Endings for Code Vein contains different conclusions of the game that depends on the player's actions/choices made throughout a completed playthrough. These endings unlock different achievements and outcomes of the game's story. There are three endings, although Dweller in the Dark ending has an extra scene that counts toward a forth ending for the Determiner of Fate trophy/achievement, each ending grants a trophy/achievement - on the other hand, unlocking all four rewards you with the Determiner of Fate gold trophy/achievement.
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Endings in Code Vein
Heirs
Conditions:
- Do NOT save any of the four Successors.
- Walk through the door after the battle against a successor without speaking to their petrified body (which can only be spoken to if their vestiges were restored prior to defeating them)
In this ending, the Player is unable to control all the Relics inside their body, and begins his/her transformation into the Queen. Louis is then forced to stab the Player through the heart to kill them. After this event, Louis takes Silva's place in the throne to maintain the Red Mist, while Mia, Yakumo and Jack replace Nicola, Emily and Eva as Successors. Io is last seen resting on the same Bloodspring the player saw at the beginning of the game, where the Player's weapon now rests. She then turns to ash and dies.
"Heirs" is considered to be the bad ending of the game. To achieve this, walk past each successor and exit through the gate during each of their post-fight memories without restoring them. It is also the only route where you don't fight the final boss' second form.
To Eternity
Conditions:
- Restore both the vestiges and memory of at least one, but not all of, the successors.
- Leave all but at least one of the successors in their petrified state
- To do this, walk away from the petrified successor and pass through the door after viewing the memory of each successor boss.
- So, to achieve this ending, restore the memory of 1-3 of the four successors
In this ending, the Player takes Silva's place in the throne, and is now in charge of maintaining the Red Mist. Io lays down next to the unconscious Player, and eventually turns to stone.
"To Eternity" is the neutral ending of the game. To obtain this ending, save at least one successor by restoring all their vestiges before fighting them, then restoring their memory after the battle
- An example is when you face the Successor of the Throat. Before facing her, you'll need to restore all of the Harmonia vestiges in order to unlock the option to restore their memory.
Dweller in the Dark
Conditions:
- Restore all vestiges of the successors before their respective boss fights, then, restore the memories of each successor by interacting with their petrified body during their memory. DO NOT go through the large door at the end of each successors' memory.
In this ending, the Player tries to take the Relics inside Silva's body, but is stopped by Io, which then begins absorbing all the Relics into her body, including the ones inside Aurora, Karen, Nicola, Emily, Eva, Jack, and the Player themself. She then transforms into a massive Bloodspring tree that regularly produces Blood Beads, and maintains the Red Mist. The tree produces a single Amber Blood Bead that the Player uses to open a hole in the Red Mist, leading to the outside world. The Player, Louis, Yakumo, Mia and Murasame then go through the hole and leave. If you repaired every Eos Vestige before the final boss, you will unlock an additional scene where before leaving, the Player stops, looks back, and says Io's name.
"Dweller in the Dark" is often viewed as the true ending of the game. In order to achieve this ending, you'll need to save all four successors by restoring their memories after each battle against the successor. By doing that, you'll have to find their respective vestiges and repair them before heading into the boss fight. You'll find an Eos vestige outside of the crypt for each Successor after their battle, while the remaining are found in Provisional Government Center.
- The additional scene with Io counts as a fourth ending, meaning to get the Determiner of Fate trophy/achievement you'll need to do Dweller in the Dark twice, once seeing the extra scene and one without.
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In Dweller in the Dark, I felt the part where you return to the base almost unnecessary. It felt like the devs were either lazy or uninspired, could've went with a decent cutscene to explain what happens afterwards but nope. Just let Louis and others explain what happened and make them the half assed narrator. Including the base part killed the flow, but I guess it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things because the whole story part of the game wasn't all that great to begin with.
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Apparently "Heirs" is the ending that is most rare on steam... That's a little disappointing that they made it so easy to succeed with "Dweller in the Dark" being the most common. I think I'll make a savestate of my game, I don't want to run through it all again.
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first play. blind and the "true ending"
didn't even know (until today) that the vestiges are neccesary for that/ for saving them lol
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Somehow i managed it to only survive eva. and it oddly fits the story.
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Honestly I only like the bad ending. The scenes where the characters have their last goodbye in the memories are heartbreaking, and seeing them revived 2 minutes later ruins the tragedy. I apparently revived everyone but Nicola, and when I realized I could save the rest it killed the mood for the remaining half of my playthrough.
