'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity
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...
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.
"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.
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