Bad Ends by Source
There are many transformation items and NPCs that a player can interact with in Trials in Tainted Space, but overindulgence and certain characters can transform, warp or otherwise alter a player in ways that mean they either can no longer physically undertake their quest, or that they no longer wish to undertake that quest. These are known as Bad Ends or Game Over.
This article lists the various Bad Ends that it is possible to experience in the game, how they can be achieved, and the basics of those Bad Ends.
Substance Abuse
This section covers all bad ends that results from using an item numerous times. Most of it involves the champion transforming into a monster/creature or addicting the player to the way the item makes them feel that they drop whatever they were doing in favor of feeling that way forever.
"Fapping Forever"
Cause: Inject yourself with Throbb while having a cock at least 30 inches long, balls 10 inches in diameter, taint at 50, and libido at 100 or reach 100 after use.
Effect: The player's cock will extend to a gargantuan size and their balls will become only able to produce cum. Their refractory period will become non existent. The player will then become immobilized and incapable of thinking about anything but Fapping, eventually giving up on their quest in favor of being an Ultraporn Holo-Star.
"Jaques' Delight Ver. 1"
Cause: Spray yourself with a Gush Spraypen at 100 libido while and while having your highest cup size be TT-Cup.
Effect: The player's breasts will become inflated with an endless amount of milk, and the player will inflate with desire to be milked and fucked. Eventually, you are rescued by Zo'dee who keeps you safe and fed as a fluid source.
"Jaques' Delight Ver. 2"
Cause: Same as above except triggered on New Texas.
Effect: Same as above, but instead of Zo'dee the player will be taken to Big T's milk barn and after being gangbanged in an orgy led by Brynn before being hooked up to a custom industrial milker. The player spends the rest of their life being milked and fucked by Bulls.
"Reverse Transcendence"
Cause: Consume ClearYu while having the Sweet Tooth status effect.
Effect: The player's mind will become drained of any thought, emotion, and desire aside from the need to use and improve their body. They will for the first year afterwards exhaust every possible way to have sex with literally anything you can possibly think of. Afterwards they will focus on trying to improve their body, becoming the most famous and talented athlete in any and every sport. After that they will try being a Mercenary, which they will succeed with supreme ease. All the while never being satisfied.
"A Sticky Situation"
Cause: Choose to Blow Bubbles! when using Rubber-Made.
Effect: The player will discover a side-effect of Rubber-Made that causes a decrease in cognitive function when it is used to blow bubbles. Eventually, they accidentally swallow the gum. The gum will eventually inflate in their body, emerge from your mouth, pop, and enshroud them in a thick, skin tight layer of latex. The player will find themselves immobilized, horny but unable to cum, and mistaken as a sex doll. After passing through several owners they will eventually be recovered by your Rival and Dane before finally cumming on them and turning them into living sex dolls.
"Overload n' Overflow"
Cause: Use the white Suma Cream pearl while having testicular diameter of 90" or 81" if the pearl is black and choose Let Them Grow. (You won't trigger the ending if your a taur, have the "uniball" status effect, or the 'Nuki Nuts.
Effect: The player will find themselves unable to cum as the size and sensitivity of their testicles increases at an alarming rate. When they finally do come they find that their balls are so big that they can't move their position and that any other movement or touching sensation will instantly induce orgasm. Eventually breaking their mind as they come forever.
"The Birth of a Nation"
Cause: Ingest A tube of Skin Clear while already having the self-lubricated flag on every applicable body part.
Effect: Unable to find an obvious part to lubricate, the mod will lubricate your insides by liquifying them. The PC will awaken to find themselves transformed into a new species of Goo creature obsessed with fucking and using it's mutagenic fluids to turn other aliens in copies of itself. After raping an alien Rusher girl and her crew and turning them into copies, they will dock at a station and over the year assimilate everyone on and everyone who comes to the station. Ultimately, the monster formerly known as Captain Steele will convert the space station into a hive like planet with you as the queen.
"Buttslutinator 3.0"
Cause: Use the Buttslutinator 3 times.
