Five figures in the Sky - Heavy spoilers

[Kain]

I finished the game and I'm still not sure whether they're supposed to represent past EEs(even though some were not humans), or a fore shadowing representing the people that Sam connected in the end and brought him back (Deadman,Die-Hardman,Lockne,Hearman, Fragile).

Ultimately they could be some Lynchian BS that isn't supposed to make sense.

[lieutenantkirtar]

If you look at closeups of them they are all the same model, it looks like it is a lower poly Sam model, and the center one is holding a baby.

I'm sure they are supposed to be something specific but I don't think we have enough information to actually figure it out.

[Wild]

I'm almost certain they're the past EEs, watching over us. I figured the real reason sam has a "chiral allergy" and is crying in the intro, is because he's realizing the scale of what's happening, when remembering the past five extinctions.
I don't think any of them were humans, but they were sentient life and all connected to the beach, they've spent eternity there, so they can probably look like whatever they want, or maybe we only perceive them as what we are and they're actually something completely different. The baby probably represents how the sixth extinction is just beginning, maybe they chose to be humans and have a baby in the center to represent that one of us is going to be the sixth EE, maybe trying to get humans to understand in the only way they could tell them.
But the game also does like the five characters thing, like cliff and his four soldiers, so it could be something else.

[Zarakaï]

For me they are your 5 friends looking for you on the Beach, but I guess anyone can give it their own meaning.

The fact that they appear at the end just when you start hearing the voices of the 5 people looking for you is a big sign imho. You've been wandering aimlessly on the beach for a while and they guide you towards the water where Deadman grabs you.

[Kain]

They show up in the opening too. Plus a lot of trailers.