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The Credits is a segment shown after the completion of the game, where the player will witness police interviews of the protagonists who had survived until dawn.
If a character died, a short clip of his or her death will be shown to the player instead.
Order and Time of Deaths
The deaths will be shown in a form of a montage and will always begin with Hannah and Beth falling off the cliff. The rest of the characters' deaths are shown in this order:
Chris
If Chris died in Chapter 8, his time of death is: 04:30.
If Chris died in Chapter 9, his time of death is: 05:31.
Ashley
If Ashley died in Chapter 9, her time of death is: 05:25.
If Ashley died in Chapter 10, her time of death is: 06:52.
Emily
If Emily died in Chapter 8 in the mines, her time of death is: 04:09.
If Emily died in Chapter 8 by getting shot, her time of death is: 04:50.
If Emily died in Chapter 10, her time of death is: 06:52.
Matt
If Matt died in Chapter 6 by falling off a cliff, his time of death is: 02:07.
If Matt died in Chapter 6 by getting impaled on a hook, his time of death is: 02:45.
If Matt died in Chapter 10, his time of death is: 06:31.
Jessica
If Jessica died in Chapter 4, her time of death is: 00:12.
If Jessica died in Chapter 10, her time of death is: 06:30.
Mike
If Mike died in Chapter 10 by being lacerated, his time of death is: 06:51.
If Mike died in Chapter 10 by being incinerated, his time of death is: 06:52.
Sam
If Sam died in Chapter 10, her time of death is: 06:52.
Josh
If Josh died in Chapter 10, his time of death is: 06:23.
This is the same order as the appearance of the characters in the interviews, with the exception of Josh.
Note: The time of death is not included in the remake.
Credits Dialogue and Aftermath
Chris
Occurs regardless.
- Chris: Uh, the old man, I, er... I don't know how to describe him, I mean-
- Interviewer: You said you thought he was stalking you at first- did anyone else in your group think that?
- Chris: Well, yeah-
- Interviewer: Is it possible they could have killed him?
- Chris: What? No, no, you don't understand. Don't you underst-
- Interviewer: If he attacked you-
- Chris: He saved my life... And I watched him die.
Chris hit Josh in the shed.
- Interviewer: Why did you hit Josh?
- Chris: He was acting like a maniac... and I... I had to stop him.
- Interviewer: I thought you said he was tied up--
- Chris: Yeah, but-- Okay, I-- Okay. I know it looks bad. But you don't understand... he was trying to fuck with our heads.
Sam, Mike, Jessica, Matt, Emily and Ashley have all died, or Sam, Mike, Jessica, Matt and Ashley died and Emily did not find Beth's head.
- Interviewer: And Josh?
- Chris: (panting and sniffling) What about him?
- Interviewer: We haven't recovered his body.
- Chris: (composes himself) The Wendigo.
- Interviewer: What?
- Chris: It's the only thing that makes sense. The Wendigo took him down into the mines.
Ashley
Chris did not shoot Ashley and he died before dawn.
- Ashley: (crying) I can't believe Chris's gone... He was my best friend and... maybe I- we never had a chance.
Chris shot Ashley and, implicitly, he died before dawn.
- Ashley: I couldn't move... I was so scared. And I saw it... tear him apart. Right in front of me.
Occurs regardless.
- Ashley: I heard Jessica... I don't know how or why she was down there, but I know I heard her...
Ashley stabbed Josh with the scissors.
- Ashley: I- I stabbed him and I tried to get away, but I didn't know! I swear I didn't know.
- Interviewer: Didn't know...? Who did you stab?
- Ashley: Oh, I... I stabbed the maniac, I didn't know it was Josh, but then he was the Psycho and how was I supposed to know Josh had all the saws and the gun and oh, my God.
Sam, Mike, Jessica, Matt and Emily have all died, or Sam, Mike, Jessica and Matt died and Emily did not find Beth's head.
- Interviewer: And Josh?
- Ashley: The Wendigo... it has to be...
- Interviewer: What?
- Ashley: The monster... it... took him down into the mines... where it lives... And Sam... and Mike... They went to go find him... and we were going to meet back at the lodge but-
Emily
Emily was bitten.
- Emily: He held it right up to my face... right here - right in front of my nose, and he could have shot me, he almost shot me, the prick! I mean, you go out with a guy for however long and you think you know him, but man, this one really takes the cake.