Effect: After putting the finishing touches on your body, the Buttslutinator will fulfill its purpose of making the perfect butt slut by subjecting you to hypnosis, porn, and narcotics while keeping your ass exposed in the stockade.
"A Really Bad Trip"
Cause: Use Wiff-O-Wisp while already under its effects.
Effect: The player will hallucinate that there organs shut down and they die. Meanwhile, their organs will shut down and they die without realizing it.
"Tetsuo!"
Cause: Consume Tentatool Pill while having pretty much every body part except your arms and face turned into tentacle parts.
Effect: Your arms unravel into tentacles, along with your body, and mind. You then wander off to as a tentacle monster, looking for potential prey to ensnare and fuck.
Aggression
These are bad ends caused by the direct action of hostile NPCs if the player is unable to defend themselves against them. By losing to them, the player will immediately find themselves killed or enslaved by the likes of the enemy.
"Deus Ex Machina"
Cause: Lose to the mini boss Machina on Mhen'ga.
Effect: Machina disassembles Captain Steele.
"The Six Pistols"
Cause: Lose to Doctor Lash after provoking him in his lab on Tarkus.
Effect: After getting you still from knocking the resistance out of you, Dr. Lash will align and charge his six Plasma Pistols to your head and instantly vaporize it.
"Death by Droid"
Cause: Lose to the Security Droids in Anno's Ghost in the Machine Quest Tarkus.
Effect: Anno is gunned down and killed. You follow suit.
"Goo Lube-Slave"
Cause: Lose to Gray Prime in Anno's Ghost in the Machine Quest Tarkus.
Effect: The Gray Prime will turn into a mass of Gooey Tentacles. After sodomizing you and Anno it tosses you in a vat of Gray Goo, where the two of you will be sustained and used as a source of Gray Goo lubricant for indefinite periods of time by being endlessly sexually pleasured.
"What killed her..."
Cause: Lose to Gray Prime in Anno's Ghost in the Machine Quest Tarkus after deciding to kill her.
Effect: The Giga Gray Prime will crush most of the life in you and Anno out of you by crushing the elevator shaft before ripping it out and throwing you into the deepest bowels of Novahome.
"LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT LOVE"
Cause: Lose to Hand So's Firewall or submit to her plan after you listen to her story during Colenso's The Hnngularity Quest onTarkus.
Effect: Hand So will take the PC's Codex and GPS Triangulater and begin interface with them, compromising every wireless network, device, and satellite, allowing her to account for every sapient life form on Tarkus and eventually the whole galaxy. Meanwhile, the PC will be subjected to an electro-stimulation in order for her to design an implant that will control the minds of Sapient Life Forms by keeping them happy and peaceful with constant sex. She will then use you and the Sex Bots to spread the implants across the galaxy, using you especially with your microsurgeons to change you into any alien to more effectively infiltrate any world and race that might escape So's clutches. Eventually, she succeeds in uniting the universe under the banner of sex and celebrates by subjecting you to an endless number of sexual stimulants and pleasures each one more unique and perverse than the last.
"The Crew's Pet Pooch"
Cause: Lose to Tam Tam in The Stellar Tether dungeon on Tarkus.
Effect: Tam will take Steele as her slave and new favorite pet. Feeding Steele a healthy diet of cum from the Tarasque's entire crew, Steele is eventually given to Tam-wolf when Tam buys the drone a vibrating cock attachment and a special latex suit that controls your body and assets. Steele is doomed to spend the rest of his/her life as Tam-wolf's bitch.
"Kaboom!"
Cause: Lose to the Rocket Pods in The Stellar Tether dungeon on Tarkus.
Effect: The rocket pods will continue to bombard Captain Steele with explosives until they are pushed out into the infinite vacuum of space.
"Captain Khorgan's Broodmare"
Cause: Lose to Captain Khorgan in The Stellar Tether dungeon on Tarkus.
