Parents wish they could make their babies hush as fast as this one.

I believe killing the empress and dying with her baby is the best ending. You kill the empress, save all the tortured, save yourself from becoming a mindless monster (which I think is worse than death), and saving the baby from either suffering a horrible disease her entire life or a life in a grim, dark and dead world. Death was the best for both Tasi and her child, it gave them eternal peace rather than having them both suffer eternal suffering. And Tasi will be able to meet her husband in wherever dead people go.

Ok this needs to be said: Frictional Games must really hate their mains characters like

There are no "right" endings. Remember the warning at the beginning of the game? "This game should not be played to win."

Honestly, I don't think any of the endings can really be described as "good" or "bad", and I actually appreciate that. It makes the choice feel so much more impactful when there's no blatantly right or blatantly wrong decision - just a matter of which flavor of bittersweet you prefer. In the "Harvester" ending, you give up Amari and fully transform into a monster, but at least your child gets to live - as long as she's supplied with Vitae, her degenerative disease won't kill her. Not much else will, in fact - she could potentially live forever just like the Empress. Speaking of whom, I believe she was sincere when she said she would care for Amari and love her like her own child. We don't know what Amari's future holds, but she does actually have a future now, even if she'll have to live in a dead, grim world with only an immortal alien god-empress to raise her and keep her company, and with her biological mother transformed into a mindless monster. In the "Provider" ending, you get back to Paris alive and with Amari safely with you, but that doesn't mean everything is fine now - far from it. Amari is still sick and will eventually waste away and die just like Alys did, what with Vitae being the only thing that could keep the symptoms at bay. And you yourself are in no better a situation - you're still infected with the Empress' curse, as the game clearly foreshadows with the dark veins on your arms in the final cutscene. There's no guarantee you can keep the curse at bay for the rest of your life, making you a constant danger to yourself and everyone around you. Also, this is just pure conjecture, but the final drawing has you standing over a dilapidated-looking Paris with a slightly more grown-up Amari, you yourself looking somewhat deformed and monstrous, and what with the ending itself being called the "Provider" ending, I'd say there's a disturbing possibility that you might have actually ended up serving your purpose as a Harvester after all, in a way, at least - kidnapping, torturing and murdering people to provide Vitae for your child, to stave off her illness. But even if that's not the case, it's still a pretty bittersweet ending - you're home, but your child will die and you're cursed for the rest of your life. And lastly, in the "Iconoclast" ending, you destroy the tower and kill the Empress, ending her reign and effectively euthanizing all the people being tortured to produce Vitae to keep her alive, which may be the best ending *objectively*, since it means ending the perpetual cycle of industrialized suffering, but *subjectively*, it's the worst ending, since neither you nor your child survive the destruction of the tower. In other words, it's the best ending for everyone else but the worst ending for Tasi and Amari. So, yeah. In the end, I don't think it's a matter of "good" or "bad" endings - there's an actual, real choice going on here, about which of these three bleak endings is the least grim. Because that's life for you. Sometimes, you don't get a good option. Just an entire selection of varyingly bad options, and you have to pick what you feel is the lesser evil.

She says she wants to save the child and ensure her a happy life but did she ever have a look outside the window? Her empire runs on carcasses and the world she rules over is cold, dead and grey, would the life she could give the child be a life worth living? And would Amari be glad knowing, that somewhere in this world there is a smelling, moving carcass wondering around who is her actual mother?

The Empress can act guiltless all she wants, but in the end she made the decision to deceive the survivors and curse them, and force Tasi into a labyrinth of torment. "I am sorry this was your path." Clearly you never were.

Seems like Daniel is the only Frictional Protagonist that has a good ending. Simon is stuck in the abyss, Philip is stuck in Tuurngait limbo, and now Tasi dies or becomes a ghoul in the endings. At least Daniel had the options of either being redeemed by the Shadow or getting help from Agrippa in the other dimension.

