How to Get The True Ending (Spoilers)

[Nickboom]

Hey guys, took me a while but since some of the listings here are a bit confusing I figured I might as well post the actual way to get the true ending.

First off, you need to kill Hannah, Ash, and Marianne. As a side note, all of their deaths should unlock memory fragments, this is another indicator you are in the true path.

Hannah can die by constantly annoying luke with every option, also make sure as Isabella you show the letter, this lowers Hannah's and Lukes Affection for each other. Absolutely make sure you do NOT check the trapdoor when given the option, it overrides the ending we are shooting for.

With regards to Marianne, make sure you visit the first floor of the house when given the chance, and when you end up facing her dead lady friend, pick the option to stay with her. This will result in her dying and being removed from the end game.

Ash can only be killed at the very tail end of the game, when confronting Luke, make sure you disarm him. This will lead to him dying.

A few other important conditions for the true ending is information, make sure you keep Isabella alive (When presented with the choice to go to work or stay home, go to work) and go with Ash to BTC, if Ash goes alone it doesnt work. Similarly, I dont know if this is an important portion, but I'd recommend you stay for the movie and choose to meet the professor.

Zach must live, to prevent him from dying simply dont investigate the noises you hear from the mansion, in all routes this leads to him dying if you investigate. Zach must also talk with Ash about the photos (Zach should wind up meeting with the professor, if he doesnt you did something wrong)

Rebeca must also live, to prevent her death make sure you run to the door not upstairs when given the choice. When given the option between meeting with Ash or hanging out with Luke make sure you hang out with Ash, should wind up meeting the professor and getting a permit.

Now sadly there are some uncertainies, I do not know if character relationships matter. For my playthrough I made sure everyone within Ashton, Isabella, Rebecca, and Zachary's group liked each other. Isabella and Ash were dating as well (to do this simply pick every positive relationship choice between the two and always take each others sides in any arguments) Luke's relationship with Rebecca does not seem to matter.

If you did everything right when you reach the end Luke should run out of the room instead of deciding he needs to take action, and you get a few more choices, I wont spoil what they are. You can tell if you did it right by unlocking a memory fragment and of course in gallery some of the true ending cgs. IMPORTANT NOTE, you must have already gotten all 6
other memory fragments in order to get the very last 8th one. So I recommend killing everyone before doing a true ending run. This way you can get the most out of the true ending without having to do it over again.

I believe everything stated above is correct, if there are any errors or corrections do let me know. Hopefully this helps some peoples search for the true ending :D

[IsabelleK]

Meeting up with Ash instead of Luke isn't necessary. I got it without doing that part.

[Relle]

A couple notes:

Isabella does NOT have meet visit the professor in Chapter 1 to get the true end, but you do get more interesting information out of that than meeting with the priest.

In Chapter 4, you don't have to search the first floor to kill off Marianne. If you search the ground floor you'll get a similar option to leave or stay with her ghost friend; choose to stay and Marianne will die.

In Chapter 5 Rebecca doesn't have to spend time with Ash. She'll see the professor and do her library research either way.

Character relationships do NOT matter for getting the ending itself, but there are epilogue variations for if Isabella is dating Ash or not and if Rebecca is dating Ash or not.

[Mocha☕]

Thank you for this guide, I can only imagine how hard it must have been to get everything needed in order to share it with us!

Also, Relle, I don't see how Ash being in the Epilogue would make any sense, if he's supposed to be one of the three that die. Unless I'm missing something.

[Major]

Awesome guide. This saved me such a long time to figure it out. My GF plays the game, but we want a bit more clarity on the True Ending.

So when we followed the above, and got the two choices with Luke, we picked to burn the mansion down with us. I take it from the Dialogue this was his atonement, from what he has done in his entire life, and that by doing what he has done, he has freed those trapped. Now for the Memory Fragments, I take it after Charlotte tortured and killed the Lord in front of the maid, and had her burnt at the stake, and we see in the final fragment that the maid is behind her, was it the maid who influenced her into making the note? Or Does the note have no influence in what happens at all, and it's just whoever enters the house that is affliced by the curse?

Also, is that confirmation that she was indeed a witch, or does it follow down a similar road as the Grudge, where the curse was born after the Maid was burnt?

Would be great to hear your opinions on the True Ending, and how you interpret it.

[Satoshi]

I think I don't think the maid was a witch and don't know how the "Help me" letter was created but the letter might be how the people are cursed.

Maybe the letter is recreated if people destroy it and even if they burn down the mansion if the Maid is still not passed away she might recreate the letter and leave it on where mansion once stood for people to find and read it.

