During the course of Isaac Clarke's progress through the events of Dead Space and Dead Space 2, he encounters many survivors of each Necromorph outbreak.

It is hard to determine what are "survivor encounters" in Dead Space Extraction and Dead Space 3, since the player is constantly accompanied by NPC characters. Also, both games have numerous human enemies.

There are no NPCs in the mobile Dead Space, as the three supporting characters are only heard remotely by radio. The concept of "survivor encounter" don't apply to Dead Space Ignition as well, since said game has a completely different gameplay and narrative style.

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Man Behind Door Edit

This survivor is encountered when Isaac first enters the room where he obtains his first weapon. Upon entering, Isaac can hear the survivor sobbing with fright behind a locked door on the other side of the room. He does not hear Isaac until he steps up on the platform where the Plasma Cutter is. Once the survivor hears Isaac, he immediately stops crying and begs him to open the door for him, saying he doesn't have a key, and can't figure out how to hack the door.

After Isaac grabs the Plasma Cutter, the survivor becomes more panicked, saying he can hear creatures through the vents coming for him. Once the door is unlocked, he flies into a full-blown panic, saying he can hear creatures everywhere, and he still can't unlock it from his side. When Isaac finally opens the door for the survivor, he is found being mauled to death by a Slasher. Although Isaac can dispatch the Slasher very quickly, the survivor will still be claimed by death.

Note this is the only time you will see a Slasher using the hands dangling from its sides to do something ingame (it is holding the man down with them).

It's possible that this crewman is the Tram-engineer Benson as the voice of both are identical and you'll find the first audio log from him in the corridor forward.

Blind woman Edit

When Isaac steps off the tram in Chapter 2: Intensive Care, in the corner there is a woman wearing a bloodstained blindfold. She is stroking her friend "McCoy" and trying to comfort him, saying help has arrived. (In reality, she is stroking a dismembered torso, but due to blindness, and more likely mental instability, she hasn't realized this.) She says she knew Isaac would come, "just like you said", and that she "saved something for you".

She reaches behind the torso, turning it over, revealing maggots eating away at it. Beleaguered, she fumbles, and barely manages to drop the kinesis module (that was what she 'saved' for the player) in front of Isaac. She asks if she can go now, and with the last of her breath, says that McCoy wants to take her to "the shuttle". She then succumbs to her wounds. After Isaac returns to the tram station later on in the chapter, both the torso and the woman are gone, probably hinting that they were turned into Necromorphs.

Bioprosthetics Lab worker Edit

While walking down the hallway to the Bioprosthetics Lab, a worker rushes out from behind a window, begging Isaac to let him out. A Lurker runs out from around the corner, chasing him. Behind him it fires a quill into the hand he was pounding the window with, destroying it and pinning him to the wall. The Lurker fires another quill into his back as he painfully tries to free himself.

Thinking that would be enough to kill him, the young Necromorph begins to scale the wall, leaving the man to scream in agony. Realizing he is still alive, it turns around and fires all 3 of its quills into the worker's head, decapitating him (and splattering the remains of his head all over the window Isaac is looking through). There is no possible way to save him, as the door that leads to the lab is on a "Standby" mode until he is brutally killed.

Head banger Edit

While walking down the Imaging Diagnostics hallway, a heavy banging sound is heard. When Isaac turns the corner, he can see that the source of the sound is a man smashing his head repeatedly against the wall, with blood spattering out from each hit. He is also heavily mutilated, lacking any flesh on the front of his torso, and has no organs present in his abdomen. His ribs are clearly visible, he is missing sections of flesh and skin all over his body, and is drenched in his own blood as though he had endured a Necromorph attack. He makes no reaction to Isaac's presence, and Isaac will refuse shooting him directly, but is possible arching a secondary shot from the force gun to land on his head or deploying a timed bomb right next to him with the line gun, none of these actions however can damage nor stop him. When Isaac goes near the man, he rears his head back and violently brings it into the wall a final time, his skull cracking as he slides down to the ground, dead.

The severity of his wounds, which would not be survivable for any significant length of time, suggest that this man may be a hallucinations on the part of Clarke. By this time in the story, however, he has not experienced any major visual illusions; only whispers of his name have appeared. The man's corpse remains in the level (as opposed to despawning), however, leading to speculation on his status.

A popular fan theory posits that the man was infected to some degree, but was deemed too damaged to be useful or fully converted, leaving him in a hellish limbo that would explain him surviving his wounds, his lack of reaction to Clarke and his suicide.

This scene was featured in the Dead Space 2 introduction video "Previously on Dead Space".

Choking Officer Edit

In one room in Imaging Diagnostics, there is an officer behind the table who is violently choking. A yellowish liquid is foaming out of his mouth. He "dies" after choking for a few seconds. A back story log found after beating the game details the transformation of a corpse into an Infector, and the very first symptom is violently choking up a yellowish liquid; implying that the choking man is actually a corpse in the first stage of becoming an Infector. Upon returning to this room on the return trip in the Chapter, the man's body will have disappeared, implying that he became an Infector. If the player stomps him, he will be dismembered, but will continue to choke.

Insane "nurse" and patient Edit

When entering a surgery room, there will be a female officer in a glass surgery box, who appears to be operating on a patient. When Isaac gets closer, it is clear that she is not operating on the man, but is instead mindlessly sawing into him, laughing hysterically. She looks back at Isaac, then back to the "patient", who finally dies from his injuries. She then looks back at Isaac again, and brings the saw up to her neck and slices her throat with it. She drops to the floor, gurgling, before finally dying of blood loss.

The two are most likely not a hallucination, because they are still present in the glass room when Isaac returns in a later chapter. Sometimes, before dying, the man will moan "Please..." apparently asking for help, but dies soon afterwards. Is possible to bounce a secondary shot from the force gun in the ceiling and into the table she's operating but this causes them no damage and will only die by her own hand

Notably, this scene was featured in two official screenshots. Apparently, this is the only survivor encounter to be featured in two official screenshots.

