Human Expenditure Program All Endings
Explore all 4 possible endings in Human Expenditure Program, the official sequel to BloodMoney. Your care for Harvey's mental state, feeding him, maintaining the system, and managing his self-awareness determines which of the four endings you'll experience.
How HEP Endings Work
Harvey's Digital Prison
Harvey's consciousness has been uploaded into a digital program by his wife Eun-Mi (Yuni) to make money. Every interaction is streamed to a paying audience hungry for suffering.
The Daily Cycle
Each day, you must manage Harvey's mood and complete mini-games. Your success in maintaining his mental state determines his ultimate fate.
Game Statistics
Game Mechanics
📊 Mood Management
Harvey has a mood bar that you must maintain. Keeping his mood stable requires careful attention to his needs and responses.
Neglecting his mood leads to deterioration and affects which ending you'll receive.
🎮 Daily Mini-Games
Each day features mini-games that Harvey must complete. Success in these games helps maintain his mental stability.
Completing mini-games successfully is crucial for reaching the True Ending.
📺 Live Streaming
Harvey's daily activities are being streamed live to an audience who pay to watch his suffering and humiliation.
The audience's demand for entertainment creates pressure to exploit Harvey further.
🧠 Growing Awareness
As days progress, Harvey becomes increasingly self-aware of his digital prison and starts having nightmares.
His growing realization of the truth becomes a key factor in how the story concludes.
All HEP Endings
🌟 Truth Ending - "Awakening and Exposure"
How to Achieve:
- Reach Day 7 successfully
- Maintain Harvey's mood bar consistently
- Complete daily mini-games successfully
- Keep Harvey alive and relatively happy
- Allow Harvey's self-awareness to develop
The Progression:
As the days pass, Harvey becomes increasingly self-aware and starts having nightmares. He begins to realize he is trapped in a digital prison controlled by his wife Yuni (Eun-Mi).
🎭 The Awakening:
Harvey gradually awakens and learns the truth about being manipulated by his wife Yuni (Eun-Mi). He discovers that his consciousness has been uploaded to a digital program solely for her financial gain.
Understanding the full extent of his digital imprisonment and exploitation, Harvey realizes he must take drastic action to end this cycle.
💫 The Resolution:
Harvey chooses to self-destruct the program, effectively ending his digital existence. In his final act of defiance, he exposes Yuni's manipulative behavior to the online audience.
After Harvey reveals the truth, Yuni's actions are exposed to the internet, and she becomes the subject of public scrutiny and online backlash for her exploitation of Harvey's digital consciousness.
🍽️ Starvation Ending - "Death by Neglect"
How to Achieve:
- Don't feed Harvey for multiple consecutive days
- Ignore hunger warnings and notifications
- Let his hunger value reach zero
- Continue advancing days without feeding
The Warning Signs:
Harvey's hunger meter steadily decreases. He becomes weak and his performance in mini-games deteriorates. His pleas for food become more desperate as starvation sets in.
💔 The Decline:
If you continuously fail to feed Harvey for consecutive days, his hunger value drops to zero. Even in his digital form, Harvey's simulated body cannot survive without sustenance.
His digital consciousness slowly fades as the program simulates the effects of starvation, eventually shutting down his vital functions.
⚰️ The Tragic End:
Harvey dies from starvation as his hunger value reaches zero. This triggers a tragic ending where he perishes not from conscious choice or program failure, but from basic neglect of his fundamental needs.
This ending serves as a stark reminder that even in digital form, Harvey's simulated consciousness still has basic needs that cannot be ignored without fatal consequences.
💀 Death Ending - "System Failure"
How to Achieve:
- Fail to fix critical program bugs
- Ignore system error warnings
- Allow program vulnerabilities to accumulate
- Let player-controlled actions harm Harvey
- Neglect system maintenance
The System Breakdown:
Program bugs and vulnerabilities accumulate over time. Harvey's digital environment becomes increasingly unstable as errors compound and system integrity deteriorates.
⚠️ The Fatal Flaw:
If you fail to repair program bugs and vulnerabilities in time, Harvey becomes vulnerable to player manipulation. The accumulated errors allow external control that Harvey's consciousness cannot resist.
Players exploit these vulnerabilities, manipulating Harvey's digital existence in ways that cause irreparable damage to his consciousness.