Effect: Captain Khorgan will be impressed by Steele's strength and bravery that rather then killing them, she decides to claim then as the father of her children. Khorgan will give you Throbb if you don't have a penis and will give it a footjob before taking you home as her mate.
"Kaska's Da Bomb Ver. 1 "
Cause: Lose to Kaska Beamfury in The Stellar Tether dungeon on Tarkus without really increasing her lust.
Effect: Kaska leaves you to die as the Nuclear Bomb goes off after a while.
"Kaska's Da Bomb Ver. 2 "
Cause: Lose to Kaska Beamfury in The Stellar Tether dungeon on Tarkus after really increasing her lust.
Effect: Kaska finds you cute and after force feeding you a healing potion/aphrodisiac poison to mend your wounds and get you in the mood. She then spends an hour or so fucking literally every hole you got until you are throughly addicted to Dzaan cum. She then attaches a Slave Collar and takes you to her home to become her personal pet and first harem member.
"Throwing Shade"
Cause: Lose to Karaafter telling Shade where she is and trying to take her down on Myrellion.
Effect: Kara kills you and Shade.
"Brought Before Bragga"
Cause: Lose to the Black Void Pirates in Saendra's Fools Rush In quest.
Effect: Steele and Saendra are brought before Dread Lord Mirian Bragga. After recollecting their stolen-stolen data, they hand the two of you off as sex slaves to the Carver Catering Company.
"Men are pigs..."
Cause: Lose to the Pirate Mercenary in Saendra's Fools Rush In quest.
Effect: The Mercenary will recognize Saendra as the bounty the Black Void was after and deliver her to Mirian Bragga. But not before raping her and casually killing the player
"Fungully"
Cause: Lose to the Deconstruction Unit on Myrellion.
Effect: Captain Steele is immolated by the Deconstruction Unit. If that doesn't kill them, then when the machine ignites the highly flammable and combustive silphynol deposit, it creates an explosion that destroys the Myr Infected Queen, the PC, and itself.
"Circle of Life"
Cause: Lose to the Queen of the Deep on Myrellion.
Effect: Steele will be dragged to the depths of the Queen's home and force fed a sedative that the Deep Queen lactates. The Deep Queen will then use the player as a means to repopulate her species by impregnating each other over and over again and keeping each other sedated with your fluids.
"Absorbed and Incubated"
Cause: Lose to the Beryl the Crystal Goo Incubator in Queen Taivra's Palace on Myrellion.
Effect: Beryl will swallow Steele keeping them imprisoned within her body. She will then shift her body to open up your sphincter and fill you with hundreds of Nyrea eggs to increase her incubation efficiency.
"The Your in the Princess' Castle Now"
Cause: Lose to the the Nyrean Princess in Queen Taivra's Palace on Myrellion.
Effect: The Princess will feed you a Red Venom Vial to get you into the mood before making you suck her ovipositor. After she finally cums she will fill Steele with a dozen eggs before moving to the next Harem Member. The PC will then have sex with the other members of the harem until they give birth and are impregnated again in an endless cycle.
"An Act of Valiance"
Cause: Lose to the the Queensguard or Queen Taivra in Queen Taivra's Palace without releasing Dane on Myrellion.
Effect: Queen Taivra will be impressed by Steele's strength and bravery that she will take the PC as her mate and second most influential person in her empire after herself. She will then allow the PC to decide the fate of their Rival and Dane. After which she will take Steele to be bred in her royal Bed Chamber. Notes: Options for the Rival includes Execution, Egg Bearer, Bed Warmer.
"You Fucking Cheated!"
Cause: Lose to the the Queensguard or Queen Taivra after releasing Dane in Queen Taivra's Palace on Myrellion.
Effect: Disgusted by you, Dane, and the Rival's apparent weakness and lack of honor, Taivra will have Dane killed and begin to personally train you and the Rival into submissive, incestuous, egg bearers.
"KHAAAAAAAAN!"
Cause: Lose to the Dr. Khan in Kara's Eye of the Beholder quest on Myrellion.