Official screenshot from the Electronic Arts website Official screenshot from the Steam online store

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Screaming Edit

Throughout the entirety of Chapter 3, human-like screams can be heard alongside the ambiance of the level. It's possible these are heard from remaining survivors, as the Engineering Deck was one of the last decks to hold out. Whether these screams originate from survivors, Necromorphs, or even Isaac's dementia, is all left up to speculation.

"Dead" Engineer Edit

There is only one survivor directly encountered in Chapter 3, although the encounter is brief. On the 2nd level of the engine control decks, in a storage room adjacent to one of the lift shafts, lies an engineer in a heavily beaten state. Beforehand, the player will witness a Leaper hastily crawl into the room with the engineer, but disappears.

He rests underneath a vent on the wall and doesn't move until approached. He then lunges forward, reaching out to Isaac before suddenly collapsing, dead. Turning around lets the player witness a Slasher run by the room, indicating that maybe the engineer was warning Isaac before dying. A group of Swarmers is seen exiting the horrifying room immediately prior, and are also found in a supply box a floor below, insinuating his cause of death.

Note: If the player does not approach him, the player can dismember him (he can also be dismembered when he reaches out to Isaac) and move him with Kinesis. Even if killed by the player the engineer's moan will still be heard for a short period of time.

KIA sounds Edit

After passing through the other side of the decontamination chamber on the way to the centrifuge, dulled (low-pass) screams and thuds (gunshots) can be heard. Soon after, there is silence. It is implied there was someone who managed to survive and was fighting off Necromorphs, only to die soon after.

Owing to the fact that the Drag Tentacle is introduced moments later - its signature groan is heard for the first time - and a loud crash coincides with fresh limbs nearby, it is likely that the survivor was "taken" by the Drag Tentacle moments prior to Isaac's arrival, which is most likely why it did not lunge at him initially. This theory is enphatysed by the fact that Isaac finds a dismembered corpse with ammunition nearby, in the corridor where the Tentacle attacks, with a blood trail leading to the hole on the wall.

Screaming Woman Edit

Once the main lift in the Bridge room nears its destination at the lower level, the loud, horrified scream of a woman echoes down the shaft. The scream ends moments after Isaac reaches the bottom floor. Upon entry to the level, there are no signs of human life, and no murdered female in sight. Where the scream originated from is unknown. A possibility is that a Necromorph managed to kill the unsuspecting woman, but it does not seem likely, as there is no roar to be heard as the woman is screaming. Considering a number of hallucinations have occurred up to this point, it was likely a hallucination, as well. Another theory is that a bridge officer was hiding inside of the elevator shaft, and died smashed when Isaac activated the elevator. This explains why the scream seems to be so close.

Vanishing Man Edit

After going up the main lift to level 3 (on the entrance to the Coms Array) there is a man through a doorway who, briefly, tells Isaac to "make us whole again" before walking off. It is unknown where he went, as there is only a lonely Pregnant down the corridor. If Isaac is quick enough, rushes, and reopens the door immediately, it can be seen he vanishes after walking five feet away (gameplay-related). Also of note, he is a survivor that Isaac can shoot, although it has no effect. He was likely a hallucination.

It is interesting to note that the man resembles a bloody Chen (he wears the same suit given to USG Kellion Crew Members Hammond and Johnston). Considering his pose while Isaac sees him, the phrase the he says and the way he walks away, it could be possible that Isaac was hallucinating the Pregnant in the form of the man. If he is not a hallucination, it is possible that he and the crawling man from Chapter 8 are one and the same. This is also suggested by the physical likeness of these characters and proximity of these survivors encounters; it may, more simply, just be a reuse of the character model.

The insane science officer,[1] Doctor Challus Mercer is first encountered in this chapter, revealed to be hiding on the medical decks in apparently safe areas. He first talks to Isaac inside the lab from behind a glass/perspex screen, revealing his plans concerning the Necromorphs and their transportation to Earth and his knowledge of the Hive Mind, and then releases the Hunter. Once Isaac escapes back to the security station and enters E.R., Mercer is again shielded behind a glass pane whilst attempting to convince Isaac to give up.

After Isaac acquires the recombinant tissue sample from his office, the insane doctor interrupts his video call with Kendra before venting all oxygen in the wing into space. After the oxygen is restored, he is encountered in the Cryogenics Treatment chamber, again behind a glass pane. Mercer makes a brief speech about his plan to unleash the Necromorphs on Earth before releasing his regenerating creation and walking off.

Hysterical Woman Edit

Before going into Dr. Mercer's office, Isaac can see a woman standing at the end of the hallway next to a surgical bed to the right. She is staring at a dead body on the ground and is laughing/crying hysterically, which is on an eternal loop, does not react to Isaac's presence in any way and is invulnerable. She dies when Dr. Challus Mercer vents the air throughout the deck into space; while Isaac does not see her die, he can verify that her body is there, if he has the luxury to waste oxygen for that purpose.

A very interesting detail that many players do not notice is that the dead body on the ground looks identical to her, right down to the injuries on the face, though this may be an error in NPC formatting and the same skin was used for both. There is a possibility she may be a hallucination due to the fact that her RIG health indicator is empty, which means she is actually dead; and moreover, it is strange that Isaac didn't encounter her during his first visit of the infirmary, in chapter 2. However, when Dr. Mercer disables life support systems in the Medical Deck, the woman dies and her body is left lying next to the other corpse which means that she was indeed a real person, and managed somehow to survive until there.