Maid probably wasn't a witch and also about true ending
in epilogue it says people still hear voices and cries where mansion was so i am guessing despite the maid passed away,the people who died because of her still is suffering there which is tragic and sad.
What do you guys think?

[Major]

I definitely think the maid created the curse upon her death in the true ending. Like I said, in the grudge, the curse was formed when her husband kill her, her cat and child in a fit of rage, and this brought upon the curse. I think it's similair. Hopefully they can make a prologue series that leads up to the events of "The Letter". Like chapters for the 3 characters we see in the fragments.

[Satoshi]

Originally posted by Major:

I definitely think the maid created the curse upon her death in the true ending. Like I said, in the grudge, the curse was formed when her husband kill her, her cat and child in a fit of rage, and this brought upon the curse. I think it's similair. Hopefully they can make a prologue series that leads up to the events of "The Letter". Like chapters for the 3 characters we see in the fragments.

That would be cool addition to the game
Even if it will be a DLC i will probably buy it.

[NewMoon]

Can someone post spoiler free about how I kill Hannah? She just won't die in my playthroughs. I tried to piss off Luke but some of those options raise his affections I think. Do I prioritize upsetting him or lowering his affections?

Thanks.

[purple&green2023]

Originally posted by dancinpixels:

Can someone post spoiler free about how I kill Hannah? She just won't die in my playthroughs. I tried to piss off Luke but some of those options raise his affections I think. Do I prioritize pissing him off or lowering his affections?

Thanks.

On Isabella's chapter make sure you show the letter to Rose. After that in chapter 2 just keep lowering Hannah's affection with Luke and flirt with Zach for safe measure and you'll have a very dead Hannah.

[NewMoon]

Ty for the quick response Green, I'm playing right now and report back on my success for future peeps :)

Edit: Oh, I was NOT expecting that So Hannah's is the only death not caused by the ghost but by lunatic!Luke? Makes his flirting with Becca much more devious in the later chapters

For anyone struggling with getting Hannah murdered, you have to pick the ones that lower his affections which is not always the ones that set him off (e.g., not defending yourself in his spat about visiting the open house). I also support being a mean girl to Zachary by flirting with him and upsetting him to be safe in getting her death.

[Relle]

@Allana I don't mean Ash is in the epilogue, because yes he has to be dead, but the text changes for Rebecca and Isabella's epilogues based on whether they were dating Ash or not.

About the ending: When Zach talks to the professor he mentions a wraith and "something must be sacrificed to destroy whatever anchors the wraith", along with "the simplest grudge can bring the ugliest even in the kindest person". So it seems like the maid wasn't a witch, but Charlotte having her killed turned her into a wraith after her death. Then the only way to end the curse is with a "sacrifice", which is why Luke has to sacrifice himself in the true end. (Because the maid was in love with Charlotte's fiance and Luke looks a lot like him, I think is the idea.) In the other endings no sacrifice was made, so the curse doesn't end even if the mansion is destroyed.

I think the letter was written by Charlotte because she's trapped in the mansion with the wraith, the same way Luke can get trapped in his bad endings. I don't think the letter actually does anything by itself, because there are people killed by the curse who never saw the letter (the BRC employees). Also, in Marianne's ending where she survives, the scene she sees on the camera implies that the "send this to five people or else..." part was added on by the teenage boys, rather than being part of the original letter Charlotte wrote. So I think the letter is just a cry for help, rather than part of the curse itself.

[Major]

@Relle Do you think Mariannes death was primarily caused to her big traumatic experience in the past with the girl she loved, which festered over the years? And the Letter experience just escalated the guilt to the point where, when she meets her fake lover, the guilt takes over and she wants to die to be with her? I was hoping she could move on, but not everyone can move on just like that, especially when the person they love, and feel they failed is before them. I didn't like it, but it felt a perfect scenario for her death, that fits in with story.

[Relle]

@Major That was pretty much how I interpreted it, yeah. Marianne has years and years of pent-up guilt about Lorraine's death, and the ghost took advantage of that to mess with her head even further. So in the ending where she dies, it's because the ghost was able push her far enough that the guilt consumed her and she became willing to take her own life to make it stop.

It is very sad and I don't like it either (I want everyone to live and be happy!), but I agree that it's a fitting scenario for her death.

(My favorite ending for Marianne is the one where she survives and dates Hannah, because her dating Hannah shows she was really able to address her issues with Lorraine and move on.)

[cardboard]

Hey, I haven't finished the game yet, but do you need every fragment to get the true ending?

[Relle]

No. You can only get the last two fragments after getting the true ending.