Dawnwalker All Endings: 8 Routes, Postgame & Save Plan

Major spoiler warning

This page names every ending, the allies who unlock final routes and the choices that decide Coen's outcome. Stop here if you only wanted the ending count.

The count needs one qualification. PowerPyx documents seven trophy-route outcomes, including Time Runs Out. PC Gamer documents eight possible endings by also counting the exceptionally difficult two-stage Brencis victory during the prologue. This page shows both conventions instead of hiding the disagreement.

Why guides say seven or eight endings

The difference is classification, not a missing ordinary finale. Four routes resolve the late Brencis conflict, A Hero They Deserve and Together Forever end the campaign early, and Time Runs Out records the failed family deadline. Defeating Brencis during the prologue creates another credits-and-epilogue state, but some trophy-focused lists do not count it separately.

For a completion plan, treat the prologue fight as its own branch. It cannot be recovered from a late-game save.

All eight ending states at a glance

Four outcomes resolve the late confrontation with Brencis, two end the campaign early, one rewards defeating Brencis before the open world, and one records the cost of missing the family deadline.

One-playthrough save plan

Keep a manual save before the prologue Brencis fight, then continue the campaign if you do not win that branch. Keep Esme alive, defeat Ambrus, Bakir and Xanthe through their Court routes, and complete both Lacra and Crake's alliance questlines before entering the final sequence.

Do not build the plan around one autosave. Use separate manual slots so the prologue secret, early endings, missed deadline or final dialogue cannot overwrite the branch you need.

Four Brencis routes and exact commitment points

After the three vassals are defeated and Infamy reaches its final state, advance to the next day for Brencis's message and A Deal with the Devil. Make Save D before entering the parley.

Earlier role-playing choices do not replace the final checks. The decisive factors are whether Lacra or Crake has been prepared, which ending quest you start and whether you accept Brencis's last bargain.

Two early endings

A Hero They Deserve uses the western escape route after the prologue. Attempt it at night, when Coen's vampire movement can reach the exit, and reload Save A afterward.

Together Forever occurs inside Home Sweet Home at Silts Tower. Continue the family loop through four completed cycles instead of following the well escape. Keep Save E because escaping the sequence leads to a separate reward and lets the campaign continue.

Secret prologue Brencis ending

A separate, exceptionally difficult credits route exists at the end of the prologue. Defeat Brencis in the first encounter, then defeat Brencis, Grotesque Ascendant. The result has a short epilogue because the wider Vale Sangora campaign never begins.

This is the route behind the seven-versus-eight disagreement. PowerPyx treats early access to the later solo castle route as an alternate Folk Hero method, while PC Gamer separately records the actual prologue two-stage victory. Preserve Save 0 before attempting it; a late-game branch save cannot return to this fight.

Time Runs Out and post-deadline play

Passing 30 in-game days triggers the family-sacrifice outcome instead of a conventional hard game over. Published launch testing says free exploration and other final routes remain available afterward, but the clean timed-rescue path is lost on that timeline.

Test this outcome only on a duplicate manual save. Shrines can advance time quickly, but ordinary exploration does not consume quest time unless an activity displays and spends time segments.

Can you keep playing after an ending?

No completed ending currently opens a conventional postgame or returns Coen to unrestricted free roam. After the credits, use Load Game and return to the permanent manual save you created before A Deal with the Devil, an ally finale or an early-ending trigger.

Do not confuse this with the Time Runs Out outcome. Crossing the 30-day deadline leaves the world playable, but actually completing one of the final or early endings closes that branch. PowerPyx's one-playthrough route likewise depends on reloading the pre-finale save after each ending, and fresh player reports confirm that choosing a different finale does not unlock a continue-after-credits mode.

Final checklist before the branch

Use this list before committing to Brencis. If one item is missing, return to the matching permanent save rather than hoping the next autosave keeps every route open.

• Esme survived the prologue
• Ambrus, Bakir and Xanthe are defeated
• Lacra and Crake preparations are complete
• A permanent save exists before A Deal with the Devil
• A second backup exists before day 30
• Home Sweet Home has its own pre-loop save
• The next route is clearly labeled solo, Lacra, Crake, bargain or early exit