Endings

In both Lapse: A Forgotten Future and Lapse: Before Zero, you are able to get a total of three endings. Each ending can be obtained through multiple playthroughs.

Deus ex machina:
There are 2 ways to achieve this ending: tell the First Lady about Kumiyo, or keep funding Kumiyo until the First Lady is revealed to be a cyborg, then accept defeat. Either way, the First Lady will bring madness and destruction to the land.

Back to the Past:
You restore the meaning of Time in your world. This ending can be played by refusing to tell the First Lady anything about what Kumiyo told you about being a cyborg. Before the ultimatum year that the Time has set for you, Kumiyo will show you a machine that can reveal the cyborgs. Allow her to do so. The First Lady will then appear and talk to you. She will ask you who will stop her from ruling the world as Time. You will then say that Time himself will. The Time will teleport you two to his realm, which you get the "Lapse" effect, as is every time you talk to him. Time goes on to tell the First Lady that she isn't time. He is. This is the end of the game.

Loop:
During the ultimatum year (2150), Time leaves your world and time freezes. This can be played by refusing to let Kumiyo use her machine and refusing to tell the First Lady anything about you being a cyborg.

Before Zero
Tip: All endings involve entering the Great Pyramid, which can be entered if you activate both Userkaf (press the statue with a pure heart) and Sened (press the statue with an evil heart) pyramids.

A Forgotten Future:
This ending involves Queen Nefertiti taking you to the year 2075 and you lose your memory. This ending is Lapse: A Forgotten Future's beginning, hence the name. It can be played by entering the Great Pyramid at the end and choosing to let Time go. As you exit, Queen Nefertiti appears and asks if you want to rule the world with her. Say no, and she takes you to 2075.

Zero:
This ending is named "Zero" because you die. Truly. In the Great Pyramid, you have to choose to use Time. As you exit the pyramid, the dancer is waiting. She tells you that she knows you're not the real Pharaoh, before stabbing you with a dagger. As the game says, "Your regenerative systems down, you experience real death."

Age of Machines:
This ending involves you ruling the world with Queen Nefertiti. To achieve it, let Time go and when Nefertiti asks you to rule the world with her, agree.