Just finished Inside. My response was:
"Seriously? That's the end?" I'm sitting in a blob on a beach.
Did I miss something? Do I need to do anything during the game to get a different ending? If so, can I do those things by skipping around the checkpoints and replaying the end?
If not, what's going on? How is that a proper ending?
Best Answer
The ending (and the title) of Inside suggests that the boy you thought you were playing as all along was really being mind controlled by the real player-character: the blob. The game sets up a few hints along the way:
So with the twist explained, what the heck is up with the blob? Why does it exist? Why was it trying to get out? My theory is that the blob was created as part of a secret mind control program, and that similar to how the fused mass of bodies gives the blob super strength, the minds of the people within the blob are also combined and give it enhanced psychic abilities. The scientists are either using its power to mind control the populace, or they're controlling people with the technology they've developed out of a need to keep the blob contained, since they know it's trying to control people to get out.
Why does the blob want to get out? It's clearly intelligent, as it solves puzzles on its way out of the facility. Maybe the scientists were experimenting on it and it lived a miserable existence, which would be supported by the sounds it makes and the inhumanity of a pile of living human flesh. The blob may have wanted to die; while it twitches a little at the end, those could be the death throes of the blob which may have needed its tank to survive. Possibly, it just wanted to enjoy its freedom on the beach and to escape from Inside.