50 Fun Facts About Deltarune

Deltarune creator Toby Fox first got the idea for the game from which experience as a college student?

A fever dream showed him the ending of a video game, and he became determined to create the game that led up to it. He started in 2012 but gave up before building the first room.

Which Deltarune hero was first modelled on Maya Fey of Ace Attorney before becoming a purple, axe-swinging bully?

Susie was meant to act nice and cute like Maya Fey, but she turned into more of a thug as her design developed. She scorns the prophecy at first and briefly sides with the enemy.

Which goat-like prince from the Dark World acts as the party's gentle healer throughout Deltarune?

Ralsei takes his name from Ralse, a character in an unfinished RPG Maker game that Toby Fox's oldest brother made as a child. A wizard-like hat hides his face in shadow for most of Chapter 1.

Toby Fox released the first chapter of Deltarune as a free download on which holiday in 2018?

Halloween 2018 brought the chapter one day after Fox asked people who had finished Undertale to watch that game's official account. The second chapter took almost three more years to follow.

At the very start of Deltarune, what happens to the custom avatar, or vessel, that the player creates?

It is discarded, because the game insists that nobody gets to choose who they are in its world. The player is handed control of Kris instead.

Which skeleton, a notorious final boss in Undertale, turns up at a grocery store bearing his name in Deltarune?

Sans is described as the store's janitor, and he tells Kris about a brother he would like them to meet. He is also striking up a close friendship with Kris's mother.

Which goat-like teacher, who shelters the fallen child in Undertale's Ruins, is Kris's adoptive mother in Deltarune?

Toriel shares her home with Kris alone, since she and her husband are separated here just as they are in Undertale. Her old television later becomes a Dark World game show host.

After tearing out the player-controlled soul at the end of Deltarune Chapter 1, Kris draws which object?

A knife makes for a menacing final shot, but the next chapter opens with Kris's mother scolding them for using it to eat her pie.

Which salesman in Deltarune Chapter 2, obsessed with becoming a Big Shot, proved a breakout hit with players?

Spamton worried Toby Fox, because some test players found him scary and disliked his look, yet merchandise of the character later sold out instantly.

Deltarune's first paid version, containing Chapters 1 to 4, arrived as a launch title for which console?

Nintendo Switch 2 buyers made it the console's best-selling digital game at launch, ahead of even Mario Kart World. Later chapters were promised as free updates.

In Deltarune, the soul that Kris repeatedly tears out and the player steers in battle appears as what?

A red heart represents the soul, and the game treats it as the player rather than Kris, whose friends notice that their usual personality has gone missing.

What is the plainly named town that Kris shares with monster neighbours in the Light World of Deltarune?

Hometown counts Kris as its only human resident, with familiar faces from Undertale living beside characters who are new to this game.

Unlike Undertale, Deltarune does away with which staple of role-playing games?

Random encounters are gone because enemies wander the overworld in plain sight, so players can dodge a fight or deliberately start one.

In Deltarune battles, letting an attack narrowly miss the soul, known as grazing, fills which gauge for casting spells?

Tension Points, shortened to TP, also build when a party member defends or attacks, and they are spent on spells and special abilities.

Which energetic prince in Deltarune Chapter 1 befriends the heroes despite being the son of the final boss?

Lancer is a personified Jack of Spades, and his growing friendship with the party's toughest member leads him to rebel against his father.

Queen, the eccentric ruler of the Cyber World in Deltarune Chapter 2, is a personified version of which device?

A laptop in the library's computer lab becomes Queen, who is mostly friendly and so dismissive of her student sidekick that she keeps forgetting his name.

Which timid, reindeer-like classmate of Kris wields ice magic in the Dark Worlds of Deltarune?

Noelle briefly joins the party in the Cyber World of Chapter 2, and she and Kris have been friends since childhood. Her older sister has long been missing.

Which fish-like leader of the Royal Guard in Undertale serves as the town's chief of police in Deltarune?

Undyne took the job after Kris's father was fired from it, and in this world she has no eyepatch and knows her Undertale love interest only in passing.

In Deltarune Chapter 1, Kris and a classmate stumble into the first Dark World from which room at school?

The supply closet swallows the pair when their teacher sends them to fetch materials for a group project, and a dark prince welcomes them to his empty Castle Town.

Which game show host, formed from a disused Dreemurr family television, rules the Dark World of Deltarune Chapter 3?

Tenna feels abandoned and obsolete as the family uses him less and less, and the Knight promised him relevance in exchange for keeping the Fountain open.

Which lizard-like Royal Scientist from Undertale works as a teacher at Kris's school in Deltarune?

Alphys sets the group project that leads Kris into a Dark World in Chapter 1, and she admires the local police chief from afar.

Which former police chief, the adoptive father of Kris, runs the Flower King shop in Deltarune?

Asgore lost his badge after an unexplained incident tied to a Dark World, and his obsession with finding out the truth has strained his family ties.

Which snobbish classmate sides with Queen in Deltarune Chapter 2 before reluctantly joining the heroes?

Berdly traces his superiority complex to beating a classmate in a spelling bee years ago, and he has pressured himself to stay ahead of her ever since.

In the prophecy of Deltarune, opening too many Dark Fountains would trigger which apocalyptic event?

The Roaring is what the dark prince warns of when a well-meaning classmate tries to open a new Fountain as a gift at the end of Chapter 2.

Which imprisoned court jester, a personified Joker card, serves as the secret boss of Deltarune Chapter 1?

