The Folk Hero
4.3%Defeat Brencis alone.
Achievement: The Folk Hero
Most ending guides tell you how to trigger each one. This one also tells you how rare it is, using Steam's own achievement data — which turns out to be the more interesting number.
Defeat Brencis alone.
Achievement: The Folk Hero
Defeat Brencis with Lacra, after completing her questline.
Achievement: The Patricide
Defeat Brencis with Crake and the Manumits, after completing Crake's questline.
Achievement: The Knyazmaker
Take Brencis's deal and betray your allies.
Achievement: The Turncoat
Leave the valley for good. Needs Corruption 11 + Shadow Dweller rank 2 to cross the broken bridge in north-west Briar Sloughs, at night.
Achievement: A Hero They Deserve
Stay in the Home Sweet Home nightmare. Repeat the loop and talk to Esme.
Achievement: Together Forever
Sources disagree: Loop count: PC Gamer and Fextralife say ignore the well and run the loop 4 more times (triggering on the 5th); Game8 says repeat 5 times.
Let the 30 days elapse. The family dies, the timer disappears, and the goal changes from rescue to revenge. No game over, and you can keep playing untimed.
Counted separately by Game8 and PC Gamer; PowerPyx and Fextralife fold it into The Folk Hero as an alternate method.
Achievement: The Folk Hero (shared)
Keep a manual save from just before A Deal with the Devil and reload it after each ending. The game gives you 54 manual save slots, so there is plenty of room. The two endings that are not reachable this way are the ones that branch much earlier — A Hero They Deserve, which needs Corruption level 11 and Shadow Dweller rank 2 to cross the broken bridge in north-west Briar Sloughs at night, and Together Forever, which needs you to deliberately fail the Home Sweet Home nightmare loop.
This is asked a lot and the answer has two halves, which is why it gets muddled. If the 30-day timer expires, the game continues with no timer at all — you keep playing, now trying to avenge the family rather than save them. That is well attested. If you trigger an ending, PowerPyx says you return to the title screen with no free roam, while GamesRadar+ describes being able to carry on. Those two are in genuine conflict and we have not been able to resolve them, so we are telling you the disagreement rather than picking the half that sounds better.
Each figure is the global unlock rate of the matching Steam achievement, read in the game’s first week. They are real, but they are early: most owners have not finished yet, so every number here will rise. What is already meaningful is the ratio between them — Together Forever at 0.4% against The Folk Hero at 4.3% tells you which branches people are actually finding. One of the eight outcomes has no achievement at all and one shares another ending’s, so for those two there is no rate that belongs to them alone and we leave the figure blank rather than borrowing one.
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Sources: PowerPyx — all endings guide · Fextralife — endings guide · Game8 — all endings · PC Gamer — endings · Steam global achievement statistics