To be honest, I think the "secret ending" can actually be considered the "good ending", similar to how Daniel sacrificing himself to save Agrippa is the "good ending" in Dark Descent, instead of the Revenge ending. By killing the Empress, you also end the suffering and torture of countless people attached to torture devices, which are effectively "Vitae harvesters". Vitae is the power source of the Empress, effectively making her immortal and somewhat akin to a goddess. Someone had already attempted to kill the Empress, but they failed and that had devastating consequences for that world. They leave behind a message, hoping that whoever reads it can poison the Vitae supply to the Empress. Tasi and baby dies in this scenario, but the Empress is shown to be really evil and manipulative, who knows what she would do if she continues to live? Tasi saving her baby and returning to Paris can actually be considered the "neutral" ending. Yes, Tasi saves her child and gets away. But the baby presumably still needs Vitae to live (or maybe the Empress lied). Would Tasi try to torture other humans to produce Vitae for her child? What about Tasi's condition? Would she really ever recover (both physically and mentally)? And in this scenario, the Empress still lives. She clearly goes to great lengths to gain more power for herself...so what's stopping her from trying to obtain even more "Vitae harvesters" from Earth? Would she eventually try to conquer it? Taking the baby back from her could lead her to do something rash...

The unfairness of it all really hurts me. Amari and Tasi have fought through it all, and yet they don't get a life where they are happy together without the former wasting away to dust and the latter becoming a harvester.

I love how the game made references to Daniel and Alexander

There's also one more secret ending where if you die enough times, it implies you succumb to the sickness in the Paris ending. You hear Tasi growling and such, and the credits art shows a more monsterfied Tasi.

Theres just something beautiful in the "secret" ending's pain

The "Secret" ending is the best ending. You end the suffering and the factory of torture. Literally its the best ending, the "good" ending gives a sad vibe of Tasi having another child dying. Not that good of an ending.

I honestly don't see how the 1st ending be considered the good one, since it ended vaguely. Even if we think optimistically and assume that some doctor was able to find a miracle cure for Amari, there's still the issue of Tasi changing and eventually killing her. (That adorable moment of a mother carrying her child as they step into Paris, is still marred with the image of Tasi's arm riddled with the curse.) If that isn't enough, the Empress is still alive. Nothing was resolved, except for the small reward of reaching home alive.

There is no truly good ending to this game.

Every ending has it's price. The "flee" ending doesn't put a stop to the curse The "turn in" ending doesn't either, and you even become a ghoul The "fight" ending ends the curse, but kills Tasi and her daughter.

Funny, if Daniel chooses to kill Alexander, the Shadow spares him. But if Tasi does the same, the Shadow kills her and her baby. It could have let them run for the portal at least. Shadow is mysogynist.

I see a lot of people saying the paris ending is the good ending and how they're satisfied with that but it really doesn't make any sense. Amari still needs vitae and Tazi is still a harvester. Either Amari is going to die just like Alys or Tazi is going to start a vitae extraction process like Alexander from the first Amnesia game. I mean, we can hope the goddess was lying about Amari's need for vitae but I don't think she really was. Plus without the destruction of... whatever the hell was going on in that tower, the vitae process will still continue. Sure it's outta sight, outta mind but it's NOT the good ending.

The game made it pretty obvious throughout about how vitae was truly manufactured and providing the background on how these people attempted to keep the Empress alive. Knowing a lot of the following made me go for the secret ending: -You rescued one of your buddies from a harvester that was torturing him for vitae extraction. You end up killing him for it and it shows how harvesters walk through a machine to extract the collected vitae. -You saw a massive ‘chessboard’ that portrays the labyrinth you were about to enter with De Vries. Notes say it was a means of extraction because it makes the stock run around in sheer terror! -Multiple notes that tried to decipher the stone tablets got key words such as harvest, and crop. When you read more of the tablets in the Other World you realize that the crops are YOU; humans. -You see symbology on Other World Screens with a person kneeling, a swirl symbol in the head (amnesia) and a spear-like symbol going through it (vitae extraction) -The layout of the “station” has multiple caged off walkways and channels. This is similar to how cattle get prodded through in ranches and slaughterhouses. These channels are littered with human remains and have spiked walls capping it. You’ll even see smaller “pods” in experiment rooms so that indicated to me that they use children as well. Here I realize that this has some major Machine For Pigs parallels as the Engineer wanted to save his sons/the world through mass slaughter; similar to how the people in the Other World want to keep their Empress alive using such slaughterhouses and factories for vitae extraction. -The game made it really obvious about the process of sustaining life as it gave you some options (fire, water, excessive needles) to get vitae from an amnesiac to cure your baby. -Human fucking batteries littered across the Other World

