How to Get the Forever Ending in Silent Hill Townfall
Updated 2026-10-06 · Category: Endings
Forever is the main ending for a final score from 0 to 19. Each document or clue you pick up is +1. Each enemy Simon kills is −2, each cannula refill −4, and each mistake in Zoe's Chapter 7 surgery −3. PowerPyx calls it the hardest ending, because the window is narrow and the game never shows your score. The reliable method is a manual save in Chapter 15, before the Clamp Release Procedure, then adjusting kills and documents from there. It awards the gold trophy Here To Stay.
A visual metaphor only, not an ending scene, trigger condition or canonical outcome.
Silent Hill Townfall Wiki · AI-generated original illustration · Material statementWhat the Forever ending is
Forever is one of the five endings in Silent Hill: Townfall, alongside the others in the table below. Reaching it awards the gold trophy Here To Stay.
It is one of the three main endings, which are reachable on a first playthrough. The game picks between them with a hidden score, not a dialogue choice.
How the game scores your run
The three main endings come from a hidden score. PowerPyx worked out the values from its own runs and from reader reports. Forever needs a final score between 0 and 19.
- Kills made while playing Zoe or Richard do not change the score, although they still show in the end-of-game statistics
- Time played, healing items and dialogue choices make no difference
- There are 85 Discoveries in a full run; the end-of-game statistics show your Discoveries and Kills, but not the score itself
| What happens | Points |
|---|---|
| Each Discovery (a document or clue picked up) | +1 |
| Each enemy killed as Simon | −2 |
| Each cannula refill (Simon revived after dying) | −4 |
| Each mistake Zoe makes in the Chapter 7 surgery puzzles | −3 |
How to get the Forever ending
Reader reports collected by PowerPyx show how unpredictable the window is: Forever came from 83 Discoveries and 87 kills, and from 83 Discoveries and 65 kills. One player tipped a borderline Justice run into Forever by skipping the last Discovery, the Crew Patch on the beach in the epilogue.
Chapter 15 and the epilogue in the walkthrough
- Make a manual save at a phone in Chapter 15, before you print the Clamp Release Procedure.
- Finish the game. If you get Justice, your score is too high: reload and kill a few more enemies as Simon, or leave a few documents behind.
- If you get Abandoned, your score is too low: reload, pick up a few more documents and avoid kills in the final boss arena.
- If the Chapter 15 save cannot move the score far enough, go back to a save from Clara Woods (Chapter 10) and adjust there.
The statistics screen shows total kills, including Zoe and Richard, so it cannot tell you your score exactly. Treat these reports as examples, not a formula.
How this ending fits the full set
The trophy grades match the split: three gold trophies for the main endings, two silver for the joke pair. Nothing about the main-ending score affects Dog or Sci-fi, so you can chase a joke ending on any score.
All five endings and the full scoring rules
Which ending counts as the good one?
| Ending | Trophy | Grade | How you get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justice | For St. Amelia | Gold | Score 20 or more |
| Forever | Here To Stay | Gold | Score 0 to 19 |
| Abandoned | Just Making Things Worse | Gold | Score below 0 |
| Dog | Let's Talk This Out | Silver | New Game Plus: three coins in three dog charity banks |
| Sci-fi | Sci-fi-lent Hill | Silver | New Game Plus: three books, an access card and a keypad |
No ending is the canon ending
Producer Motoi Okamoto has said the team does not designate any single ending as the true canon ending. There is no "real" version of the story to chase.
That changes how to approach Forever: it is a legitimate outcome of a particular run, not a better or worse result than the others.
What this means for a completionist
All five endings are required for the platinum, alongside New Game Plus, every collectible set and a run finished in under four hours.
With manual saves you need only two full runs: the main endings can be collected by reloading late saves, and both joke endings can be set up on the same New Game Plus run, although Sci-fi skips the final boss, so the Dog ending needs a reload or another finish.
Nothing forces a harder difficulty on you: the 37-trophy list contains no difficulty-related trophies, so ending runs can be played on Story Mode.
A visual metaphor only, not an ending scene, trigger condition or canonical outcome.
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Can I get the Forever ending on my first playthrough?
- Yes. All three main endings are reachable on a first run.
How do you get the Forever ending?
- Finish with a score from 0 to 19: +1 per Discovery, −2 per Simon kill, −4 per cannula refill, −3 per Zoe mistake.
Why is Forever so hard to get?
- Its window is 20 points wide and the score is hidden. Save in Chapter 15 and adjust kills and documents until you land in it.
Is any ending the canon one?
- No. The producer has said the team does not designate any single ending as the true canon ending.
