Fastest Way to Kill All Characters

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As with other titles in The Dark Pictures Anthology, it’s possible for every character to die in The Devil in Me. Still, some might meet their doom early on, while others have plot armor so thick it would make medieval knights envious. Here’s our The Devil in Me guide to help you with the fastest way to kill all characters in the game.

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The Devil in Me character deaths guide – Fastest way to kill all characters

If we’re talking about the fastest way to kill all characters in The Devil in Me, then we’ll have to take note of the ones who are offed rather early, and those who are guaranteed to make it close to the end:

• Erin and Charlie are your fodder characters. They have the most number of possible deaths.
• Jamie and Kate are your either-or characters. There’s a point in the game where one of them could die, or both could survive. Assuming one of them gets killed early, the other will take her counterpart’s place in succeeding chapters.
• Mark, as far as I can tell, has the thickest plot armor of all.

Erin

• Earliest death – Blackout
• Choose to attack Du’Met. Erin will strike him with her tool, but he’ll barely flinch. He’ll stab her in the throat.

Charlie

• Earliest death – Ignition
• Choose to force the door open and fail. Charlie will get burned to a crisp.

Jamie or Kate

• Earliest death – Director’s Suite
• This is discussed in detail in our Glass Trap guide. Basically, the wall could either crush Kate or Jamie.

Jamie or Kate

• Earliest death – Homestead
• Do take note that I’m not yet certain how this will play out since I wasn’t able to continue onward with this particular branch of choices. Essentially, I kept both Jamie and Kate alive. Then, they reached the Homestead chapter where you can save a dog. If Kate is hiding in the backroom along with Jamie, and you let the dog bark, Du’Met will chop Jamie in the head with his axe.
• It might be possible to kill Kate during the Director’s Suite chapter. You can then see how it goes from there, especially if Jamie is all alone once she encounters the dog.

Mark

• Earliest death – Lighthouse or Lake
• Mark has several possible death scenes during the Lake finale. All you need to do is fail the QTEs while he’s reaching for the axe, or when he’s being pushed toward the blade.
• However, there’s one particular scene that comes from the Masked premonition. It shows Mark suffocating while inside a chamber. It seems that it’s located in the hotel or in the lighthouse. I did not get this moment at all. When Mark got attacked in the lighthouse, the other characters were still alive, so they just helped him get back on his feet, and they ran away from Du’Met.

Note: Finding the fastest way to kill all characters in The Devil in Me won’t necessarily matter if you’re going for the Unhappy Ending achievement. During the finale, Du’Met will still attack everyone on the boat. Just fail the QTEs here and the heroes will all end up dead one way or another.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me is available via Steam.