Metro 2033 Redux - All Endings (Good Ending/Bad Ending) 

Artyom: (after ending) alright now how do I get down from here?

Dark: Destroy him Also dark : we want peace

I got the "Ranger" ending and see both. I understand they wanted peace, but Artyoms home was in danger. Both endings are technically good, from the standpoint of Artyom was doing what he felt was right and to save his home. I still have to play Last Light and Exodus, but in Artyoms perspective, he must do what he must to save his people.

I remember my first playthrough. Without second thought, instinctively, I emptied several clips into the rising Dark one.

Imagine going through all that shit just to let them live and pretend you're the good guy

Dark Ones were terrorizing Metro, driving people so insane they die and causing chaos, it's kinda too late to beg for mercy.

if the bad ending wasnt the canon ending, there wouldnt be a metro: last light.

I appreciate that both endings have some ambiguity. A lot of times the bad ending in games is "Now that you've played through our entire game, something bad randomly happens to your character in a cutscene."

The missile ending gave me fallout vibes

The sad thing is that the bad ending is the canon ending

These shouldn't be called Good/Bad endings. They are Spare/Destroy Dark Ones endings. Calling one good or bad is too subjective.

The bad ending is actually the good ending. The dark ones had it coming, let's be real.

I didn’t even know there were multiple endings, I got the bad ending

For everyone saying the dark ones wanted peace, remember the scene where the Librarian rips apart the Demon? It was safe to assume from the player and Artyoms viewpoint that they were just mindless savages killing not only Humans, but eachother

Am I the only one who prefers the “bad” ending? The dark ones had it coming tbh

Everybody says that there is a good ending or bad ending, I see the ending as just an ending

After the Library level and those giant spiders you can bet your ass I'm gonna nuke em 😂 btw Dark one: "We want peace" Also, dark one: *killed thousands of people

The bad ending is so much more badass

It's not the good and bad ending, it's the normal and special ending

I don't remember being given a choice. I shot the Dark One in the weird tunnel and it immediately went to the missile cutscene. I thought that was the good ending...

i’m confused, i just finished the game and never even got the option to shoot the dark one or shoot the nuke guide thing.. i just killed the dark one in the dream state thing, came back to reality and the cutscene started with the nukes going off.. so why didn’t i even get an option to choose?

2:27 When the dark one is sus 😂😂😂😂

I remember the first time I played it I had the option to choose. This time it just automatically gave me the bad ending?? Might've been because I shot all the dark ones I saw lol

If the presence of the Dark Ones drives ordinary humans insane, couldn't they just have left a note scribbled on some paper? Or grafitti? "Hello Human. Dark One here. We no want war. Peace!"

"It wasn't the right time for us to meet. But there will be other nights, other stars for us to watch. They'll be back." - John Puntam

It’s canon in the novels that he destroys them, and immediately understands right after the missiles launch that they were not trying to harm humans. So he’s like… oops.

Thanks for the video!

I love the games, just finished 2033 Redux after so long of finishing the original 2033, I got the ranger ending despite doing as good moral/stealthy AS I could, missed things probably I would not say the alternative good ending is a "good" ending thou, it is very misleading or ppl can easily missunderstand it, its more of a easter egg ending since the true "bad" ranger ending is the canon one.

If I'm being honest, the "good" ending feels like total bullshit to me. These fuckers have done nothing but try to kill me and successfully kill almost everyone who I met that helped me out on my journey. And left everyone else living in constant fear often wiping out entire communities that are forced to live underground. In the dream sequences you literally fail the level if you walk towards them to try and hear them out. Nothing about them in the entire game suggests that they possess sympathy or empathy in any capacity. For all I know, their cries of "we want peace" could just be an evil trick to stop us killing them before they go back to doing everything they were doing to us the entire game. Maybe I just missed something, it has been a while since I played this game and, frankly, I had absolutely no idea that an alternate ending even existed for this game as nothing within the game actually suggests that there is. I suppose that's at least a unique way of handling multiple endings, I just wish it was a more believable option.

For everyone who doesn’t think the good ending is all that good or that the dark ones where the bad guys, I suggest reading Metro: 2033. Clears this whole thing up a bit

The "bad" ending is the right call. Regardless of weather or not you've read the books or played the other games the dark ones were causing mass death and so are regarded as hostile. Their way of communicating disorients people leaving them defenseless against the mutants. Destroying this new threat is the only way to keep the metro safe.

