The Many Deaths of You that often end in It's a Wonderful Failure available throughout Look Outside. There are a copious amount of ways to trigger this as the game progresses, usually resulting in horrifying death scenes. Many of them reward an achievement when triggered, which will be listed as the game over's name. All spoilers are unmarked.
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Looking Outside
Glimpsing the outside phenomenon in any way, shape or form.
- "Look Outside": Immediately after starting the game, look outside.
- "Through the Looking Glass": Look into the telescope in Apartment 31.
- You are pulled inside the telescope eye-first and your pulverized body gushes out the other end. Your remains are completely unrecognizable.
- Look at the telescope’s reflection on the floor.
- Driven by an extreme urge to become one with the image, your body breaks down into a mold-like smudge arranged in a perfect circle around the projected image.
- "Projector Doom": Look at the projector image of the Visitor.
- Turning on the projector in Vincent's apartment with the Negative Disc inserted and pointed at the wall will produce an image of the Visitor's gaze. You immediately die from the exposure, hearing the same hellish roar from the Press Start to Game Over example above.
- "Dark Room": Look at the photograph of the Visitor in Lyle’s darkroom.
- Your internal organs rip themselves out of your skeleton and crawl into the development basins, becoming one with the image. Your misshapen hands of offal and sinew grasp at your remaining photo paper. You will need many copies. They must all see it.
Combat Deaths
These Non-Standard Game Overs are the result of losing fights with specific enemies.
- "It DID Last Longer…": Fail to defeat Lyle in time.
- The Phantom-Zone Picture he took of you fully develops, trapping you inside. Since the photo is smeared, your vision is blurry. Lyle keeps your photo with him thereafter, occasionally taking it out to show you things (that you can't see anyway). One day, he loses your picture and never finds it again, leaving you to spend eternity in a puddle of slime staring at a blurry sky.
- Die to Spine or spare her and agree to be remade.
- Teeth, claws and bones dig into you from every angle. Your skin is torn off, limbs ripped from their sockets, as you’re drawn into her maw. Foreign tendons and nerves integrate into your body, your organs discarded and replaced, and you come to realize… she was right.This is going to be scary. And painful. Change always is. But in the end, you'll see. It's for the best. We will never be alone again.
- Teeth, claws and bones dig into you from every angle. Your skin is torn off, limbs ripped from their sockets, as you’re drawn into her maw. Foreign tendons and nerves integrate into your body, your organs discarded and replaced, and you come to realize… she was right.
- "Car Hell": Fail to defeat the Hellride in time and you are Dragged Off to Hell.
- "Successor": Die to the Rat King after kneeling to it.
- As you are mauled by the Rat King, you feel its crown being placed on your head. When you wake up, the beast is gone. As you make your way back home, the halls seem to shrink, and you feel bloated. Your body has become a mass of shaggy black hair, teeth, tails and claws. As you can no longer fit in the stairwell, you are now trapped on Floor 1.
- Dying to Baby Teeth.
- Baby Teeth crawls back into the darkness, leaving you to stagger home covered in bite wounds. Hard nubs start growing from your injuries, gums and lips splitting your body apart. You’re able to reach your hand inside your skull up to your elbow and you smile with too many mouths.
- If Clint is alive, he will be beaming down at you with pride.
- If Clint is dead, it’s noted that the teeth have continued to spread across his corpse.
- Baby Teeth crawls back into the darkness, leaving you to stagger home covered in bite wounds. Hard nubs start growing from your injuries, gums and lips splitting your body apart. You’re able to reach your hand inside your skull up to your elbow and you smile with too many mouths.
- Eaten Alive by Marvin.
- If you fight Marvin with no other party members, he will devour you whole after a few turns, which causes an instant Game Over as you are digested alive.
- "Obliterated".
- Go for the Perfect Ritual ending, but when talking with the Visitor, attempt to fight it. After briefly freaking out, the Visitor realizes it's feeling a new emotion: anger, which it decides to remedy by frying Sam for millions of damage using its Eye Beams.
- "Massacred".
- If you manage to learn and use Meteor Strike against the Visitor, Sam transforms into Rush - the main character from Massacre Princess Catholicon - and survives the aforementioned Eye Beams, leading to a new final battle against the Visitor, with new party members and attacks. It is possible to win, but befitting of an RPG, there is a "hard enrage" mechanic — Taking too long to defeat the Visitor will result in it using Annihilation again, and it will kill you.
Interaction Deaths
These Non-Standard Game Overs are the result of picking certain choices when speaking to NPC's.
- "Behind the Mask": Walk into the Shadow.
- Thousands of fingers gently and lovingly take you apart, bit by bit. Your limbs, your organs, your brain, all disassembled painlessly. You see nothing but a slowly fading mask, and then darkness. When the pain finally comes, it comes all at once and it never ends.
- "All You Need Is Love": Hug Fred Who Bites.
- You are flayed alive by hundreds of reluctant jaws. The last thing you hear is your killer's mortified sobs.
