All endings for Amnesia the Dark Descent (HD) 

Nice video! 👍 About the fourth ending: you can see it as just a death along the story, but it can also be viewed as a true ending. After all, if you die there, the game ends. Goes to main menu. It's over. It is an ending. Premature, but still an ending. It's subjective, meaning that each player can see it as an ending or not. Both views make sense.

Wait you can??? How do you avoid that death? How do you mix the tonic or combine the orb?

+InboardPG That didn't make any sense. The elevetor was collapsed, there was no way for him to return.

Vatian Oh shit I guess he escaped through the prison maybe? I wonder if the servants are still alive?

+InboardPG The shadow killed them. ( like in the sewers with the grunt)

+InboardPG Storywise at the good ending, the shadow dies with Alexander. Daniel is free of the nightmare and escapes from the castle with no evil following him.

why does the shadow not leave if Agrippa is thrown in and it kills alexander, but leaves if kills alexander and Agrippa isn't thrown in?

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The question is, what IS that new world? Is it Heaven? Or the Other World from Rebirth?

@@theholygamer969 probably some alternate universe or something, it's never really explained. It's probably most accurate to say its a sort of "heaven" though

@@simonium8123 I think it's safe to assume that the people from this other world were aware of the human soul, and by that extension, God's spiritual domain.

@@theholygamer969 it's the world from rebirth, Alexander was expelled from there to Earth, so he tried to get back by doing that Portal, so the special ending isn't that good, cause the "new world" is a alien planet that suffered an apocalypse

@@pedrolemos8114 I don't... think so. The Shadow killed Daniel, remember?

I think the third ending is the good and the good just another bad: You help agrippa and then die. On this way the sins you made(killing innocent people) were forgiven and agrippa and weyer help you.(probably bringing you in the new world where you will live forever, who knows)

The way I see it in the third ending you "transcend" this reality. Agrippa mentions how nobody remembers Weyer as if he didn't exist in this world anymore (or maybe never did). There's defintely some Eldritch stuff going on with these orbs especially with how in Machine for Pigs the Pigmen pass into and out of reality/through dimensions making them insane. Not to mention how both orbs seem to have their own personality.

I like to think Agrippa's pleading convinced Weyer to somehow reach out and bring Daniel into the other world right before the shadow could kill him. I hope I'm the upcoming game we finally get to see what the other dimension looks like!

Wobbles and Bean No, in my opinion, the 2nd ending is good, because there’s no thing, that chase you and no enemys, you just leaving the castle and done.

@@lavaris2834 I always assumed Agrippa and Weyer brought you into the new world.

Is that why he says where are you Daniel?

That's why the 2nd is the best ending The Shadow had no intention to kill Daniel, which is why it spares him when Daniel disrupts the Ritual, The Shadow kills Alexander, and then waits for him to leave the castle and getting far away from it so it can collapse without [Daniel] inside

@@zboy1152 that’s nice

And when Daniel fails the shadow reminds him of his horrible deeds while he slowly dies, just to cement in his dying mind that he failed to redeem himself

t. The Shadow

Ahhh, I had a feeling that was a timed event. I was so confused when I first did it.

iam When I waked up in that cell, I started looking around and found the wall, then I used my hammer and done, I escaped.

Me too bro. Loser gang

I wonder what he did, after he succeeded in going back.

Really makes you wonder what happened to Weyer (and Agrippa and Daniel if they made to the other world) when the apocalypse hit, or maybe it happened before Weyer went there

@@boostedsurvivorandkilleron5407 , I think the apocalypse happened before Alexanders return.

