Knife Route
Pick up the Knife during the Kitchen activity, finish the main route, then choose to use it at the final confrontation.
Pick up Knife
Finish activities
Use Knife?
Yes
Put it down?
YesEnding 8Skull Cage
No · StabBelow 5 · Ending 95+ · Ending 10
Picking up the Knife makes Endings 8–10 available and blocks Ending 7. You only enter those Knife endings if you later choose to use it.
If you take it and then decline to use it, the game returns to the normal ending evaluation — with Ending 7 already impossible.
Target ending
Decision tree
Knife ○
8 · 9 · 10 wait on the Knife.
Step 1
During the Kitchen activity: pick up the Knife?
Need a certain Interest score? A honey toast +1. Classic pepperoni pizza! net 0. Open Interest Meter →
Step 2
Complete the remaining main activities.
0 / 4 complete
Interest target
0 / 8
08
Required 5+
Need +5 for Ending 10.
Step 3
Locked. Pick up the Knife first.
Step 4
Locked. Use the Knife at the final confrontation first.
Use the Knife, then put it down. Interest does not decide it.
Full Ending 8 Guide →Same choices
Only difference
0 ───── 4Ending 9
Deciding point5
5 ───── 8Ending 10
Put it down → Ending 8. Refuse → Ending 9 or 10, Interest decides.
Yes — take it
If you want Ending 8, 9 or 10.
But Ending 7 becomes impossible.
No — leave it
If you want Ending 7.
Knife endings remain unavailable.
Can I take the Knife and still get Ending 7? No. Picking it up permanently blocks Ending 7 on that save, even if you never use it. Ending 7 Guide →
For Ending 9 and 10, keep separate low-Interest and 5+ Interest saves. The Interest is already locked in by the final prompt.
Take it if you want Ending 8, 9 or 10. Leave it if you want Ending 7. Picking it up does not by itself give a Knife ending.
No. The final Ending 7 condition explicitly requires you never picked up the Knife. Picking it up permanently blocks Ending 7 for that run.
No. You only enter those endings if you later choose to use the Knife. If you pick it up and then decline to use it, the game returns to the normal ending evaluation, with Ending 7 already blocked.
You leave the Knife endings. The night is judged as a normal ending, but Ending 7 is impossible because you already picked up the Knife.
No. Ending 8 is Use the Knife, then put it down. Interest does not decide it.
Keep Interest at 4 or lower, then use the Knife and refuse to put it down.
Reach at least 5 Interest, then use the Knife and refuse to put it down.
On the stabbing route, refuse to put the knife down. Interest below 5 gives Ending 9; Interest 5+ gives Ending 10.
The Knife choices were the same. Ending 10 needs Interest 5+. Below that, the stab gives Ending 9.
The Knife choices were the same. Ending 9 needs Interest below 5. At 5+ the stab gives Ending 10.
Ending 8 versus stabbing can split at the final “Put it down?” prompt. Ending 9 versus 10 depends on Interest already on that save, so keep separate low-Interest and 5+ Interest saves if you want both quickly.
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