IMO there is no bad/good ending, it just depends on your perspective and what you did understand/decide on the whole situation. For example I was more satisfied when I decided to nuke them because they were turning our people completely crazy, killing them, making us black out in super dangerous environments. Trying to hold us from killing monsters who were mindlessly attacking and they were not clear on their intention at least once until reaching the end of the game. And when they did, they tried to kill us.

Theres actually no good and bad ending, atleast in my prespective. The dark ones is the main antagonist and was attacking exhibition over and over again. They killed hundreds of people maybe even thousands, Yes dark ones did save Artyom but they still killing humans and should be responsible for that. In fact launching the missiles might actually kills lotta mutants decreasing their population in Moscow. I just saying that theres no bad ending in this game but if you disagree i have nothing to do with that.

I didnt even have a dark one on top of the tower with me but never had an option to destroy the laser. Really not a fan of games giving you a hidden choice. If you just play along in the game and get a different ending when you had no choices to make then it feels kind of hollow. Like the dark ones attack the stations and you're suppose to spare them but arnt given the option without looking at the wiki for certain hidden choices.

I played last light first because it was free on steam. But I still chose the bad ending in 2033 because the dark ones literally throw you off the building if you walk the wrong way in the hallucination. Also, it’s the canon ending

I wanted to try FPS games because i only play cute ones lol. i saw this and the reviews were great. bought it and im so happy i did! i finished the game (achievement unlocked) and i like how it went. I got the 'canon' ending as some of you guys call it :) ill start last light this weekend :)

I wanted to get the canon ending because I read the book but the game ending is great too it showed Artyom’s hope instead of denial for what he had done

2:27 Among Us reference.

@GamerChannelMax I hope you don't mind, but I linked your video in my recent stream at the end of it! So my viewers (or any who watch it in the future can see both endings!) My first ever playthrough I didn't stream (didn't stream back then) but I did the canonical ending. So the stream I did the Savior/Good ending. Thanks again man! Hope it ain't an issue!

when I got the ending my dude just woke up, by the time he woke up I had no choice other than watching the missiles fly by my head. He didn't even reached his gun.

The first time i finished it was good Ending. No regrets playing this game Edit: 2 years later, by the good ending, i mean killing the dark ones.

Its not "Good" or "Bad" - its Hunter's ending or its Khan's ending. Depending on their philosophys it can be always argued as the "Good" ending.

Oh my looking at this, the night before I play the whole of it as its next on line to my games to play list. It's basically next to game called "Firewatch". Oh my the ending really feels something I could be emotional a bit again😍. I just look at this to see if it can fit in my mood right now and to know how to choose when I know the whole thing already.

I prefer the "bad" ending. If they wanted peace how come they killed so many?

He said among us

I just realised that I got bad ending on every single Metro game......

what are those red root or tentacle looking like things coming out of the nest of the dark ones?

How do you know to shoot down the lazer thing? And why bring it all the way up just to shoot it down? I had no idea to shoot it down

I prefer the bad ending and biew it as the good one cause then it leads to metro last light

looking through the comments and it's like people haven't actually understood the whole point of the "good" ending. yeah, it seems kind of dumb for Artyom to simply go "hey, actually, I don't wanna do this" and stop the bombing but.. if you actually hear the Dark Ones, if you read up on the lore/wiki, they don't look like too much of the bad guys. the game makes you look at them as the bad guys because you have practically no context when you first play through it. "7'0 monsters killing people without even touching them" sounds terrifying, and of course it's going to make them look bad. that's probably what the regular people in the Metro thought. of course they're gonna fear them, they can't exactly understand them like Artyom does. the Dark Ones are trying to communicate with people but- to put it in extremely simple ways- their mind can't understand it and makes them go mad. if you approach the Dark Ones in the visions, you understand them, and they quite clearly state that "they mean no harm,". if you do that twice, in Ostankino Tower you can hear them say "..he can hear us.. he can understand us." and "why? / why is he here?" (i think, i haven't finished 2033 in a while).. Khan is probably the most understanding of the Dark Ones. indirectly, his "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it’s not any more "evil" than, say… fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement. Let's move out now, it's not safe here." is first referring to the electrical anomaly, but it's also heard in the Black Station level, if you approach the Dark Ones. "It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement." is a pretty important part here. and "You reap what you sow, Artyom. Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt." is ALSO *very* important. these all make sense if you think of them talking about the Dark Ones. how come you see visions of children in a playground, sounds of regular everyday life, and views of leaves flowing in a tree? they want nothing but peace with humanity, but people can't understand it, seeing them as 'the threat'. it's their presence and psychic influence that drove them mad, but it's not exactly their fault. do you remember when Alex went on his speech about them being "the next step in evolution" and called them "Homo Novus"? yeah, that literally means "New Man". wouldn't it be understandable if the reason people are driven insane by their simple act of trying to establish peace with humanity is just because they're TOO EVOLVED? of course! that's probably it. god. it's almost 3 am and i'm writing a fuckin essay on 2033. i wouldn't have it any other way feel free to correct me if i missed something. sincerely, Not A Dark One