Secret ending is best ending, though I wish there'd been an "afterlife"-sequence like in the OG Amnesia. I think, generally speaking (well, there's only 3 Amnesia games), that the "good" ending to an Amnesia game is the ending that stops the production of Vitae. In the TDD it was the death of Alexander and redemption through saving Agrippa, in AMFP it was stopping the Great Machine, and in Rebirth it was stopping the Empress and contaminating the Vitae with the shadow, ending her reign. The other endings are good in their own right, but they're fundamentally selfish in the sense that they doom a lot of people to eternal torment for the sake of a single life.

*My patience spans centuries.* Well if Alexander came back to this world after so much effort, only to witness it being destroyed merely 98 years later, he'd be really pissed I bet. Assuming this is his world, and that you chose the secret ending in Rebirth, that is. Funny thought.

“Another hand touches the beacon”

I didn't expect Shadow from the first game, good job.

custom stories on this would be SICKKKK

Didn't this game just come out a few hours ago? You are SPEED

*Time Stamps* 5:35-11:02 - the Provider ending (refering as the 'good' ending) 13:24-14:55 - the Harvester ending (refering as the 'bad' ending) 16:12-19:48 - the Iconoclast ending (refering as the 'secret' ending)

Surely even in the escape ending, the Shadow would still be after her? She touched an orb, that’s a big no, no.

I didn't really understand much about the ending and it still confuses me. The only things I understand is: Ending 1: Both of them manage to get out and survive? Ending 2: She left the baby and became a monster? Ending 3: Both of them die?

Hey, i was looking for all the endings for this game and you uploaded.

After finishing the game, I gave my mom a big hug and told her how much I love her.

I haven't done the playthrough to test it yet, but it seems like losing control to the curse is what creates the black veins in Tasi. My first playthrough, I lost control quite a few times, and had bright red skin and black veins all over by the end. But I did notice that if you maintain control, Tasi remains fully human. So I wonder if going through the game without losing control even once, and then getting the Provider ending changes anything.

You should include the ending that has you turned into a Harvester but while still holding Amari. It's different than the one you had posted. I tried different combos and actually ended up finding a speedrun strat that I ended up posting.

Honestly, I had a hope that you could get a combination of the good and secret ending, by injecting and distributing two canisters and only injecting the last one, then escaping through the portal.

First playing this I got the secret ending. And after having replayed the last chapter to get all the endings, I think the secret ending was the best ending for me. None of the endings were a clear night and day conclusion of what is good and bad, but each choice comes at a price. To me, the secret ending felt the most morally right in ending a reign of fear and suffering at the expense and you and your own child's life. A tragic end after all the things they went through, but one arguably worth the sacrifice.

I'm with the 'secret ending'. Short term decisions always causes more trouble and pain. So in the end, the best decision is always the long term ones.

People seem to forget a crucial element from Frictional Game: everything they make since their first game, is to base their stories with recurring Lovecraftian elements. One of these elements, if you’ve read his books and short stories, is that there is rarely (if ever) a good ending. Ultimately, the world of cosmic horror is very unforgiving. The insignificance of a human life against the eternal powerful ones. Daniel, Mandus, Tasi, Philip...Poor unfortunate souls.

How are ppl already done with the game with MULTIPLE endings already? You guys are BOSS

The secret ending is that the Shadow from the first game (the protector of the orb) consumes them, and being consumed by the Shadow is the equivalent of going to hell

I wish this game didn’t punch me in my emotions repeatedly. I want to feel dread, not depression.

Tiddy confirmed

The 'good' ending in my opinion is Tasi dying with her baby, I wouldn't want my child to pass away in pain and suffering due to a slow killing disease and no child needs to be raised in a world with nothing but monsters (ironic..)

