Games like Undertale
The three best games after Undertale are DELTARUNE (Toby Fox's own next act, chapter by chapter), OneShot (the game most worthy of Undertale's fourth-wall crown) and OMORI (the emotional gut-punch, aimed inward). Ten entries ranked below by which part of Undertale they carry: the meta, the mercy, or the heartbreak.
Undertale's trick was never the retro graphics — it was accountability. The game remembers what you did, judges you for grinding like it is 1995, and lets a boss fight be a conversation. 96% positive across 337,000 Steam reviews for a game that made 'spare' the strongest verb in RPGs.
The ten entries below are ranked by which inheritance they actually claim: fourth-wall play, morality with memory, or the specific ache of a story about kindness under pressure. One is a deliberate skip — a beloved game that keeps landing on these lists for the wrong reason.
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How we picked these
- The game must know it is a game — or make combat mean something combat usually does not.
- Choices with memory: consequences that persist and accuse.
- Writing strong enough to carry simple visuals.
- Finishable in one to three sittings per route or chapter.
- Steam ratings quoted per entry — this genre's crowd is honest to a fault.
The list
01 DELTARUNE
DELTARUNE is the literal answer: Toby Fox's next work, sold as chapters, at 98% positive across 132,000 Steam reviews. The combat adds bullet-grazing depth, the humour is sharper, and the story is playing a longer, stranger game than Undertale did — being early to it is part of the experience.
02 OneShot
OneShot deserves the fourth-wall crown more than any game since Undertale: it addresses you — your computer, your files, your name — as the actual protagonist, and means it. 98% across 64,000 reviews. Going in blind is not a suggestion; it is the whole mechanism.
03 OMORI
OMORI is the heartbreak inheritance: an Earthbound-styled RPG about memory and guilt that goes darker than Undertale ever aimed. 97% across 88,000 reviews. The pastel dream-world half is charming; the other half is why the content warnings exist. Pace yourself — it earns its reputation honestly.
04 Inscryption
Inscryption plays Undertale's meta-game at cabin-in-the-woods intensity: a card roguelike that keeps peeling back layers — of its rules, its interface, its own history. 97% across 147,000 reviews. Saying more is theft; the less you know, the richer the first night.
05 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Slay the Princess is Undertale's mercy question sharpened to a single blade: you are sent to kill one princess, and every choice — every refusal — rewrites what she is. 97% across 33,000 reviews. Fully voice-acted, hand-drawn, and finished in a sitting that will not stay a single sitting.
06 To the Moon
To the Moon is the pure-story pick: an RPG-Maker game with no real combat, about two doctors editing a dying man's memories. 96% across 86,000 reviews. It shares Undertale's core discovery — that a tiny game can hit harder than a blockbuster — and its piano will follow you around.
07 LISA: The Painful
LISA: The Painful is the cruel sibling: an Earthbound-descended RPG where sacrifice is mechanical — the game takes party members, limbs and items, permanently, and dares you to keep laughing at its jokes. 95% positive. Undertale asks if you can be kind; LISA asks what kindness costs.
08 Night in the Woods
Night in the Woods drops the combat entirely and keeps the small-town soul: a college dropout cat, a dying Rust Belt town, and dialogue that reads like your own group chat. 95% across 20,000 reviews. The closest thing here to hanging out inside Undertale's quieter moments.
09 In Stars And Time
In Stars And Time weaponises the time loop the way Undertale weaponised saves: the hero repeats the final day endlessly, and the game is about what that repetition does to a person. 97% positive. Slower than everything above and openly indebted to Undertale — the debt is repaid with interest by the end.
SKIP10 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Skip if you came for Undertale's warmth — Doki Doki Literature Club is a horror piece wearing a dating sim, and its fourth-wall tricks aim to hurt, not to befriend. It is well made (97% on Steam) and the original is free, so Plus is doubly skippable as a purchase. OneShot is the meta game that cares about you; this is the one that does not.
Similar but different
Celeste
Celeste tells an Undertale-grade story through a platformer's fingers: anxiety as a boss fight, kindness as a mechanic. 97% across 145,000 reviews — the same 'small game, enormous heart' species.
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight keeps the melancholy and trades the words for silence: a kingdom's grief told through level design. 97% across 557,000 reviews. For when you want the feeling without the fourth wall.
Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds shares Undertale's rarest property: it can only truly be played once, and it knows it. 96% across 106,000 reviews. Curiosity instead of mercy; the same protective spoiler-silence applies.
FAQ
Is DELTARUNE just more Undertale?
No — same author, same humour, deeper combat, and a story built on different questions with releases arriving in chapters. Undertale is a complete statement; DELTARUNE is a serialised one still unfolding, rated 98% by the people waiting.
What is the closest to a true pacifist run experience?
OneShot — violence is not even on its menu, and its bond with the player is the whole game. Slay the Princess explores the kill-or-spare dilemma most directly; In Stars And Time carries the burden-of-knowledge feeling.
How dark is OMORI really?
Genuinely dark — its themes include ones Undertale never touches, and the content warnings are load-bearing, not decorative. It is also genuinely worth it. Read the warnings, then decide with that information.
Do these need Undertale finished first?
None require it, but play Undertale's pacifist route before DELTARUNE regardless — the resonance is designed. Everything else stands alone; OneShot and Inscryption just ask that you bring no spoilers in.
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