When I got to this part I didn’t even get to pick, I just woke up and the lady said 20 second until procedure or something and missles launched.

Had no clue that there were other endings to this game. I bombed them and thought that was the best one

I DIDNT KNOW I COULD PREVENT THEIR DEATH I JUST LOOKED AT THE SCREEN

I think the '' Bad Choice ' is the good one cus the demons and the other beasts terrorised everyone and Artyom by choosing that saved many people and his people

at the end, i didn't see the dark one in the floor, my ending was waking up from shooting the dark one in the vision and then the missiles came and blow the heck out of them

I wasn't surprised that I got the bad ending. But I was surprised Artyom didn't got enlighted like in the book. But DAMN, looking up the wiki and seeing all the possible ways to gain and lose moral is fascinating. But, after already beeing drought out by the story only from the book before playing, I don't know if I replay it anytime soon. Oh I really don't wanna do Archives and Library again. Well, another Title off my list. But yeah. Game as a game is great and with loads of detail and special. But that also means its not for everyone.

Hey, can I use a clip of this (the good ending last bit) in a video? I'll credit you of course.

Gud ending soundtrack ?

Can someone tell me why I don't have the option to shoot down the radar at the end? I just have a straight wake up and a blast. Has the redux version been altered in any way?

I never played this series until a few months ago. i actually got all 3 games on steam and i def wish id played then sooner. Ever since ive somewhat switched to PC from console. ive been playing a lot of these older games like the Bioshock series. And ive never played Bioshock before. I might try out stalker next. i also just bought half life 2 as well.

You might go ”uhh but they seem nice” it’s legit mind tricks they killed my homies so I killed them

i dont care if they call me edgy, bad ending seems the best to me.

I have played this game 4 times. I just finished a run where I didn't kill anyone and I did every single moral point, only to not get the achievement. Not a single guide said you had to shoot the damn targeting lazer.

I got another ending that slightly varied from the missiles... the dark one was never sitting on the stairs, and when I woke up from the vision the machine immediately said procedure complete???

I haven't read the book, but I just finished the game. At first I saved them, feeling like I did the right thing. THen... I realized what hypocrisy it was to let them live while they themselves started the whole damn thing by slaughtering our people in unprovoked attacks. So I went back just to spite them and chose differently; I killed off the Dark Ones with absolutely no remorse whatsoever. The whole plot was that we needed help to defend ourselves from the Dark Ones as THEY were attacking our station. And then they had the balls to try to guilt-trip us into both feeling sorry for them and feeling ashamed of our own actions. "We want peace".. bullshit. Tell that to the good guards and people of the stations you killed. "Bad ending"? Pah! I'd call it the genuine "you reap what you sew, bitches"-ending. This time, humanity really were the good guys and no amount of saccharine soul-searching slush can convince me otherwise.

The "good ending" is hardy a good one. Any soldier given the choice would protect Mankind from strange alien creatures that give mixed messages. Those ugly mofos had it coming. Not only is the so-called bad ending the canonical ending but is a preferred ending for many I'm sure. Screw the dark ones for invading our planet and Artyom's memory! I'm sticking with the "Ranger" ending.

2:27 This game predicted the arrival of the true dark ones!

