The Coffin of Andy The quick answer
Yes — but only in one place, and only on one branch. In the ending called “Shots and Such”, which sits at the end of the Episode 3: Decay route, the closing summary says that Andrew gets Ashley pregnant, and that Ashley is thinking about ending the pregnancy. That is the whole of it. There is no scene of a birth, no baby, and no claim that this is what happens to the characters in every version of the story.
So if someone asks you, flat out, “does Ashley get pregnant in TCOAAL?”, the honest one-line answer is: yes, but only in Shots and Such, the ending at the end of the Decay route — and in no other released ending. Anything shorter than that is misleading, and anything longer than that needs the route attached to it.
First, the Episode 3 situation — because it changed
For a long time, every guide on this site said Episode 3 was still in development with no release date. That was true when it was written, and it is now only half true, so let me fix it here before it confuses the rest of this page. Episode 3 was split into two separate branches, Decay and Burial, and they did not arrive together. Decay Part 1 was released on 1 April 2025 — about six hours of new story on the distrust route, and the version of the game most players are actually playing now. The other half, Burial, is still in development, with no confirmed release date, though a short Burial ending has already been added. The game as a whole is still in Early Access, and it is still unfinished.
That split is why older answers to this question look wrong now. Before Decay came out, the correct answer was that there was no confirmed pregnancy anywhere in the released game — and that was right, for the build that existed then. The pregnancy only exists because Decay exists. If you read an old forum thread that says “no, it never happens”, it was probably written before April 2025, and it is out of date rather than dishonest. The same goes for the other direction: a clip from the Shots and Such ending, posted without any context, can make it look like a normal part of the story, when it is really one very specific outcome at the end of one very specific chain of choices.
How you actually reach the Shots and Such ending
The pregnancy is not something you stumble into by accident. It sits at the end of a route that asks a lot of you first. You have to be on the Decay side of the split at the end of Episode 2, which means the distrust branch rather than the Burial one, and then you have to stay on the Andrew-focused path through Decay itself. Along the way there are a handful of moments that act like checkpoints, and missing one of them sends you somewhere else entirely.
The one most players remember is the engagement ring. During the forest section you need to pick it up, and then — this is the part that feels strange the first time you hear it — you need to fail to catch Ashley during the chase that follows. Later, the two of them have to get through police questioning without the whole thing falling apart, and you have to hold on to the ring instead of throwing it away when you get the chance. It is a strange set of requirements, and I think that is deliberate: the game is not hiding the ending behind a puzzle, it is making you choose, over and over, to keep going down a road that keeps getting worse.
Change any one of those choices and the ending changes with it. Depending on where you slip, you can land on the “Deadest of Dead Ends”, an arrest outcome, a violent conclusion, or a continuation that simply stops before it resolves. That is worth keeping in mind if you are trying to see this ending for yourself: it is not the default. It is one outcome among several, and most players will finish Decay without ever seeing it.
What the ending actually confirms — and what it does not
It helps to be precise here, because this is exactly the kind of detail that gets flattened when a clip or a screenshot travels on its own. The ending confirms three things, and only three things, about the pregnancy itself.
- Andrew and Ashley stay together as a couple in this branch. Not as siblings who happen to live together, but as a couple, living under a stolen identity after everything that happened on the road.
- They keep going with the relationship the story has been calling incestuous and abusive all along. The ending does not soften that, or reframe it as something else. It presents it as a continuation, not a redemption.
- Ashley becomes pregnant at some point in their later life together. The ending says so in its closing summary, and it says she is considering an abortion.
What it does not confirm is just as important. It does not show a child being born. It does not say Ashley goes through with the pregnancy, and it does not say she does not. Pregnancy and childbirth are not the same thing, and articles that claim she “has Andrew's baby” have already gone further than the ending goes. The ending also does not make this the final ending of the whole game. It is a completed ending inside its own branch, in a game that still has other branches unfinished — Burial is still being made, and the full story is not done.
Why this is not the canon future for every playthrough
Branching stories do not have one future. They have several, and each one is true inside its own branch and false outside it. That is the whole point of a game like this, and it is why a flat yes-or-no answer to this question never quite works.
