Find your next ending route
Mark only finales you have finished, then describe your current save. Completion markers are shared with the achievement tracker; the route answers below are not saved. This tool cannot read your game or verify hidden unlock flags.
Select your current stage before deciding whether this route is reachable from this save. No branch has been assumed from an unknown answer.
Open this route’s full instructionsHidden-route conditions below follow player guides. Having both main completion markers is not proof that your platform has registered its unlock flags; check whether the Bible or qualifying lobby exit actually appears in the new game.
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| Ending | Achievement name | Main condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOLVE ET COAGULA | Spare every Relicta after the Aurifer; complete the Lacuna finale |
| 2 | MAGNUM OPUS | Kill at least one Relicta with the Aurifer; complete the Hermes finale |
| 3 | VIVUS EX MORTIBUS | New-game Bible route, three Iron Crosses and the secret encounter |
| 4 | RENUNTIATIO | Leave through the lobby entrance on a qualifying new game |
These conditions follow the linked release-game guides. Hidden-route prerequisites are player-guide reports, not a statement that this site has tested every platform's completion flags.
Still earlier in the story? The saving guide connects water-point choices and the collectible cutoff to this final branch.
The save to keep
Finish the knife transformations in the moonlight guide. Save after the Aurifer appears in your inventory, before the first Relicta encounter. Keep that slot rather than overwriting it after making the branch choice.
Finish Ending 1 first, then reload this slot for Ending 2. Each route needs its own completed finale. Merely seeing the alternate boss or reloading before the ending finishes is not a substitute for completing it.
| Stage | Save plan | What that save can recover |
|---|---|---|
| Before the final moonlight door | Keep a backup if slots allow | Retry the transformation and prepare a clean branch |
| Aurifer obtained, no Relicta killed | Keep this slot untouched | Both main ending branches |
| A Relicta has been killed | Save to a different slot | The kill branch; use the clean slot to return to the no-kill route |
| New game with hidden routes available | Make a separate early save | The Bible route before its missable rituals |
The choice happens after the Aurifer transformation. The earlier elevator-shaft escape is not the place to decide which ghosts to kill. If you already overwrote your only clean slot after a kill, this guide cannot restore it; you need an earlier save or another playthrough for the no-kill branch.
Ending 1 and Ending 2
Reveal the main ending conditions and final encounters
For SOLVE ET COAGULA, leave every Relicta alive after obtaining the Aurifer. Continue through the hotel and the street toward Séptimo Arte. The finale leads to Lacuna. Complete the fight and ending sequence.
For MAGNUM OPUS, reload the preserved save and kill one Relicta with the Aurifer. You do not need to clear all the ghosts. Continue to Séptimo Arte and complete the Hermes encounter.
The relevant trigger is a kill, not simply carrying the weapon. If you are uncertain whether you killed a ghost on the no-kill route, reload the clean branch save.
Shared route after the choice: hotel doors → production-studio lobby → apartment stairwell → third-floor hallway → left exit to the street → Séptimo Arte. Carrying the Aurifer alone does not choose Ending 2. Complete the appropriate finale and check the matching achievement before moving on to another route.
Ending 3 and the three Iron Crosses
Reveal the Bible route and secret boss
After completing both main endings, start a new game and collect the Bible from the glass table in the ground-floor lobby. Complete the hidden encounter at each location before its normal puzzle closes that opportunity.
- Check the lobby table on the qualifying new game; this is the Bible pickup, not the elevator.
| Location | Hidden action | Required result |
|---|---|---|
| Second-floor living room | Use the Bible; start on Mars / ♂ and circle the symbols counterclockwise six times | Win the encounter and collect Iron Cross 1 |
| First-floor projector-room lock | Use the Bible before opening the lock normally; enter 6666 | Win the encounter and collect Iron Cross 2 |
| Floor 0 cinematography room | Use the Bible, connect the yellow RCA cable and cycle camera channels | Win the encounter and collect Iron Cross 3 |
- First ritual: start on Mars and follow the counterclockwise loop six times before solving the TV.
