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  • Now that I understand the ending, its very sad to me. (As explained in the top rated comment)

  • if the boy is dead how comes things can kill him?

  • You can also end up in Limbo because you cant rest in peace because your life ended abruptly and there was still something you wanted to do. Maybe this was seeing his sister one last time?

  • The flies at the end creeped me out when I found out what really happened from the top comment O.O

  • aww :( he died and then wanted to see his sister one last time put flowers on his grave

  • The end credits also go black then brighten to show the passed time of the treehouse in the background.

  • The noun LIMBO has 3 senses:

    1. the state of being disregarded or forgotten

    2. an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

    3. (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

  • Limbo..... FUCK GRAVITY !!!!!

  • does not matter if they are dead or not why they are in the Limbo? 

  • The boy is dead. His sister is burying him. He goes through limbo to see himself being buried by his sister as his last memory before he passes on. The title is a much later date when his grave has rotted and nothing is left.

  • How do we not know that his sister went evil and killed their mom or somethin

  • The sister is crying over him but when she was startled she sensed his presecence

  • I don't think it matters as long as he found his sister /:

  • ok my take is HE IS ALIVE SHE IS DEAD her eyes are not white!! his are...if he was dead falling and dieing woudnt be an option for him... hahah he would be as a ghost... i think he was traveling to see his sister she was buried at his old club house and he missed her that is why SHE disappears and not him.... i really think i deserve more thumbs up just a thought tho...

  • To anyone who enjoyed this game , I recommend a game called Dear Esther on the PC. You can buy it for 10 dollars on Steam and its totally worth it.

  • WTF THIS IS NOT DEPRESSING ... at least for me its not

  • What do the flies have to do with anything?

  • I believe, and this is my theory, that at the time of the game only the boy is dead (the tree house theory sounds quite reasonable; and the girl is sitting next to a grave not realizing the boy's presence) who goes through the limbo to watch his sister as she buries him. The title screen on the other is presumably much later (based on the state of the ladder) and they are both dead (perhaps the sister could not move on)... Very sad... yet brilliant ending (from an artistic point of view).

  • He dead and she not dead thats what happened end of

  • What a cheerful ending, now I should lock myself in a dark room and think of the meaning of life.

  • I dont understand

  • At the end the girl seems to notice the boy as she startles

    I think the game developers never meant there to be a theory to the game I think it was A game where u decide

  • Ok...so I had no desire to play this but I wanted to know what happened.I'm just going to take a guess at what happened.In the very end you see two big globs of flys flying over two spots.After reading the comments,I don't think that was after the game,I think it was before.Both the brother and sister were climbing up the ladder of the tree house and it broke.They both fell and died.That's why there were Two body's and not one.That also explains why the ladder is broken.But unlike most of you I

  • At the end, when he escapes the limbo to see his sister, his sister feels his presence as his ghost approaches her. However she does not turn around because he is still a ghost. His sister was actually burying his body, and after the credit, it shows flies hovering over the spot where the boy was buried. This is the final theory, and it is the most reasonable.

  • I think this is the most reasonable theory.

    One day, the boy and his sister were playing in the little tree house with a ladder on it, until the floor gave away and the boy fell out of the tree house and died. Notice how at the end, the boy breaks the "glass" with his feet first. This symbolizes how he actually died, the wood broke under him and he fell down.

  • The crash through the window represents a car crash; with both children dying.

    There's all sorts of theories here...that's why it's a good ending.

  • Will there EVER be a straight answer as to what this game is about?

  • TOAST?!

  • Dude taht gave me the creeps...

  • The ster just broke as you see, and the kids stay there traped and died...what else?

  • god.. i dont know why

    but i cryed so much at the ending

  • Wow. That's a good ending

  • the ending is... the boy and girl are brother and sister. the boy fell out of the tree house and died. he pushed his way out of limbo to see his sister one last time, who was putting flowers on the boys grave under their treehouse. how sad

  • @Jaymezzer So how do you explain the flies at the end? If its a grave, or if they were both in the treehouse, shouldnt she do something about the body? Maybe they're both dead, so confusing!

  • @OveRSwE @pokemaniak30 notice how most of the ladder is gone? its possible the menu screen is set in a much later time than when the boy sees the girl, which could mean some of the dirt has shifted and a part of his corpse could be exposed, thus the flies, but that's just how i see it

  • @MysticCupcake @Jaymezzer If its much later then it would just be a skeleton left, wouldnt attract flies. or maybe she is so depressed that she stays there with him and eventually dies too?

