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The Tree and The Apple Ending Guide

By ManHookHandCarDoor

A guide on how to achieve The Tree and The Apple ending in Layers of Fear Inheritance.

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Category: Achievements, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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5 Jun, 2018 @ 4:11pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

How To Get The Ending

Rat Head Not Showing Up?

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Introduction

I just spent WAY more time than I care to admit (though I suppose you could look at my hours spent in Layers of Fear and expose me) trying to figure out what exactly triggers The Tree and The Apple ending. Here's how to always make the ending occur.

How To Get The Ending

What triggers the ending is being active in all flashbacks as well as finding and arranging all the pictures. That’s it. You don’t need to find any other notes or memories. The flashbacks can be done in any order.

Flashback 1:

Go to the kitchen closet door. Once in the flashback open the door and let the dog out. Back in the present retrieve the picture from inside the closet.

Flashback 2:

Go to the closet near the stairs. Pick up the drawing and walk inside to trigger a flashback. In the flashback lock the door of the closet.

Flashback 3:

In the basement go as far as you can. In the flashback pick up the music sheet to your left. Make sure to grab the drawing as well once back in the present.

Flashback 4:

In your childhood bedroom interact with the painting on the wall. Stay still while your father paints you. Pick the drawing up off the floor when you are done.

Flashback 5:

Walk near the couch upstairs. In the flashback get the dog off the couch.

Flashback 6:

In your parent’s room walk towards the gramophone. When the flashback starts turn on the gramophone. There will be a drawing in the cupboard behind you.

Flashback 7:

Go to the office desk. In the flashback always chose to walk on your dad’s side. In the first room continue playing the piano until your mother says to get the crayons. Go and retrieve them from a cupboard in the room. With the music notes and piano now marked play the tune properly. Once done with the flashback pick up the picture off the desk.

Flashback 8:

In the painting room walk to the back-left side. In the flashback complete the painting using the paints NOT the crayons.

Last Two Drawings:

One is in the room of discarded paintings. It will be in the righthand corner after entering.

The other is on a table in the hallway near the parents’ bedroom.

Return to the painting room where you had the flashback. Interact with the wall to put up all the drawings you have found.

Arrange all the drawings to resemble your face. Walk slightly away from them and shine your flashlight on them. After 30 seconds or so turn the flashlight off revealing a rat head made of glowing ink. The rat head will turn into a map showing a secret room behind the cupboard in the painting room. Interact with that and voila!

Rat Head Not Showing Up?

Sometimes when viewing the map at the end a section of the rat face won't light up. Simply exit and return to the game. Then make sure you are standing far enough away that your light is covering ALL the pictures equally and let it shine for a minute or so. When you turn the light off again the whole head should appear and then fade into the map.

And thats it! I hope this guide helps!

13 Comments

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TheMightyC7 10 Oct, 2024 @ 12:17pm

Thank you so much for going to all of this effort. This is a great walk-through and helped a great deal! I got the rats head after exiting out of the game and shining the light for a good while on the pictures after I came back in. Really good ending too.

Possum\go Shipuden (O.O) 20 Oct, 2020 @ 4:10am

Nie działa szczura morda dalej pozostaje i po 5 minutach znika i chuja.Dzięki za rade ale nie pomaga.

Re-spect to you my good person. Many thanks for this.

~Vin.CC.the.THC~ 21 Jan, 2019 @ 5:33pm

After the second speedrun playthrough via the guide I finally have obtained the damned apple tree. This time it was glitchie another way - three upper quadrants were black or something, not a whole rats head. Then I was lightning this abomination for so long and other angles and other lengths, and once in a while it turned over into a map. So, as what I can tell: if you have those 9 pieces and were active in the flashbacks (do a use action), and you can see the head even partially, then YUO HAVE the damn ending. Just light it properly. I did a very long exposiotions, and what even not me was doing, I can't say what works exactly, but it's just a glitch. You don't need to replay if you see a blue rats head partially. The trigger works you have the head or you haven't at all. It's my thought. By the way, if you just do a guide playthrough you 100% have that ending.

~Vin.CC.the.THC~ 21 Jan, 2019 @ 3:49pm

one piece is black

~Vin.CC.the.THC~ 21 Jan, 2019 @ 3:37pm

I didn't get the dog off the couch and the rat just fade to black only, no inheritance here