All Into The Radius VR Endings and How To Reach Them

So you’re wondering what happens at the end of Into the Radius.

Well whether you’ve come here out of curiosity, are wondering what different Into the Radius endings there are, or just completed our walkthrough on the final mission of Into the Radius VR, Ouroboros, we’ve got you covered with this complete list of each Into the Radius VR ending.

This article will, of course, spoil the ending to Into the Radius. If you haven’t experienced it already by completing the game then I highly recommend you do so before ruining the surprise for yourself.

Into the Radius Endings - How To Beat The Game

To beat Into the Radius and reach the ending you’ll need to complete every Top Priority mission of the game.

These missions can be accepted on your mission terminal in your home base of Vanno, and sometimes won’t appear until you’ve completed some repeatable missions first.

Complete all Top Priority missions to beat Into the Radius

These Top Priority missions bring you further and further into the zone to new areas, and become generally harder over time.

So to complete the game you’ll have to unlock each successive map as well, and eventually find yourself in the center of the Pechorsk Radius at Pechorsk Castle.

When you accept the final mission of the game, Ouroboros, the castle gates open and let you in

The entrance to Pechorsk Castle and the final mission of the game

As described in our walkthrough article on this final Into the Radius mission, you then have to fight your way to the central keep of the castle, and pick up the Grail artifact found inside.

That is when the endings commence.

This is your last warning for spoilers, because here is what each of the endings of Into the Radius VR are. The conversation and choice at the ending is a huge source of Into the Radius lore, and experiencing the lead up to it first hand makes those answers even more appealing.

All Into the Radius VR Endings

Once you pick up the Grail you’ll find yourself surrounded by Katya statues.

After picking up the grail you’ll be surrounded by Katya statues

After a few moments you’ll see a loading screen, and find yourself transported to somewhere you’ve never been before.

The ground below you is stranger than it has ever been before, a weird swamp of red shifting water. Above you is a ceiling of eyes looking down, and in each direction are trees and darkness.

In front of you are some floating rocks, and your friend Katya held by a black hand.

Even more strangely there’s another figure, a black statue with a head covered in white spikes.

Katya and a Stranger at the final confrontation

A voice you’ve never heard before, the voice of this new stranger, starts to speak. Out of every bit of Into the Radius lore you’ve found in the game so far, this conversation is the most revealing.

It congratulates you, Explorer #61, on making it to the center of the zone. It says that you acted just according to plan. Katya interjects as well, wondering what this new voice is.

The new voice asks you what it’s like being a hero, and whether or not you evoked the “event” that created the zone.

The voice seems to have multiple people speaking from time to time, sometimes saying words on top of each other to maybe disguise, or maybe reveal the true meaning of what it is saying.

Instead of the usual orb in the center of the radius, now eyes look down on you from above

The ending is certainly very surreal, and also very open to interpretation, but here’s a summary of the conversation between the stranger and Katya, to which you are a silent observer.

The stranger says that you and Katya are not real people, that both of you are just made up composites of a variety of actual people. She is just an image of all of the innocents who suffered at the hands of the radius and served as your bait and motivator to travel to the center of the castle. While you are just a composite of all of the explorers of the radius, and also not a real person.

The stranger says “Iteration successful” and seems to indicate that the center of the zone has been reached before and will be again in the same fashion by you or by possibly other explorers. Though whether this stranger can be trusted at all isn’t clear.

Either way the stranger says they are pleased, and offers you a reward and a choice. It comes in the form of a pistol.

Katya selflessly says that she doesn’t trust the stranger and is willing to be destroyed, especially if neither of you is real in the first place. The stranger says that you can’t harm the radius if you try, and that the “work in progress” there will continue.

The Into the Radius VR Ending gives you one more gun, and a choice

The pistol looks like a Makarov, but it is no normal pistol.

There is no way to avoid this choice. The pistol cannot be dropped or holstered. You cannot move or run away. Trying to shoot the pistol empty or remove all of the bullets from it is impossible, it will never run out of ammunition.

You can try and shoot whatever you like but there are only three choices here. You can shoot Katya and see if the stranger will live up to their promise of giving you a normal life, or you can shoot the stranger and free (or possibly create) Katya.

What you might not realize is an option, and what the stranger doesn’t say, is that you can also shoot yourself.

Into the Radius VR Endings - Shooting Katya

Sacrificing Katya gives you a normal life

If you shoot Katya her white statue will break into pieces and start to drift off.

She will still thank you for freeing her from the radius, and says farewell.

Your normal apartment and normal life

After a brief loading screen you find yourself in an ordinary looking apartment, surrounded by the creature comforts of an ordinary life.

You can walk around your apartment and can hear the sounds of a distant city around you. More importantly you can hear and see a narration with a voice that sounds just like Katya.

It tells you that an ancient consciousness is what is speaking to you, and that that consciousness was awakened sixteen years ago in the Pechorsk radius.

It also says that you were freed from the radius a year ago, and that you now have a human form, an identity, and a place to live and work. You live a normal, mundane life now, and even have a partner who is not Katya.

Despite your freedom and normal life, the voice says that you think about Katya a lot, and that you never do stop thinking about her and the Zone. Your questions still are not fully answered, and the zone is still out there.

Into the Radius VR Endings - Shooting The Stranger

Shooting the stranger frees Katya

If you shoot the stranger they will break into pieces and those pieces will drift off.

Its odd voice will say “All the necessary data has been recorded.” Katya exclaims that something is happening to her and then you’re surrounded by TVs.

These floating TVs and narration are your last connection to Katya

Each shows a young girl in an idyllic field, and all around them are ruined trees and more red swamps.

You can’t move. You can only listen as Katya tells you about her becoming real. She says she was separated from the being she only just knew she was a part of, and that just before she was separated the being told her that an act of self sacrificed was performed for her.

Then Katya tells you that she woke up in a field full of wildflowers, and to a normal life with a little sister and a mother and father.

Katya takes a moment to spread out in the grass, and she thanks you for sacrificing yourself for her.

Into the Radius VR Endings - Shooting Yourself

There is a hidden third option here that the stranger doesn’t offer you.

Maybe it’s the only way to interfere with its data collection, or whatever the purpose of the radius is. Maybe it’s your only way to strike back for being treated like a rat in a maze.

You can use the pistol to shoot yourself.

The final option

While generally not recommended in VR games, it’s very possible that this third option is the only true ay to get one over on the committee, or whatever being is running the radius.

It’s hard to tell though, because once you watch your body hits the floor all you hear is a scream from the stranger. Maybe of pain, maybe of frustration, or maybe of just annoyance.

That’s it.

After the Endings

Once you’ve gotten whatever ending you want, the game is still not effectively over.

Once you choose your ending you’re spit back out at Vanno

There won’t be any more Top Priority missions to do, but you’ll wake up in front of the gates of Vanno much like when you started the game.

Except this time you have all of your equipment that you had when you picked up the Grail, and everything else you had in your home before you left.

Revealing the grail after completing Into the Radius VR

As a final reward you can use your detector, which will start beeping like mad, to reveal the Grail artifact next to your mission terminal.

You might remember that the promised reward for the Ouroboros mission was 10000 dollars. Well the Grail is how this reward is delivered to you.

The Grail is the most valuable artifact in the game

While this artifact has no obvious uses it does sell for 10000 dollars, a lot of money in this game.

You’re not free to explore and mess around in Pechorsk however you like.

If you want to collect all of the weapons in the game, or explore more of the radius, you’re free to do so. The whole zone is still available, and there are still repeatable missions to be done. Congratulations! You beat Into the Radius VR. Those are all of the Into the Radius VR Endings.