What how did he get the secret ending? When I played it it allowed you to do the 3 injections without activating the flesh cutscene allowing you to leave through the portal. I must have got a glitched ending.

I feel "SOMA" vibe in this game

Just finished Rebirth with the "secret" ending. I thought you have to do this & this was the real one :D Totally forgot about the portal at the entrance. Just went wherever the blue light was (as always in those otherworld levels).

there is a 4th ending which is more secret, Tasi tries to escape with her baby but gets caught by the empress and kicked out so when she turns into a monster at 15:08 she puts her baby's toy (bear) next to the drawing.

*Sees Provider's ending drawing and remembers the Engineer's monologue about the 20th century*

I tried to escape with the child but failed and turned into a monster. I don't trust that empress at all I think she was lying and wanted the child to herself.

i'll just pretend the good ending is "real" good ending, amari doesn't need vitae cuz the empress faked that fact, and tasi also cured from being "harvester" and both of them live happily ever after

I quite enjoyed it. In the beginning I was a little bit skeptical because it felt a bit like a walking simulator, but after the fort monster’s appearance, it started going uphill. I don’t understand why people are so mad about the Other World’s sci-fi aesthetics though? This was canon ten years ago, too - impossible geometry and controlled lightning, remember? That was Alexander’s homeworld. I really loved putting the puzzle pieces together and connecting plotlines back to TDD, it was satisfying to finally learn about more of the original story. The only thing I’m still puzzled about is what harvesters are for? I know the Empress made them drink from the fountain, and that’s what cursed them all, but why did she do that? I’ve read comments saying it was for the purpose of harvesting vitae, which does make sense to me, but I’m not 100% certain. If this is true though, that makes the secret ending all the more satisfying in my opinion. I know it’s an unpopular take, but Tasi is not a great person. She sacrificed the lives of her friends and her husband, for a child that she knew was going to suffer horribly and die - her decision not to give Amari up was an incredibly selfish one. At least in the secret ending, it won’t all have been for nothing.

When i first entered the throne room, i got huge Bioshock ending feeling, the Empress in that cancerous growth like form, hooked to a giant vitae tubing. Reminded me of Atlas hooked up into those ADAM tubes in the gravity chair. You poison the Vitae modules with the shadow tissue formula, and you suck every drop out from Atlas with a little sister harvesting syringe weakening and eventually killing them.

If Amari grows up and only knows of this world, would that be a bad thing? This dark grim world is all she would ever know. Her baby room looked exceptional and that's why I believe the empress truly want to care for Amari. I took the harvester ending as an allegory for a mother with mental health or addiction problems, giving up her child for adoption for a better future. I think parents would understand that sacrificing yourself for your child's future is a good thing.

So, have any of you played the other 2 Amnesia games that came before? How do they tie with this one? Are they also about alien ruins like this? If yes, I shall go and check them out, because this plot here was kind of interesting. THanks for the upload!

wait, so i got the "secret" ending by killing the last boss? i thiught i was suppose to kill her xD

I was hoping for the game to be longer and have more story related to the dark descent, the gameplay was great but the fact that you didn't die against enemies made the game feel way too easy, it felt like SOMA's safe mode. The game felt more like SOMA than Amnesia to be completely honest.

"Why... i only wanted to save.. her..." These words really made me sad.

The baby really went 👁👄👁 at 9:51

Where there's life, there's hope.

being a hero and saving all the people in that world that would live in pain forever is the right thing to do

hey were you the guy who channel almost got in trouble for punching a suffragette in red dead redemption?

Does the empress send Harvesters or Ghouls or whatever else to invade worlds through portals so she can kidnap more Crops?

9:50 , the scariest thing in this game is the baby looking inside your soul XD

@15:52 is sad the scene of her baby playing alone with her stuffed animal in a dead world.

Amnesia: Rebirth in a nutshell: Gameplay < STORY :)

So none of the endings are affected by your decision to "cure" Amari or not?

“It will waste her to nothing” Is a really dubious thing when the person saying it literally thinks death is a sickness and wasting away. Never trust immortals.

