STALKER 2: Endings Guide Released

This guide details the four distinct endings in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, influenced by player choices in three key missions: Subtle Matter, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Last Wish. A manual save before Legends of the Zone allows players to experience all endings without a full replay.

Choices that Determine Your Ending

The three pivotal missions significantly impact the game's conclusion. Conveniently, these missions appear late in the game, enabling a strategic save point for exploring all outcomes.

She Will Never Be Free

• Subtle Matter: Choose "Life is for the living."
• Dangerous Liaisons: Choose "[Escape]".
• The Last Wish: Choose "[Fire]".

This ending aligns with Strelok's goal of protecting the Zone, achieved by antagonizing all other factions: rejecting Scar, fleeing Korshunov, and eliminating Kaymanov.

Project Y

• Subtle Matter: Choose "Life is for the living."
• Dangerous Liaisons: Choose "[Escape]".
• The Last Wish: Choose "[Lower the Gun]".

Similar to the previous ending, but instead of killing Kaymanov, players spare him, siding with his scientific perspective on the Zone's autonomous existence.

Today Never Ends

• Subtle Matter: Choose "Eternal spring."
• Dangerous Liaisons: Choose "[Escape]".
• The Last Wish: This mission's choice is irrelevant for this ending.

This ending involves aiding Scar, the leader of the Spark faction, leading to his journey into the Shining Zone. Only choices in two missions determine this outcome.

Brave New World

• Subtle Matter: Choose "Life is for the living."
• Dangerous Liaisons: Choose "I'm not your enemy."
• The Last Wish: This mission's choice is irrelevant for this ending.

This ending results from siding with Colonel Krushunov and the Ward faction, aiming to eradicate the Zone. Like the Spark ending, only two missions' choices are crucial.