All paths and endings in Chapter 1 of Sucker for Love: Date to Die For (The Thousand Versus The One!)

Sucker for Love: Date to Die For is fantastic for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is the multiple endings. Chapter 1 has three which build upon one another; obtaining each is required to unlock additional chapters and endings. Despite being largely linear, there are several points where a different path can be taken. Here’s how to take the guesswork out of the equation.

How to get each ending in Chapter 1 of Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

Bad End

• Start
  • Either start a new game or load a save from the very beginning.
• Arrived at House
  • After running into Nanni on the road, Stardust runs to her childhood home and shuts the door.
• Met Rhok’zan
  • Head upstairs to your former room and perform the ‘Summon the All-Mother’ ritual to meet the Black Goat of the Woods.
• Spawned Partner
  • Perform the ‘Spawn Partner’ ritual to permanently keep Rhok’zan in your room. This doesn’t do anything from a gameplay perspective as you can’t interact with her.
• Ate Feast
  • You’ll need to gather ingredients for the ‘Epicurean Feast’ ritual and bring it all upstairs to perform it.
    • Take the curious green meat from the dining room.
    • Take the strawberry milk from the fridge in the kitchen.
    • Take the blood-filled bowl from the dining room.
• Brought Nanni Upstairs
  • Grab your bass guitar and go downstairs to the kitchen. You’ll be attacked when you try to leave. Swing your bass like FLCL‘s Haruhara Haruko into the cultist’s face to subdue them.
• Healed Self
  • After bringing Nanni upstairs and trying to figure out a plan of attack with Rhok’zan, it’s time to heal yourself. Don’t worry about having to perform this ritual on the regular as it’s only used during specific parts.
  • The mirror that you must face is to the right of the tree, on the wall between it and Nanni. It took me a solid 10 minutes of spinning around and trying to perform this ritual to figure out where it was.
• Open the Door
  • Before you can perform the next ritual, Buck will interrupt and offer a choice. This is where you’ll net the first ending. Open the door to obtain Bad End.

Good End

The Good End is a resulting branch from not opening the door for Buck.

• Perform the ‘Rotbloom’ ritual
  • To perform the ‘Rotbloom’ ritual, there are several steps that must be performed in the following order:
    • Go to the bathroom and take a pod from the plant growing in the bathtub.
    • Go to the dining room and eat some of the glowing green meat.
    • Eat the flower in your brother’s bedroom at the end of the hall on the second floor. Don’t worry about the cultists in there as they’re too distracted by the posters to notice your presence.
  • While gathering the ingredients, the cultists will have infiltrated the house. Open doors slowly to spot them and prevent being grabbed. If you see one, close the door and try another. Thanks to the layout of the home, there are plenty of options for circling around occupied rooms.
  • On your way to the dining room/kitchen, there will be a pantry with a cardboard box. Climb inside for a humorous homage and the ‘Iron Cog’ achievement.
• Perform the ‘Summon Firstbornes’ ritual
  • Chant the first phrase and leave your bedroom.
  • Go to the Heart of the Woods in the crawlspace and wait for the candles to go out. Don’t worry about the sounds as nothing can touch you here.
  • Return to your room and grab the bag of gore.
  • Chant the book’s next phrase three times.
• Perform the ‘Uproot: Heartburn’ ritual
  • Go to the bathroom on the second floor and obtain the hairspray.
  • Go to the Heart of the Woods and chant the appropriate phrase.

True End

Much like Good End, True End is a branching path from not opening the door for Buck.

• Perform the ‘Rejuvenate Virility’ ritual
  • To get on the path to True End, we need to perform the ‘Rejuvenate Virility’ ritual once more. The difference is we’re using it to heal Nanni.
• Perform the ‘Rotbloom’ ritual
  • Follow the steps above to complete this ritual.
• Perform the ‘Summon Firstbornes’ ritual
  • Follow the steps above to complete this ritual.
• Rejoin Nanni
  • After completing the ‘Summon Firstbornes’ ritual, you’ll hear the sound of footsteps approaching. Do not swing your bass guitar as it’s only Nanni, returning to help.
• Perform the ‘Uproot: Heartburn’ ritual
  • This will be the same as before, but now Nanni has saved you the trouble of grabbing the hairspray.
• Escape!
  • Thanks to Nanni’s disguise, you can safely escape the house as it burns down.