Undertale

Undertale...
Where do I even start with this game? I feel like this is the type of game that everyone who loves video games has heard about, but not everyone has truly played. Sure, you might’ve seen the memes, the fan art, the endless discussions about the “pacifist” route vs. the “genocide” route, but it’s the experience of actually playing it that hits you in a way that no amount of spoilers or reviews ever could. Like, yeah, it’s a game, but it’s also way more than that. Undertale is a journey. And a damn good one at that.
Look, I’ve played my fair share of games. I’ve had my emotional moments. The highs, the lows, the victory, the defeat. But Undertale did something that no other game has ever done for me: it made me feel like my actions actually mattered. I’ve never been forced to think so much about my choices in a game. Do I spare this monster? Do I show them kindness, even if it’s just a few words? Or do I give in to my darker impulses and kill them? The fact that the game forces you to live with those choices, that no matter what path you take, the consequences hit home… it’s just something that so many other games miss. Most games don’t ask you to actually feel the impact of your actions. Undertale does. And that’s what makes it stand out.
It’s not trying to WOOOW you with high-end graphics or flashy cutscenes. Hell, the visuals are super basic, the characters are pixelated, but it doesn’t need all that. The real strength of this game lies in how it uses the medium of video games to tell its story. You’re not just a passive observer. You’re the one pulling the strings. The characters aren’t just there to look pretty or be generic NPCs — they have personalities, desires, fears, and they react to you. The whole game feels like it’s speaking directly to you, and that’s a rare thing to find in modern gaming.
The humor, the heartache, the twists — it’s all woven together so perfectly that I was laughing one moment and then tearing up the next. Undertale knows how to balance its tones, something a lot of games can’t pull off. It’s not just about having a good story — it’s about how the story makes you feel, and Undertale nails that in a way that very few games do.
And the best part? You don’t need to play this game with any kind of guide or prior knowledge. Just dive in and let it take you wherever it wants to go. Every playthrough is different, and no matter how you approach it — pacifist, neutral, genocide — there’s something valuable to learn, something profound to experience. It’s not just a game. It’s an experience that stays with you long after you’ve turned off the console.
If you’ve somehow never played this game, do yourself a favor. Play it. Go in blind, with no expectations other than to see what unfolds. I promise you, this is a game that’s going to leave a mark on you. It’s the kind of game that makes you think about what it means to be human, to have choices, to live with the consequences. A true masterpiece in every sense. 10/10, and I wouldn’t change a thing.
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so i had never played this game when it first released. I was sent it by a friend recently who urged me to finally play it. I consider myself as someone who plays a lot of games, and i've played my fair share of emotional, triumphant experiences. However, out of every game I have ever played in my entire life, Undertale was the most impactful, most entertaining, most thought provoking experience i have ever had. Undertale is not simply a game, but an experience. One i am happy to have played through completely unaware of any spoilers or plot points. This game is one of the few to make me laugh and cry in one sitting. Please play this game. This is a generational art piece that will never be replicated in the medium again.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10
☐ 11
☐ 12
☐ 1525
☐ 73848237402730
☑ 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

This game actually made me feel bad.
Going into the game I expect an neat little indie rpg.
Did i get that? Yeah, but did i also get the emotional roller-coaster of a game? Definitely.
Did I get the deep lore that makes up this game? Yes.
Did I get the rich Character Development of the game? Yes
Did I get weird Lsd fever dream vibes from this game? yes
And would I play it again? Yes.

I pirated this game and played through it multiple times in 2015/2016 when I was still in High School but I gifted the game full price to one of my closets friends. Now over a decade later they gifted it back to me and I was able to play it again but legally. This game still holds up and it has endearing characters, a fun story, amazing music, neat Easter eggs, and a lot more.
Over 10 years later and Undertale is still one of my favorite indie games. Toby Fox is also really based for being a Touhou fan too, one of the biggest reasons why I was interested in Undertale

Funni skeletons and some weird animals 10/10
Flower bad >:(
Playing this game fills you with Determination

Time is fake. Morality is optional. Started as a kind soul. Ended as a timeline-hopping war criminal (in game).

Started off thinking it was a cute little indie game. Ten minutes in, a goat mom offered me pie and unconditional love. Adorable. Accidentally killed someone? Congrats, now you’re on the Neutral route™. Got the "I'm not mad, just disappointed" speech by a skeleton and emotionally manipulated by a flower. Great.
Cue a reset and with that, True Pacifist. Spared everyone, became besties with a tall skeleton, a tuna with anger issues, a reptilian monster, etc. Got adopted by a goat mom and emotionally destroyed by backstory and friendship speeches. 10/10 therapy session.
Naturally, knowing that every choice I did altered the game, I followed up by murdering everything and everyone. Welcome to the Genocide Route, where you commit atrocities against monsterkind and the music slaps way too hard for how morally bankrupt you are. I defeated a skeleton, so he naturally decided to take my sanity. The game judged me. It remembers - forever.
Tried to be nice again. A red-eyed child decided we’re sharing a save file now - they remember. Cue the Soulless Pacifist run, where although you do everything right, the game remembers. Dust is stuck onto my hands. It'll never leave them.
The flower still laughs.
The save file still breathes.
The pie’s still warm.

Play Undertale, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.
Now I sleep with one eye open and hear “MEGALOVANIA” in the walls.
10/10. Would shatter the timeline again.