Steam reviews
330,473 of 342,437 Steam user reviews are positive (96.5%) and Steam's own label is “Overwhelmingly Positive”, according to Steam's review summary for Undertale at the last data refresh.
Games like Undertale
- Deltarune
- Omori
- OneShot
Drafted by Claude; not individually verified.
Good for
- Players interested in games that interrogate RPG genre conventions
- Fans of character-driven writing and memorable music composition
- Anyone who enjoys games that reward multiple playthroughs with different approaches
- Players who want a complete, polished short RPG under 8 hours
Avoid if
- You want mechanically complex RPG systems — combat is intentionally simple
- You have read detailed plot spoilers — the game's impact depends heavily on blind discovery
- You dislike retro-style pixel art — the aesthetic is intentionally crude
Is Undertale an indie game?
Yes. Steam lists Undertale under the "Indie" genre, and its publisher is not on this site's major-publisher list.
- Steam genre tags on record: Indie, RPG — includes "Indie".
- Developer: tobyfox.
- Publisher: tobyfox — same as the developer, i.e. self-published; not on this site's major-publisher list.
The rubric, its limits and the publisher list: methodology.