Think about what the other branches do. In some of them, one or both of the siblings dies. In others they are arrested, or captured, or left staring at a cliffhanger while the next episode is still being built. None of those outcomes has a pregnancy in it, because the pregnancy belongs to a particular chain of choices that those playthroughs never made. So when someone says “Ashley gets pregnant in TCOAAL”, what they usually mean — whether they know it or not — is “Ashley gets pregnant in the Shots and Such ending”. Leave the second half off and you have turned one branch into the whole game, which is exactly how misinformation about this story spreads.
That also explains why this question keeps getting argued about online. People are not usually disagreeing about what the ending says. They are disagreeing because one of them played Decay and the other one did not, or because one of them watched a clip and the other one played the full route, or because one of them read an answer from before April 2025 and the other one read one from after. Once you put the route name and the release date next to the answer, most of the argument disappears.
What the pregnancy means in the story
Here is where I want to be careful, because it is easy to read this ending the wrong way. The ring, the shared flat, the life together — on the surface, those look like the pieces of a romance ending. The game goes out of its way to tell you they are not.
The life the ending describes is miserable. Andrew ends up in repetitive work he does not care about. Ashley keeps doing dangerous work for the Entity. They argue, they hurt each other, and nothing about their situation gets better or more stable. The pregnancy does not fix any of that. It adds one more consequence to a life that is already defined by dependency and avoidance — two people who have shut everyone else out and now live only in each other's company while their freedom, goals, and emotional stability collapse.
That is why I read this as a tragic ending rather than a happy one. The ring is not a promise that things will be alright now. It is a route flag, a symbol of Andrew choosing a closed, self-destructive future and then living in it. The game has been building toward that reading from the start: the store description itself calls the sibling relationship extremely toxic, and nothing in this ending walks that back. If you came here hoping this was the ending where they finally work out, I am sorry — it is the ending where they do not.
It connects, too, to the wider question of whether Andy and Leyley “end up together”. Sometimes they do stay together, in the sense that neither of them has left by the end of a route. But “together” in this game can mean locked in with each other, or tearing each other down, or a relationship that keeps the original problem alive instead of fixing it. Our guide on whether they end up together goes through those versions one by one, and it is worth reading alongside this page if the Shots and Such ending left you unsure what you just saw.
Claims to stop repeating
A few wrong versions of this answer keep circulating, so let me deal with them directly.
“Ashley is pregnant in Episode 1 or Episode 2.” No. There is no confirmed pregnancy in either of those episodes. The pregnancy only appears in the Episode 3: Decay material, in one ending.
“The Burial vision proves she is pregnant.” It does not, on its own. A vision or a foreshadowing scene is not the same as an ending summary confirming an event, and treating it as one is how a rumour becomes a “fact”.
“Fan art of them with children proves it.” Fan art proves that someone drew a picture. It is not evidence about the game, and it should never be quoted as if it were. Some of the most-shared images on this subject are fan work, not screenshots, and they show things the game has never shown.
“If it happens in one ending, it will happen in every future branch.” There is no reason to think that. Future Decay or Burial content could go in a completely different direction, and a route event does not bind the routes that have not been released yet.
“The game endorses the relationship because it gives them this ending.” No. Showing something is not endorsing it. The ending is full of domestic violence, failed ambitions, and misery, and the game presents all of that as the cost of the choices that led there. I can describe what happens in the ending without treating it as something to cheer for, and I am not going to.
Frequently asked about Ashley's pregnancy
Which TCOAAL ending has Ashley pregnant?
Only one released ending includes it: Shots and Such, at the end of the Decay route (Decay Part 1, 1 April 2025). No other released ending has it.
Does Ashley give birth in the ending?
No. The ending never shows a birth, and it never settles what happens next — it only says she is pregnant and is thinking about ending the pregnancy.
Is Ashley pregnant in every route?
No. It only shows up if you follow one particular Decay path and make a particular set of choices along the way — the ring, the chase, the questioning, and holding on to the ring at the end.
Is Shots and Such the final canon ending?
It finishes its own branch properly, but that is all it finishes. The game still has other routes, Burial is still being made, and there is no one ending that closes the whole story yet.
Why do older answers say it never happens?
Most of them were written before Episode 3: Decay released in April 2025. At the time, they were correct — there was no confirmed pregnancy in the released game. The answer changed when Decay came out, not because anyone was lying.
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