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Deltarune Chapter 5, players post 'weird route' spoilers

gamingJun 27, 2026734,270

Deltarune Chapter 5 dropped alongside a hotfix patch 0.0.242, and the community immediately began circulating 'weird route' spoilers, often encoded in rot13 to avoid blunt reveals. Conversation centers on the lake scene with Noelle and Susie, players calling it a gutwrenching, intimate moment, and on Rudy's increased prominence in this chapter. Many posts obsess over the new flower characters called floradinns and a teased secret boss, with creators describing intense emotional fallout, some report crying or feeling physically sick after experiencing the weird route. Others celebrate character beats like Orange the daughter and joked-about moments while warning new players about spoiler-heavy threads.

William "yocow" therealyocow
@yocow.me

seeing peoples reactions to both the tadc finale and deltarune chapter 5 in quick succession has left me convinced more than ever that people need to kill the lore theorist part of their brain and actually engage with things for what they are and not whatever they theorized it would be

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William "yocow" therealyocow269

most of the complaints i have seen for both of them feel like they ultimately boil down to "i convinced myself that one thing was going to happen only for another thing that i wasnt expecting to be the focus and now im mad about it"

CHAR !!85

the reviews of stories being from the perspective of "character development" and "lore payoff" and not Story and Purpose will always be sooooooooooooooooo frustrating. IDGAF what u wanted from your fav character or the world building!!! its about what the story wanted to tell you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mae (~ludicolo @ artfight)58

ive seen people be like "i didn't like that (this character) acted out of character this chapter, that's bad writing" and it's like. perhaps the story is trying to tell you something by having this character behave differently than we've seen them behave

HateLove1240

when i was playing deltarune chapter 5 or watching the tadc finale i wasn't even thinking about what i wanted to happen, i was just enjoying what DID happen. i like being surprised by the unexpected and i dont understand why people are trying to take control of narratives they aren't writing.

Cheribelle Hart38

but its SUPPOSED to be image_friend the musical and w.d gaster is supposed to perform his famous beatboxed wrong number song to dess/rudy/papyrus before Knighting them

vex🩸33

Theorizing can be so epic and fun but I fear that in many cases it is ruining people’s ability to engage with stuff because they will come up with something and decide it is what is true and real and then when it isn’t. They decide “this thing bad actually”

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What do you expect me to be some sort of weenie genie?🏳️‍⚧️46

Lore can be cool, even fun. But some people have killed their ability to actually interact with the thing in front of them as it happens and we think thats just sorta sad.

Crafted Copy29

I went into chapter 5 expecting Apple Girlington Do you know what i did when she wasn't there? I had fun and enjoyed all the new content i learned about! And I can't wait to start the whole process over anew :)

k//eternal13

lore theorizing is fun and awesome actually but you gotta also accept whatever canon actually drops. those are the rules of the lore theorizing game

Hell-Bat, CE🔞 of Cranky Optimism12

The more people learn to engage with what's laid out in front of them, the less I want to kill myself. Not my damn fault that FNAF destroyed all traces of media literacy for good!

Mechtroid11

In a better world, MatPat would've dropped one last set of videos titled "The SECRET LANGUAGE that helps you understand ANY GAME" and just posted an entire semester of English Lit classes. Like a camper cleaning up trash before they leave.

It’s *The* River Blues!8

It is fun to come up with theories, drum up discussions with other fans and try to guess what may happen next. But you gotta accept when you are wrong with grace and not be weird and emotional about being wrong.

C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶4

There really IS an "everyone's a critic" problem...

Zakhi, Duneblessed COMMISSIONS OPEN 2/33

people in the deltarune spaces constantly gaslight themselves into thinking that the stakes will be higher and higher because they're addicted to escalation but made from the fanfic factories of circlejerkia

Aurora Valentina 😈 悪魔女アウローラ3

I don't go in either of those spaces but honestly someone needs to tell Those Kinds Of Fans about mystery games. The world would be a better place if they'd direct that energy into solving Ace Attorney cases instead of harassing random indie creators