![]() She grew up with her mother, rather than raised by the state. Why Ariane Creates the Signalis DreamĪriane Yeong is a bit of a rebel. When they don’t find a planet by a certain timeline, Ariane receives guidance from their government that encourages the human to accept a swift death. Operation Penrose warns its soldiers that there is a high likelihood of failure. The Penrose sends one human and one robot–in this case, Ariane and LSTR (our particular unit, the protagonist, is nicknamed “Elster”)–in a ship each to the far ends of the universe to look for hospitable planets to settle. Elster and Ariane were on ship 512, presumably one of hundreds, if not thousands, of lonely exploratory missions. A recruitment poster for Operation Penrose. Through the course of the story and in-game lore, we can start to identify a few things that we “know” to be true, one of which is that Ariane Yeong was accepted into a space exploration mission called the Penrose Program. Ariane and Elster had promised to kill each other, rather than slowly die alone, but Elster’s mechanical body gave out earlier. Signalis, I believe, takes place in an elaborate dreamscape created by a sick and dying Ariane Yeong in the hopes of being reunited with her love, Elster, an LSTR unit that has long since perished.Īriane builds a dream upon a dream, desperately trying to make her hopes into a reality. Rather, we wanted for each player to get an ending that fits their playstyle. It was not our intention that players replay the game to try to get another ending. The other half of rose-engine, Barbara Wittmann, shared in the same interview, “Endings are determined based on the players’ overall playstyle. I read the multiple endings to be sort of showcasing the journey of other Elsters (and almost as a stand-in for other players, though the game isn’t online at all) and whether they were able to succeed or not. Throughout the decayed spaceship, Elster finds other LSTR bodies. Elster kissing Ariane on the head as she lays in the opened cryo-chamber During their lonely mission, made a promise to kill each other rather than suffer and die alone. Despite strict rules against fraternization of any kind, Elster and Ariane had become friends, and then lovers. The player discovers over the course of the game that Elster and Ariane had been the only two living creatures aboard the Penrose 512. I personally got the “Promise” ending where Elster finds, says goodbye to, and kills the aforementioned Ariane. Realizing there was more, I knew I had to return to finish Signalis.Īfter the fake-out, there are three core endings determined by your playstyle, and a secret epilogue achieved with a lot of replay work. That way, they can stop if they’ve had enough.” So in a way, that ending was my way of trying to make sure people like me get to see an ending even if they usually don’t finish games. It’s a bit of a strange habit perhaps, but I don’t finish most of the games I play, even the ones I enjoy a lot. Yuri Stern, one of the two members of developer rose-engine, told Waypoint, “To be honest, I didn’t expect many players to even reach that ending. When I first “finished” Signalis, I was confused and immediately went online to search for answers, only to realize I had gotten faked out hard by a false ending. Let’s skip to the ending so we can get into it. For me, and perhaps it was for you as well, this was the moment where I was like, “Aw yeah, this game is gonna be WEIRD.” It is now a brown-haired woman named Alina Seo. Upon touching the flashing walls, Elster’s vision flashes through a variety of images, including the words in red: REMEMBER OUR PROMISE.Įlster blinks awake in the bathrooms of Sierpinski, and the photo, still in Elster’s inventory, has changed. She finds shelter in that strange bunker. The prologue ends with Elster using a code on the back of the photo to exit the spaceship and explore a white, snowy landscape. This photo is key to understanding Signalis. Elster discovers this photograph hanging on the dashboard: ![]() She was the Penrose 512’s mechanic her only goal now is to find the ship’s pilot, Ariane Yeong. You play as Elster, a robot clone, who wakes up in a crashed spaceship on an exploration mission for a fascist society. To explain the ending of Signalis, we start at the beginning. Gorgeous cover art above is by The Smoking Gun of Signalis: The Photo Obviously, complete and total spoilers below for Signalis. This long essay-guide is my attempt at explaining the ending of Signalis. It makes sense, then, that the conclusion(s) are also a lot. Signalis is an old-school style horror adventure game where robot clone girls try to find their friends amidst a zombie-like outbreak.
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