Elevator Man Edit

When Isaac reaches the far end of the rig room and activates the elevator, he will begin to hear painful moans from a nearby survivor. When the elevator reaches Isaac's level, the door opens to reveal a dying miner lying on the ground, his left arm severed. He groans and reaches out to Isaac for help before collapsing, dead. Immediately after activating the elevator, his arm precipitously falls from a vent above, followed quickly by an onslaught of Slashers - the likely cause of his demise.

Nicole Brennan unlocks the door Edit

Isaac meets Nicole while on his way to retrieve the SOS beacon. Nicole can't reach him from where she is, but she helps him open the locked door to the room where the beacon is. Isaac has to defend her against an onslaught of Necromorphs that attack her. She walks away after unlocking the door and declaring her love for Isaac. Kendra later states she lost Isaac's signal for a while, indicating that something blocked the signal while Isaac was defending Nicole.

Crawling Man Edit

After entering the passage guarded by the two Guardians, a survivor will crawl around the corner, groaning in his death throes, and subsequently die as the game's first whole Divider comes around the corner as well. Though Isaac can shoot and dismember the survivor, he will still act out his programmed death scene. If the player chooses to look close enough the survivor will strongly resemble the vanishing man as seen in Chapter 4.

Gravity Panel Marine Edit

A Marine can be seen pinned to the ceiling by one of the malfunctioning gravity panels, moaning in obvious pain (how he managed to survive without getting shredded to pieces by the panel is unclear). Nothing can be done to help him - neither rescue nor a mercy kill from Isaac is possible, though if the player managed to keep an exploding limb from one of the Exploders in the room previous, it can be used to remove all the man's limbs (which in a terrifying lack of programming, doesn't result in a ceasing of the man's moaning). If this is done and the player leaves and then returns to the Marine's room, his moan will no longer be heard, as he himself will no longer be present, also due to a lack of programming.

His ultimate fate is unknown, although the fact that he was trapped and heavily injured when the ship later explodes certainly suggests KIA status. If the player looks closely, the marine still has full health.

Legless Marine Edit

After leaving the room with the shooting range on the USM Valor, Isaac discovers a space marine, sitting on the ground and holding up his severed leg. He grunts in pain a few times, and then falls backwards, dead. This marine is found outside of an operating room with a malfunctioning medical laser suggesting that he lost his leg inadvertently during his escape from the Necromorphs, but only made it to the hall before Isaac finds him.

Fleeing Marine Edit

Another Marine can be seen running away from Isaac as he enters a room connected to where the singularity core is found. The door closes and locks as he leaves. It is never explicitly shown what happens to him, but the fact that he is never shown again in the game implies that he was killed; either by a Necromorph or when the USM Valor exploded. However, when Isaac follows his path after retrieving the singularity core, a lone dead marine can be seen by an elevator with a blown power unit. Seeing as Isaac nearly avoided injury when one exploded near him (before Dr. Kyne's transmission), it is likely the same marine - lacking a Kinesis module - was killed when the power unit was ejected, or was unable to escape a pursuer.



Sometimes, due to unknown circumstances, a bug can occur where the Marine will not despawn, and will instead stand fully modeled on the other side of the door in the hallway. The Marine also has full head animation as well as a very simple idle animation, suggesting there was more to this character than originally implied.

Jacob Temple, formerly an engineer aboard the "Ishimura," left a series of audio logs detailing the mechanics and failures of systems on the ship and his attempts to repair them and escape the crisis. Eventually, practicality forced him to abandon this objective, and he instead went out to find Elizabeth Cross, his partner. Their reunion is short-lived— both of them are murdered by the madman Mercer, their skulls punctured to ease the inevitable work of the Infector. Clarke is forced to witness Temple's death, though he can in no way intervene.

The death of Temple was featured in the Dead Space 2 introduction video "Previously on Dead Space".

Unitologist Miner Edit

Upon entry to the back room to Sleep Block C, Isaac discovers a room full of dead Unitology worshippers, who committed suicide under the orders of Dr. Mercer, their impaled heads wrapped up in bandages. One surprisingly clean and unhurt woman remains alive in the room, but upon Isaac's entry, she laughs hysterically, and promptly blows her head off with a P-Sec Pistol. The woman is the only one in the room to die from a gunshot; the others were impaled in a similar fashion to Jacob Temple and Elizabeth Cross.

The death of Challus Mercer Edit

The ship's chief science officer is encountered behind a secure glass pane in the sleep block security station. He informs Isaac of the importance of returning the Marker to its pedestal on the planet and aids Isaac in locating the Nav Cards needed for the executive shuttle. He will not leave the security station however and if Isaac attempts to visit him before he has located the Nav Cards, Kyne starts to ramble believing Isaac to be his wife. Eventually Kyne leaves to pilot the shuttle into the hangar deck.

Once Isaac collects all shuttle NavCards, Mercer briefly taunts him via RIG Link before unleashing the Hunter on him once more. He is not seen or heard from again for a brief time until Isaac kills The Hunter with the Executive Shuttle's engine test, after which Mercer contacts him and invites Isaac to join him as he gazes at the face of God before submitting himself to an Infector. Isaac later finds Mercer's mutilated remains along with the Infector just a few rooms away, which will turn into an Enhanced Slasher should the transformation be allowed to complete.

The demise of Dr. Kyne Edit

After obtaining the escape ship, Dr. Kyne rushes out to greet Isaac, telling him that they must escape immediately. Before either of them are able to board the ship, however, Kyne is shot in the chest by Kendra Daniels, who was hidden on board the ship, before taking off with the Marker. As Kyne lies dying on the floor, he reaches out and gasps for Amelia to come back to him, before collapsing to the ground dead.

Kendra Daniels escape Edit

Kendra herself is not fully visible in this chapter, but she has apparently snuck aboard the Executive Shuttle sometime after Kyne pilots it to the Flight Deck. Once the Marker is loaded onto the Shuttle, Kendra swiftly shoots and kills Dr. Kyne in the presence of Isaac before flying the shuttle away, stranding him. She contacts him via RIG Link and thanks him, before revealing that the outbreak on Aegis VII along with the Marker itself was the product of EarthGov, and that the Valor was sent to assist her in retrieving the artifact.

