{"id":1269,"date":"2026-06-26T01:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.goranked.gg\/en\/news\/deltarune-chapter-5-festival-day-released-free\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:32:43","slug":"deltarune-chapter-5-festival-day-released-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goranked.gg\/en\/news\/deltarune-chapter-5-festival-day-released-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Deltarune Chapter 5 &#8216;Festival Day&#8217; released free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deltarune Chapter 5, subtitled Festival Day, arrived on June 24, 2026 as a free update for owners of the paid game on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Creator Toby Fox confirmed the release at 11:00 AM EDT. The update was distributed through standard platform updates, so existing owners received the content with no additional purchase.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chapter continues directly from Chapter 4. It follows Kris, Susie and Ralsei as they attend a festival that earlier chapters had foreshadowed. Fox described the episode in his release newsletter as &#8220;one more fun adventure before the sun &#8216;goes down completely,'&#8221; and the chapter features a lighter tone than its predecessor. Castle Town returns as an accessible hub, and the Weird Route carries on for players following that path.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the action is set in a new Dark World created inside Flower King, Asgore\u2019s flower shop. The chapter introduces a new antagonist named Flowery and adds a bonus boss called Pink, which completes the set of Shadow Crystal bosses that have appeared across the series.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fox included development notes in the same newsletter. He wrote that Chapter 6 is &#8220;easier to build than previous chapters,&#8221; that work is progressing quickly, and that some team members may begin work on Chapter 7 before the end of 2026. Those remarks were presented in the context of the schedule for the remaining two installments of the planned seven-part arc.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deltarune began as an episodic project by Toby Fox, with multiple chapters released over several years. The paid-version model continues, offering free chapter updates to existing owners while expanding the game\u2019s narrative threads, recurring boss encounters and playable locations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deltarune Chapter 5, Festival Day, launched June 24, 2026 as a free update for existing owners on PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"newsroom_tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deltarune Chapter 5 &#039;Festival Day&#039; 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