Jevil came to see his whole world as a mere game, so he believes everyone outside his cell is the real prisoner and treats the battle as play.

In Deltarune Chapter 4, which building in Kris's town turns into a Dark World depicting the prophecy?

The church holds three Dark Worlds, and there the dark prince finally admits he has been hiding the true prophecy and its tragic ending.

Which character is Kris's adoptive older brother, away at college during the events of Deltarune?

Asriel is the dead prince of the Underground in Undertale, but in this parallel world he is alive, and neighbours talk eagerly of his return.

When the first chapter of Deltarune appeared online in 2018, the free download was disguised as what?

A survey program was all its website promised, and Toby Fox then described it as a game meant for people who had completed Undertale.

Which artist, who assisted with character art on Undertale, serves as the main artist of Deltarune?

Temmie Chang worked with Toby Fox from the first chapter, and a few more team members joined the pair when work on Chapter 2 began in 2020.

Deltarune is built in which game engine, which Toby Fox kept after experimenting with alternatives before Chapter 2?

GameMaker remained the best fit for the project, Fox concluded, so the second chapter was built on top of the first.

Deltarune launched in English and which other language, whose translation Toby Fox personally checks line by line?

Japanese is a language Fox speaks himself: Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai once invited him home, where the two chatted in it.

At the end of Deltarune Chapter 2, what does Kris's mother find slashed, prompting her to call the police?

Her car tires are cut while Kris is briefly out of the house without the soul, and the call she makes later brings an officer into the next Dark World.

Which self-styled Duke of Puzzles in Deltarune speaks in comically botched Early Modern English?

Rouxls Kaard, whose first name is pronounced like rules, is a personified rules card who longs to be second-in-command to any evil ruler.

Deltarune's hidden Weird Route takes its common nickname from which ice spell used to freeze a classmate solid?

Snowgrave is cast only after the player backtracks through Chapter 2 and pressures a party member into freezing every enemy they meet.

The battle against Queen's giant robot in Deltarune Chapter 2 is fought in the style of which classic series?

Punch-Out lends its boxing-match format to the duel with GIGA Queen, the gigantic robot that serves as the chapter's final boss.

Because of chronic wrist pain, Deltarune creator Toby Fox began entering his writing using which kind of software?

Speech-to-text lets him dictate instead of type while other team members handle the programming, and he has said he could not finish the game alone.

Before making Deltarune, Toby Fox got his first composing job on the music team of which webcomic?

Homestuck launched his career, he has said, and early work on Undertale took place in the basement of the comic's creator, Andrew Hussie.

Which Undertale shopkeeper, once the Hammer of Justice, inspires the Old Man of Deltarune Chapter 4?

Gerson's lookalike is recreated from the hammer of his burial rite, runs a small shop, and duels the party's axe-wielder as the chapter's secret boss.

In Deltarune Chapter 4, the Knight opens a Fountain inside a Dark World to create which monstrous harbinger of doom?

A Titan is the kind of creature that would overrun the world in the prophecy's apocalypse, and the heroes need an old mentor's help to bring this one down.

Which shy, music-loving ghost from Undertale works alongside the chief as a police officer in Deltarune?

Napstablook writes in lowercase with long trailing ellipses in both games, and joins in the annual Festival during Chapter 5.

Which Deltarune Chapter 5 antagonist describes himself as the college roommate and best friend of Kris's father?

Flowery is the Dark World form of a golden flower from the bouquet that marked the marriage of Kris's parents, kept alive in the father's shop ever since.

Which Chapter 1 shopkeeper in Deltarune was once a court magician and the partner of an imprisoned jester?

Seam picked up a nihilistic outlook after the jester, an old partner, went mad and began to treat their whole world as nothing more than a game.

In Deltarune Chapter 4, Kris finds a shelter code hidden inside which instrument owned by a missing older sister?

A guitar in Holiday Manor holds the code, but Kris tears out the soul before it can be read and then tries to keep a friend from finding the instrument.

One song on the Deltarune Chapter 5 soundtrack features vocals performed with which virtual singer's voicebank?

Hatsune Miku sings in two languages on Cutie Mew Mew Magic, one of the tracks that guest musician Camellia contributed to.

Which vanished Royal Scientist, hidden in rare Undertale easter eggs, is heavily hinted at throughout Deltarune?

Gaster is said to have built the CORE that powers the Underground before he mysteriously disappeared, and hints about him run through this game and its promotion.

On the Weird Route of Deltarune Chapter 2, which item bought from a shady salesman is equipped on the ice mage?

Thorn Ring takes the form of a simple thorn in the Light World, which Kris quietly pulls from a friend's hand after the chapter ends.

To explain each Deltarune chapter's plot to his team, Toby Fox performs it by himself as what kind of show?

A live radio drama is his way of walking the team through the story, and he even prompts them to make choices while it unfolds.

Which guest musician arranged and performed Don't Forget on the Deltarune Chapter 1 soundtrack?

Laura Shigihara, lead composer of Plants vs. Zombies, arranged and performed the song, and she later included a track by Toby Fox in Mr. Saitou, a game of her own.

The main battle theme from Toby Fox's abandoned 2012 attempt at Deltarune was reused as which Undertale track?

Bonetrousle was not the only salvage: a piece written as Joker Battle for the same abandoned attempt resurfaced in Undertale as Heartache.

Toby Fox bought which motion-sensing device in 2016, hoping to rotoscope a game show host's animation for Deltarune?

A Kinect was meant to capture the host's movements for a lineless 3D model, but Fox scrapped that look because he thought it was tremendously bad.