Toby Fox Sets June 24 for Deltarune Chapter 5

Deltarune chapter 5 now has a date. Toby Fox announced it during the June 2026 Nintendo Direct for June 24, giving players a release target after years of chapter-by-chapter waits.

The timing is the sharpest update the series has had since 2025, when chapters 3 and 4 arrived after the first couple of Deltarune chapters first went free in 2018. That gap is the story here: the game is no longer a slow-drip experiment, but a recurring release schedule with a platform audience already in place.

June 24 on Switch 1 and 2

All previous chapters of Deltarune are already playable on Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, so Chapter 5 lands for an audience that does not need to wait for a platform rollout. Chapters 3 and 4 were also a launch title for the Nintendo Switch successor, which kept the series visible inside Nintendo’s hardware cycle instead of leaving it stranded between releases.

That setup gives Chapter 5 an immediate retail advantage: existing players can move straight into the new chapter without rebuilding their save history on a different machine. For a serialized game, that is the cleanest kind of release, because the sequel arrives where the audience already is.

Undertale and the 7-year wait

Undertale, released in 2015, sits at the center of the Deltarune story because Toby Fox has said he made Undertale to show that such a game was possible. The 7 years between the first free Deltarune chapters in 2018 and chapters 3 and 4 in 2025 turned the project into a patience test for players who had to sit through long stretches without a new numbered chapter.

Fox’s broader arc is now easier to read than it was a year ago. Deltarune no longer looks like a one-off follow-up to Undertale; it looks like a series that can return in organized drops, with June 24 now carrying the weight that 2025 carried for chapters 3 and 4.

Toby Fox and the next drop

The practical takeaway is simple: players who have the earlier chapters on Switch 1 or Switch 2 can expect the story to continue on the same devices on June 24. The release date also puts Fox back in the spotlight as the creator who built a sequel structure slowly enough to keep interest alive, but not so slowly that the schedule disappears entirely.

For anyone following the game, the job now is not guesswork but preparation. The next chapter is no longer a theory or a holdover from the 2025 release window; it is a date on the calendar, and Deltarune has finally stopped asking players to wait without a target.