  • @OveRSwE well it takes a corpse about 40-50 years to be completly nothing but bones, so who knows

  • @MysticCupcake 50 years? Where did you get that number? Depends on several variables, but it can happen already within 1-2 years

  • @OveRSwE i said to completely decompose, besides, it's the most logical answer so far, doesnt matter how long it was/could have been

  • @OveRSwE maybe the flies are completely irrelevant, but based on the ladder and some of the stuff seemingly hanging fromt he tree, i stick by my in the future theory, it wouldnt neccessarily take 40-50 years for a bit of string to weather and break, or for moss/mould to grow on a tree

  • @OveRSwE it's just a theory:) but maybe because she is a little girl and doesnt know how to properly bury someone?

  • @Jaymezzer But the machine guns and shift to industrialized world what do you figure was the significance of these things? I was thinking it had to do with the setting in which the boy was alive.

  • @uneedrandination Mabey those things represent the hell of war or the misery brought by the unsafe conditions...I personaly think that the boy might not have died but its open to debate

  • @Jaymezzer How did you know that? Where I can find it?

  • We never leave limbo, you are forced forever to attone for your crimes / commit them again.

    Have you not wondered why a boy manages to kill everyone who stands in his way?

    Pehaps the other children were trying to protect your sister from YOU!

    In the beginning the treehouse is rotten and there are flies, while in the end it is brand new and your sister is there.

    Maybe you murdered your sister, the flies are from her rotting corpse under the tree house which implies some time has passed.

  • @Jaymezzer how do you know this?

  • @Jaymezzer the real ending is that they both died on the spot

  • wtf didnt understand a shit

  • Sooo... That's it? Oh well... Not that i expected anything more form an Indie game... ;_ ;

  • @DerpHerpHero Dude its al lot more than that.. read some other comments

  • They are in "Limbo", they believe that are alive, fighting for they lives, but ther are dead. Maybe thats whats mean DEAD !! My god, this is fabolous :D

  • this game is better than gta iv.. really..

  • ARGH THIS IS MORE CONFUSING THAN GOD AND RELIGION!!!!!

  • I enjoyed the small amount of content this game had but was not worth the cash

  • I like the theory that the boy fell out of the tree-house and died, and his sister is burying him...

  • I think I heard somewhere that the boy and girl are bro & sis and that they get in an accident and the sister gets lost limbo and you have to find her

  • This ending gave me chills

  • So is the ending supposed to be a big ass f*ck you to the gamers? or is there a legit explanation? ive read all the theories in the comments, but which is for shizzle? AH THINKING HURTS!

  • i think 2 kids(brother and sister) that were poor and lived in a hotel built a tree house the sister went out to get some food or something and when she got back the tree house was collapsed on her brother when the brother reached the end of limbo hes sees into the regular world and sees his sister berrying him he then finds out hes dead...

    or the sis died to and reached the end of limbo first and they went to heaven together

    or again she is dead but killed her self because her brother is dead

  • God this is almost more hard to understand than the ending of Death note.

  • Here's what i think that happend,

    The treehouse was suppose to be heaven and the ground heck. Limbo went through all that trouble to find sister (thats who i thinks the girl is) to get her and go to heaven.

  • @warriorofshadows443 Limbo is the place you dumb

  • During the credits (where the rope ladder was rotted) there seemed to be a very boy-shaped lump on the ground where that lad was standing....

  • Now that I think about it! This game kinda reminds me of the movie "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams. Like how he has to go to hell to find his wife who committed suicide...

    But in this case the boy had to find his girlfriend( or sister or whatever) in "limbo"....

  • ooooooh i seeeee, so they were BOTH dead and he had to find the girl in "limbo".

    But did anyone else notice that the ladder changed ? so doesn't that mean they both went UP the latter? Like UP as in going to heaven once they found each other? because limbo is technically between heaven and hell right? ...... WELL whatever I at least want to think that.... The poor boy had to have gone through all that trouble for SOMETHING :/

  • Limbo is the 'edge of hell'

  • The two died from there tree house collapsing on them. The boy thinks he and his sister are still alive. So he goes and troes to fin her. But at the end his sister doesn't know he is there and thinks he is just a breeze of wind. They cannot move onto a better life together

  • So what I think is that they both died from a car crash explains the glass and the car in the tree house so there both dead and he is trying to find her in limbo so they can move on together but what he doesn't realize is that she is already at the end of limbo so that's kind of why at the end she is shocked or scared or I don't know so that's my theory

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  • THEY ARE DEAD?!

