Five Endings: Discoveries Against Kills, and Two Only in New Game+

The rule

The three main endings

What counts

The New Game+ endings: the setups

1. Dog: three coins, three banks

   Bronze Coin from the Video Star back room, into the Guide Dogs for the Blind bank just before the Pharmacy (Chapter 1). Silver Coin from the Clara Woods yard shed where postcard #10 was, into the dog in the laundromat behind the Post Service store once you have the boltcutters (Chapters 9–10). Gold Coin from SWDP room 793 — unlock it from the control panel along with the valve door — into the bank at the end of the corridor past the four-way split with the red lights (Chapter 15). The ending plays after the final boss. Let's Talk This Out (silver).

2. Sci-fi: three books and a card

   Book one, History of Space Flight, 1952 – 1992, on the floor left of Zoe's bed (Chapter 3). The card: after accepting Richard's gift in Chapter 6, the hotel's upstairs door of buttons — Bird, Tree, Planet, Bird, three-legged triangle, Satellite, Satellite, Fish, Rocket, Planet, Dog, Pillar; numbered, counting buttons left to right and top to bottom, it reads 21, 17, 9, 21, 12, 24, 24, 5, 3, 9, 1, 14 — then the Strange Access Card by the elephant statue. Book two, Freeze Me / Wake Me – Elias Fisher, in the store on the south-west corner of Atlas Square after Richard's call (Chapter 10). Book three, A Map of Nowhere Else, in SWDP room 621 beside the resource container (Chapter 15). Then the keypad on the left before the last door of Chapter 15: the ending triggers after the next scene and skips the final boss. The postcards hint at the sequence but are not needed. Sci-fi-lent Hill (silver).

All five in two playthroughs

1. Run one: everything, and everyone

   Collect every collectible and kill every enemy you can. More Kills than Discoveries is then guaranteed, so this is Abandoned. Skip manual saves if you want Reject The Help now.

2. Run two: New Game+, quietly

   Avoid kills, recollect every Clue and Document, do the Dog and Sci-fi setups as you go, and move fast enough for the four-hour Fleeting Visit — pausing stops the timer.

3. Save before the gate

   At the end of Chapter 10, once the Constructed Mechanical Device exists and before you open the gate to CEG Tower, make a manual save.

4. Save before the crank

   In Chapter 15, when turning the red crank is the last thing left, make another.

5. Finish for Justice, reload for the other two

   Complete the game: Justice. Reload the crank save and use the card: Sci-fi. Reload again, feed the last coin and beat the boss: Dog. The order is disputed: PowerPyx's route ends on Dog, while EliteGuias does Dog first and insists Sci-fi be the last ending you see, because the Pistol-3000 waits in the New Game+ that follows the Sci-fi ending.

6. Reload the gate save for Forever

   Kill ten enemies around Clara Woods, then ignore documents and kill everything as Richard and Simon. If the credits give Abandoned again, reload the crank save, pick up a couple of documents in the last area and let the boss-room enemies live: slightly more Discoveries than Kills is Forever (PowerPyx).

7. GameRant's variant

   All five from one New Game+ with two saves — one on arrival at Clara Woods Estate, one after the last puzzles of Part 6 — and a count of your Discoveries before reloading the first; it wants five fewer kills than Discoveries for Forever and more than 60 kills for Abandoned.

The ending trophies

• For St. Amelia (gold, missable): the Justice ending.
• Here To Stay (gold, missable): the Forever ending.
• Just Making Things Worse (gold, missable): the Abandoned ending.
• Let's Talk This Out (silver, missable): the Dog ending, New Game+ only.
• Sci-fi-lent Hill (silver, missable): the Sci-fi ending, New Game+ only.
• Reliving A Nightmare (silver): complete New Game+ on any difficulty — the same run.
• Fleeting Visit (silver, missable): under four hours; the New Game+ run is the natural place for it.

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