Fans of Undertale developer Toby Fox are eating well with Deltarune, which is getting its big Chapter 5 update later this month, just a little more than a year after the long-awaited Chapters 3 and 4. And while I'm sure it won't take long for Deltarune players to rip through Chapter 5 and pick through every morsel of meta reference in its story, it sounds like they won't have to wait terribly long for the next chapter and, believe it or not, the final seventh chapter after that.
In a new update on Fox's newsletter, the RPG developer gives a progress update on Deltarune Chapter 6 and, surprisingly, touches on plans for Chapter 7's development.
As Fox is wont to do, the language in the update is vague, saying only that Chapter 6 is "developing well" and listing a number of major bullet points and the progress being made on them. Toby Fox says he's "making good progress" on cutscenes and NPC interactions, while "all the basic gimmicks," i.e. "climbing, puzzles, etc.," have been created, even if "we need to create a few more rooms utilizing these gimmicks." Meanwhile, normal enemies and bullets are "mostly complete" and "we are working on the bullets of the last battle of the chapter."
In case you're wondering why everything in Chapter 6 is coming together so quickly and smoothly, don't worry, Fox has a very clear, detailed explanation: "This Chapter is easier to make than the others, so the development is going quite fast." Thanks, Toby.
Most curiously, Fox even says it's possible work on Chapter 7 will begin as early as this year. "This sounds crazy, but it's not unrealistic that some staff members may start working on Chapter 7 before the end of the year," he writes.
This is a remarkably fast timeline for these final chapters of Toby Fox's beloved RPG, especially considering the several years in-between earlier chapters. Assuming there aren't any significant hurdles and this pacing continues, we could see the conclusion of the Deltarune saga as early as 2027 or 2028.
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