Matt and Emily's relationship status was high and Matt survived until dawn.
- Emily: Where's Matt? Is he okay? Are they done looking at him? I'm just a little worried because, you know, I'm his girlfriend. Did he tell you that? I mean, I probably wasn't his favorite person there for a couple minutes, but he knows how devoted I am to him. He knows. He said he knows, right?
Matt and Emily's relationship status was low and Matt survived until dawn.
- Emily: You bringing in Meatbrain next? Gonna kick him around a bit for me?
- Interviewer: I'm sorry?
- Emily: Meatbrain? Mister Musclebrawn? Matt, the incredible sulk?
- Interviewer: Is there something we need to know?
- Emily: Oh, no, nothing important, except, um, you know, how he basically left me to die up on a freakin' tumbling tower like a world class douche nozzle.
Matt and Emily's relationship status was high and Matt died before dawn.
- Emily: About Matt. Have, uh... have you found him?
- Interviewer: No... not yet.
- Emily: Oh, God, he's dead. Isn't he?
- Interviewer: Why do you say that?
- Emily: Oh, no, no, no, no... He's just... Oh, my God, I was such a bitch and I... I, you know, I maybe could have helped him, maybe I could have saved him?
Matt and Emily's relationship status was low and Matt died before dawn.
- Emily: About Matt. Have, uh... have you found him?
- Interviewer: No... not yet.
- Emily: Yeah, well, don't look too hard.
- Interviewer: You don't sound very concerned.
- Emily: Fucker left me to die. He said he was my boyfriend, but then he basically murdered me. Would you give a shit?
Sam, Mike, Jessica and Matt have all died and Emily found Beth's head.
- Emily: No, no, it's not an animal and it's not a person, but it has a home down there and it collects things like a person would and I found all this stuff, it's horrible!
- Interviewer: What did you find?
- Emily: I found her head. I found Beth's head.
- Interviewer: Beth Washington?
- Emily: Beth freaking Washington.
- Interviewer: Please, make a note to investigate further... and Josh?
- Emily: I didn't see him... but there's no way he could have survived, so if you haven't found him yet, that's where he's gotta be.
Matt
Occurs regardless.
- Matt: I was right there and I could have done something - I tried to do something... I wasn't good enough.
Emily died in the lodge.
- Matt: Where's Em? Have you found Em?
- Interviewer: Yes, we have.
- Matt: What? Where? Where is she?
- Interviewer: Sir...
- Matt: I need to talk to her!
- Interviewer: She was in the lodge.
- Matt: What do you... what do you mean? What do you mean she was in the lodge?
- Interviewer: In the fire. We recovered her body.
- Matt: No, no, no. (starts to cry) No, she can't be. Oh, God. Oh, fuck, no!
Mike shot Emily.
- Interviewer: She was shot.
- Matt: What? She was what? Is she okay?
- Interviewer: We recovered her body with a gunshot wound to the head.
- Matt: No. No, no, no. No, no, it doesn't make any sense. It was someone else, it had to be.
Sam, Mike and Jessica have died.
- Matt: There was- There was a madman and he was after us, he... he killed Josh and he was trying to kill all of us and we went for help because he was trapped and for fuck's sake that's why I was on the damn fucking tower in the first place!
- Interviewer: But the tower fell. Where were you after the tower fell?
- Matt: In the mines! I keep trying to tell you, there's something in the mines!
Jessica
Occurs regardless.
- Interviewer: How did you end up in the mines?
- Jessica: I was... carried... and... taken... and...
- Interviewer: What did you see?
- Jessica: I don't know... I... I don't know.
Ashley survived until dawn.
- Interviewer: Your friend Ashley - she told us she tried to help you.
- Jessica: No...
- Interviewer: She said she heard you calling out.
- Jessica: No... Not me...
Occurs regardless.
- Jessica: ...Mike...
- Interviewer: What do you remember?
- Jessica: He came for me...! He did...!
- Interviewer: Came for you?
- Jessica: Where is he...? Did he make it...?
Sam and Mike died in the lodge.
- Interviewer: What carried you? You said it carried you. Was it one of your friends?
- Jessica: No. No, it was... it was down there. It came from down there.
- Interviewer: I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
- Jessica: The mines. There's something in the mines.
Mike
Occurs regardless.
- Mike: He was out of his fucking mind. He wanted to hurt us. Yeah, he... and... I thought he was the one who attacked Jess.