Later on, Kendra escapes down to the colony when Isaac activates the Shuttle recall override.

Nicole Brennan in the control room Edit

Nicole appears again once Kendra betrays Isaac, in a control room blocked by a Guardian. Once Isaac reaches her, she expresses her joy and tells Isaac to "make them whole" (Note that this is the same words the vanishing man said to Isaac, indicating that he in fact was a hallucination) before instructing him to recall Kendra's shuttle. She is later seen co-piloting the shuttle with Isaac when the latter descends down onto the colony.

Nicole Brennan returning the Marker 3A Edit

Nicole is seen again at the start of the chapter, instructing Isaac to load the Marker off the shuttle and to guide it to its pedestal using the loader system. She vanishes after he restores power to the loading bay doors.

After the Marker is returned, Nicole then makes her final appearance in a bright flash of light as Convergence begins. She congratulates Isaac on doing a good job and said that "they are now whole" before disappearing for good.

Kendra Daniels in Aegis VII Edit

Kendra is seen shortly after Nicole vanishes at the Marker pedestal, removing it and loading it back to her ship. She points out Isaac's growing dementia by telling him that Nicole has been dead this whole time and forces him to watch the full transmission. Kendra then leaves, with the heartbroken engineer in hot pursuit.

Once Isaac reaches the landing pad, he witnesses the brutal death of Daniels at the hands of the newly-awakened Hive Mind, smacking and crushing her many times before tossing her against the sharp corner of a building, fully dismembering her.

The death of Kendra is briefly shown at the end of the release trailer of Dead Space.

In the opening of Dead Space 2, Franco wakes Isaac out of stasis while speaking to Daina. He gets stabbed by an Infector once in the chest, and then in the forehead. He then quickly mutates into a Slasher, who is then head-butted away by Isaac. His slasher is later encountered in the game.

Asylum Patients Edit

As Isaac attempts to escape the Necromorphs that appear after Franco's Necromorph transformation, three patients can be seen trapped in their glass booths. The patients are ultimately left to die as they have no way of escaping the numerous Slashers and Infectors that pour into the room.

Two of the patients clearly are suffering from dementia, as there is Unitology graffiti on their glass booths. They are not trying to escape and just stand still, looking at the Necromorphs nearby and waiting their impending deaths. The log Shit the bed suggests that one of these two patients is "Patient 3".

The third patient, however, is desperately trying to escape and even slams his chest into the glass, splashing blood everywhere from a recent chest wound he had received. Unfortunately, there is nothing the player can do to set him free.

Later, Isaac will pass by an observation room above the glass booths, and it can be seen that two of the patients died: Patient 3 and the patient trying to escape. The other patient is nowhere to be seen.

Flatlining Patient Edit

As Isaac gets up after dealing with the Slasher that pinned him down, you can hear a faint sigh and a flatline suddenly going off at one of the nearby beds; the man's last breath. You can never see this man move.

Isaac comes across two security officers who are apparently looking for him. One of them yells out "Clarke! Take him down!" and they begin firing at Isaac. Before they can land a hit, one of them gets stabbed and taken up into an air vent in the ceiling by an unseen Necromorph (possibly a variant of the Leaper, since the tail structure is similar). The other officer stops firing and examines the air vent, only to suffer the same fate as his partner. As Isaac approaches, blood drips down like a waterfall from the vent opening. The Necromorph responsible then makes its way noisily across the ceiling, dropping a completely dismembered torso of one of the officers through a separate vent. The other Officer can be heard screaming from inside the vent as the Necromorph drags him to someplace else, a flatline sound can be heard almost immediately afterward.

When Isaac passes through the observation room overlooking the patient recreation room during his escape from the asylum, he finds Foster Edgars giggling to himself and carving into the observation window. Clearly insane, Edgars seizes Isaac as he attempts to slip by and holds a scalpel to his throat. Edgars manically states that Tiedemann has ordered that all the "key subjects are to be terminated", and says "What's one more?".

This statement, Foster's blood covered clothing, and the fact that the next room contains several deceased patients all with cut throats suggests that he had already killed several other people before Isaac encounters him. Isaac tries to convince Edgars to help him remove the straitjacket so they can escape together. Edgars suddenly appears to stab Isaac in the stomach, but he actually cuts the restraints of the straitjacket. He then mentions Isaac's RIG being red, and indicates a supply locker with a Med Pack and a Flashlight inside. As Isaac turns around after retrieving both items, Edgars says "Isaac, we're all going to burn for what we did to you." before casually slitting his own throat, falling against a window, sliding to the floor, and choking to death on his own blood. His corpse is later found by Gabe Weller.

Man On Operating Table Edit

At some point, after progressing through the hospital, Isaac will hear pleas for help coming from inside an observation room. When Isaac enters, he discovers a man strapped to an operating table who apparently had been having heart surgery done, but was abandoned during the initial attack. The man's chest has a gaping hole open from mid-surgery. Isaac notices a device above the man that uses a plasma cutter to perform operations, and decides to take it off of the machine and use it to cut the man free.

As Isaac hacks a computer panel to get the cutter off the machine, however, a Slasher passes by the entrance to the room, notices the duo, and walks into the chamber, attacking the man. Although initially fighting the slasher off using his legs, the man quickly has his right leg chopped off, followed by repeated stab wounds to the opening in his chest and decapitation. By the time Isaac frees the plasma cutter from the machine and combines it with his flashlight, the man has already been butchered. Nothing can be done to save him. When Gabe Weller returns to this room in Dead Space 2: Severed, a lone, legless Stalker appears, though since it has a head, it cannot be this man unless there was a bug or error. The man has the same face as Director Tiedemann's.

