Toby Fox Shares Another Deltarune Development Update: "Team Is Now Mainly Focusing On Chapter 4"

Good to hear that Chapter 4 is underway. Can't wait to see what this game has in store.

I really appreciate these updates. They are at least once a year and give a quick progress check-in on the game. Doesn't have to be anything more than that. It's just good to know the game development is still progressing.

Take note Team Cherry & Retro Studios. Silence is not cool.

That's great to hear. I wish team cherry was this good at communication 😂

@Axecon Retro has zero say in what they can or cannot announce as how updates are going. That's Nintendo.

Updates from the dairy farm: milk, milk, milk....

I'll play it whenever it's complete.

Nothing about Chapter 1 enticed me to play 2, but like Undertale I can at least say the soundtracks are great so I'm looking forward to more of those.

Remind me; how long was Mother 5 suppossed to be again? 7 Episodes in total, right?

Kind of feel like the decision to release the game the way it has been kind of killed any chances of it ever really being especially successful honestly. At least personally I liked Undertale decently enough but don't really have any interest in checking out Deltarune until it's done, and it doesn't seem like it'll be done until like 10 years from now at this rate.

It’s like when those TV shows take 2 or 3 years between seasons. I’m over it by the time it releases as other stuff’s filled the void. I was into Undertale when it was first a thing, not so much these days, the drip feeding is honestly less endearing than if there was just a 10 year wait for one solid cohesive game.

@Lizuka It'll probably be successful on the sheer amount of merch it moves, because of how popular the characters are. But yeah you're probably right about the games.

Episodic games already tend to have drop offs at the best of times. I think free episode 1 then years waiting... free episode 2 followed by years of waiting for a paid 3&4 followed by years of waiting....

It's kind of at the point that there's enough free content to filter any casual who'll want to try the game but end up dropping it, and enough of a wait that surely only the most dedicated fans are actually going to end up paying for any of it.

I see these updates on here occasionally. How does this work? As each chapter comes out you buy it separately, or are the people who bought the game getting each chapter for free when it drops?

It sort of reminds me of the way novels used to be serialized across multiple issues of a magazine

@Manguy888A The first two are free, going forward they're paid. Originally Chapter 1 was just a demo. And they were going to release them in paid sets.

But I think because it took longer than expected 2 released by itself for free.

Chapters 3, 4 and 5 were going to release together, but again it fell behind schedule. Now Only Chapters 3&4 are releasing together and they'll be paid.