Dying Light 2: All Endings Explained

Techland’s Dying Light 2 has a handful of different endings, but for the most part, everyone will experience the final set piece in a very similar way. There are some variations on each ending, but there are really only two significantly different endings. Techland has been coy about exactly how many endings are included in Dying Light 2, but it seems as though there are only three endings in total, with one of them only featuring a minor difference in the grand scheme of things.

Dying Light 2 is one of the biggest February 2022 game releases. Techland announced the game in 2018 and originally expected the game to be released in 2020. Sadly, due to production issues and other unforeseeable problems, Dying Light 2 was delayed numerous times. It’s been one of the most hotly anticipated games for a while thanks to its ambitious concepts, which include not only its parkour action concepts but also a big, branching storyline. While the scale of this idea may have been watered down in the final game, there are still a lot of choices to be made throughout the game.

All of these choices ultimately impact the ending one way or another. There are only a couple of truly different endings, but the choices do play a role in some of the smaller variations to the finale. The story of Dying Light 2 is quite massive and has a lot of moving parts, so there’s a lot to break down, especially with the multiple endings. Here are all of the endings of Dying Light 2 and their various nuances and points of interest.

All Of Dying Light 2’s Endings Explained

After the city gets bombed by Waltz and the Renegades, killing close allies like Frank, the peacekeepers and Lawan (played by Rosario Dawson) plan to strike back with Aiden’s help. As everyone prepares to attack the Renegade base, a water facility on the outskirts of the city, Lawan grows impatient and heads there herself. Fearing that Lawan will get herself killed or ruin the plan, Aiden goes after her by forcing a Renegade van driver to sneak him in. Once inside the facility, Aiden finds Lawan killing people and she asks him to join her in finding and killing Colonel Williams.

If the player tells her that they need Williams to find Waltz, Lawan throws Aiden into a locked closet, forcing him to use a vent to escape. Aiden then finds Lawan threatening Williams with her crossbow and the player is forced to make one of the many choices in Dying Light 2. Help Lawan let the peacekeepers in so they can help storm the place or convince Lawan to stand down and talk to Williams about Waltz. If the player chooses the latter, the Renegades take Lawan out of the room and Williams agrees that Waltz has gone too far and says he can help Aiden get to a secret facility known as X13. It’s believed that Waltz is launching the missiles from this location and will soon destroy the entire city.

Feeling betrayed by Aiden’s choice to side with Williams, the peacekeepers ambush Aiden and the Renegades on their way to the facility. Aiden is forced to kill Jack Matt and a group of peacekeepers before traveling by foot to X13. Depending on choices made throughout the story of Dying Light 2, a different character may confront Aiden during this moment. Nonetheless, as Aiden heads to X13, he begins to turn and wakes up outside of the city.

He enters the facility, joined by Lawan, who escaped from the water facility. They find a massive warehouse of supplies, stashed by the GRE years prior – probably enough to sustain those living in the city. As they progress through the facility, Aiden may encounter Hakon, who has been working with Waltz and the Renegades. After a disagreement with some of the Renegades, Hakon is attacked and Lawan goes to his defense as Aiden fights the other attackers. The group gets separated and Aiden continues through X13, only to discover that this was the place where he and Mia were experimented on along with seemingly dozens of other children.

Aiden, Mia, & Dying Light 2’s Family Revelations

As Aiden is uncovering more of his past, Lawan finds the missile hanger and begins to try and figure out how to stop them from launching. Finally, Aiden finds Waltz and Mia, a missing girl in Dying Light 2 with a tragic backstory. Mia is confined to a hospital bed where Waltz is trying to cure the virus she’s suffering from, but it appears she doesn’t have much time left. As Aiden prepares to fight Waltz, it’s revealed that Mia isn’t his sister. She is Waltz’s daughter, but Aiden isn’t related to them. The promise Aiden had made when he was younger was actually to Waltz in hopes that they could cure Mia.

Determined to save his daughter, Waltz wants to run new tests in X13. Unfortunately, this means that a failsafe is activated when the power is restored, causing the missiles to target the other GRE stations in the city. To possibly save Mia, Waltz will have to destroy the city and refuses to back down. Unwilling to let countless people die for one person, even if it’s someone he loves, Aiden fights Waltz to the death. As he’s about to finish Waltz off, Mia stumbles in and tells them both that she doesn’t want to be cured at the cost of letting others die. As she hands Aiden the GRE key, which would shut down the missile launch, Waltz slaps it out of her hands and into a bunch of chemicals, melting it.

Mia passes out, forcing Waltz and Aiden to briefly work together to carry her back to her hospital bed. As Waltz hooks her back up to her ventilator, Aiden tries to deactivate the missiles from a terminal, but it’s no use. Aiden suggests to Lawan that they can use some explosives they found earlier to blow up the missiles, but it would mean destroying the facility and also potentially letting Lawan die. As Dying Light 2‘s complete, lengthy story is about to conclude, the player is given one last choice: Let Lawan sacrifice herself for the city or let the city die so that Lawan can live.

What Happens To Dying Light 2’s Ending If Lawan Dies

If the former is chosen, Aiden will pick Mia up and run out of the facility while it blows up. With that said, there’s a chance Hakon can actually save Lawan as the charges are detonated, but this is revealed through some text and she’s never actually seen again by the player after this ending. After a time jump, Spike enters the Fish Eye to deliver a package and learns of what happened to Aiden. Due to her condition, Mia died a few hours after leaving X13, and Aiden buried her under a tree. Aiden decided to leave the city because he wasn’t sure how long he could keep his infection at bay and believed he could turn at any moment. As such, he’s seen literally walking off into the sunset, though it’s unclear where he will go. Based on who the player sided with the most throughout, there will also be a brief cutscene that reveals whether the Peacekeepers or Survivors took full control of the city.

If the player goes to stop Lawan from blowing up the missiles, Dying Light 2’s narrative shifts again as Aiden begins to turn, nearly killing her after reaching her location. He fights off his inner monster and pulls Lawan out of X13, right as the missiles launch and fly toward the city. The city is destroyed, killing most of the civilians, but somehow the Fish Eye survives. Spike enters with a package, noting how surprising it is that the bar is still intact, but the bartender reveals that he has no patrons anymore. He learns about Aiden’s relationship with Lawan, but it seems as though they went separate ways and Aiden hit the road once more because of his infection.

Due to all of the critical choices in the game, players will also get some text that reveals, more or less, the fates of select characters, how the city is operating after the game’s story concludes, and so on. There is also a playable epilogue in Dying Light 2 which allows the player to finish side quests, but it reverses some of the choices made in the finale so that it doesn’t completely restrict the player.

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