Toby Fox shares progress update on Deltarune Chapter 5

While we’ve seen some chapters for Deltarune already, work continues on the game, and now creator Toby Fox has provided a status update on Chapter 5. This comes from a newsletter just sent out to fans today.

Based on Fox’s comments, it looks like Chapter 5 is very much coming along. However, he cautioned that “it will take several months to release the game from where we are now.” Also, for Chapter 6, the team will likely be shifting its focus there in a few months from now.

The full update from Fox is as follows:

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.

Deltarune Chapters 1-4 are currently available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch.