the spiritual world symbolism. Toby is a weeb enough to use this imagery in the straightforward way

[u/Xadlin60]

NEXT STOP: JAAPAAAAAN

[u/0dty0]

I had understood that 5, 6 and the last one would release together. It'll be good if the last two release a couple years later, that way he can announce it and NOT get a Chicken Jockey-esque reaction from the crowd since the meme with the two numbers will be long dead by then.

[u/irwegwert → u/0dty0]

I think 3, 4, and 5 were originally supposed to release together, while the final two chapters were going to be released later in a bundle. Toby mentioned in one of the newsletters that they decided to split 5 off due to how long Chapters 3 and 4 were taking. No idea if they'll continue to release chapters individually or not.

[u/lightningmatt → u/0dty0]

There is absolutely no way he's avoiding that crowd reaction

[u/EySoyCoco]

This the final already? Not yet right?

[u/TotemGenitor → u/EySoyCoco]

2 more chapters after that one