I really liked the idea of the Shadow being some kind of inter-dimensional malignancy that you can goad into consuming the Empress - though I wish it had, like with Daniel, recognized the intentions of the protagonist and spared them. She deserved it - eternal life wasn't enough, she wanted a child and was willing to keep millions in permanent torture-stasis and kill everyone on the plane to get what she wanted.

Fun fact alexander comes from that world

I did the third ending in my playthrough because babies piss me off

I really liked the dilemma you were put up against when you figured/found out that your baby, Amari, could not live without the Vitae. And not only that, you had to let the baby stay with the empress who just wanted to "love" her in her own, uhm, "lovely" way. Anyways I chose to bring down her reign as that one guy, whose name I forgot, wanted todo. End all suffering and her empire of eternal terror. In my opinion this is the way to go. If not, you'd only live for a while then turn, your baby would not have a wonderful life at all and the life she would have would be extremely short. Really dark and grim unravelling of the story to this game about what the vitae was and how it's being made. Fokin amazing 10/10.

i like how in 9:45 the baby went from crying to being like "the fuck are you looking at"

Hey if you don't mind asking your question, if I want to get to a Good Ending on Amnesia: Rebirth, how do I get to the Good Ending?

I only needed to finish this one before The Bunker, and I freaking love it. It's my favorite one by far, I love the aesthetics of the other world, it was decently scary, and the plot was actually entertaining (I'm just not a big fan of the endings).

I think the last one which is killing tasi, baby and the ghost woman with that flesh thingy is the true and best ending because by killing that ghost woman, everyone who is imprisoned in the capsule will be freed from the pain and suffering and will finally have their rest, its so dark ending but everyone have been put to rest that way

i prefer the third ending

how can the secret ending be considered a neutral one, if both tasi and amari die? that´s even worse that the "bad" one, at least the baby have a chance...

Aight the game was pretty good, Tasi and the baby dying thus sacryficing was the best ending in my opinion. I liked the Herbert notes, linked at least some things from the first game, and the orb too

I missed the part where you heal the child since I thought I could come back. Are there different endings is you heal it? Does it make a difference? The empress' dialogue didn't seem to indicate that the player healed the child. I was also really expecting an ending where YOU YOURSELF are inside one of the Vitae harvesters. Since the cycle was something like hope, fear, oblivion? Can't quite remember, which seemed to be a recurring theme as you playthrough, things giving you hope only to be snatched away from you. Like right at the beginning, it has always been that hope fear aspect and arguably oblivion at the end of the game completing the cycle. Either way I enjoyed the game, little too weird for my liking and the other dimension just didn't quite back as much fear in me as the human world. Really conflicting endings again where any choice can be taken and understood given peoples perspectives. I didn't trust the bitch from the start heh.

So the good ending is ambiguous, you don't know what happens next to Tasi and the child. Jeez.

There are actually four endings, kind of. If you take the baby out of the room and let "unknown" capture you while you're trying to escape with the baby, you get turned into the monster and forced to return the baby, which plays out the same as you return the baby yourself.

Wait, all you guys are saying that the ending where Tasi and her baby dies is the best ending since they both die together but free the victims... But weren't they consumed by the shadow much like what happened to Daniel in the revenge and agrippa endings?

The good ending is satisfying and the other endings are really sad and depressing

I love the ending where she escapes with her baby it’s truly the most satisfying 🖤

There's still so much about their world we don't know, so much that could be expanded upon and so much more to learn. What where the orbs, who were their guardians, why was the world the way it was? Who was the empress, why did she need what she needed? How did it connect to earth? So much more could be done with this universe, so little left unexplained.

Why is it so rare to find a horror game with an honest to god, no bullshit, happy ending these days?

one fucked up aspect of the harvester ending is that amari is in a position to become the eighth empress of the other world, condemned to eventually take her adoptive mother's place as the core of a system that cant sustain the dying world. we dont know the relationship the first seven empresses had with their mothers, and given the seventh's obsession with adopting a child this could be how their lineage progresses - transformation of other species' children

I'm chosing an ending that is not explicitly in the game: destroy the two big vitae sections with the red flesh (two closest to the room with the crib-as seen in the train station section on the map), and escape without destroying the 3rd one (while fulfilling the Stoic achievement requisites). With the number of all the broken and inactive capsules we've seen on our way there, leaving just that one section will drastically reduce Tihana's vitae "reserves", and since there is no-one with the mental capacity to repair and maintain the facilities, she will die in a few years. The harvester infection(?) will gradually subside with the distance from the gates to the other world, the other world itself, and Tihana's influence, as it hasn't progressed far enough to become self-sustained. As for using vitae on Amari... I'm chosing that Tihana either lied about the sickness (including interference with the scanner), or that the use of vitae in the child still developing in the womb accomplished to be a cure, rather than just treatment.