Effect: The incredibly horny Dr. Souta Khan will opt to not hand you over to the Black Void but instead makes you and Kara into members of his harem of Gold Myr scientists by attaching his prototype Hypno-Collars to prevent you from thinking about anything but sex and his balls.
"Captured by Pirates"
Cause: Lose to the pretty much any enemy except for Dr. Khan in Kara's Eye of the Beholder quest on Myrellion.
Effect: PC is brought before Amara Faell. She sends Kara off to be punished by Bragga, but decides to keep you for herself. PC gets one of Khan's collars put on, at the lowest setting -- get to keep your brain, but with heightened libido and no ability to resist commands. Notes:
- If the enemy you lose specifically to the Pirate Engineer she will rape you before giving you to Amara.
- If Kara killed Shade, Amara will kill Kara and take out her frustrations on you.
- Kara has an invisible personality alignment score. If Kara's score is set to Kind, then Kara will sacrifice herself to save the PC from this fate if this Bad End is triggered.
"Hold the Door"
Cause: Fail to defeat the Red Myr Gaurd protecting the Warehouse front door in 2 turns Fazian's I Know Why the Caged Bird Dances quest on Myrellion.
Effect: The guard will blow her whistle, summoning a large battalion of elite Red Myr soldiers that will gun you down before you can react.
"I Didn't Choose the Slut Life"
Cause: Lose to Major Ehstraffe and her entourage while being Feminine in Fazian's I Know Why the Caged Bird Dances quest on Myrellion.
Effect: Ehstraffe will settle Fazian and the Gold Myr prisoners down before selling you to the Tarratch slaver for 20,000 credits. Once they have smuggled you off Myrellion, under the effects of various cocktails of brainwashing drugs and electrotherapy, the skilful insectile slavers extract the details of your identity and bank account. They proceed to wipe both clean, liquidate your assets and provide you with a new identity: Cindi Luvscock. This obviously costs money, which Cindi begins the long, slow process of paying back by working a glory hole on one of the frontier's sleazier space stations.Once sufficiently trained at servicing even the biggest, most outlandishly shaped dick, the tarratch sell you to an ausar pirate warlord operating on the fringes of known space
"Lifelong Ten-Ants"
Cause: Lose to the Major Ehstraffe and her entourage while being Masculine in Fazian's I Know Why the Caged Bird Dances quest on Myrellion.
Effect: Unable to easily sell Steele on the slave market, the Tarratch will suggest finding use out of him for the Myr. To which the prisoners and officers happily accept. Days, weeks pass by in a venom-induced haze. You eventually come to welcome the burn of it entering your veins; the peace, tranquillity and all-conquering arousal it brings. It focuses you wonderfully for your sole occupation - being one of two primary sources of stress relief for a whole base of healthy, overworked, uptight red myr. Once as hopelessly addicted to red myr saliva as you are, Fazian comes to accept his new role in life, too. As he points out philosophically, the two of you are making a lot of ordinary people happy with your presence, and it's not exactly a suffering to {plough dripping myr cunt with your cock. He eventually teaches you to be as good a dancer as he is, and you perform with him most nights to a constantly changing but always delirious gold myr audience. If she's in a good mood, Ehstraffe sometimes lends you to well-behaved groups of golds as well. In either case, some of the orgies you have after particularly well-received performances are spectacular.
"Gushed"
Cause: Lose by lust or get hit 4 times by the GUSHing TiTS attack to the Nym-Foe in Pexiga's uplift quest on Tarkus.
Effect: The Nym-Foe will subject you to a series of special Silicone injections as well gene mods to increase lactation and turn your nipples into Cunt Nipple as well as an experimental strength augmenting drug so they can move with the absurdly large boobs. The Droid will then send the bill for all the treatment directly to JoyCo. Unfortunately, for the player JoyCo. will actually hold you up for the billing and fine you for tampering with one of their VI's nursedroids. The player will find themselves in cripplingly debt forcing them to sell all their possessions and have to work at The Mess for Beth's and the Raskvel to work it off.
"Get Dolled Up"
Cause: Lose by to the Doll Maker in Pexiga's uplift quest on Tarkus.