Note: Isaac can use kinesis to throw pieces at the man. If they hit his head or a limb, it will come off. It is possible to completely dismember the man, but he will still be alive and the Slasher will still attack him.

People on Audio log Edit

Isaac finds a corpse of a security guard that has an audiolog playing near it. One trooper is in disbelief that he blew off a Necromorph's legs, and that it kept on coming. Another replies that Necromorphs need to be completely dismembered to be killed. It is possible these troops are elsewhere in the hospital, trying to kill off any other patients. If Isaac were to stay there and listen to the conversation long enough, it will eventually just be the sounds of a Necromorph growling (although not loudly).

Nurses Being Attacked by Pukers Edit

After Isaac enters the morgue, a nurse crawls around the corner. Something behind the corner sprays him with caustic fluid, violently burning him and causing him to collapse before dying. His body is covered in blisters when approached. When Isaac rounds the corner, he witnesses a female nurse being vomited on and killed by the game's first Puker, which then attacks. They both die no matter how quickly the Puker is dispatched. If Isaac waits before entering the room with the female Nurse he can hear several screams of agony as the female Nurse gets burned by the Puker. The screams are on a loop.

It should be noted that the female nurse shares the same character model as the nurse Rachel Tatchet first seen in the Dead Space 2: Severed DLC. Whether this was intentional by the developers of the game, or just the practicality of sharing the same model, is unknown.

Note: A glitch occurs if you kill the Puker holding the female nurse before he can puke on her. When the Puker is killed, the female nurse will stand straight up then fall over dead.

While trying to escape the asylum, Isaac meets Nolan Stross. Stross tries to help Isaac escape, but he gets locked behind a security gate.

At some point during the second chapter of the game, Stross contacts Isaac over a radio transition. He can be seen in person across a courtyard, leaning over a railing shouting to Isaac. After a short conversation where Stross gives directions, he gives Isaac a warning, seconds before a Leaper crawls over the railing towards Isaac.

Waves of ships leaving Edit

Short after leaving the Working Tools shop, two small ships can be seen through a window following the evacuation orders, taking off and successfully leaving The Sprawl. They are followed by several others in distance and one which passes very close to the window. Indicating several individuals managed to get away relatively safe from the Outbreak. After this, if the player waits in the area, other small ships will appear indefinitely in groups of five.

Screaming around the initial corridors Edit

When Isaac enters the first corridor after witnessing the ships leaving, loud screams of countless people are heard indefinitely as the level ambience. Those screams are also heard in the corridor where Isaac spots Nolan Stross, since it's in the same atrium.

Those voices certainly are from the crowds of people seen running to the evacuation centers and the people on their apartments, showing that a large amount of people are still alive in the Titan Heights at that moment. As Isaac gets away from the area, the ambience changes for silence.

Slasher Victim trying to escape Edit

When Isaac enters the Titan Heights Apartment, a woman is seen backing away from something behind the corner. She notices Clarke and turns to him, and a Slasher's blade suddenly slices her in the back and knocks her to the floor. The Slasher then jumps on her back and violently stabs her multiple times, before attacking Isaac.

Note: The Slasher can be killed before the woman is attacked, but the woman will still fall, blood will spray from her back and she will die regardless of Isaac's actions, as this event is scripted.

Notably, this scene was featured in the "Sprawl" teaser trailer for Dead Space 2.

Several Fleeing Civilians Edit

After the explosion in the apartment blocks off entrance to the lobby, several survivors can be seen fleeing to a hallway. Another survivor on the floor is seen holding onto a corpse near an Infector and sobbing while a nearby woman holding her gut stumbles out of the lobby. An additional three survivors can be seen sprinting into the hallway, one of them looking back at the lobby, two more survivors coming in from the right, one holding his arm, and three survivors seen running off in the hallway at a distance.

Note: It is still possible to kill the Infector, and grab its corpse with Kinesis. Should the player not interfere, the infector will turn a corpse into a Slasher, but they will not attack the man sobbing. This certainly was an oversight by the developers, since there is no reason for the Slasher to refrain from attacking the man.

Notably, this scene was featured in the "Sprawl" teaser trailer for Dead Space 2.

Elevator Man Edit

As Isaac ascends in an elevator in the apartments, the elevator blacks out and comes to a halt. Someone shouting is heard outside the doors, shouting and running, which open halfway between floors, allowing a survivor on the other side an attempt to crawl in through the small gap in the doors. However, a Slasher impales him in the chest and sprays the elevator's floor with blood as the elevator begins working again; the last sight of the survivor is him being dragged away around the corner by the Slasher. You can not save the man due to Isaac's reaction to the man's death. If Isaac aims at the area where the slasher came through (or any area) and tries to shoot the slasher's arm right before it impales the man, he will gasp in a shocked manner while holding his left hand up to his face (front of suit visor) appearing to hide the man's fate from Isaac's sight.

Note: This Survivor uses the face of Dan Emmerson, who won the "Get Dismembered in Dead Space 2" contest with his entry,

Cowering Survivor Edit

In the same room as the elevator man is a survivor sitting on the floor shaking. If one looks closely, it's possible to see that his RIG health indicator is dropping fast from yellow to the minimum red, indicating that he is dying from his wounds.

While the elevator doors close before his fate can be seen, he is presumably killed by the Slasher that killed the elevator man, or dies from his wounds.

Distant Fleeing Survivors Edit

Fleeing survivors can be seen behind Nolan Stross as he talks with Isaac. On the floors above and below several other survivors will sporadically run into view, being chased by Pukers and Slashers. All of these survivors' fates are unknown though they either escaped or were killed by Necromorphs or even killed when The Sprawl explodes.