@@decustos4624 that would make sense, imagine Alexander being one of the floating wraiths

While I do consider it the best ending out of these three, I cannot think of it as a... truly comforting ending (brilliant food for thought of course, and "not comforting" is very appropriate for such a sinister story after all, I'm just saying). Because Alexander, who - as we find out along the story - was tricked in the same way Daniel was and actually wanted nothing more than just be able to "go home" and had suffered for centuries because of it, he is *annihilated* in the end; on a whim no less, a persisting thought in pre-amnesiac Daniel's mind that it is all Alexander's fault and needs to die for Daniel's own sins. This leads to the issue of Daniel's "crime and punishment". Pre-amnesiac Daniel did, in the end, turn out to be a bad guy through and through. Not so much because of the way he was corrupted, but because of the choices he made before erasing his memories. Even upon realising the horror of the things he'd done out of selfishness, he ultimately refused to take responsibility and instead chose to push all guilt onto Alexander, while being so hypocritical in regards to his own alleged innocence that he did not even decide to learn from his mistakes, but rather tried to simply delete the terrible things he'd done by removing all memory of it. And even then, he insists on putting the spiteful burden "kill Alexander" onto his next self. I do believe that the amnesiac Daniel is a good guy - if only in the same way he was a good guy before he even got into this mess. A blank page. He gets to make some other choices, such as whether or not to help Agrippa. Does that make him genuinely "good"? And then we have Agrippa, a being with a past of its own and cruelty and mistakes - he gets to leave Alexander behind and return to where he came from. And as Daniel dies, it is Agrippa's judgement alone that saves him. On account of one good deed, Daniel is allowed into what appears to be a kind of elysian place. On account of one selfless act, he is deemed to be a good person. But is he, now, because one man says so? Sorry, I'm babbling away here xD Didn't mean to ^^

AcenPhina you sound euphoric and beta *tips fedora*

Yet when in the Void, you are conscious forever.

Agrippa and Weyer betrayed Alexander thus leading to him capturing Humans to reclaim the necessary energy, were it not for their selfishness a lot of things would not have happened therefore Agrippa and Weyer were the villains

@@umukzusgelos4834 Alexander's own greed got him to where he was.

Well maybe this other dimension is a fun-time wonderland. Maybe there's booze and dope everywhere and you ditch the old nerd and his friend to go on a century-long road-trip across the stars with hippie aliens

​@@LadyStoneheart312too bad its in shambles now i think..? Maybe the new world is the same one in amnesia: rebirth

That's more like a game mechanic forcing you to move ahead instead of an ending. if you count THAT as an ending, you might as well count all the times that the servants kill Daniel as an ending.

No, it is an ending, because you get credits after you die. That's not at all comparable to the times you get killed by servants or insanity.

+ScientistCat good point

That's the bad ending.

@@whenyoupulloutyourdickands4023 There are credits after the prison ending, unlike when the servants kill daniel

You felt bad for a monster?

@@AliSubhi-xs4rn I wouldn't consider Daniel to be a monster. Monsters don't feel remorse for their actions.

@@nathanwoods9225 I mean Ted Bundy felt "remorse" before he died but whatever you're saying,bud.

@@AliSubhi-xs4rn But did he really? Daniel felt so shitty that he drank an Amnesia mixture to forget the hell he has caused. On top of that before he dies in the bad ending he is tormented with the voices of his victims.

Fair enough. I guess I can see where you're coming from.

It tells you I Rebirth that he was banished because his own methods of torture yo collect vitae were far too cruel, even for others of his own kind who used torture for the same reasons

@Qimodis Personally I like the ending where Daniel escapes...

+MickeyMH1 hahaha xD same here, i was running like a little bitch and left agrippas head on the floor xD

@Ken narville no u

+edwin11373 No, he means killing and stopping Alexander was the right thing. He comments many times about murders he did, i.e. sins.

He said that killing Alexander was the right thing to do, not brutally killing innocents. He said that there was no denying the things he'd done but he saw killing Alexander as his repayment for the horrors he committed.

He was played like a damn fiddle.

edwin11373 But the good ending had them both die as well

@@nanashi1173 Nope, Daniel survived in the good ending, Alexander dies.

Alexander would be in for a shock when he got home and discovered that it's a lifeless wasteland

​@@SamuelBlack84Is his world likes the Amnesia rebirth?