Effect: The Doll Maker will subject the player to Doctor Badger's signature brand of bimbofication and enshrouds your form in the appearance of a red latex, succubus themed, sex-doll. The PC will be bimbofied and barely capable of moving, speaking, or thinking. After ejecting the player from the Bimbotorium, the PC will wander the surface of Tarkus and eventually be mistaken by the Raskvel as one of the generic Sex Bots, albeit a highly advanced version. After finding sex with you to be most fulfilling and pleasurable amongst all of Raskvel kind, you will be purchased for a large sum by Bethany Carver who will make you into her 1# employee and money maker.
"AaaaAAAAaaaargh. Not the bees!"
Cause: Lose to the Zil Tribe in Shep Darnock's Plantation Quest on Mhen'ga.
Effect: The Zil, under orders of Quinn will have you stripped of all clothes, weapons, and equipment. Then Kane will tie you to a large rock, cut off your wings if you have any, and with 12 other men push the anchor off the side of the waterfall, dragging Captain Steele to their death.
"Hidden Mutation"
Cause: Lose to basically any enemy except for Henderson in The Kashima Incident distress call.
Effect: Captain Steele will make it to the launch bay and depart from Kashima with an empty ship and call for several distress calls. Unfortunately, by the time medical assistance arrives, the mysterious tentacle parasite manifests and will compel Steele to rape the Kaithrit doctor and spread the parasite.
"The Captain's Mate"
Cause: Lose to Henderson in The Kashima Incident distress call.
Effect: Captain Steele will be tentacle raped nonstop for about a fortnight until they too are turned into an unrecognizable mass of tentacles. By the time Nova Security forces arrive they are greeted by a river of tentacle rape that spreads itself across the galaxy by comandeering their ship.
"Prisoner of Love and War Ver. 1 "
Cause: Lose to the Gold Myr Squad without having a penis during Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: Captain Steele will be gangbanged and used for the pleasure and morale of the Queen Estallia's daughters. Eventually, when they inevitably get bored with you they ransom you to your Rival who in your imprisonment had completed the quest and became CEO of Steele Tech. The golds will use the money to fund their war effort.
"Prisoner of Love and War Ver. 2 "
Cause: Lose to the Gold Myr Squad while having a penis during Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: Captain Steele will be gangbanged and used for the pleasure and morale of the Queen Estallia's daughters. Unlike version 1, the Golds will be so enamored with your cock that they will choose to keep you around for entertainment purposes.
"Sensual Interrogation"
Cause: Lose to the Gold Myr Intelligence Officer during Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: Ellira will tie Captain Steele to a chair and begin to sexually tease and torture you with her butt, hands, feet, and breasts with the intent of getting you to reveal useful information to her. Eventually, you cave in confessing the location of Lieve and Pathfinders, your mission, information about the reds occupying Kressia, and later about your Codex and ship. This is all done so that Ellira can coordinate an assassination of Lieve and the Pathfinders and steal your ship from the DMZ to use it in a precise assault on the Scarlet Federation that obliterates their entire Navy and Air Force, before setting their sights on the Federation Capitol. When all is said and done you are labeled a war criminal and sentenced to life in prison.
"Squish"
Cause: Lose to the Warqueen during phase 1 of her boss fight in Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: The Warqueen uses her tank to reduce you to roadkill.
"The Queen's New Bitch Ver. 1"
Cause: Lose to the Warqueen during phase 2 of her boss fight while having a penis in Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: The Warqueen takes you prisoner, steals your Codex equipment, and ship and sells it to help fund the war effort. She then keeps you to breed her so she can repopulate her species and replace her fallen daughters.
"The Queen's New Bitch Ver. 2"
Cause: Lose to the Warqueen during phase 2 of her boss fight without having a penis in Sellera's Federation Quest on Myrellion.
Effect: The same as above, except Estallia hands you over to her 12 sons and 8 drone harem refugees to be bred by them.
