The Game (though some parts are particularly heartwrenching).
- Walter's death. After being traumatized by the death of his sister Barbara, he became a self-imposed shut-in, living in the house's basement for decades. Finally, after being down there for so long, Walter smashes down the wall and steps outside...only to step on some train tracks just as a train is coming.
- Sam's death. After spending some time snapping photos with him and his daughter Dawn on their hunting trip, and watching them grow closer together, Dawn starts sobbing over a deer she shot while Sam runs over for a timed photograph. Then he gets suddenly bucked off the side of a cliff by the Not Quite Dead deer as Dawn screams in horror. To add insult to injury, the timer on the camera goes off right as he plummets, forever preserving the moment.
- Gregory's death. An innocent baby obliviously drowns in the bath when his mother steps away to talk on the phone. All the while, Sam is reading off a letter about his ideas of the wonders Gregory must have seen, and how he hopes he died happily.
- Lewis's death. Having developed his fantasy kingdom to such beautiful heights that his real existence becomes an unbearable hell to him, he finally gives in and sticks his head in the chopper he's been using to decapitate fish for years, while in the dream world, he is bowing down before his subjects in a lavish ceremony so his Love Interest can crown him king.
- Another layer to this that might make his death worse is that, with his imagination, perhaps, Lewis could have done something productive with it but, without a safe outlet and while being made to work a monotonous job, it's no wonder his mental health got to that point.
- Calvin's death, with his brother Sam's narration. "That's what I want to remember about my brother: The day he made up his mind to fly ... and he did." The narration also implies that Sam partly blames himself for what happened to Calvin.
- Sam: I told him going around [the tree branch the swing was hanging on] was impossible. Maybe if I hadn’t said that… or maybe if the wind hadn’t picked up… then maybe he’d still be here, but I doubt it.
- Milton's death. Seeing this boy draw all this beautiful artwork before showing the flipbook of him drawing a door to the other side. If you believe in the magic explanation — and the references to The Unfinished Swan — he became a king of his own kingdom and escaped the curse. If you believe in the mundane side, he ran away from home and disappeared with no one the wiser.
- Barbara's death. A Former Child Star who was attempting to reclaim her former glory, she was forced to stay home one night with Walter when her parents had to go to the hospital due to Sven injuring his hand on a saw. While their parents were gone, Barbara was apparently attacked by...somebody (perhaps either a Serial Killer reported in the area, or her angry boyfriend Rick, who vanished without a trace) and was never seen again. The only trace found of her was her severed ear, which had been stuffed into her favorite music box. And the kicker? These events happened on October 31...Barbara's sixteenth birthday.
- Even worse, Barbara's death inadvertently resulted in the deaths of her three brothers. Calvin and Sam made a vow at Barbara's funeral to never be afraid again; this resulted in Calvin's attempt to swing all the way around, and while Sam lived longer developing skills in the military and as a survivalist, he was killed the one moment he let his guard down. Meanwhile, Walter was deeply traumatized by Barbara's death (having been in the house at the time and hearing her Death Wail), resulting in him becoming a shut-in, as explained above.
- If one takes time to look around the house, it becomes more noticeable that a lot of the details presented in the comic book don't make any sense (putting aside the clearly outrageous ones). There's no evidence that Barbara was ever invited to a monster movie convention...but there is evidence that she was invited to a Halloween party organized by her school's drama club. There's a hand-drawn picture of Rick above Barbara's bed, and it doesn't resemble the portrayal of Rick from the comic. There is evidence that a part of the staircase was broken, but nothing revealing what caused it. Barbara's music box has no bloodstains, so unless it was cleaned, her severed ear probably wasn't placed in it. It also says something about Edie that of all the stories made about Barbara's death (presumably ones that were much more tasteful), the one she chose to place at Barbara's memorial was a sensationalized, almost tacky, comic book made only a year after her daughter's death.
- The end of the game. After seeing the house finally get abandoned and hearing about Edie's death, Edith holds her mother's hand as the latter peacefully succumbs to cancer. The game then flashes forward to the birth of Edith's son, as it slowly becomes clear that Edith doesn't survive the birth and her journal's narration was posthumously being read by her son. In her last moments, Edith expresses that she's Not Afraid to Die and that her life has been well lived, even though she will never get to see her son grow up. Cut to her son visiting her grave, placed right next to the other members of her family on the lakeside hill.
- Edith: I want to meet you. I want to tell you these stories myself. But I guess if you're reading this now... things didn't work out that way.
- There's something particularly poignant about her narration saying "Good luck!"—Her voice breaks.
