Lots of games like to claim that your choices matter when really, they only end up changing one minor detail at the end or leading you to an undesirable ending just to live up to the claim that the game has multiple endings.
However, this isn’t always the case, and some video games have loads of different and meaningful endings that you can see depending on how you played the rest of the game. Below, we’ll take a look at some of the games with the most amount of endings, ranked by how long it would take to see them all.
The Stanley Parable is a narrative-driven walking simulator about Stanley, an office worker. It’s the type of game where going into it with as little knowledge as possible is the best way to enjoy the experience, so we won’t say too much about it beyond that.
The game’s updated version, Ultra Deluxe, adds a bit of new content to Stanley’s story, giving the game around 42 endings. This number isn’t the most accurate, as there are some paths that could be considered an ending under certain circumstances. Still, to see them all, it would take around 13 hours. The game is fairly short, and you can get your first ending in around 15 minutes if you know what you’re doing.
Detroit: Become Human is a detective game where you play as three protagonists, each with their own story and choices to make. Each character has distinct endings to reach, totalling about 85 different permutations, depending on the choices you make earlier in the story.
The time it takes to reach all of these endings depends on how much you use the timeline to jump around to different points in the story. If you replay the entire game from the start, obviously it would take you a lot longer than 32 hours to see all 85 endings.
Chrono Trigger is a JRPG about an unlikely group of heroes who travel through time to save their world. From the distant past to the far future, Chrono Trigger is a game that is still considered a masterpiece, even 30 years later.
Chrono Trigger may not have as many endings as other games on this list, but it was one of the first JRPGs to have multiple endings, and it’s also just a phenomenal game. The different endings actually don’t come around until New Game Plus, and you get different endings depending on when you go and fight the final boss.
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Nier: Automata is an action RPG where you play as two androids tasked with the mission of reclaiming Earth from alien machine lifeforms that have forced humanity to flee to the moon. The game has 26 different endings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with five primary endings (A, B, C, D, and E) that reflect different points of the story.
On your first playthrough, you’ll get ending A, but this is by no means the end of the story. If you continue to play from there, you’ll eventually get the rest of the main endings that tell the complete story. Then, if you want to see every ending the game has to offer, it’ll probably take around 60 hours.
The Hundred Line is a visual novel crossed with a strategy RPG, where you follow the story of a group of students who have been given the task of defending their school from mysterious invaders who threaten the very planet. The first ‘route’ is essentially a linear story with no choices, which leads to an ending that’s more like a beginning.
Then, the game is blown wide open, presenting you with the equivalent of an open world visual novel. You’ll make various choices at different points of the story that lead you down entirely different routes. There are 100 different endings to see, which would take around 160 hours to do.
The Witcher 3 is an action RPG that needs no introduction. You play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter, free to explore the world in search of contracts to take on, people to save, and monsters to hunt. The game has three main endings for its main story, specifically in what happens to Ciri, but there are 36 total variations that depend on various points throughout the story.
These variations are things like who you romance, who becomes the ruler of Skellige, who survives in the Blood and Wine DLC, and so on. If you only care about seeing each individual ending once, you would need to do three separate playthroughs, choosing different options in each; this would take about 160 hours to do.
However, if you wanted to see all 36 unique variations on the ending (some of which are very minor changes in the epilogue), you’ll spend around 2,000 hours doing it.
It’s no secret that Baldur’s Gate 3 is an absolutely massive game. After creating your character from a variety of different races and classes, you’ll set off on your own D&D adventure to find a cure for the Mindflayer worm that has been implanted in your brain.
Throughout the journey, you’ll meet several companions that will make up your adventuring party, and each of them has their own side quests and relationships to build. There are four main endings you can get, but through variations of which side quests you completed, which companions you romanced, what happened to them, and so on, there are around 17,000 variations on the ending.
To get just the four main endings, you would need to play the game four times, which would take around 288 hours. But, if you wanted to see every single permutation, get ready to spend two million hours, or about 228 years, to see them all.