- Second ritual: use Bible first, then set all four digits to 6. This is the hidden ritual code, not the randomized phone clue.
The TV puzzle and Copper Key door are particularly important stopping points: do the related ritual before normal progression. With all three crosses, return to the third-floor blue-door area left of the elevator. Place them on the marked poster on the brick wall to open the secret passage. Defeat Amy to finish VIVUS EX MORTIBUS.
- After placing all three Iron Crosses, enter the opened doorway on the street route.
Before leaving each ritual: pick up its Iron Cross and verify the inventory. Winning the encounter without collecting its reward is not enough to open the three-cross passage. Keep this playthrough separate from your main-ending branch save.
Ending 4 at the lobby entrance
Reveal the short exit route
After both main endings are complete, start another new game. Stay in the ground-floor lobby and use the Apartment Key on the building's glass front entrance to the left. Leave instead of taking the elevator upstairs. This is the reported RENUNTIATIO route; it does not require collecting the three crosses.
- On the reported fresh-game route, use Apartment Key at the glass front entrance and leave.
Some older written guides describe this entrance differently. Follow the lobby-exit route documented in NoobFeed's dedicated Ending 4 guide, rather than assuming that every blue door is the exit.
A practical unlock order
- Preserve the post-Aurifer save and complete Ending 1.
- Reload it, make the opposite Relicta choice and complete Ending 2.
- Start a new game for the short Ending 4 route.
- Start another game for the Bible and Iron Cross route to Ending 3.
The hidden routes should be planned from the start; they cannot be recovered by changing the last choice on the Aurifer save. Return to the walkthrough for the normal progression path.
If an ending route does not unlock
| Problem | Check before replaying |
|---|---|
| Hermes appears when you wanted Lacuna | Whether any Relicta was killed after obtaining the Aurifer; reload the clean branch slot if available |
| You have the Aurifer but no ending achievement | Finish the final encounter and ending sequence; possession of the knife is only a checkpoint |
| The Bible is absent in a new game | Confirm that both main finales were completed; hidden-route unlock flags remain based on the linked player reports |
| One Iron Cross is missing | Check each ritual and reward pickup against the table before progressing past its normal puzzle |
| The lobby exit does nothing | Check the reported prior-ending requirement, a fresh game, the ground-floor front entrance and the Apartment Key |
The hidden-route instructions describe the route documented by the cited guides. An absent unlock is not proof of a bug, and unverified platform-specific flags should not be treated as guaranteed. The selector uses your answers and personal completion markers; it does not read your game saves.
Use the achievement checklist for Heart of Lead and the death challenges, and the combat guide for the final encounters. Ending choices and challenge requirements are separate.
Evidence and platform limits
| Route | Evidence checked October 23, 2026 | What this establishes |
|---|---|---|
| Main endings 1–2 | Official Steam Puzzle & Boss Guide, sections 25–26 | The Aurifer and Relicta branch; it does not document the hidden unlock flags |
| Bible / Ending 3 | NoobFeed's dedicated guide, published October 19 | A reported both-main-endings prerequisite and fresh-game route, not a verified per-platform unlock test |
| Lobby exit / Ending 4 | NoobFeed's dedicated guide, published October 19 | A reported both-main-endings prerequisite, new game and Apartment Key at the front entrance |
The hidden-route sources do not identify an exact tested build for each platform. Check the Bible or entrance interaction in your own new game before committing to another full run. A Steam achievement name confirms a finale's identity, not its hidden prerequisites. No additional console-specific flag or Golden Cross requirement is established here.
Sources
- Destructoid: Bible and ritual reference screenshots.
- 9Puz: iampanax capture references for the ritual lock and secret entrance.
- Official Puzzle & Boss Guide, sections 25–26: knife completion, the one-kill branch and the shared final-area route. Hidden-route details below are separately attributed to player guides.
- NoobFeed: main ending 1 and main ending 2.
- NoobFeed: Ending 3 and the Bible encounters.
- NoobFeed: Ending 4 lobby exit.
- Into Indie Games: final branch.
Checked October 23, 2026. Good and bad are common route labels, not a claim that the story has only one valid interpretation.