City Fall Ending Guide for The Weeping Swan: How to Get All 10 Main Endings
Navigating the harrowing ten days of “The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City Fall” can feel like an exercise in deliberate failure. If you find yourself bewildered by frequent deaths and branching paths, understand that this is by design. This guide serves as your essential companion, detailing the exact choices needed to secure every conclusion. With 27 total endings—approximately 10 of which are considered main endings—and most achievements tied to tragic outcomes, a full completionist run can exceed 15 hours. The most efficient approach requires strategic save reloads before pivotal chapters, particularly 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 15, and 18. We will walk through the entire sequence from resource setup to the final, story-defining choices. By 2026, the community consensus is clear: this game is not about winning, but about learning the narrative through every conceivable consequence.
Essential Early Game Setup and Achievements
Your initial choices in resource distribution are critical, as they lock or unlock major story chains. Following this precise order is necessary to access the full scope of endings.
Unlocking the Careful Planning Achievement and Eagle Demon Chain
To unlock the Careful Planning achievement and begin the essential Eagle Demon story chain, you must execute your early choices in this exact sequence. During the first resource distribution, give no money. In the second distribution, give three taels. When the third distribution occurs, refuse to give money. Finally, during the fourth distribution, you must lock the eagle demon in the left room and escape. This specific combination of actions establishes the foundation for multiple endings and is non-negotiable for completion.
Completing the Eagle Demon Death Outcomes
After initiating the chain, you must experience all possible outcomes with the eagle demon to collect related achievements and death endings. At the critical juncture, save your game. You will need to reload to explore each path.
First, choose to stab with razor and run. This leads to your death and unlocks the ending titled Strange….
Reload your save. This time, choose to stab again. You will die to a second eagle demon, unlocking the My blade has never been ineffective ending.
Reload once more. For the third outcome, select do nothing. You will be killed by a wolf demon, resulting in the Waiting and holding on… ending.
Finally, to progress the main story, reload and choose to lock the eagle demon and escape. This is the only choice that allows you to continue to Chapter 4.
Chapter-by-Chapter Guide to Death Endings and Progression
Chapter 4: The Escape and Its Many Deaths
This chapter is a dense hub for death endings. Ensure you have a save file from before this chapter. Each choice leads to a different demise.
If you choose to return to East District, you receive the Died in Dongcheng District ending.
Choosing the path East-West Road and then Training Ground leads to the Died in Training Ground ending.
For another outcome, go via South Alley to Zhangjia Lane. Once there, choose to go deeper. This results in the Died in Zhangjia Lane ending.
To unlock the Died hiding behind Guanyin Statue ending, you must have fulfilled specific earlier conditions: you didn’t give money in the early distributions and took the Zhangjia route. When presented with the option, choose to hide behind the statue.
Chapter 5: Confrontation with Demon Soldiers
Save before this chapter. A direct combat choice will lead to an immediate death ending. Attempting to bribe the demon soldiers results in the Failed Bribery death ending. Another failure state is to choose escape and then don’t enter the house, which is the Keep running without entering house outcome. The correct path for progression is to climb over and then enter the house.
Chapter 6 and 7: Beast and Escape
In Chapter 6, a choice to help someone leads to a death outcome. Another death, Desperate struggle, is triggered by declaring It’s me. To move forward, you must select the correct progression choice that avoids these fatal actions. Chapter 7 contains a death ending for a burst of energy / quick escape, alongside the correct choice that allows you to continue the story.
Unlocking the Special Unyielding Achievement
This achievement is cumulative, triggered by collecting a specific set of death endings. Based on the 2026 community data, it requires experiencing at minimum the following outcomes: the eagle demon deaths, the demon soldier fight death, the helping death in Chapter 6, the desperate struggle death, the ambush death from Chapter 14, and the child soldier death from Chapter 15. Ensure you have reloaded to collect all these failures to properly unlock Unyielding.
Mid-Gate Story Achievements and Key Deaths
Several achievements unlock naturally through story progression, such as Childhood Memories, Enjoy the scenery of the Twenty-Four Bridges, Madness, and Live well. However, Chapters 11, 14, and 15 hold specific death endings vital for completion.
In Chapter 11, selecting the Small North Gate leads to drowning and the Suddenly… ending.
During Chapter 14, if you choose to ambush the demon soldiers, you will succumb to a sneak attack death.
In Chapter 15, the choice of a vertical slash against the child soldier results in the corresponding death ending.
The Final Branching Point: Chapter 18 Endings Explained
This is the most significant branching moment in the game. Create a dedicated save file here, as the choices determine your final ending.
Death Ending from Chapter 18
If you choose to travel with Master Liang and then attempt to mount from behind, you will receive a death ending simply titled Horse.
The Normal Endings Path
To achieve the Seeking Adventure ending, you must mount from the side and later choose farewell.
The Far Away ending is achieved by staying with a certain group after the mount choice.
If you accept the illusion presented to you, your path concludes with Become a Monk.
If you reject the illusion and follow others, you will witness the establishment of a New Dynasty.
The City Route Endings
Choosing to stay in the city opens another sub-branch. If you then decide to leave for Suzhou, you unlock the Crying at the Temple ending, also known as Tonghai or Ashes of Will.
If you stay in the city and choose a romantic sacrifice, you will enact a Suicide Pact ending, dying for love.
The True Endings
The Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio ending is reached by making very specific final dialogue choices, culminating in either selecting Farewell or Stay after a period of silence (“…”).
The most demanding ending is Dream of the Red Chamber, which unlocks the One Life Completion achievement. To earn this, you must navigate the entire game while avoiding ALL death outcomes and reach any of the normal or true endings. This proves you have mastered the game’s survival mechanics.
Post-Completion Content and Final Unlocks
After securing any ending, a crucial extra chapter is unlocked. This side story appears in the bottom-right corner of the main menu. Completing this additional narrative is mandatory for full completion and awards the poetic achievement Fertile fields full of ears of grain.
To unlock the ultimate conclusion, Lament: Ten Days After the City’s Fall, you must satisfy three conditions: complete ALL 27 endings, collect ALL death outcomes, and finish the extra side story. Furthermore, the game features a comprehensive CG collection spanning multiple pages, all of which must be unlocked for true 100% completion.
The journey through “The Weeping Swan” is a masterclass in narrative consequence. By 2026, its design philosophy is well understood: the experience is built on a foundation of failing, retrying, and ultimately understanding a world in collapse. The true resolution isn’t found in a single victorious path, but in the collective weight of every ending, where each death and survival stitches together the complete, tragic tapestry of the city’s fall. By methodically following this guide, you will not merely unlock endings; you will piece together the full story as intended, making the final, elusive unlock a testament to your comprehensive understanding of the game’s intricate world.
