The unique element of this title is that monsters will often talk to the player, conveying their current wishes and emotions (even during combat), with the player having the chance to talk to them, flee or fight them.
On the journey out from the underworld, the player is tasked to solve many puzzles, meet many characters, and engage in combat encounters. The story follows a lone human who falls underground into a world filled with monsters, towns, and caves, filled with adventures. Undertale is a top-down perspective RPG with extremely simplified visuals and a surprising amount of background systems that track player’s choices, presenting them with an unexpected amount of narrative and gameplay variety during the length of the single-player campaign.
Immediately after its release in September of 2015, this simplistic-looking game managed to attract universal acclaim from both worldwide media and gamers who praised its originality, depth of content, metaphysical and thematic material, combat gameplay systems, and other elements such as story, characters, music and more.Īt the end of 2015, the Undertale game was even included in many publications list for the best game of the year. Undertale is an award-winning role-playing game, developed and released by an indie developer Toby Fox.