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THere a serect ending go off from "Dweller In the dark" after you beat virgin born wlak through the door and go back restore ur Io vestige then refight virgin after the fight over you get a blood code call "Queen"
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i went through the process of replaying the game for a third time to finally experience the true ending and all it was, was io turning into a giant mistle, bruh wtf
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lol that last part is a lie, i got the determiner of fate ending on the first try
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for the dweller ending do i need to restore all vestiges like the atlas and hermes ones? or does only the boss ones count towards the ending
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Glad I didn’t get the “bad ending” on my first play through. That was dark.
I ended up getting the “neutral ending” the first time I played.
Second time I got the “good ending” with the extension of Io.
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Since the first successor, I wasn't able to interact with the statues anymore. I actually tried to interact each and every time, but nothing happened, so I thought that was just how it was. Now, I am pretty sure the game was bugged.
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What the heck is wrong with the heirs ending?
Man, I have so many questions...
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I tested it and you can restore vestiges but NOT the statues and still get the bad ending.
(I only restored small pieces not the whole thing)
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Tbh this endings all rub me the wrong way, kinda like both endings on the first DS. To Eternity is probably the one i least dislike :|
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Called it. On my first playthrough I noticed you could just ignore the petrified statues. I didn’t because I had a hunch that it would lead to a different, negative ending.
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I wish you could have save slots it make this a lot easier you could just reboot ypur old save state and get all 4 endings in one run and not have to do the game over entirely
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ok so something is weird with my game. I did all three endings AND i got the special cutscene for the third ending and my game isnt acknowleging that it happened? did this happen to anyone else?
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Did someone get the third and fourth endings mixed up? The third section implies that Dweller in the Dark is the third ending and restoring all of Io's fragments before that ending gives you the Determiner of Fate ending with the extra scene. But this seems to be backwards as I got the extra scene and the Dwellers in the Dark trophy instead of Determiners of Fate.
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I find Code Vein emotional is weird. Those successors supposed to be sacrifices for greater good. But after emotional "goodbye" to their loves one. You suddenly just "yo I gonna revive you k?". Its kind of emotional breaking... its should be sad but instead "errrrr what? well good for ya! they are back!".
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For the fourth final I need to do all the endings with the same character or using other characters?
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If i restore the vestige of a succesor (Isis, for example) but i don't "talk" to the petrified body after the fight, Can i still get the "Heirs" ending?
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I cannot get the trophy for wath all ending despite I watch all and I didn't get it. I'm so frustated right now !
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There may be a misconception regarding the secret ending and i will explain,but, you CAN restore a Eos vestige before the final fight and still get the secret ending in one go without defeating the boss a second time. I'll explain. I only played Code Vein this year and in fact i just beated right now.I knew about the endings and decided to go for the Dweller of Dark(good ending)for my first try even tho i'm a completionist when it comes to trophies. I was gathering and restoring every vestige i found the moment i gathered them, so i knew beforehand that i wasn´t gonna get the 4 ending because i restore one of io's vestige. So i reach the final boss and realized that i haven't restore all of her memories i was missing two, so i died on my first attempt of the Virgin Born (final boss) and went back to home base to restore the last two vestiges and then defeat the final boss. Everything played out normally, the cutscene that appears for the good ending played, but then i was brought back to the home base without the credit scene and no mistle was found at home base, so i went to the door that SUPPOSEDLY would lead to the new game+ and the the secret ending was playing even tho i only beat the boss once. I think what happen was that i triggered the final fight, lost, then return to restore vestige (something that i don't think anyone would decide to stop fighting a boss to restore a vestige) and then defeated the boss. There could also been an update that made the 4 ending easier to get, but the truth is that i got the 4 ending and only defeated the boss one time. If anyone read this until this far i suggest that you tried this, this happen to me and maybe it's a way to make the 4 ending easier to get.
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I somehow got Dweller in the dark by accident. Forgive but this game trying to ape dark souls has failed to make the best ending hard to get.
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Okay right at the top it says following this guide will get you the determiner of fate trophy. That is an utter lie there is a worthless fourth ending that i have to play the game for a fourth time to get now because you neglected to mention it. Thanks for literally nothing
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Quite important correction, is not true that the game only has 3 endings there are four of theme, dwellers have two versions.... T_T can you *****ing believe it
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But what happens if I don't save all of them. What happens if I forget just one.
