Along with our group-selected Game of the Year Awards , each member of the PC Gamer staff has independently chosen one game to commend as one of the year's best. It depends. Undertale can be a lot darker than it looks. You might compliment their good looks, or choose not to pick on them, or just show them mercy whether or not they want it. I sort of got the reference, and then looked it up to make sure I got it.
It's apt! But how could you? The monsters all have great personalitiesโa vegetable who just wants to feed you, a depressed ghost, a dog who does dog stuff, a bumbling skeleton who loves puzzlesโand the story is one of the most heartfelt this year.
When it ended I mean, really ended , it was like watching the Portal credits for the first time. Undertale will go down as having one of the best video game endings of recent memory. Without spoiling too much, Undertale is always a step ahead of the player, predicting your next move and respecting the little decisions you make. Keep a disposable item for the whole game and use it at just the right time?
And it also knows when to withhold resolutionโwhen you get to the end, you may not find what you were looking for. Give it a chance to play with you, allowing its internal logic to stay hidden. The soundtrack is one of the best of the year, full of variety and emotion, and the graphics, while minimal, become comfortably charming over time and get pretty flashy in certain instances. Undertale is one of my favorite games of maybe second to Rocket League , and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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