TheDark Pictures Anthology: Man Of Medanfrom Supermassive Games is a narrative survival-horror game that requires players to make split-second decisions in order to save the lives of the game’s main characters, as well as unravel the mysteries of the South Pacific and the ghost ship that lurks there. Taking cues from the campy, college-aged horror films of the ’80s and ’90s,Man Of Medanfollows a group of college students on a treasure hunt at sea and the dangers they face there, both man-made and supernatural.
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Typically, asuccessful run through the campaignwould see all the main characters surviving to see the end credits. However, Supermassive gameswon’t hold their players back.There are also endings where none of these characters survive, and they are just as appropriate as the “good” ending. In fact, achieving an ending where everyone dies requires just as much careful decision-making as keeping everyone alive. Here are all the ways to ensure these college students don’t make it back.
Find The Hat And Logbook, Then Call In The Army (Military Execution Ending)
Players need to be cautious with this one because it’s just as easy to arrive at this ending while trying to keep everyone alive. In short, the military is trying to keep what happened on the ghost ship a secret, and if the protagonists find out too much, they’ll need to be silenced.
Players will need to fulfill two tasks to get this ending. First, they’ll need to go collectible hunting. Not every collectible is essential, but players will need to have found all the information about the events that took place on the ghost ship. This includes discovering the ship’s name. The two essential collectibles are theHat,found on a corpse by Fliss in “Chapter: Danny,” and theShip’s Logbook,found just next to the radio in “Chapter: Distress Signal.” Make sure to readboth pagesof the logbook or Alex won’t learn the name of the ship. When Alex calls for help on the radio, have himtell the military the ship’s coordinates.Then choose someone to send below decks (typically Julia or Brad). While they’re down there, have them flip the power switch to the ship’s radio, and Alex will reveal to the military that he knows the ship’s name: the “Ourang Medan.”
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In “Chapter: Matters Of The Heart,” after Olson dies, Alex will go looking for a distributor cap for their smaller boat to help them escape. Failing the QTE where he tries to extract it from Olson’s body will make Alex drop the distributor cap down an elevator shaft. After that, it doesn’t matter how many characters survived until the end. With no other escape available when the military shows up, anyone left alive will be executed to keep the Manchurian Gold experiment a secret.
Make Everyone Go Insane (No Hope Ending)
This isa much scarier versionof the “bad” ending, one which still results in everyone’s deaths, but it happens much more slowly. To reach this ending, play the game as if the goal is to keep everyone alive, except don’t let Conrad steal the pirates' speedboat in “Chapter: Intrusion.” Then, in “Chapter: Matters Of The Heart,” make Alex drop the distributor cap down the elevator shaft.
After killing Olson and reuniting everyone, the group will realize they’re trapped on the “Ourang Medan” with no way to power their own ship, the “Duke Of Milan.” Instead, Fliss and Brad will try and catch a current in the “Duke Of Milan,” but will eventually starve to death. The remaining survivors on the ghost ship will slowly go insane from the effects of Manchurian Gold.
Kill Some Characters Early By Picking Up Weapons (Alternate Ending Scenes)
Hallucinations choke the air on the “Ourang Medan” ghost ship, and players will frequently encounter monsters only to discover that they are a hallucination. That hallucination is often, in reality,one of their friends,and therefore if these characters were to attack the monsters, they’ll just be attacking each other.
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For players looking to kill off every character, this can work to their benefit. There are three separate opportunities for players to give the characters a weapon. Alex can pick up a kitchen knife in the ship’s kitchen in “Chapter: Caskets,” Fliss can find a knife in the cargo hold in “Chapter: Danny,” and Brad can find a large iron wrench next to a corpse after passing through the locker room in “Chapter: Finding Friends” (or the first chapter where players control Brad on the ghost ship). After picking up the weapons, whenever players see a demon, have the character they’re controlling attack it. It will result in them killing one of their friends instead.
Quickest Path To Killing All Characters
While calling in the military and learning the ghost ship’s name is a foolproof way to ensure that every character dies, some players may not want to wait that long. Maybe they find these characters too insufferable and need a few of them to die as quickly as possible. If that’s the case, here is the quickest death available for each main character:
Getting Conrad shot, having Brad kill Fliss, giving Julia the bends, sending Brad to talk to Junior, and having Alex stab the rat in his chest will ensure every character dies by the final cutscene. If one of these options fails, the only way tobe absolutely surethat none of the characters survive is to find the Hat and Logbook collectibles and call in the military.
Man Of Medanwas released on August 30th, 2019, and is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.
