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Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
OpenCritic93IGDB96Metacritic
A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging with a turn-based combat system with puzzle-solving and bullet hell elements, as well as other unconventional game mechanics.
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Nostalgic, overwhelming, meticulous and funny.
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IGNKallie PlaggeAug 201710/10It's hard to express just how much I adore Undertale without spoiling anything significant, but that's what I love about it. It tells its story in such a dynamic way, and with such a great understanding of the RPG player's mindset, that it couldn't have been told in any other way. It's a masterfully crafted experience that I won't forget any time soon.
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Giant BombAustin WalkerSep 20155/5 starsUndertale combines charming characters, smart writing, and a unique combat system to make one of this fall's biggest surprises.
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KotakuNathan GraysonOct 2015Wonderful characters, ample secrets, tons of replayability. Boss fights can be tedious. A subversive spin on role-playing games that's packed with heart and humor.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunJack de QuidtSep 2015The brilliance of Undertale, its delicate balance that it manages for most of the time you'll spend playing it, is that it understands how to be scary and funny all at once. Inside the Snowdin library there are leather-bound books that contain strange prophecies, books that say profound and disconcerting things about the human soul.
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Kill ScreenJake MuncyOct 201565/100Its charming, morally earnest rhetoric of Undertale conceals the coercive weaknesses of its systemic approach to those same moral issues. Its limited combat options and often obtuse puzzle solving, alongside the sheer endurance required to survive boss fights long enough to end them, add up to a system that doesn't point to any elaborate moral insight. It simply points to itself.
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IGDB rating 9.1/10 from 1900 ratings.
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