Undertale New York Performances

At NJPAC, Undertale Symphony brings Toby Fox’s Undertale soundtrack into a concert setting, recasting game cues as through-composed orchestral arrangements with rock and pop inflections. The program treats the score less as nostalgia and more as repertoire, placing a 2010s indie game in dialogue with contemporary symphonic practice. New York–area audiences have helped normalize this crossover as part of the region’s broader game-music concert culture. One clear takeaway is how readily these themes hold up when stripped of gameplay and asked to stand on musical structure alone.