{"id":55173,"date":"2025-12-19T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=55173"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:16:49","slug":"deltarune-chapter-5-will-take-several-more-months-to-release-says-creator-toby-fox-most-of-the-dev-team-to-soon-move-to-producing-chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/deltarune-chapter-5-will-take-several-more-months-to-release-says-creator-toby-fox-most-of-the-dev-team-to-soon-move-to-producing-chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Deltarune Chapter 5 will take &#8220;several more months to release,&#8221; says creator Toby Fox. Most of the dev team to soon move to producing Chapter 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2025 has been a big year for <strong>Deltarune<\/strong>, with the game\u2019s first and second chapters getting an official multiplatform release alongside the long-anticipated third and fourth chapters. To cap things off, creator Toby Fox has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/toby.fangamer.com\/newsletters\/winter2025\/\">Winter 2025 newsletter<\/a>, shedding some light on the development team\u2019s plans for the next year and providing fans with a status update on the upcoming Chapter 5. According to Fox, the new chapter might be ready to launch in only a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the newsletter, Fox states that development of the fifth chapter is \u201cgoing excellently.\u201d Localization for the chapter is already in progress, with Japanese game localization company 8-4 and Fox himself annotating the extracted text for a translator (who has already started working on the game, according to Fox\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tobyfox.undertale.com\/post\/3m7bvy3624s2z\">post on Bluesky<\/a>). After finishing the localization process, the dev team will move on to testing the PC version. According to Fox, plans for console testing could start as soon as January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251219-551730001.jpg\" alt=\"Deltarune chapter 1 gameplay.\" class=\"wp-image-55177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251219-551730001.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251219-551730001-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251219-551730001-768x576.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><em>Don\u2019t freak out; this is just a screenshot from Chapter 1.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the chapter itself, all of the rooms are nearly done, though the backgrounds might require some polishing. Almost all of the scenes are complete, with only a few of them requiring visual touch-ups. The same goes for battles, most of which are finished, save for a few that need some pacing and bullet pattern adjustments. Fox also released a short video from Chapter 5\u2019s Castle Town hub, along with anew musical piece, which according to him, is \u201cthe only one that does not spoil anything.\u201d These can be viewed from the official newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given Chapter 5\u2019s current development timeline, Fox estimates that it will take \u201cseveral months to release the game from where we are now\u201d \u2013 a statement even he is surprised about, considering how long it took to complete Chapters 3 and 4, which were finally released only six months ago. While he didn\u2019t give any actual release date, it is safe to assume that Chapter 5 will launch sometime in 2026. He adds that in a few months, he and most of the team will likely be focusing their attention on developing the penultimate Chapter 6. As promised, those who already purchased Deltarune will <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toby-fox-says-youll-only-need-to-buy-deltarune-once-future-chapters-will-be-added-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receive the future chapters for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/deltarune-creator-toby-fox-updates-players-with-early-reactions-to-chapter-5\/\"><strong>Deltarune creator Toby Fox updates players with early reactions to Chapter 5<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/deltarunes-tenna-was-originally-supposed-to-be-a-lot-more-bug-like-toby-fox-reveals\/\"><strong>Deltarune\u2019s Tenna was originally supposed to be a lot more bug-like, Toby Fox reveals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deltarune creator Toby Fox shed some light on the development of the upcoming Chapter 5 in his Winter 2025 newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":55175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[39,18],"class_list":["post-55173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-indie-games","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deltarune Chapter 5 will take &quot;several more months to release,&quot; says creator Toby Fox. 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