SILENT HILL: Townfall Sci-fi Ending Guide

Spoiler notice: everything below reveals the Sci-fi route step by step. The endings hub keeps the spoiler-safe comparison first.

How the Sci-fi ending works

Sci-fi is one of the two New Game Plus-only endings. Across an NG+ run you collect three Strange Books, press a 12-symbol sequence into the hotel door in Part 2, and bank the Strange Access Card it gives you — then, deep in Part 6, you swipe that card to trigger the ending before the final boss.

Step 1 — the NG+ requirement

None of the three books, nor the Access Card, exist on a first playthrough. Start a New Game Plus run.

Step 2 — Strange Book #1

Part 1, Zoe’s house bedroom — on the bed’s left side. Its on-screen title is “History of Space Flight, 1952–1992”. Examine it before leaving the area — the house does not reopen later in the run.

Step 3 — the hotel symbol door (12 presses)

Part 2 (Zoe, Chapter 6): after collecting Richard’s Gift, enter Shorefront – Different (it turns red) and go upstairs to the door with the 25-button symbol grid.

Press the twelve buttons in this order — symbol first, grid position second (columns counted left→right, rows top→bottom). This is the AllThings.How sequence; its symbols match PowerPyx’s endings guide one-for-one in order, which is the cross-check this page is built on:

Press	Symbol	Grid position
1	Bird	Column 1, Row 5
2	Tree	Column 2, Row 4
3	Planet	Column 4, Row 2
4	Bird	Column 1, Row 5 (same button as press 1)
5	Trinity	Column 2, Row 3
6	Satellite	Column 4, Row 5
7	Satellite	Column 4, Row 5 (same button as press 6)
8	Fish	Column 5, Row 1
9	Rocket	Column 3, Row 1
10	Planet	Column 4, Row 2 (same button as press 3)
11	Dog	Column 1, Row 1
12	Monument	Column 4, Row 3

A wrong press wipes the sequence — but the door resets instantly, so a mistake costs seconds, not the run. No numeric button-numbering is printed here on purpose: the numbers some guides attach to these buttons are their own labels, not game UI.

Step 4 — the Strange Access Card

The card sits beside that same hotel door, in the corner by the elephant statue. It is inert in Part 2 — pick it up, keep it, and ignore it until the endgame.

Steps 5 and 6 — Strange Books #2 and #3

Book	Where	On-screen title
#2	Part 4 — Stenhouse End of Life Hospice Care store, Atlas Square southwest, opposite the phone booth; left shelf inside the door	“Freeze Me / Wake Me – Elias Fisher”
#3	Part 6 — room 621, on the table beside the Resource Container, across from Valve F	“A Map of Nowhere Else”

Book #3’s room is on the same SWDP floor you already visit for the Remote Systems puzzle — grab it during that loop rather than backtracking.

Step 7 — swipe the card

Finish the clamp release and turn the red valve wheel (clamp release puzzle). Past the forced-open shutter, head down the hallway toward where Simon pulls out his cannula — a card reader on the left wall by the last sealed door. Swipe the card: it turns green and reads “I feel sluggish. Like I need to wake up.” A black-and-white cutscene plays and the game ends early — the final boss is skipped entirely.

What the ending gives — and what it costs

• Sci-fi-lent Hill trophy (Silver).
• The Pistol-3000 unlock is banked — later NG+ runs can pick it up (location guide).
• The cost: skipping the boss means no boss trophy on this run. The planning advice both sources give: do Sci-fi first, then reload into Dog/Justice plans (endings hub has the run-order notes).

What this page rests on

AllThings.How’s all-endings guide read in full on 2026-09-24 is the step-source (books, door, card, trigger). PowerPyx’s endings guide (read in full, 2026-09-24) independently matches all twelve symbols in order — that two-publisher agreement on the full sequence earns the press table above, and the earlier symbol-vs-number conflict stays retired: this page prints symbols + grid positions only. Source_checked, no ending was triggered on this site, and the dog-statue/Comic details are quoted as AllThings.How reports them.