Note: If one is accurate enough, they can shoot the Necromorphs chasing the survivors and will drop items, the player will eventually pass through this area, and will be able to collect them. The Pukers fall down when shot; the Slashers will continue running, but still drop an item as if killed.

Women Running Edit

Before entering Hallway 405 413, on the left of the balcony where Nolan Stross appears, it's possible to see a woman quickly heading towards a close door, followed by another woman holding her stomach.

It's unknown if these women are trying to reach an evacuation center, as it seems that they are running on the contrary direction of the other survivors in the area. It's possible that they were going by an alternative patch, though.

Man Losing His Consciousness Edit

On the floor bellow Nolan Stross, there is a man sat against a wall, who loses his consciousness and slips on the floor, his RIG indicating that he is still alive. If Isaac waits in the area, some survivors will be seen fleeing behind him and ignoring him.

After a short time, the survivors will stop to appear and some Slashers and Pukers will pass by the area instead, also ignoring him, apparently not noticing that he is alive. Even a Leaper who will enter the area by his balcony, undoubtedly seeing him, also will refrain from attacking. He either was found and helped by a good Samaritan or killed by the Necromorphs in the area.

Family On the Run Edit

When Isaac heads into Hallway 405 413, he sees a man and a woman running away from their apartment, but the woman says she cannot leave her mother, and attempts to run back into the apartment. The man says it is too late, and forcibly grabs her by the waist and drags her off. Moments after, the game's second female Slasher attacks Isaac by bursting out of a nearby apartment door. Their fate is unknown and they can't be seen running down the hallway or entering any doors.

The couple's apartment door is left open, Isaac can enter to find the room in shambles. A ventilation shaft above the bed is burst open. When the bathroom is approached, a legless Puker crawls out and attacks. This may have been the woman's mother, as well as another female Slasher that sneaks in the apartment while Isaac explores it, but the answer is generally left up to the player's interpretation. However, if the player listens carefully after you kill the Slashers and Puker, the player can hear an elderly woman crying which soon ends shortly. This suggests that the mother of the fleeing woman is still alive and has hidden herself, but is too weak to move or has been injured by a Necromorph attack. It is also possible that the sound is a hallucination.

Note: Even if Isaac manages to kill the female Slasher extremely quickly, there will be an invisible barrier preventing you from going any further until the man and woman leave.

Several Unseen Survivors Edit

Throughout the apartment complex, several survivors can be heard in their apartments when Isaac approaches the door. Judging from the sounds, they are presumably killed by Necromorphs or insane people. One woman can be heard begging someone on the other side to stay away from the door, then suddenly screaming hysterically before being cut off. One man screams to a woman "They're coming in through the walls!" before a roar is heard and both of them are heard screaming. There is also a clearly terrified man who has locked himself in his apartment, frantically warning others that he is armed. At one point, a crying baby is heard as well as a crying female's voice, presumably its mother. Suddenly, the infant's cries turn into snarls and the woman is silent, implying that the infant turned into a Lurker, then killed the mother. When walking by what looks like a laundromat you can hear the pounding and muffled screams of a child stuck inside, shaking a washing machine. If the player listens carefully they may be able to hear the child saying "let me out", but it's hard to make out accurately. When the power goes out, the pounding stops, the washing machine stops shaking and the child falls silent.

Man Holding an Injured Woman Edit

When Isaac reaches the terrace, a man holding a critically injured woman can be seen on the balcony under where Isaac Clarke came from. The man also seems to be gesturing at a third unseen survivor on the left. Their fates are unknown. If Isaac returns here later on, both (or possibly all three) are gone, with no sign that they were killed or turned into Necromorphs.

Crawling Woman Edit

After exiting the elevator on the floor with the Family on the Run, the wall to the right of the elevator has a gate lowered to quarantine the area. Behind the gate, apparently not noticing Isaac, is a woman who crawls toward the gate, crying and begging while leaving behind a trail of blood, who then stops and likely dies. If Isaac comes back to this area later on, the body is missing and a trail of hand prints can be seen leading to a broken air duct, implying she was transformed into a Leaper.

Two ships leaving Edit

Right after Isaac exits the washing room where he got ambushed by Necromorphs, a close ship can be seen outside, leaving the station, probably EarthGov evacuating the station. After this, other ship can be seen leaving the station in distance, both getting away seemingly unscathed.

Crashing ships Edit

When Isaac first enters the waiting room, right before the tram station, a ship will start taking off, but suddenly another ship plunges into it, causing them both to crash into the building, leaving large cracks on the window that Isaac is looking through.

Unseen Woman Edit

While in the mall, in the same room where Isaac is first attacked by the Pack, a woman can be heard occasionally laughing. There are numerous stores nearby, suggesting that she may be hidden inside one of them.

The laughing sound is not part of the ambiance of any of the stores, since it can be heard even when Isaac is distant from them. It can be assumed that this woman is more likely not a hallucination, but someone who succumbed to Dementia.

Later, during Chapter 6, Isaac will pass by this same corridor right after meeting Ellie. The corridor has corruption growing, and the woman is not heard anymore, suggesting that she died in the meantime. It is also possible, through unlikely, that this woman in the same woman who hugs a Crawler in Chapter 6, since it's a nearby area.

EarthGov Gunship first attack Edit

An EarthGov Gunship sent to kill Isaac is encountered twice in the chapter. Firstly, when Isaac reaches the main atrium of the Cassini Towers, the Gunship will fly over a large window and spot Isaac. For unknown reasons, it will not attack Isaac this time, even if the player stand still in plain sight.

After this first glimpse of the Gunship, when Isaac reaches the main entrance of the Church of Unitology, the Gunship will suddenly appear opening fire through a stained glass, causing a vacuum. The Gunship will stay in the area and keep shooting at Isaac, causing damage until he enters the church.