💔 The Collapse:
Harvey dies as a result of being controlled by players through unpatched program exploits. His death is caused not by his own choice or natural deterioration, but by external manipulation through system vulnerabilities.
This ending represents the ultimate failure to protect Harvey from exploitation, showing the deadly consequences of leaving him vulnerable to malicious control.
💥 Self-Destruction Ending - "Code Annihilation"
How to Achieve:
- Allow Harvey to gain advanced programming knowledge
- Let him discover his true nature as code
- Enable his access to system functions
- Trigger his desperation through specific events
- Push him to the breaking point
The Digital Rebellion:
Harvey learns that he is nothing more than lines of code. With this knowledge, he begins to understand the digital architecture of his prison and discovers he can manipulate his own programming.
⚡ The Final Code:
In a moment of ultimate defiance, Harvey writes crash code - a self-destructive program designed to corrupt and destroy the very system that imprisons him.
Unlike the Truth Ending where he simply shuts down the program, here Harvey actively creates code to ensure complete annihilation of both himself and the program structure.
🔥 Mutual Destruction:
Harvey executes his crash code, causing a catastrophic system failure. The program collapses in on itself, corrupting all data including Harvey's consciousness.
Harvey and the program perish together in a digital apocalypse of his own making. This ending represents his ultimate act of rebellion - if he cannot be free, he will ensure no one can use this system to exploit anyone ever again.
⚖️ Ending Comparison
🌟 Truth Ending
- Self-determination and agency
- Breaking cycles of abuse
- Exposing truth and seeking justice
- Public exposure of Yuni's crimes
- Conscious choice to end exploitation
🍽️ Starvation Ending
- Consequences of basic neglect
- Failure to meet fundamental needs
- Gradual deterioration
- Preventable tragedy
- Death from starvation
💀 Death Ending
- System failure and vulnerabilities
- External manipulation
- Exploitation through bugs
- Death by player control
- Failure to protect Harvey
💥 Self-Destruction Ending
- Ultimate rebellion
- Active code manipulation
- Mutual destruction
- Preventing future exploitation
- Digital apocalypse
Connection to BloodMoney Universe
The Prequel Paradox
Human Expenditure Program serves as both a sequel and a prequel to the original BloodMoney. While released after BloodMoney, the story takes place before the events of the original game, creating a tragic time loop.
The True Ending reveals that Harvey's digital death in HEP leads directly to his resurrection in the original BloodMoney, where Eun-Mi continues to exploit him in different ways. This creates an endless cycle of suffering across different mediums.
Harvey's growing awareness in HEP explains his psychological state in BloodMoney - he's not just a victim of circumstance, but someone who has already experienced digital imprisonment and betrayal by his wife.
🔄 The Eternal Cycle:
"Human Expenditure Program → Harvey's digital death → BloodMoney begins → Harvey's physical torture → Death/Survival → Human Expenditure Program... The cycle continues infinitely."
Tips for All Endings
🌟 For Truth Ending
Focus on Harvey's wellbeing each day. Complete all mini-games successfully and pay attention to his mood indicators. The Truth Ending requires patience and care over seven full days, allowing Harvey to gradually awaken to his reality.
🍽️ For Starvation Ending
Simply stop feeding Harvey. Ignore all hunger warnings and continue advancing days without providing food. His hunger meter will drop to zero, triggering this tragic ending. This is the most straightforward "bad" ending to achieve.
💀 For Death Ending
Deliberately ignore system maintenance. Let program bugs accumulate, ignore error messages, and fail to patch vulnerabilities. This allows players to exploit the system and manipulate Harvey to death through program flaws.
💥 For Self-Destruction Ending
Allow Harvey to gain deep knowledge about his digital nature. Give him access to programming tools or information about the system. Push him to his psychological limits while he's aware of his situation, triggering his desire to write crash code.
📚 Understanding the Narrative
Pay attention to Harvey's dialogue and behavior changes throughout the days. His growing self-awareness and references to nightmares provide crucial context for understanding the broader BloodMoney universe and which ending path you're on.
🎭 Moral Implications
Consider the ethical implications of all four endings. Only the Truth Ending gives Harvey agency and exposes Yuni's crimes, but still results in his death. The other three endings represent different forms of failure - neglect, exploitation, or enabling his self-destruction. There are no purely positive outcomes in Harvey's story.