Үл мэдэгдэх тоглоом Undertale-ийн ачаар гэнэт алдаршжээ

Steam дээрх Crashphalt тоглоом сонирхогчийн бүтээсэн Undertale-ийн олон тоглогчийн модны улмаас гэнэтийн эрэлтэд орж, тоглогчдын тоо нь огцом нэмэгдлээ.

2018 онд гарсан Crashphalt тоглоом өнгөрсөн хугацаанд цөөн тооны шүүмж хүлээн авч байсан ч сүүлийн үед 500 гаруй шинэ сэтгэгдлээр бүл нэмжээ. Гэвч эдгээр сэтгэгдлийн ихэнх нь уг тоглоомын тухай бус, харин Undertale тоглоомын талаар өгүүлж байна. Энэхүү өөрчлөлт нь Undertale Together хэмээх фанат бүтээсэн модтой холбоотой бөгөөд тоглогчид үүнийг ашиглан олон тоглогчийн горимд тоглохын тулд Crashphalt-ийн суулгалтын файлуудыг ашиглах арга олжээ.

Тодруулбал, тоглогчид Crashphalt-ийн файлуудыг өөрсдийн тоглоомд хуулж, нэрийг нь өөрчилснөөр Steam-ийг хуурч, уг тоглоомын Remote Play функцийг ашиглан Undertale-ийг онлайнаар хамтдаа тоглох боломжтой болсон байна. Үүний үр дүнд 2022 оны 12 дугаар сард Crashphalt-ийн өдөрт идэвхтэй тоглогчдын тоо 1683 хувиар өсжээ. Энэхүү арга нь Deltarune тоглоомд ч мөн адил үйлчилдэг бөгөөд 2025 оны 6 дугаар сард дахин нэг идэвхжилт ажиглагдсан байна.

Crashphalt-ийн хөгжүүлэгч RetroSpecter өөрийн бүтээл нь ийнхүү өөр зорилгоор ашиглагдаж, “хоёр дахь амьдралаа” олсонд эерэг хандлагатай байгаагаа илэрхийлжээ. Тэрээр Undertale-ийг хөгжүүлэлтийн замд нь урам зориг өгсөн тоглоом хэмээн онцлоод, Undertale-ийн бүтээгч Тоби Фоксыг хамтран ажиллахыг урьсан байна.

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A few months ago, indie developer RetroSpecter noticed something unusual about Crashphalt, their first completed game that launched on Steam in 2018: Since their last check-in on the neglected platformer, Crashphalt had suddenly gained over 500 reviews. In its first four years, it had barely managed a dozen.

And almost none of those new reviewers had anything to say about Crashphalt itself. Mostly, they just talked about Undertale.

(Image credit: Cold Pressed Games)

“Does ANYONE want to play Undertale with me???” one reviewer writes. Another calls Crashphalt the “best game to never actually play.” Others insist that “Undertale is a pretty cool game.”

“Okay yeah I like Undertale too,” RetroSpecter wrote in a Reddit thread recounting their discovery, “but wtf is going on?”

Crashphalt owed its unexpected renaissance, they soon realized, to Undertale Together, a fan-made Undertale multiplayer mod that, typically, only supports local co-op—a limitation that players found a clever way to circumvent.

If you look at Crashphalt’s SteamDB charts, you’ll notice that between November and December 2022 its peak daily player count jumped from 6 to 107—a roughly 1683% increase. That timeframe happens to coincide with the December 2, 2022 upload date of a certain YouTube video—one that RetroSpecter would eventually come to understand as the source of that sudden spike in player activity.

The video outlines a method for playing Undertale Together online by copying Crashphalt install files into a modded Undertale directory. Afterwards, renaming the Undertale executable to “Crashphalt.exe” is all it takes for Steam to believe it’s RetroSpecter’s platformer and allow Remote Play multiplayer for what would otherwise be a local-only mod.

And yes, it works for Deltarune, too. Unsurprisingly, there was another spike in Crashphalt player activity in June 2025, coinciding with Deltarune’s full paid launch on Steam. Why the video’s creator chose Crashphalt specifically, however, is still something of a mystery.

Crashphalt players fighting on the moon. — (Image credit: Cold Pressed Games)

“The only requirement for the hack is that [it] has Remote Play enabled, and I guess it does help that Crashphalt is free. But I imagine there are tons of games that fit that bill,” RetroSpecter said. “Crashphalt was just the lucky game chosen for the honor.”

While all those players might not technically be showing up for Crashphalt itself, RetroSpecter says it’s “really cool to see that the game has found a second life”—even if it’s an unconventional one.

“Undertale came out around the same time I was getting into game dev, and was incredibly inspiring to me,” the developer said. “So I think it’s really cool that it’s found a way to impact the community even if in a small way and act as a way for friends to play the game together.”

It’s a refreshingly generous response to what’s easy to imagine as an irritation—though RetroSpecter did leave a slightly self-interested postscript addressed to Undertale’s own developer:

“Toby Fox. If you read this, let me know if you… like… wanna make a game together. Thanks.”