Upon finally reaching Daina's safehouse, her assistants proceed to ambush Isaac, grabbing him from both sides and holding him. She proceeds to explain why she, a Unitologist, wants him - to help make more Markers and spread "Glorious Convergence". However, just as she begins preparations to take Isaac to the shuttle, one of Tiedemann's gunships managed to spot them down and begins firing at the windows - blasting one of Daina's arms off and then cutting her in half. What's left of her is then sucked into the vacuum of space, so even if she somehow survived being torn to pieces, she didn't last long.

Daina's helpers, two men who are presumably Unitologists, help keep Isaac held as she talks to him. When the gunship arrives and starts firing, the right assistant is decapitated in the chaos, and as everything begins to be sucked into space, the left assistant tries to cling onto Isaac but is quickly kicked away and sucked into space.

The Gunship encountered in Chapter 3 is once more encountered at the end of Chapter 5, killing Daina and her assistants. The Gunship is finally destroyed when Isaac is being chased by the Tormentor, as Isaac shot the Gunship's fuel canisters.

Isaac first meets Ellie during his second visit of the Concourse. She is holding ground behind a welded mesh blocking the elevator used by the player in Chapter 3. When approached, she threatens Isaac and refuses to join him. She does, however, allow Isaac to use the elevator after she does, but not before warning him not to follow her.

﻿Woman Hugging a Crawler Edit

When Isaac enters Titan Elementary, he walks by a nursery window with a woman suffering from dementia on the other side. The woman, looking at something in the corner of the room says "Come to momma!" and a Crawler emerges from under a table, slowly making its way towards her. As she kneels down, the Crawler crawls into her arms, its grotesque anatomy causing its head to face Isaac as he looks on. As the mother gently cradles her infected baby, it suddenly screams, and then explodes, taking both of their lives and drenching the viewing window with their remains. After this, Isaac has his first fight with the Crawlers in the next room. This is one of the few times a survivor (mentally stable or otherwise) acts positively to a Necromorph, and also proves that Crawlers can self detonate at will.

Distant Screaming Edit

Some time after the first fight against the Crawlers, someone can be heard screaming in the distance only for it to abruptly stop, the survivor presumably killed.

Voices singing Edit

On the Bridge of the USG Ishimura, at the room with the escape pods outside the Captain's Nest, two voices can be heard faintly singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It can best be heard by standing on or near the elevator platform.

Judging by the large amount of hallucinations Isaac is having inside of the USG Ishimura, it's likely that these voices are hallucinations as well. However, the log Cursed Ship shows that there were workers repairing the ship before the Necromorph outbreak, opening the possibility that these voices are from remaining survivors who became insane with the Marker's effects. The multiplayer map Escape further shows that even a Security Team was there before.

Upon entering Government Sector, Isaac encounters a firing squad style line of security officers, with riot shields and Pulse Rifles. They demand Isaac to disarm immediately, and open fire in seconds. The troops are later wiped out when Isaac cuts the power, letting the Necromorphs into Government Sector. The riot line, which would have been effective against human assailants, could do nothing to prevent the massacre of the entire sector. The Security Officers were then killed by a charge of thousands of Pukers, Slashers, Pregnants and even the Ubermorph.

Interestingly, Isaac is unable to fire at the officers: if attempted, he lowers his weapon instead. Isaac can be killed by the Sprawl Security Officers at this point in the game. If Isaac approaches them after the first warning, they will start shooting and throwing grenades at him, which will partially dismember Isaac.

Screams around the Government Sector Edit

After the log You Bastard plays, if the player waits in the area near the unpluged Power Cell, the Necromorphs can be heard continously screaming along with some human voices. Those human screams will quickly decrease as Isaac descends to the lower room, and will completely vanish when he is first attacked by the Necromorphs invading the compound.

Screams behind door Edit

After dodging the lasers in the Marker Reconstruction chamber, Isaac will come across a hallway leading to the Data Monitoring room. If you wait a little before opening the door, screams and necromorph growls will be heard. Entering the room will only reveal corpses of slashers and police officers.

Tiedemann contacts Isaac throughout the game but finally is confronted in front of the Marker in the final chapter. Utilizing a Javelin Gun, Tiedemann almost kills Isaac. Isaac narrowly escapes death and disarms Tiedemann before proceeding to kill him with his own gun.

Colin Price was a member of Gabe Weller's security team. Gabe met him in the mines. Price is badly injured and looked down at Gabe from a platform above him. He told him that he locked all of the doors, but explained that the Necromorphs are coming through the vents. After he said that, he turned around and made several moans and grunts. By the time Gabe reached him, an Infector already turned him into the game's first Twitcher. It is impossible to save him.

Victor Bartlett was the leader of Security Team Alpha. After his team got slaughtered, he was given orders by Tiedemann to exterminate all of the key subjects including Gabe's wife, Lexine. Bartlett is barely able to fight through the waves of Necromorphs until he reached Lexine where he is incapacitated by the two Oracles who abducted Lexine. Once Gabe reached Lexine at the shuttle, Bartlett ambushed him with a live grenade. It went off, killing Bartlett and severing Gabe's right leg where he soon succumbed to his wounds.

Head-Banging Survivor Edit

In the overlook of the operation room in the hospital, a loud banging can be heard. When Gabe took the elevator down to the main operating section, he saw a man with a bandaged head banging his head against the window much like the one from the original Dead Space. The man collapsed out of view as Gabe approached the window. When Gabe entered the operation room, the man laid in the same spot, but as it turned out, he was torn in half at the waist. A blood trail led from his now dead upper half to his severed legs which still lied in the center of the room. Oddly enough, his RIG is blue and at full health, even though his legs are severed. Once he died, it quickly changed.

Gabe encountered his wife for the first time when he is standing over the cell where she is being held hostage by Victor Bartlett. After Lexine called out to Gabe, two men appeared, incapacitated Barlett and took her away.

