Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Guide for those curious on how to do this:

When starting Chapter 5 on Snowgrave/Weird Route there is a (poor) investigation being done in a place by the police that blocks off the mandatory path usually clear in the regular routes. (It's actually Jockington playing dead with a bit of stubble on his talk sprite.)
This is meant to give off the impression that you're softlocked and forced to abort the route by abandoning the save file. However, there is a secret way I've found that's sorta like going out of bounds.

If player enters and exits the chapter select screen in the exact order of "Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 5", the item "MightyPen" will be temporarily unlocked, signified by a brief variation of "Trouble Dingle" playing.

The player must go and start a new game and play up to exactly when Kris and Susie enter the supply closet, immediately walk out of it and make their all the way over back to where Kris got themselves shoved into the locker by Susie, where the item can be picked up before it mysteriously disappears from your inventory the second you look at it.
Keep in mind that _you must do exactly as said_ above or the MightyPen will not appear and will force you to repeat. From what I've seen it looks that Kris has a chance of tripping and losing 1HP if you take too long to pick up the pen though it doesn't seem to affect anything.

Now that you have it you must go back to your Chapter 5 S/WR save and interact with a slightly misplaced tree tile (one of the few things that even hints this exists). Use the MightyPen on it and you'll be taken to an odd space where the background from the vessel select is used. Soon after you're initiated into a battle with nothing.

There's no action that does anything besides hitting the "nothing" with the FIGHT option which triggers the battle with a flavor text of ✋︎☠︎✋︎❄︎✋︎✌︎❄︎☜︎ 👎︎☜︎☞︎☜︎☠︎💧︎☜︎ 🏱︎☼︎⚐︎❄︎⚐︎👍︎⚐︎☹︎ (INITIATE DEFENSE PROTOCOL).
I won't spoil the full battle but it's like a gauntlet of minigames that warp the battle box in every way possible (pretty sure one of them was a big twisting hallway where you had to avoid rockets with the Annoying Dog's face on them, then you had to fuel a rocket ship), kinda fun tbh. =D
(Think there was also a melted clock minigame that had the numbers 1, 2 and 5 missing.)

Once you deal enough damage (which Kris' seems to double each turn) a small tear appears that automatically takes you over the blockade that even the police seem phased by if you talk to them. Hopefully Snowgrave/Weird Route won't be as convoluted in the remaining chapters.

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Deltarune is an episodic role-playing video game in development by Toby Fox[a] as a follow-up to his 2015 video game Undertale. In the game, the player controls a human teenager, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie, a monster, and Ralsei, a prince from the Dark World. During their quest to seal the Dark Fountains prophesied to end the world, the group makes both friends and foes. The combat system is turn-based and uses bullet hell mechanics. Similarly to Undertale, enemy encounters can be resolved peacefully or through violence.

Development of Deltarune began in 2012, three years before Fox's previous game, Undertale, was released. Though it shares some characters with Undertale and features similar gameplay, it takes place in a separate setting and uses an overhauled battle system with multiple party members. The game's story is divided into multiple chapters that have been released gradually; its first and second chapters were released for free in October 2018 and September 2021 respectively. The next two chapters were released in June 2025 as part of a paid version, which will incorporate future chapters as free updates. The fifth chapter is set to release in 2026, and the game's menu suggests a sixth and seventh chapter. Initially, the game was released on macOS and Windows, before being ported to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2019, and the Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 in 2025. The released chapters have been praised by critics for their soundtrack, narrative, and sense of humor.

During Chapter 2, the player can begin an alternate route (commonly referred to as the "Snowgrave" or "Genocide" route, and internally referred to as the "Weird" or "Side B" route)[16][17][18][19][c] by forcing Noelle to use her magic to freeze enemies, with the help of Spamton, a spambot normally encountered in an optional sidequest that leads to his superboss fight, who sells a "Thorn Ring" that enhances Noelle's power. As the player continues to manipulate Noelle, she is eventually forced to freeze Berdly, becoming shaken by her actions and too exhausted to participate in Queen's plans.