Directive 8020 All Endings Guide

Spoiler Warning

This page is for players who are ready to route endings. It discusses ending families, final-state logic, survivor counts, and cleanup planning. It does not pretend that every reported route label is final until it is matched against completed saves, but it does explain the structure that makes endings easier to unlock. Finish one playthrough first if you want the final reveals to land naturally.

The most useful way to think about Directive 8020 endings is not how many final cutscenes exist. It is which state produced the cutscene: who survived, who trusted whom, which evidence survived, whether panic choices dominated the route, and what final mission decision you selected. That is the information you need to reproduce a result.

Ending Route Matrix

The table is intentionally route-based. Names such as good ending, best ending, worst ending, and secret ending are useful for search, but they can hide the real cause. If two players both say they got the good ending but one had an extra survivor or a different final evidence state, those may be two variants in the same family.

Best Ending Priorities

Best-ending routing starts long before the final episode. Keep crew members alive, avoid unnecessary isolation, preserve evidence before accusation, and treat failed stealth or QTE scenes as immediate route risks. A choice that feels morally decisive can still be bad if it destroys cooperation too early. When the game asks who to trust, do not assume the most dramatic answer is the most efficient one.

For testing, build a clean survivor file before you try secret or worst-ending experiments. The clean file should have as many crew members alive as possible, no avoidable failed QTEs, and a clear list of major trust decisions. From that file, change one final route variable at a time. If an ending does not change, move earlier in the chain and test suspicion or evidence instead.

Ending Cleanup Strategy

Do not chase every ending from one messy save. Build three files: a good-state save, a suspicion-heavy save, and a death-heavy save. The good-state save helps confirm best and save-everyone logic. The suspicion-heavy save helps test mimic-risk and isolation variants. The death-heavy save helps confirm worst-ending and all-death interactions without damaging your best route.

After each ending, record the final survivors, the final selected option, the last Turning Point used, and whether important collectibles were complete. That gives you a repeatable route note rather than a vague memory of how the scene felt. If a video guide shows a different ending from the same final choice, compare the earlier crew state first.