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If you, for whatever reason, no clip through the game with the intention of getting the additional Io scene: You mustn't skip Queen's Knight Reborn. Otherwise you won't get it even with all the restored Eos vestiges.
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To get both versions of the dweller in the dark ending in a single playthrough can you restore all but one of the Eos vestiges or do you have to not restore a single one until you load the save before the boss fight?
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im honestly kinda disappointed in the Heirs ending. i was hoping for at least a decent ending cutscene where they deal with you. instead, you just... stand there. menacingly. then die. cmon mang.
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This guide lacks important details, right? Anyone found a more complete guide?
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Dweller in the Dark isn't 100% accurate. You don't NEED to restore the vestiges, just collecting them is enough to release the petrified successors.
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Do you need to play ng+ to get determiner of fate trophy? I play 4 character to get each ending, but i still cant get the trophy.
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Are you able to get the ‘normal’ Dwellers in the Dark ending in a new game plus if your first play-through was the ‘perfect’ Dwellers in the Dark?
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On my first playthrough I met every single criteria for Dweller, but I forgot to restore the second successor cus I didn't even realize that was a mechanic at the time. I thought the game just decided they weren't going to come back for some reason. AAAAAA
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i read you can get both dweller in the dark endings in one play through. How can I get them?
What happens if you don’t restore your own memory? If you just skip over that whole area?
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What happens if you go through the game, but don’t restore your own memory
To Eternity is a frustrating ending to get. On a single boss, I killed it before getting all of the vestiges, not realizing they were needed before the boss. Going this path both cheats you out of getting all of the Codes from all of the bosses, as well as the Code for saving all of the bosses. It's lose-lose.
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It would be nice if it was clearer that Io's memories and no memories are 2 different ending since ps4 hidden triphy is "All endings" there is 4 not 3
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So I played through my third time in the game (to get the true end and ps4 trophies) I saved all successors and restored all Io's memories but I didnt get the queen blood code, the dweller ending and I'm stuck at home base..? Please Help
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Think that the normal "Dweller" ending is either bugged, or un-achievable on a NG+ run. Ran through the entire game, saved the successors, did not pick up any Eos vestiges (apart from the one that's forced on you) and still got the normal dweller in the dark ending.
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Kind of an odd question, but since there are already some incorrect posts above (in the article) I was wondering, for the sake of "time saving" can I do every single EOS vestige *EXCEPT* for the very last one given by the very last Attendant at the very last door in the game? AKA every vestige in the game except for hers? - - Then beat the game and then just watch that *ONE* vestige? - - Seems a little odd that you can't obtain/view "ANY" of them to get the 2nd best ending. - - What would be the point of gathering them all then? - - Just don't want to fudge myself out of having to run the game again. I "accidently" got the perfect ending on my first try without a guide; so it's 4 playthroughs for me (Platinum)
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I have all 3 endings, for the 4th I didn't collect ios vestige and saved all of the successors, it is till not unlocking for me. Am I missing something???
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Anyone else have an issue with queen blood code not popping after getting Dweller ending?
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I recieved the Hades blood code from the "To Eternity" ending, not "Dweller in the Dark" which were my 1st and 3rd playthroughs respectively.
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Alright people. You can run through the game saving all the successors, but don't grab Eos vestiges ("or view them"). Beat the game and watch the cut scenes. You should get the "Dweller" ending w/o the reqs for Io's memories. Now load your file and grab the Eos vestiges and view them. Go slap The Virgin again. This should give you both of the Dweller endings w/o having to run through the game again. Also for the Queen bloodcode,you have to have done Io's memories.
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My first Ending was To Eternity and I during my gameplay I didnt restore any of the Successor's Memories except for the first one, Aurora
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You don't need to restore Io's vestiges for Dweller in the Dark - it's optional. If you don't restore her vestiges you get the normal Dweller Ending. If you do there is the small Bonus Scene at the end. In Order to unlock Determiner of Fate you have to see both (four playthroughs required)
Extremely disappointed in this game. Even the good ending is a bad ending. Io dies no matter which ending you get and the outside world was shown to be even worse than the Lost infected gameplay zone. Thank god I got it for free as I would've felt tricked out of my money with this.
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