My partner likes voicing some of the characters while I voice the rest, it's a fun time.
Awww, I did the same with my friends and family. I hope to do the same with my spouse some day when I introduce them to Undertale.
https://steamdb.info/app/1671210/charts/
The game is estimated to have nearly 1 million owned copies, and that's just on steam, and had over 100K players running the game at its peak.
https://steamdb.info/app/391540/charts/
Undertale has at least 6 million owned copies, with over 200K players running it at its peak.
I wouldn't consider this game to be niche. It does have a fandom, but it's a game enjoyed vastly by more people outside the fandom. I had to convince my friend to play despite avoiding it due to the obsessive fandom (which I have nothing against), and they genuinely enjoyed it, even when a "steam friend" called them the f-slur for playing it. I don't think it's fair or true to say this game is solely made for a fandom to obsess over when the game accrued wide popularity across all kinds of people.
I definitely need to. I played Undertale before multiple times and it still holds a special place in my heart. It's one of my favorite games, next to Portal. I do replay games sometimes, but as for story games I have replayed Undertale probably comes second next to Portal, and that's partly because I would share the game (Undertale) with friends and family and help them when they struggled in certain monster encounters. When I finished the game for the first time, I archived the save file so that timeline was retained, as if the world was kept alive forever. Toby Fox's music is amazing, I agree.
I really need to play and finish Earthbound, too, as I promised a friend who promised to finish Undertale after I convinced them to play.
Sidenote:
I miss my friend. I haven't talked to them in years. It's hard for me to keep in touch with people who live distantly from me. If I wasn't constantly working and struggling in capitalism, it would be easier for me to spend time with my friends and family. This existence under alienation is so lonely...my spouse is pretty much all I have. I miss the camaraderie I only had in short instances in my life. I do have it sometimes during party meetups, and I do have some cool friends in the party, but we are so busy and don't have a lot of time to participate in casual hobbies and activities.
According to the article:
Anti-recommendations:
SimpleX Chat – Many suggested this and I will explicitly recommend against it due to the founder's positions on various topics. This includes being anti-vaxx, believing COVID-19 was a hoax, trans- and homophobia, climate denial; In the SimpleX Groupchat he's also been seen basically bootlicking trump a couple times, but I've lost receipts to that.
The privatization and budget cuts of NOAA will affect truck drivers who depend on the service to know about the forecast in order to stay safe on American roads. The radio has been going off air during certain periods recently for the first time in history. I predict a lot more fatal accidents. Everyone please be safe on the road.
I didn't even know who Pirate Software is. Looked him up, and in his streams he sounds like V**sh, and I can't stand that pretentious voice. Turns out, he artificially deepens his voice on streams and has a much higher pitch voice as proven on videos off-stream, lmao. What an insecure dick.
They need to step away from the lathe.
I'm angry every day I live in a world where we consider live leaks of genocide as NSFW/L. Nothing against Evilphd666 or the comment, but to even remotely consider this as NSFW and not solely NSFL just saddens me. We live in a world with a livestreamed genocide for nearly 2 years. Horrific pictures, videos, and stories that no human should ever have to experience, while these sick monsters in power make a game out of it. Death to Zionism. Death to Amerikkka. Death to the West.
t.me/zoka200
The Telegraph: Chinese Boeing 747 cargo aircraft disappear from radar as they approach Iran.
China has probably supplied something to Iran and may continue to do so.
Boeing 747 cargo aircraft flying from China do not exactly disappear intentionally from radars, as suggested by The Telegraph.
Based on our findings, they land at the airport in the city of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. Although the city itself is close to the border with Iran, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. From there, they continue on to the European Union.
The media are obviously just creating a story out of regular stopovers.
https://aje.io/gn5i1t?update=3780366
Israelis in ‘shock’ as Iranian missiles hit their targets
Bernard Smith ~Reporting from Amman, Jordan~
Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli broadcasting authority is saying that several missiles fell in open areas injuring several Israelis who fled to shelters.
We are waiting on some more details on that. The most significant damage so far has been to Haifa port where refinery operations have been halted because of severe damage to the refinery. This is one of two refineries. Israel refines a large chunk of petrol, diesel and jet fuel, and it will be considerably inconveniencing and difficult for Israel to manage.
Israelis have never experienced anything like this in the last 40 or 50 years. So it’s come as a bit of a shock to a lot of Israelis.
Israelis are beginning to realise that this is a very, very dangerous situation that they are in. Nevertheless, Israelis always rally around the flag. They may not like Benjamin Netanyahu or his extreme right-wing government – he personally remains unpopular – but Israelis will rally around the flag when the country is under attack.
~Smoke and fire rise after an Iranian missile attack on Israel, at Haifa port, on June 15, 2025 [Rami Shlush/Reuters]~
The BDS campaign against Microsoft is working.
I hope the enshittification of TikTok incentivizes people to stay on Xiaohongshu. Heck, the fact that Xiaohongshu makes it easy to enjoy the platform without getting addicted to it should hopefully encourage people who approved the TikTok ban because they didn't approve of its addictive algorithm of slop to go on this platform instead and never look back.
That's fair.
Nevertheless, my point is that the games are highly popular as they are approachable to most people, and many people cherish the story, the characters, and the gameplay. In instances of the "for the fans" content inside the games, I believe most people who do not participate in the fandom just glaze them over and still enjoy the game. The fandom shouldn't stir anyone away from playing the game, nor does it for at least hundreds of thousands to millions of people.