The free roam changes are exciting and very much needed! I’m still hoping for the ability to login with two NNIDs when playing local online multiplayer, we’d bring it out so much more if they did.

It’s probably going to be a bit - there are 7 chapters planned with 1-4 out now and 5 coming out next year. I don’t think anything has been announced for chapters 6 and 7, but I’d think end of 2027-mid 2028 would make sense for it to be complete.

That being said, I haven’t jumped into Deltarune yet for similar reasons, but I’ve heard each episode tends to have a ‘Conclusion’ instead of cliffhangers and players have felt satisfied waiting for the next part. I’ll probably pick it up in the next year to see how it is.

No new releases from Naughty Dog partnered with big IPs like God of War and Horizon releasing early in the PS5’s lifecycle with no news from those studios is really making it feel stagnant from a first party perspective. When you list out the releases, the slate doesn’t look too bad; we have a new Spider-Man, Astro Bot and Helldivers were excellent surprises, and Ghost of Yotei is right around the corner. The issue for me is after Yotei releases, there isn’t anything we are aware of that I can think of off the top of my head that’s coming soon, except maybe Wolverine.

Intergalactic is obviously exciting, but there’s no way that game is coming before 2027 (if not 2028 or beyond). Guerrilla is surely making a new Horizon game which COULD make next year, but we’ll see. The PS5 release schedule has just felt pretty slow since 2022, and beyond 3rd party support, it doesn’t feel like there is anything huge coming to give it momentum.

Pretty cool idea to get people interested who haven’t played before, or recapture previous player’s excitement to hopefully sway them to Deltarune!