“Despite everything, it’s still you”: How the player becomes a condemned god in undertale by engaging in sartrean bad faith through the true reset function

• Main Author: Villalobos, Kyla Thea Marie Santiago
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2025
• Subjects: Existentialism in literature; Jean-Paul Sartre; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/25
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper will delve into Undertale's True Reset Function to elucidate the claim that the game and its True Reset function posits bad faith, as well as makes the player out to become a “condemned god”. Sartre first defines bad faith as a form of self-deception wherein individuals deny their ra...