Mike failed to chase after Jessica in time.
- Mike: I just wasn't fast enough. I was so close, man. If I'd have just been... just a little faster, I... I could have saved her... I could have saved her. So it's my fault. I'm the reason Jess is dead.
Mike shot Emily.
- Interviewer: Is there something you want to tell us?
- Mike: No. No... No, it...
- Interviewer: So it was you who broke up with her...?
- Mike: No, it's... Okay, okay, you gotta understand. These things were... okay, they... they were confused and- the circumstances were not normal-
- Interviewer: You had a fight, you were angry-
- Mike: Y- No! Yes, yes, but no. Okay? Okay? It was not like that-
- Interviewer: What was it like, Michael?
- Mike: She was... she was infected! Okay? And- and- and we thought she'd turn into one. So, so what was I supposed to do? You know? I had to stop her. I had to keep her from changing!
Sam died in the lodge.
- Mike: Josh helped us and then... Fuck, man... that thing... okay? The Wendigo... It came out of the darkness and it just... I don't know... I heard screaming, I got out of there. There was no point in both of us dying.
Sam
Occurs regardless.
- Sam: I thought we were close... After his sisters disappeared, he'd come and talk to me... he said I was the only one who understood him. I thought... I thought we had a connection.
- Interviewer: If you need someone to talk to...
- Sam: I'm fine.
- Interviewer: Sometimes after a traumatic experience-
- Sam: I said I'm fine.
Mike died in the lodge.
- Sam: It was my fault Mike died. I wasn't supposed to move... but I did... and he saved me. So it's my fault that he died.
Occurs regardless.
- Sam: You need to listen to me. I don't care if you believe me or not. Doesn't matter. Because you will. You need to go down to the mines.
- Interviewer: What's in the mines, Sam?
- Sam: I've seen what's down there... and I'd give anything to unsee it.
Josh
Wendigo Josh is found
If Sam found the Scrawled Journal and someone besides Josh survived (original). If Sam found the Scrawled Journal, but Josh was not remorseful and/or saw at least one friend dead in the Wendigo's lair, and someone besides Josh survived (remake).
The camera cuts between longer shots of the mines and quicker shots of Josh gnawing on something. The camera will then pan to reveal that Josh is eating the decapitated head of the Stranger in the mines along with his body and bodies of other characters - Jessica, Matt, Emily, Chris, and/or Ashley - that might have been killed throughout the game. Josh is visibly in the process of transforming into a Wendigo. A rescue party searching through the mines finds him.
- Police Rescue 1: There's something down here.
- Police Rescue 2: We have visual on a survivor. One survivor... repeat. Is that...?
- Police Rescue 1: Oh, fuck!
- Police Rescue 2: Stay back! No! No! Stay back.
Wendigo Josh is alone
If Sam found the Scrawled Journal and nobody besides Josh survived (original and remake).
The camera cuts between longer shots of the mines and quicker shots of Josh gnawing on something. He is visibly in the process of transforming into a Wendigo. The camera will then pan to reveal that Josh is eating the decapitated head of the Stranger. Eventually, Josh looks up, towards the camera.
No rescue party finds Josh because there was no survivor to urge the investigators to search the mines.
Human Josh is found
If Josh showed remorse, Sam found the Scrawled Journal, and nobody had died before Josh walked through the Wendigo lair with Mike (remake only).
A flashlight beam from a rescue party will be seen closing in and shining on the doorway into the Wendigo's lair. The voice of Dr. Hill can be heard.
- Dr. Hill: But it is a game that has driven you to one of your own deepest fears, Joshua. Isolation...
In the lair, the Stranger's body swings back and forth.
- Dr. Hill: ...this terrible isolation.
Josh, traumatized but still human, sits on a rock, his face in his hands. He rocks back and forth, illuminated by the light from the surface.
- Dr. Hill: I hope for your sake, Joshua, that you can find redemption.
Trivia
- There is a total of 32 epilogues (both interviews and the mine findings) in the game, not counting The Scar's Awakening.
- In the Japanese version of the game, instead of showing a clip of the character's death, it shows their intro screen.
- The policewoman interviews Ashley, Chris, Matt and Mike, while the policeman interviews Emily, Jessica and Sam.
- Ashley, Jessica and Sam are interviewed in room #1, Emily and Matt in room #2, and Chris and Mike in room #3.