  • @jakeandthecoolbros He is dead

  • @jakeandthecoolbros Yeah, Limbo literally means the "edge of hell" in Latin.

  • @jakeandthecoolbros Just the boy the girl is alive and leaving flowers at his grave where he feel to his death

  • Ok guys, i can't say for sure, but I'm gonna tell you that's not glass hes crashing through, its wood, he died in a treehouse. I do know that for sure.

  • wooooooooooooow, that right there is fucked up

  • ohhhhhhhhhhh so he just wanted to get laid ............ perfect sense

  • the boy is a drem inside a drem

    BLARRRGGGHHGGHGHGHGH

    *inception music*

  • @anangrygoldfish Lol well someone else watched Cricken play Limbo! XP

  • @RedCorvette68 i did. Hweeeeeeeeu!

  • I say that his Sister died which he was uncertain of her fate he enters limbo to save her

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  • most depressing game ever

  • maybe she's not his sister, maybe she is his wife

  • @TheMrWeedy lol too young :3

  • @TheMrWeedy If you look up the game, it tells you that it's his sister.

  • Here´s my theory: The boy´s dead. And you play as him throu Limbo. Im not sure what the crashin thro Glass means, maybe a car crash, or just a passage onto the "real world".

    Either way he has returned to his sister, though he´s still dead. The Girl´s alive and are sadly burrying her brother near the location as where he died. People are gettin all sorts of idea what happens next, but ima leave it with what ive said. Either way it´s one of the best Games out there :D!

  • I think the intrepation of car crash is true.

    1. On the upper right corner is an old car

    2. There are two dead corpse at the screen

    3. At the end he falls threw the glas, and everything is slowed down, like the "last seconds in a car crash"

    What a brilliant game!

  • So, basically, the two children died and the game is, like, literally the boy finding his way through Limbo before moving on. Perhaps the girl had already made it through and was waiting for him to pass through so they could move on to Heaven together.

  • @djiinraidinnae no. That girl was the boy's friend. They had a tree house in the forest, the ladder collapsed and the boy died. This is the moment where the boy finds out that he is dead, and the girl is probably putting flowers on his grave, and she realizes he (his ghost) is behind her... Very sad, dramatic story..

  • that is bullshit, he came to see her, but she was porking someone and riding him.... she stoped when she heard footsteps...

    then ma men limbo is like..... fuck... c: this bish ded nao!

  • @775gary XD

  • omg. they are die? :((((((((((

  • They both fell out of a collapsing tree house, they both die... the Glass, a mirror, to death or life if smashed, that's how he takes so long to get up, he fought death and won, so he lives? the sister is digging for answers, she cant find any but her brother then speaks, she turns but cant hear him, she speaks but the brother cant hear her, one has lived the other has died? the clue is in the end, the flies are at the right, where the sister is found, the left is empty, where the boy was!?

  • it looks like shes already feeding on a corpse soo probably she killed him and that makes 2 corpses at the end

  • Limbo 2 is coing out i believe so maby its just hope for a co-op?

  • Soo.... boy made his way through limbo to find his sister waiting for him so they could both pass onto "The Other Side". Resulting in there bodies being left behind ?

  • You see those few mushrooms on the ground throughout the game? Yea, he was tripping balls.

  • There are two groups of flies swarming over two dead corps at the end. So my conclusion is they fell from the tree house and died. Both in limbo and he's looking for her and finds her at the end. Then the end is the reality of two dead bodies.

  • guys its like the sopranos where tony is in a comma. he is in limbo and when he sees his cousin outside the house he is on the brink of death. the mansion they are outside is "heaven" and should he go he would of died. same idea with limbo. the girl is a relative and "heaven" is up the ladder. both in limbo both see a relative and both could have a "heaven".

    i say heaven as its easier although it doesnt exist

  • wait, if he was a ghost all along, how can he die so many times???

  • I got Raped by Spiders and my own bad decisions for this???

  • But I'm also on the boat that perhaps the boy died from falling out of the tree house, and the girl (his sister or his friend/love) is simply visiting the place where he died. He can see Limbo's version of the place where he fell, but it's not real. And the girl's eye's are not there, she's just a black shape - indicating that she's just a figment of his Limbo.

    The story began in the woods, his journey ends in the woods. He's to circle through Limbo like all lost souls do. Tragical, beautiful.

