Time Runs Out is the clearest bad ending. If more than 30 in-game days pass after the prologue before Brencis is defeated, the family sacrifice occurs. There is no trophy for this ending. Free roam remains available and the timer is removed, but the family state changes later epilogue content and blocks the clean In the Nick of Time result.
Time Runs Out is the clearest bad ending. If more than 30 in-game days pass after the prologue before Brencis is defeated, the family sacrifice occurs. There is no trophy for this ending. Free roam remains available and the timer is removed, but the family state changes later epilogue content and blocks the clean In the Nick of Time result.
Turncoat can also be described as a morally dark route because Coen betrays the Manumits to secure his family. It is still a distinct named ending with a trophy, not the formal “bad ending” label used by PowerPyx for Time Runs Out.
Use a duplicate save when testing: repeatedly waiting at a shrine can advance beyond the deadline. Do not consume the clean branch save.
Core sources
Video transcript evidence
PowerPyx all-endings video, English auto-captions reviewed September 6, 2026:
00:01:04-00:02:58: family-death and funeral material in the failed-timer route.00:03:06-00:08:31: epilogue conversations, Lunka's condition, and the Arbiter offer.00:09:14-00:09:30: Coen identifies the open road and chooses to abandon Vale Sangora.00:10:06-00:12:35: repeating family sequence that culminates in “stay here forever.”
Automatic captions misspell Coen, Lunka, Brencis, and Vale Sangora. Use official spellings.
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