- The time of each interview is shown on the top right of the screen. The interviews begin with Ashley at around 9:17 AM and end with Sam at 11:18 AM. The chronological order of the interviews is: Ashley, Emily, Chris, Jessica, Matt, Mike, Sam.
- There may have been an error with Chris and Emily's times, as this list is almost in order alphabetically by first name, and their tape numbers are the only ones that don't reflect the order they were interviewed. The tape numbers are 136 (Ashley), 137 (Chris), 138 (Emily), 139 (Jessica), 140 (Matt), 141 (Mike), and 142 (Sam).
- All protagonists have one interview clip that will always be played if alive, except for Josh (who is not part of the police interrogation), Sam and Jessica (who have two ever-present interviews).
- Emily and Josh are the only characters who don't have specific interviews that always play regardless (Josh has none and is not part of the police interrogation).
- Ashley, Matt, and Emily are the only characters who cannot say all of their dialogue in one playthrough.
- The player needs two playthroughs for Matt and Ashley to say all of their dialogue and four for Emily.
- Emily's body does not appear when the police investigate the mines if she died before making her way back to the lodge, although it should be behind The Stranger's.
- Despite being one of Mike's possible deaths, Mike sacrificing himself using the lighter is never shown in the "death reel." The Wendigo attacking Mike is seen instead, suggesting that he suffered fatal injuries and would have died anyway.
- Every character, besides Josh, has an interview directing the police to investigate the mines. However, only one of these interviews is shown in any given playthrough, depending on who survived. However, it is assumed every survivor always says their respective interview even if not shown on-screen.
- The order of priority for the mines interview goes as follows: Sam, Mike, Jessica, Matt, Emily, Ashley, Chris. This means that, if she is alive, Sam will always be the one telling investigators to check the mines, while Chris will only do so if he is sole survivor (Josh notwithstanding).
- Worth noting Ashley's respective interview has a cut line at the end where she states Mike and Sam never came back to the lodge.
- In the original game, once Mike is done saying his final interview if Sam died, the screen will always freeze on his face for a few seconds before fading to black.
- Notably, this happens right before Mike would have stated his cut line of "...you don't believe me, do you?"
- This error was fixed in the remake.
- Chris and Matt have additional interviews that were cut from the game:
- Chris has two interviews: one where he talks about shooting Ashley at the gun trap, and one where he talks about finding Ashley's headless body in the tunnels (the latter flows into his interview about Josh being taken by the Wendigo).
- Matt has an alternative interview regarding the fire tower dilemma if he chose to jump to safety instead of saving Emily.
- Chris' actor, Noah Fleiss, was omitted from the end credits in the original state of the PS4 version of the game. He was later added to the end credits through a patch, although his name remains absent in the icon for the credits in the bonus content.
- Matt's actor, Jordan Fisher, was originally present in the credits for the original game, but was accidentally removed after the 1.02 patch. This was then fixed with another patch however.
- Emily's actress, Nichole Sakura, went by Nichole Bloom at the time of the original game's release and is credited as such in the game. However, she changed her stage name "Bloom" to "Sakura" in 2020 in order to honor her real middle name, and so was credited as Nichole Sakura in the remake.
- The true ending in Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, which can be unlocked after completing the story mode in Psychotic difficulty, shows the original game's after-credits scene from Josh's perspective.
- In the remake, a montage of the protagonists' deaths is followed without listing their names or time of death.
- Sam, Mike, and Emily's interviews have lines in which they address what the player could have done in order to save the other protagonists they lament.
- If Mike died in the lodge in Chapter 10, Sam states that it was her fault for moving. Mike's death can be caused by the player failing the first Don't Move as Sam in the game's final sequence or by the player deciding Sam should stop remaining still and start running to the switch.
- If Jessica died after being dragged by the Wendigo in Chapter 4, Mike bemoans the fact that he could have saved her if he had been faster. As Mike, the player taking the safe paths instead of the quicker routes results in Jessica's aforementioned death.
- If Matt died, Emily's interview if their relationship was good is her wondering if she could have saved him. If Emily chooses not to give Matt the flare gun in Chapter 6 and Matt later chooses to save Emily, his death is guaranteed. Additionally, if Matt hit the elk at the clifftop, he is able to survive not falling off the cliff thanks to Emily offering him her hand to help him climb back up.