Video Games with the Most Endings

Finishing a game is always a great achievement for any gamer. It is the culmination of hours grinding for experience, overcoming difficult boss battles, leveling up characters, weapons, armor, and abilities, and seeing how the protagonists wrap up their respective narratives. But some games have such rich lore, characters, twists, and turns in the story when it comes to the players’ choices that they branch out into multiple endings.

Which games have the most endings? From swashbuckling and dynamic action RPGs to classic, story-driven JRPGs and everything in between, there is a plethora of titles that offer gamers multiple endings depending on what they do.

Updated March 10, 2025, by Hamza Haq: The idea of multiple endings has always been attractive to players who appreciate choice and consequence in games, especially for completionists who have no issue playing the same game over and over to unlock and uncover everything there is to see in the game. Most games typically have three endings: a good one, a bad one, and a neutral one. But due to the sheer number of games being released every day, there are more exceptions than one might think. Two new games have been added to give players an even better idea of the games that offer the most endings.

14 Catherine: Full Body

13 Endings

Catherine: Full Body is a remake of the original Catherine game that was released last 2011. The game centers around Vincent, a systems engineer who is barely scraping by financially. He is whirled into a surreal scenario wherein he apparently has two girlfriends: Catherine (with a C) and Katherine (with a K).

Gameplay-wise, Catherine: Full Body refines the first game’s puzzle-platforming mechanics and also adds new content in the form of a new love interest in Rin. On top of that, the game has thirteen different endings that depend on Vincent’s choices throughout the story.

13 Heavy Rain

17 Endings

Heavy Rain is a tense action-adventure title that sees players uncover the mystery of the Origami Killer through the eyes of four protagonists. The game has a total of seventeen endings, all of which are determined by what the player makes each of the protagonists do during key moments in their playthrough.

Given the atrocities that the Origami Killer has done and the fact that they are still at large, it is up to the players to determine who the killer is and to put an end to the killings.

12 Chrono Trigger

18 Endings

Considered to be one of the best JRPGs ever, Chrono Trigger delivers a gripping story that encompasses various timelines. On the ending side of things, the game offers players nineteen endings, with only one of them being a bad one.

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The first good ending, Beyond Time, has five sub-endings that can be acquired separately by either attacking a specific part of the final boss or resurrecting a character before the final fight. Other endings require completing specific side quests and depicting conclusions to the other characters’ story arcs. It is important to note that the majority of these endings can only be seen once players have unlocked the Beyond Time ending.

11 Papers, Please

21 Endings

For players who want to experience a game that tugs at their puzzle-solving skills and emotions, Papers, Please is just the title. As an immigration officer, players are tasked to process the papers of people who pass through the border of the fictional dystopian country of Arstotzka.

Players will encounter a number of immigrants who want to cross, and it is up to the gamer to decide what happens to them. This thought-provoking game challenges players either to be steadfast with their duties or make exceptions based on an immigrant's documents and story.

10 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

25 Endings

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is the pseudo-sequel to the first Stanley Parable game that sees the titular Stanley noticing a new door within the office that has the words “NEW CONTENT” plastered all over it. Similar to the first game, players have to navigate the various hallways and rooms within the office space and either follow the narrator’s recounting of what Stanley is supposed to be doing or buck that trend and see what else could happen.

This fourth-wall-breaking title has a total of twenty-five different endings. For players who want to experience a totally unique and surreal title, they should try this game and see how many endings they can unlock.

9 NieR: Automata

26 Endings

As far as deep lore is concerned, few studios can claim to have a connected narrative that spans over countless years across their titles like that of the NieR games. NieR: Automata’s story is set thousands of years in the future, where a war between human-made androids and machines from another planet is taking place.

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NieR: Automata has twenty-six different endings, five of which are considered to be the main ones. The rest of them range from hilarious to random, and each ending further adds charm to the characters and the post-apocalyptic world they inhabit.

8 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

36 Endings

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has a whopping thirty-six different endings. Three of them are connected to the main story, and the rest are determined by the choices the player makes for or against numerous characters they interact with throughout their playthrough.

For the main story, players have the option of getting good, bad, and neutral endings depending on how Geralt interacted with and trained Ciri for the game’s biggest conflict. Other side quests have key character endings, such as the Bloody Baron, Radovid the Stern, and Emhry var Emries, all of which depend on what actions the player chose while completing their side missions. Then, of course, there’s Geralt’s ending with whoever he romances. Players can pursue Triss, Yennefer, both, or neither of them.

7 Time Travelers

71 Endings

• Platforms: PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS
• Developer: Level-5
• Release date: July 12, 2012
• Genres: Visual novel, Interactive film

Time Travelers was a game for the Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, and PSP and one not many players will have heard of because it did not have many sales, no English localization (it was in Japanese), and was discontinued shortly afterward. The game has since been discontinued and is no longer available in stores.

Time Travelers was an interactive story game with 3D-rendered characters and a branching storyline similar to games like Detroit: Become Human. Instead of taking control of one protagonist, players had to juggle five of them, advance each one’s story individually by making choices, and see what happens next. A wrong choice or a series of wrong choices would lead to a character’s death, which is what the game counted as a possible alternate ending. But since the main characters are all time travelers, they had the ability to return to a previous time in a storyline and make different choices.

6 Detroit: Become Human

85 Endings

Detroit: Become Human is a game that takes a deep dive into artificial intelligence and humanity’s reliance on it as AI slowly becomes sentient. Players guide three androids and shape whether their sentience is influenced for better or worse.

Sporting a whopping eighty-five endings that revolve around the players’ choice, picking what Connor, Kara, Markus, and even the supporting characters’ actions will affect what kind of endings players will get at the end of their playthrough. There are tons of scenarios that branch out from choosing something over another action, which means no two players can have the exact endings after beating this game.

5 Star Ocean: The Second Story

86 Endings

The Star Ocean franchise dates back to 1996 and has a strong fanbase that holds the games in high regard. One of the beloved titles is Star Ocean: The Second Story, which follows the story of Claude and Rena, paving the way for two different playthroughs.

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On the side of endings, Star Ocean: The Second Story has eighty-six different endings that are mostly dependent on how the character’s Emotional Level is toward the other characters. Trying to get all the endings would mean having a checklist of which characters have to get together or not and multiple playthroughs.