I didn't have the option to choose, but when I got the "bad" ending, I thought it was beautiful to see

What a game What a *FUCKING* game Sad we don't see masterpieces(imo) like this today

my ending was different. The dark one was already dead when I left the vision, and the rockets were already flying

wait i didnt see the black one trying destroy the laser pod thingy it just gave me the ranger ending (or I was just blind) anyways, the "Bad ending" (the one where you blow them all up) is technically the cannon ending, cuz in the book that's what artyom does, but he still questions if what he does was good or bad

I get the "bad" ending and i'm happy with it. Those mutants can control your mind, you can't make peace with them.

Wait... there are two endings?! WTF?!

this game was so short I was expecting way more based off the hype

hmm, am i missing something? just finished the game but i didnt even saw the dark one laying on the ground nor i had a gun in my hand, maybe some choices in the game idk but i had no choice other than to aim the beam to the nest

Total let down. I completed this on xbox one, killed the alien in the tunnel, awoke and heard 'Artyom missiles in flight' then it fades and goes back to the main screen.

So when I completed the game, I shot the dark one in the vision and it just skipped to the end of the countdown, and I didn't have to kill it on floor? I know it's a minor thing but I dont understand why it happened?

They only wanted peace after they realized they were going to be destroyed im not going to waste the sacrifices made by my comrades because they had a last second change of heart

you can push the device off instead of shooting it at the end

I don't know what I did but the game gave me automatically the "bad ending". Part 3:54 - 4:32 is missing.

Disclaimer everyone that Gamer Max Channel didn't say: This is the original metro not the redux. On redux you don't have the option of choosing between the endings. The redux version is the remastered of 2033 and they probably did it because spoiler kinda, the last light starts like that. The game tells you that you did kill the dark ones. Since they made a sequel (Metro last light) they made it like that so it makes sense. If you play the original one you have the option. Edit: Jzion Taco Told me that you need to pass all the morality tests on the game for the option to have the good ending.

It won't let me get the good ending the moment I wake up from the vision nukes are falling from the sky

The funny thing is that i got the good ending on my first run because i thought it was the canon one

Amogus

2:28 (:

I just beat the game for the first time and I have to say I didn't get the "We want peace" notion in the slightest, never even occurred to me that was an option

Somehow I did not get the final part of the game where I had to choose which one to shoot. The missiles just launched right away.

omg omg he said it they are among us now AMONG US AHAHAHAHH FUNNI

It doesn't really matter what you get cause Last Light confirms that you did nuke em so this is basically pointles

i didnt even get the option to shoot the thing I woke up and kaboom

I can't finish the game as soon as I shoot the dark one in the hallucination I get sent back to the menu and I can't choose chapters or new game

Weird. I didn't get either ending. When I woke, there was no dark one on the tower with me, only the missiles homing in. There was no chance to shoot the dark one upon awakening. I don't even remember having the gun when I woke, but maybe I did.

Bad ending it is !! The moral in these 2 games are so confusing... you go through numerous camps where the monsters killed everybody.. then when you find a nest, you are expected to leave it alone ??? after that we nuke the entire dark ones population. Its like Artyom does heinous shit on a global level but locally he's a nice guy...

I shot the dark one and then when I snapped me back there was no choice to shoot the missile thing or the dark one, the missiles just launched atomically, there was no count down and no dark one

The annoying part is that I can't select the damn ending, it depends on how many times I strummed the guitar at the start.

I didn't get the option in the end because I took ammo to save the kid(was running low), but honestly in the entire dream sequence I was just scared of the dark ones and I thought the bad ending would be that I die. And I honestly just kinda overheard the 'we want peace' part because I was shit scared. And I mean they were saying things like he is going to destroy us, he must be stopped and all. So I might've killed the dark one but if I knew they actually wanted peace then I would've probably knocked down the guidance thing(if I knew that was possible). But if they want peace why do they kill so many people???

I dont remember shooting the alien lying down I just shot him in the tunnel and immediatelly I got the cutscene with bad ending...

I was confused When we were in D6 base and had to remove those 3 things I thought weird meat monster would end up being the final boss or something 😅😅

" They are among us now "

It's not made clear in the game that the dark ones are trying to help except that one time when Artyom is pulled by a dark one. They are always made to appear as evil. How are the people, who haven't read the books but are only playing the games, supposed to know this? In the ending where Artyom has to go through the mental maze, they could have made the overheard monologue explain Artyom/us how they are trying to help and not kill us. They keep repeating how Artyom should be killed so anyone who doesn't know the books is going to kill them.