In a way I see all these as good because all she wants is for her child to be safe and happy and loved she could give it to her or let someone else do it she just wants her child to live a nice life and that’s what she’s gonna get with or without her

What is the thing struggling in the secret ending final scene, the one in the coffin?

I was wondering what would happen to tassin and the baby in Paris? Well she struggle to turn into a ghoul and the baby die off or is she saved from being a ghoul and the baby live? I was just wondering

4:05 is where the action begins.

So is the Empress an old one like in Bloodborne? In that game they can't have babies either but always yearn for surrogates

None of these endings is "secret", they are all included in the "reminders" tab....

I didn't understand the secret ending, can someone explain to me?

Wow, I don't know why I was so triggered and I thought that everything is only in her mind. While watching the gameplay, I thought that all the story is just in her mind because she is in a coma. After the plane crash, she gets in the hospital, in a coma, and struggles for her life. The action would be so dramatic because of the suffering of losing first child in real life, so she doesn't want to lose Amari. All her friends are implied in the story, as becoming creatures, being fictional parts of her story, as they were in the plane when the crash happened. The child grew so fast, because in a coma, she doesn't have a reference of the actual time, so she would be stood around 9-12 months in coma.

12:10 Good Ending Credits? Yes Back Home

like...i think you're supposed to empathize with the queen in the end when she says she just wants to love this child but there's a few unanswered questions I don't get if that's truly the case. 1) the queen is the one who poisoned all the people with the evil fountain water to begin with. She's a monster through and through even if she genuinely wants to care for the kid. If she really did just want a kid and wanted to propose that option to these people she would've just asked rather than tricking them into essentially killing themselves. 2) when you do decide to leave Amari with the queen, she doesn't help heal your affliction and let you leave, she essentially kills you. She's still bad. 3) Aside from any of that, assuming she is genuine and all the other options get explained by "well that has to happen cuz there's no cure for you and blah blah blah" how the hell is this kid gonna be able to live here? It's a bunch of murder zombies, an alien monster queen, and a constant evil red ooze monster trying to kill everyone all the time. There's no food or water that we've seen that would sustain the kid without turning it into a monster as well. Like...you're so effed in all of these options it makes the struggle to get here seem pointless. Like, just killing yourself in the first act seems like the most logical option. That's not super rewarding. I'm not saying there needs to be a "happy ending" but at least a "bittersweet" one otherwise what's the point?

On iconoclast ending! The heroic sacrifice destroy the tower! inside the hives with empress to there mindless harvester! Poor tasi and amari saved us all by infections! No-one will be infected to this dessert anymore!

And interesting story for certain as well with a lot of plot points that surprised me, scares that also surprise me, but also partially a lot of aspects I figured out. However, the biggest question I have is when did Tasi go back to the plane and forget? I looked through her sketchbook at the beginning of the game and lets say well, I found tidbits that made made me ask a lot of questions, alot of those questions answered, the cutscene of the crash is the beginning of the event, and the start of gameplay, is the beginning to the end, however, in my opinion, I thought there was gonna be an ending that involves Tasi leaving alone. Plus a lot of the puzzles were interesting even if I completed them by short term sheer accidents or dicked around with the puzzle to 90% completion until I realized I did it on accident. The best ending where everyone dies, no suffering, the civilization that long died, functions solely via automaton is no more. Also the plot inconsistency slight irks me where in one area you read about Daniel from Dark descent finding an orb, the note said the person who wrote the letter told him to go to Brennaburg, when in dark descent, it was some days before he was invited ot Brennaburg.

Can someone please explain to me what the secret ending is?