Romance Routes
Follow the full Marat and Anca romance routes, find each commitment choice, and check whether your route is still available. Lacra has a later romance state, but the exact choices that commit it are not mapped yet.
A confession, a first kiss, and a romance commit are not the same thing.
Compare the choices that commit each romance, plus the missed scenes or character deaths that can close a route.
Full route guide
Marat’s romance is committed in A Closer Look. The first kiss is not the final commitment. [kiss him back] is.
Starts in: Distant Shadows → A Closer Look
Setup, not commit: “Hey. Nothing you say can change the way I see you.”
Romance commit: [kiss him back]
MissableChanges this character’s ending
Leaving the kiss unanswered does not confirm the romance.
Full route guide
Anca’s romance commit is a later line, not the confession. Giving in to the hunger can close the route by killing her.
Starts in: Stronger Than Achilles
Confession, not commit: “I love you.”
Romance commit: “Leaves me hungry for more.”
MissableChanges this character’s endingSurvival-critical
[give in to the hunger] during Anca’s questline can kill her and lock the romance out. The same prompt in The Heart Wants What It Wants kills Ocha instead.
Romance state · commitment choices not known
Lacra has a later-story romance that can change her ending. The exact commitment and lockout choices are not known.
Starts in: Later story routing
Changes this character’s ending
A Lacra scene alone does not show that the romance is committed.
| Compare Dawnwalker Romance Routes | Marat | Anca |
|---|---|---|
| Questline | Distant Shadows → A Closer Look | Stronger Than Achilles |
| Looks romantic | Show scene lines“Hey. Nothing you say can change the way I see you.” | Show scene lines“I love you.” |
| Actual commit | [kiss him back] | “Leaves me hungry for more.” |
| Missable | Yes | Yes |
| Ending board | Show ending consequencesMarat romance ending | Show ending consequencesAnca romance ending |
| Guide | Full Marat guide | Full Anca guide |
Answer only what you remember. “Not sure” never guesses a lock.
Have you reached A Closer Look?
Can I still romance them? →Add this to the Ending Calculator →
Commit
[kiss him back]
This is the choice that confirms Marat’s romance.
Open the Marat romance guide →Setup
“Hey. Nothing you say can change the way I see you.”
Opens Marat’s first-kiss scene. Romance is not committed yet.
Open the Marat romance guide →Survival
Throne Room: save Marat or Catalin
The throne-room choice can leave Marat dead. That is survival, not the romance commit.
Throne Room: save Marat or Catalin →Commit
“Leaves me hungry for more.”
This is the line that commits Anca romance.
Open the Anca romance guide →Confession
“I love you.”
An upstream confession. It is not the romance commit.
Open the Anca romance guide →Lockout
[give in to the hunger] during Anca’s questline can kill her and lock the romance out. The same prompt in The Heart Wants What It Wants kills Ocha instead.
Giving in to the hunger can kill Anca and close the romance.
Open the Anca romance guide →Setup
“Don’t give up like that.”
This line is about leaving the Valley, not committing romance.
Open the Anca romance guide →Tick what you remember doing. This is not a save-file reader.
A setup line or confession can feel decisive, but the romance only commits when you take its later commitment choice.
Setup / confession
MaratThe “Hey. Nothing you say…” line
Anca“I love you.”
Romance commit
[kiss him back]
“Leaves me hungry for more.”
A committed romance can change that character’s ending. A death can close the romance and still change the ending. Checking a romance here does not replace the Ending Calculator.
A romance can begin with a setup or confession without being committed. Marat and Anca each have a later choice that locks in the romance, while missed scenes or character deaths can close the route. Lacra has a later romance state, but her full commitment path is not mapped yet.
Complete romance routes are available for Marat and Anca. Lacra has a later romance state, but the exact choices that commit it are not mapped yet.
Published playthroughs show more than one romance can be advanced in the same run. A romance scene is not the same thing as a locked finale result. Check each commitment choice on its own.
This page does not rank romances. It only shows which choice commits a romance route and whether that route still looks available.
Yes. Marat’s commit can be missed after the first kiss. Anca’s romance can close if she dies.
Confirming Marat or Anca romance can change that character’s later ending. Survival choices can change those endings even when the romance is not committed.