Annihilated has four routes, one for each partner you can carry out of the dungeon, and every route has multiple endings. Which ending you reach depends on the partner you choose and on whether trust, doubt or dependence grows between the two of you along the way. Developer Death Kumiai has not published an exact ending count.
This guide stays spoiler-free: it explains how the routes and endings are structured, what decides yours and how to see more, without describing what happens in any of them.
Four Routes, One per Partner
At the start you reach the lost hero’s party and find four broken survivors: the Hero, the Mage, the Warrior and the Priest. You can only carry one of them out, and each partner has a route of their own.
The store page and the pre-launch posts from publisher Flashlight Games lay out the structure:
| Detail | What the developer says |
|---|---|
| Routes | 4, one per partner |
| Endings | Multiple on every route |
| Route length | About 6 hours each |
| Story size | 200,000+ words of branching story |
| Connection between routes | None: each route is a complete, independent story |
Because each route is independent, your choices on the Hero’s route do not carry into the Mage’s. Each partner’s story is completely different, so playing all four is less like repeating a game and more like four separate stories set in the same dungeon. The free demo let players try all four partners up to the first boss, the Outcast, and progress saved at the demo’s end carries over to the full game.
What Decides Your Ending
Two things shape where a route ends:
- Who you carry out. Every partner has their own set of endings.
- How the relationship grows. The store page puts it plainly: “Whether trust, doubt, or dependence grows between you depends on how you feel, and so does the ending.” Before launch, the developer added that your story with each partner “will reach a different conclusion depending on your actions and choices.”
The conversations along the way are where that happens. Every exchange pulls you deeper into who your partner really is, their secrets and what actually happened to the party, and the choices you make in those moments push the relationship one way or another.
What does not matter is your battle style. Annihilated lets you pick timing-based or probability-based combat, and the Japanese store page states that the choice has no effect on the story. Pick whichever you enjoy.
How to See Another Ending
The Japanese store page is direct about replaying: if you want to see another story, start the adventure again from the beginning. That applies both to trying a new partner and to chasing a different ending with the same one.
A few things make repeat runs smoother:
- Message skip. The game has a message skip for text you have already read. An early bug where saving could fail while skipping was fixed in the November 12 update.
- Deaths are not restarts. If you fall, you retry from the floor where you died, and stored Curses turn into items and experience, so a bad fight costs you little.
- Curses can rewrite bad luck. Spending a Curse to Defy fate undoes a bad roll or a sprung trap.
The Ending Achievements
Annihilated has 14 Steam achievements, and the ending ones are hidden. Their names give nothing away about the story, so here they are:
| Achievement | Description | Earned by (Nov 12) |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Escaped. | 29.0% of players |
| Mage | Reached the ending with the Mage. | 15.6% |
| Hero | Reached the ending with the Hero. | 12.7% |
| Warrior | Reached the ending with the Warrior. | 5.3% |
| Priest | Reached the ending with the Priest. | 4.3% |
The percentages come from Steam’s global achievement stats two days after launch, so they will climb. Steam tracks reaching an ending with a partner and escaping as separate achievements, so finishing a route and escaping are not counted as the same thing. There are also four non-hidden achievements for starting the escape with each partner, and hidden achievements for the bosses.
Update Before You Chase Endings
Several launch bugs blocked the last stretch of a route, and the fixes are already out:
- Hero route: the final boss battle could fail to end properly (fixed November 11).
- Warrior route: a final dungeon battle could block progress (fixed November 11).
- Mage route: the final boss could block progress, and some endings showed the wrong protagonist illustration (fixed November 12).
Steam updates the game automatically, so restart it if a final fight misbehaves. If you play story-led games for their endings, our best RPGs of 2026 and best games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lists have more, and fans of run-based card fights should see our Slay the Spire 2 guides.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many endings does Annihilated have? Death Kumiai has not given an exact number. There are four routes, one per partner, and each route has multiple endings.
What decides your ending in Annihilated? The partner you carry out and whether trust, doubt or dependence grows between you through your choices in conversation.
Does the battle style affect the ending? No. The developer says the timing-based and probability-based styles both take you to the end and do not affect the story.
How do you see another ending? Start the adventure again from the beginning, with the same partner for a different ending or a new partner for a new route.
How long is each route? About 6 hours each, according to the store page.