  • There really are no words to describe how gripping this ending was for me. I wanted to know just who this boy is and what he was trying to find? Who is the girl? It's so mysteriously perfect that perhaps we're never meant to know.

    I keep reading how maybe it's his sister... I think maybe it's the boy's true love who died abruptly from unfair circumstances.

    He's searching Limbo for her... to save her.

    God I love this game.

  • @mark84j Im 110% positive that its his sister not his Lover, i just hope they make a 2nd game to add a little more back story, but i could not help myself to feel a little angry at the end...Mostly because it does not say Why, How, or When this game takes place, or How did he find a way to enter Limbo as a human (if he is still even human), and Why is his sister in limbo... It was a Very, Very Depressing story to me

  • @mark84j The brief description on Steam says he's looking for his sister

  • Him and the other girl (mom or sister) were in an accident (unknown) and the boy is in limbo. notice at the end how the girls eyes aren't glowing. this indicates she is different from the boy (she is alive) he is dead hens the title limbo.

  • @djEcKeLproductions but all the other "human" characters he came across didn't have glowing eyes either

  • wait i dont get thending and wat about the flies wats so importent about them

  • @l3gonal084 It is their dead bodies being surrounded by flies.

  • Im sorry people, the legendary Criken breaked the ending of this game...

    it still being awesome :3

  • You have to notice that the girl stroke something an the earth, i think that this is a person, who is there sourronded by flies.

  • BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAMMMMMMMM­MMM BABABABABA BUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM BABABABABA....BUAMMMMMMMMMMMMM­MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

    DREAMCEPTION

  • I like to think it's their discarded bodies decaying and they went to heaven. If only to deny what a insanely depressing ending it would be otherwise. I mean, jesus fuck. This game company knew how to make an excellent game AND ending.

  • Flies = Decay

    Glass = Car Crash

    Spider = Fear

    Demon Children = Loneliness

    Gears, etc. = Progress

  • If you guys notice there's also a very shapely lump on the ground before the boy's grave with another cluster of flies. I think that's his sister. :c they both died.

  • Honestly, I always thought the kid died when he crashed through the sheet of glass. And everything afterwords is just, Limbo.

  • @12rodick It's truly a depressing game. The boy is dead...and he's the one forever stuck in Limbo. That's messed up man...

  • he is....lord of the flies.....DUN DUN DUUUUNNN

  • gotta love how rewarding the ending is considering all the frustration they put the players though

  • man, i don't know what to say about this game. i don't really understand it but while i played it i felt really terrible and sick inside. call me whatever you wan but i just can't stand this game.

  • Hmm.

    Now that i think of it..

    What if they were dead all along? But then entered a world where everything is a random serious of events all tied up to reach ultimatum and finally get peace?(Like how they dissapeared after they reunited and flies were just there.)

    Maybe?

  • 2:53 (gabe newell)

  • But he fell through glass. I think he went through a windscreen, rolled on the ground, then hit his head on a rock. That would explain the sharp and blunt object that he must deal with. Flying through the air would explain why gravity changing puzzles are in the game. It was also probably dark and raining. The fact that there is a treehouse could simply have been the sister's choice to bury him near a place they spent a lot of time together.

  • Here is what I think what happened: There was a brother and a sister and they had a tree house. The tree house collapsed and the sister survives. Once the brother escapes limbo he sees his sister burying him. He now knows that he is a ghost.

  • @UtubeViruz I don't think that his sister survived. Look at the end, there are two places where are flies.

  • @UtubeViruz

    Nice conclusion, the best one I've read so far!

  • @UtubeViruz I don't think the sister survived. There are two clusters of flies beneath the collapsed tree house.

  • @UtubeViruz but then how did the girl die?

  • @KingGhidorah5464 Why would the sister have to die? Maybe the boy just went through Limbo just to see the real world in the end.

  • @KingGhidorah5464 The sister didn't die. The boy(brother) escapes Limbo and makes it back to reality as a ghost to see the sister burying him. Of course this is only my theory.

  • my version of the ending: the treehouse was set on fire. every tree is ruptured and black even in bright light, and that treehouse looks burned too. the ladder is made out of rope and wood, and the end it's missing. maybe because the fire got to it first. the boy and girl is shadowy too, you can't see them, so i can assume they burned too. through the game you see men who look like natives with spears and all. maybe they set the house on fire, and are chasing the kid cause they think he escaped.

  • nononono. Both kids were in a tree house which colapsed. The boy woke up in limbo desporite to find his sister.

