Endings

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 28 October 2026.

This page describes a secret.

The game has one ending, reached by beating Olmec at the bottom of the Temple (Beating Olmec has how). It plays as three short scenes: the volcano, the escape and the final score. Then come the credits and the high scores room. The custom levels have an ending of their own, the last scene only. A game that ends in a death has no ending: its final score is shown over the level (Scoring).

When Olmec has drowned, the door at the right end of Olmec's Lair's hall (the player came in by the left one) becomes the way out ^[1]; going through it, with up, starts the ending ^{[2] [3]}. The game's clock stops there, as it runs only in a level ^[4].

The player walks right along a cave above a lake of lava, the view following, and stops beside a big chest ^{[5] [6]}. The chest opens and a giant golden head pops out beside him ^[7]. The lava then rises in a column under the stone platform they stand on and lifts it, him and the treasure, while the screen shakes ^{[8] [9]}. Outside, the volcano erupts, and the player and the treasure are thrown out of it, small against the sky ^{[10] [11] [12]}. The clip shows both scenes ^[13].

The player in the ending is whoever he played as, the Damsel or the Tunnel Man included, and carries what he held, his Jetpack, and Kali's ball and chain if he has one ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}.

Once the treasure falls out of sight, the last scene starts ^[18]. The player falls into a desert and lies stunned; the treasure lands beside him, and he gets up ^[19]. Then, with the victory music, YOU MADE IT! ^[20], the final score, counting up to the player's money 1,000 and then 100 a step ^[21], and 50 steps after it has, the treasure's $50,000, with a thump ^[22]. The game's time, the kills and the saves follow ^[23].

Once the saves are shown, attack (or Enter, Escape or start) fades the screen out to YOU SHALL BE REMEMBERED AS A HERO., and once more goes on to the credits; before then it does nothing, so the count can't be hurried ^{[24] [25]}. In the clip the player brought out $21,125, and the final score is $71,125 ^[26]. The first two scenes can be skipped to this one: the volcano's after 50 steps, the escape's at once ^{[27] [28]}.

The Credits roll over a camel caravan crossing the desert, and attack fades them out ^[29]. Then the win is recorded in the high scores, with the game's time if the player took no shortcut (Scoring), and the game goes to the high scores room ^[30].

A custom level whose next level doesn't exist ends the chain with a scene of its own, the final score without the treasure: YOU MADE IT!, the money counted up, the same $50,000 added, the time, kills and saves, and YOU SHALL BE REMEMBERED AS A HERO. ^{[31] [32]}. It goes to the high scores room without changing them, as custom levels keep no score ^[33].

• The clips above follow a win from Olmec's door to the final score ^{[13] [26]}. The same replay goes on through the credits to the high scores room ^[38].
• A chain of three custom levels ends in the custom ending: the money counted up, the bonus added, then the high scores room ^[39].

• What the player holds in the ending is drawn by a chain of checks of its name that tests for a Rock twice. The second test is never reached, and the Rock shows all the same ^{[40] [41] [42]}.