Undertale: The RPG that Teaches Compassion

Acelin Eck
5 min readFeb 25, 2021

Undertale is an RPG where the choices of the player determine the ultimate ending, but the catch is that no one has to die. With many games, players go through the motions of battling NPCs and leveling up all to meet a final climactic ending that can predictably involve a final battle or meeting the boss the story has been leading up to. Undertale takes that concept but interjects the question: “What if you could talk to the characters and build relationships rather than just fighting them?” While the intricacies of the game change with each conversation, action, and battle choice…

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