    Spider=fear

    other children=lonlyness

    cogs and saws=construction of the treehouse

    gravity=falling from the treehouse

    If you complete the game without dying once in one sitting there is a secret egg that falls from the sky that is supposed to continue the ending. I don't know if this is true I am only telling you what I have been told...

  • Maybe the game plot writer was just crap at his job, and forgot to make a proper ending? idk

  • Notice at the end there are glowing specs floating down above he girl, maybe symbolizing something like heaven, but at the very end, there aren't any, just two sets of flies, and a representation of time passing by the rotting of the ladder,

  • I think he is really dead, and the achievement Death has no sense, the one where you have to end the game with 5 deaths or less, give that hint to me.

    Death has no sense or meaning, because he is already dead, so clearly he will reach the end nonetheless and all those deaths are his suffering for not seeing his sister, and to meet with her sooner, he has to accept that fact so he can be with her.

  • @milovarquiel And so he will take pace and move forward with his existence.

  • @bhrmaximo that's a very interesting thing think the story is about. So far what I've read your story makes the most sense:)

  • Wooh, Danish!

  • What nobody notices is that the boy has glowing eyes where as nobody else does.

    I think this hints the boy is alive and in Limbo but his sister is dead and leaving and so is everything else in the world he went through.

  • Well the story to this game is unspeakable no one knows accept the creator maybe the person whom created this fantasy game is what he sees in his dreams most stories are based on someomes nightmare or dream and maybe the person who created this was dreaming he was a young boy chasing his sister through the woods came accross a very large spider and other creaters and humans who basically was not human so pretty simple if you ask me i believe that this was either a dream or nightmare

  • obviously he was dead all along. that's what limbo is; the place between heaven and hell (at least in catholicism). defo creepy though, especially the bit with the massive spider

  • maybe he was dead all along and all the places he goes are memories, and in the end when he breaks trough glass cound symbolize a car crash and the tree house where the game ends may be the place where he died ...

  • i thought they died like after the game because they r both there then the ladder is broken more and instead of them there is two swarms of flies

  • jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water,

    jack fell down and broke his crown and jill came tumbling after......nopenopenopenopenop­enopenope

  • This what the Steam page said.

    About the Game

    "Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO"

  • this as it shows there are two bodies there! D: DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:  sad and very dramatic story

  • i feel that lump is his body, and when he walks up to his sister, scince they are family she can sense his presence but can't actually see him, while the boy can see her perfectly

  • Or they both just took a dump there (hence the flies) and then wonder off, then they lived happily ever after.

  • So lets make the ending so open that ppl proyect whatever they want and call it art! genious

  • That was damn scary

  • Fuck me... now i know what happend

    He was dead all along, his sister was burying him and i saw a broken ladder the flies were there cos of his dead body o_o

  • He got up in your one? o.o He just stone cold died in mine xD

  • The boy you played as was a ghost, the girl is your sister and found you dead in limbo so she did a respectful honor and barried you, she stood up cause she heard a noise, but she nevers sees you. then time goes on and the ending at the end is what you see. The boy is keeping his sister safe as she prgresses through limbo

  • @ultimate0levels: Great theory, bro. I agree with it 100% makes a lot of sense

  • @xxcinderliamaNxx: Grear theory. I a

  • The boy and the girl died and the girl was accepted to heaven but didn't want to leave her brother, who was left in limbo. So he was put to a test and passed. He then finds his sister waiting at the ladder which symbolizes the rise to heaven

  • That was vague.

  • What happened was the boy and the girl died, the girl was good and went to heaven but waited for the boy to go with her. The boy went to limbo and went through the test. There were other people, the tribe and the other bodies you saw, who died. They died so they went to hell but the boy got through and met the girl who was waiting. They went to heaven and there bodies stayed behind.

  • I'll offer what I think of the ending. I think they're both dead, (which explains the two sets of flies) and a long period of time passed (which explains the rotting ladder). I'm not too sure what the girl was doing there, but I have a feeling it was something like finding her and her brother's body (maybe they died because they were in a forest fire or lost in the woods together) and coming to terms with the fact they are both dead. After that, they were able to move on to (hopefully) heaven.

  • Whatever story is about... It needs movie... I think movie would be VERY VERY Interesting... I WANT MOVIE OF LIMBO! But I think they both are dead maybe they had fight in tree house so they both fell, u see not only broken stair... And maybe they both were in limbo through this hell... It looks confusing but very interesting and creepy story

  • For everyone who doesn't understand...that girl was his sister. That was what the whole game was about! Finding her....