Deltarune Chapter 5: Festival Day Dark World Threat, Bosses, and Secrets

A fresh day is here in Hometown’s Festival, and Kris, Susie, and Noelle are heading out to take it in—until a sudden complication throws everything off course. A new Dark World shows up, and it immediately puts Kris’s adoptive father at risk while he’s working at his flower shop.

Chapter 5 focus: Dark World traversal, bosses, and secrets

Chapter 5 of Deltarune introduces a sprawling Dark World to explore. Alongside its expanded layout, it also brings a brand new method for moving through the area, plus a collection of inventive boss encounters and hidden extras tucked throughout for players to uncover.

To make it easier to get the most out of this stretch of the game, a chapter checklist is set up to mirror the structure of the IGN walkthrough coverage. It’s designed to help you follow along section-by-section, with checkmarks available for tracking your progress as you move through Chapter 5.

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A new day has dawned, and with it comes Hometown’s Festival, which Kris, Susie, and Noelle will be attending. Things soon take an unexpected turn with the appearance of a new Dark World that threatens Kris’s adoptive father at his flower shop.

Chapter 5 of Deltarune features an expansive Dark World that holds a brand new way to traverse its world, as well as hiding a host of clever boss battles and secrets along the way for you to discover.

To help you get the most out of this portion of the game, we’ve listed each IGN walkthrough for every Chapter 5 section, with full puzzle solutions and boss tutorials for each. You can use the checkmarks to track your progress with the game.

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