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Undertale turns 10 years old today

Undertale has nearly 150,000 “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam. To say that this disarmingly simple-looking indie game has had a large impact would be an understatement.

In fact, it was one of our games of 2015. “Few games have ever touched so many people so deeply, or been so misunderstood by their critics,” wrote Richard Cobbett in his piece for us.

“It’s something harder to process – an incredibly smart, well-written and insightful RPG that’s comfortable enough to do the gaming equivalent of showing up in a tracksuit and sneakers. You look at any part of it and yes, it’s simple. Combine the pieces, and it’s special…”

It’s the sort of game that reveals itself, its humour and warmth, in the retelling, etching itself deeper in the memory with every subsequent lap.