- "One With the Fungus": Embrace the Spore Mother.
- The last thing you see is the perverse, hungry glare of a predator relishing its meal. You sink into a cold, slimy world of burning pain and are assimilated into the fungus colony.
- "Hat Trick": Put on the fake cowboy hat and then attack Toxic Fred while alone or being the only person conscious in the party. If there are others with you, they can beat the hat off of you.
- The hat bites into your head and hijacks your body. Toxic Fred directs you to kill your friends.
- "Worm Debate": Convince Nestor to leave Eugene alone or fail to defeat him in time. He takes over your body instead.
- Hug Joel with low HP.
- His teeth draw you in and your body crumples from being dragged into something smaller than yourself. You are Eaten Alive.
- Go on a date with Rafta.
- A huge worm bursts from the pipe and burrows into your eye. A voice in your mind talks about seeing a movie. Your body starts turning into a multitude of red worms. It feels like something you could always do, like Rafta just reminded you that you’ve always been worms. Why did you try to be human? This is so much better. Meanwhile, Rafta sounds concerned, asking if you’re having an allergic reaction, and goes searching for an epipen in a handbag she doesn’t have.
Apartment Events
These Non-Standard Game Overs are the result of making certain choices during random Apartment events.
- If you don't use the Wounded Neighbour's knife in battle after picking it up, an event can occur where you wonder if there are eyes inside you too and decide to cut open your own stomach with the knife.
- One variation results in your guts spilling out and you feeling very stupid. Why did you do this?
- Another variation results in the discovery of an enormous eye bulging out of your wound. You start cutting yourself all over, revealing more and more eyes, all fully functioning. The sensory overload breaks your mind.
- Indulge in Monty’s pyromania, leading to him burning the entire building down.
Endings
- "Failure": "Failed Ritual" ends with all the Astronomers mutating because of every offering being wrong and your head cracking open as you turn into a living fractal. Notably, this is the only ending on the roof that lacks any form of final boss. This ending is also possible to obtain on the Mask ending path if you leave the area after being prompted that the astronomers have failed, where it will show Sam's body slowly splitting open before the cut to black.
- If Cinnamon the guinea pig is presented as an offering, it will mutate and absorb the other Astronomers depending on which offerings you got correct besides Cinnamon, becoming XIN-AMON. There are two unique endings depending on if you win or lose against it with three correct offerings.
- "Eternal Fate" occurs when you lose, leaving the beast free to consume whoever it comes across, assimilating them into its form. Millions of faces cover its body, screaming because they cannot die. You scream because you know you cannot die.
- "XIN-AMON" occurs when you win with the three correct offeringsnote , revealing that succeeding against the monster only removes the Astronomers' restraint. Now untethered, the beast grows infinitely, basically unkillable due to how quickly it can regenerate. It ultimately assimilates all life on the planet, covering the entire earth. Floating in the endlessness of space is rather lonely...
- "Words of Power": You free Wilhelmina von Kreutzwort from her prison and speak the Word of Power at her command. You immediately become her thrall and undergo a horrific transformation that ends with you fusing together with her, as she implicitly proceeds to Take Over the World.
Other
Other ways to die that don't fit under the other categories.
- "Oculus": Remain under the gaze of the giant eyeball in a hidden room on Floor 1.
- You are transfixed by the giant eye and its rhythmic pulse, finding it somehow familiar and wondering if it's your own eye. Then you have a perspective flip and are the giant eye placidly watching a tiny, vaguely familiar figure approaching fearlessly, then touching your cornea and pushing its way inside, described in explicit, graphic detail. The experience is described as extremely painful, then the game ends.
- If you have an Iris Key in your inventory, you are given a choice on what the tiny figure will do. Choosing to "turn around and walk away" produces the same scene as above. Choosing to "stab yourself in the eye" instead has the tiny figure insert the key into its own eye socket, before suddenly cutting to the Game Over screen.
- "Vehicular Manslaughter": Death by surprise vehicular crash. This can happen two different ways.
- You reach the Ground Floor, and enter the center lobby area for the first time. As you move towards the center of this room, the sudden sound of a veering car is heard; a mere moment later, a whole bus careening onto its side suddenly crashes into the building. Failure to move out of the way fast enough is instant death.
- You reach Floor 4 by playing the elevator game, finding an abandoned, but functioning metro station. Eventually, you can reach the tracks and climb down onto them. Stay on the tracks too long, and you'll discover the hard way that it's not just the electronic ticket readers that are still running.
- Death by explosion.
- In the Landlord's Apartment, you might optionally end up using timed explosives to blow a hole in a fragile wall. Failure to keep a safe distance from the explosive will kill you.
- Death by ingestion of an unusual substance.
- Black Ooze is a drop from fighting Nightmare enemies, which raises the Danger level for saving, earning experience when entering your apartment, or luring stronger shades out to fight you at random in exchange for randomly dropping your health, up to and including killing a character outright. If your last standing character dies to Black Ooze, you get a Game Over all the same.