@@misfortunia2305 Yes

Wait why did Daniel torture people to save himself how does that work? Can you also pls explain why knocking the pillars kills Alexander and you survive the ending all just confused me lol

@@KidTrigger Daniel found an artifact (the orb) during an expedition in Africa and took it with him. That artifact was guarded by an entity which is referred to as the Shadow (the fleshy goo and roaring you hear in game). The Shadow began to hunt Daniel for taking the orb. Nobody could help him to escape from the shadow, but he was taken in by Alexander of Brennenburg. He convinced Daniel that he could be saved from the shadow by harvesting blood which was robbed from humans during sessions of torture, because it contained some stuff that I don't remember. So Daniel tortured many people who he was led to believe were criminals. However, in reality, the torturing was never going to save Daniel. It turns out that Alexander of Brennenburg was not a human, but an entity from a different dimension. He was using Daniel all along. The torture blood they harvested was an ingredient needed to create a portal back to his own realm. He planned to leave the human world and leave Daniel to his fate. Daniel found out about it all and got enraged. Hwoever, his own hands were too stained from his bad deeds so he took an Amnesia elixer (hence why he said in the beginnign that he chooses to forget). He finds Alexander in the last chamber with three pillars set up to create the portal back to his home. If Daniel knocks them over, the process will fail and Alexander will be claimed by the Shadow, satisfying it and allowing Daniel to live. If he lets Alexander escape, the Shadow gets enraged and kills Daniel. If you throw Agrippa's head in, the shadow claims Alexander, but the Shadow won;t be satisfied and kills Daniel. That's my understanding of the story. There are probably some mistakes here and there but it's the general gist of it.

@@sheepisfortheweak6164 so the only thing I found confusing is why does the shadow let you live and only kill Alexander if you knock the portal? Cuz the rest I already knew and you got it 100% right I’m just confused about that one part

@@KidTrigger Alexander was trying to use the orb for his own gain. By stopping him, he can't use the orb to create the portal and the Shadow claims him for the misuse of the orb. In the Shadow's eyes, Daniel will have redeemed himself from initially taking the orb and spare him.

@@sheepisfortheweak6164 ah thanks

Yup, me too! No on to Justine and the custom stories

can't wait to get down that far! I've got my butter and popcorn ready!

well I'm out of popcorn and have read quite a long, nonsensical argument. tbh by the end of it I didn't even remember what they were arguing about in the first place LOL. in my opinion Flubly > Noctis > Josh

Lol

I took one look and went nope nope nope nope

once I remember a guy said that no one is allowed to judge that which one is the good ending since allah is the only one that knows and can judge which one is good

Bgamer Bass You can do Agrippa's errands, give him a solution to keep his "head" alive and then chop it off, throwing it through Alexander's portal. The result of this is that you and Alexander both seem to die to the Shadow, but Agrippa and Johann Weyer (a character who had worked with Agrippa, subsequently entering a portal and entering another dimension at an earlier point) both save you from your fate.

sexc bonnie i don't understand a shit of that

Bgamer Bass Basically... you find the living corpse of a man, Agrippa, who you can "save" or completely ignore. To save him, you find various ingredients and make a potion to keep his head alive after you've chopped it off, so you can throw it into Alexander's portal. If you ignore his request for the potion he's presumably killed by the same Shadow that's hunting you.

yesss thanks!!! i did it

sexc bonnie

It's the least I can do

exactly! i was just thinking about the same thing! it’s crazy how much these games have in common story telling wise.

SikeNaw Gaming I think so

Josh Sonon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity

@@putyograsseson Did you really reply to a six-year-old comment with just a sarcastic Wikipedia article? Use your own words to make your point.

Daniel had no more family back in our world. And he would likely end up going insane from the torture of having done what he did

@@crocodilerock4662 I don't think Daniel would've really gone insane. In his eyes, he had redeemed himself. He had made sure Alexander perished and was sent to hell as he should've been, and he left the castle with no fear, only satisfaction. I don't think he blamed himself for his actions, because he couldn't have, really.

was there any?

Ak47 If you stay in the cell for too long, the red stuff gets everywhere and you die. I guess.

you can escape from the cell

Thats not an ending. Thats a death.

It's ending, because you do not respawn after dying in the cell and there's special bonus scene.

Mr Nopy no man the whole game is 10/10

Alex Bennett he got a chode tbh

same lol

it's the same as the bad ending, but in the prison cell instead.