"9 × 2 = Just You"
Cause: Lose to the Nine-tailed Zil during Azra's 1st expedition quest for Fuck Lilies on Mhen'ga.
Effect: The Nine-tailed Zil will knock you out and take you back to his village, where he and several other males will gangbang the PC while he progressively attaches the daughters of his tail to you to make you a better suited town bicycle so he may retire from the role.
"Stud Security System"
Cause: Lose to the Raskvel Broodmother's Raskvel Turrets during the hunt for Motherhusks during Azra's 2nd Expedition Quest on Tarkus.
Effect: The turrets will annihilate Captain Steele, much to Azra's horror.
"A Cut Above the Rest"
Cause: Lose to Dr. Calnor at any point during Syri's The Genetic Opera on Uveto.
Effect: Dr. Calnor will use the bladed end of his Electrified Shock Staff to decapitate the PC before moving on to Valden.
"Valden's Vengeance"
Cause: Lose to any Security Robots at any point during Syri's The Genetic Opera after Valden possesses them and becomes hostile on Uveto.
Effect: Captain Steele and Dr. Calnor are brought before Commander Valden in The Warp Field. Valden will then take advantage of Calnor's Cybernetic implant on the back of his neck to forcibly upload his consciousness into Calnor's brain, effectively switching bodies. After going through your stuff for anything useful and to learn about what happened while he was imprisoned, he discovers that Syri was still alive he decides to go to her, but not before killing you.
"A Bit of a Handicap"
Cause: Lose to Commander Schora during phase 1 of her boss fight in Syri's The Genetic Opera on Uveto.
Effect: Commander Schora blow you to smithereens off the side of the facility roof.
"Schora's Bonus Ver. 1"
Cause: Lose to Commander Schora during phase 2 of her boss fight without teasing her or having fucked her nicely in Syri's The Genetic Opera on Uveto.
Effect: Commander Schora will arrest you and recapture Valden with the intent of giving you to Dr. Calnor to use for experiments on live sapient life forms and receive a huge bonus.
"Schora's Bonus Ver. 2"
Cause: Lose to Commander Schora during phase 2 of her boss fight after teasing her or having fucked her nicely in Syri's The Genetic Opera on Uveto.
Effect: Commander Schora will arrest you and recapture Valden. However, she will keep you in her office as an office ornament/sex slave addicted to her Dzaan cum. Eventually, she will also capture Syri after she tries to break in and rescue you.
"Petra's Princess"
Cause: Lose to Petra during Akane's My Kingdom for a Hand Grenade Quest.
Effect: After fending off Akane's gang Madame Petra continue with the slave transaction. After buying you she will inject you with a powerful sedative before subjecting you to 5 weeks of surgery and genetic modification. The end result is the PC being turned into a grey/green androgyne with no breasts, genitals, hair, nails, or toes and latex skin, with no memories and a fetish for giving oral, taking anal, and obeying Petra. Petra will then rename you Prin, before engaging in oral sex and sending you out to prostitute.
"I Can Maike You a Slave"
Cause: Lose to Overseer Maike on Zheng Shi.
Effect: Overseer Maike will take you to her office, where she and Tivf will doll the PC up before conjointly, sexually dominating, the PC over the course of several hour. Afterwards, Maike will inject you with a refined, highly concentrated version of Dumbfuck that has immediate and potent effects before tossing you into the slave pens to entertain and preoccupy the other slaves.
"The Way of the Future"
Cause: Lose to Chief Engineer Teyaal during on Zheng Shi.
Effect: Captain Steele will be forced to orally pleasure Teyaal before she binds you to a wall and begins sodomizing you. 20 highly potent loads of dragon cum and 3 hours later, a Zheng Shi Security Guard will arrive demanding she give you up to ransom Steele Tech. Teyaal refuses and departs with Olympia and you in her ship The Sidewinder.
Progressive Aggression
These are bad ends caused by the direct action of hostile NPCs if the player is unable to defend themselves against them. These ones specifically will occur if the player loses to an enemy or certain type of enemy after a certain number of times or after certain conditions have been met.