Lexine's Abductors Edit

Two mysterious men (Oracles) who tried to escape with Lexine and her unborn child. They are unnaturally calm concerning the situation around them. Weller chased them throughout the hospital, nearly catching them several times. They are killed by the Infectors which are feet away from their escape shuttle and turned into Twitchers who are in return killed by Gabe.

Fodder's victim leaving a door Edit

When Tim Caufman and Sam Ackerman manage to open the emergency door of The Mule, a wounded crewman immediately jumps off. He dies from his wounds moments later, revealing two Fodders behind him.

The names of all the Mule crew members are revealed in logs, but it's impossible to tell who he is. He was also one of the last S.C.A.F. officers to die during the disastrous expedition on Tau Volantis.

Countless ships on the sky Edit

During the first half of the chapter, civilian ships can be seen crossing the sky through the windows indefinitely. Presumably, those are people living their normal routines before noticing what was happening, and later, people trying to escape from the terrorists.

As the chapter progresses with the Circle attack on the New Horizons, less and less ships will be seen trafficking. By the time Isaac and Carver reach the rendezvous point of the extraction team, even before the Luna Marker is activated, there are no more ships on the sky, indicating almost all active ships as well as the evacuators left as soon as the Circle started their onslaught.

Isaac's neighbours Edit

When walking by the Red Moon Apartments, a baby will be heard crying followed by people mumbling, presumably the toddler's parents. A dog barking can be heard as well in another part of the corridor, but their owner is nowhere to be heard.

Shortly after leaving the sewers, on the alleys before the freeway with automated a.i. vehicles, an Unitologist Soldier is heard asking a bystander woman if she saw Isaac Clarke. The woman answers that she didn't noticed anyone like his description and tries to run, but she is shot right after turning around. She falls on the floor crawling in pain and dies.

After her death, her corpse becomes a solid object and cannot be moved. Isaac and Carver will also refuse to shoot her corpse, apparently believing that she could be alive or out of frustration and grief for failing to protect her.

EDF Soldier at Danik's mercy Edit

At the top floor of the DredgerCorp, an Earth Defense Force extraction team was waiting for Isaac and Carver. However, Jacob Danik and the Circle got there first and murdered all the team.

By the time Isaac and Carver arrive, there is a last member of the extraction team kept alive as a hostage. He is executed with a shot on the head by Danik himself when Danik sees that his targets have been subdued, rendering the hostage useless.

Man behind the closing gate Edit

Right after leaving the elevator to the commercial area of the DredgerCorp Building, a man is heard moaning. He is found near, fallen in the floor, trying to stand up and reach a closing gate.

He apparently dies from his wounds, but Isaac and Carver will refuse to shoot his body, just like the bystander woman from earlier. There is an audio warning playing on the corridor informing that the place's AI detected someone wounded and that a medical team is supposed to be on the way, indicating that it's possible that he is still alive. If Isaac and Carver return to this area later, he (or his corpse) will have disappeared.

Couple on the run Edit

On the same corridor with the dying man, a man and a woman can be seen running in despair, briefly looking behind. There is no way to follow them, since a gate will close before they can be reached.

This scene may have been an easter egg nod to the couple in Dead Space 2, since they look similar. Theoretically these could even be the same couple if they survived the Titan Station outbreak, only to see and run through another massive outbreak.

Slasher Victim at Washington Station Edit

Upon entering the Washington Station, a woman can be heard screaming. Upon turning around the stairs, she can be seen being attacked and killed by a Slasher behind a closed gate, while a second Slasher watches.

Presumably, she was trying to get on the automated trains to move around faster looking for a way to escape from the lunar colony. There is nothing the player can do to save her from the Slasher, since the time for action is insufficient.

Along with Locke and Rosen, there is a third pilot assigned to the USM Eudora. When the crew mistook some automated mines as distress beacons and approached them, the pilot was sucked in the vacuum of space with the explosions that followed.

This is the first member of Norton's team to die after arriving on Tau Volantis' orbit. He is not even directly mentioned after this, and his name is never revealed.

Chapter 3 onwards Edit

The Survivor encounters are minimal in Dead Space 3. As the only populated area visited by the player is the Luna Colony, during Isaac and John Carver's escape from the Circle. After this point, most of the "survivors" encountered are either Circle members (Danik), Robert Norton and the members of Ellie's crew.

The pre-recorded messages of Tucker Edwards on the Sovereign Colonies ship, the CMS Terra Nova gave the player the impression that the man managed to survive on the ship in spite of the two hundred years that passed. However, reaching the top of the Conning Tower revealed that he committed suicide during the events of the Necromorph outbreak on Tau Volantis.[2]

While on the surface of Tau Volantis, the player can encounter the lone Unitologist soldiers who immediately committed suicide when approached, either by gunshot or slitting their own throats. En route to the Dissection Hangar, Isaac and Carver came across the small squads of Circle members being ambushed and killed by the Necromorphs while some of them that are being the recently deceased members are brought back to life by the Swarmers. On the return trip through the chamber that housed the giant drill, four soldiers can be witnessed conducting a short ritual before cutting their own throats and killing themselves.

During the first chapter of Awakened, Isaac and Carver will encounter the surviving members of the Circle cowering in corners and on tabletops. They lost their minds and are driven into a highly delusional & unresponsive state by the signal of the Brethren Moons. They rocked around in a fetal position, repeating the phrase, "They are hungry, they are coming". Others immediately committed suicide by either slitting their throats or shooting themselves.

Upon arrival at the Terra Nova, a member of the Circle, Randall Carr who did not succumb to dementia can be heard talking over the PA until he is caught by the Cult Leader and killed. Carr mentioned several other members of the Circle who did not succumb to dementia, but their fate is not covered. They are killed by the Necromorphs, hunted down by the new Cult members or are forcefully inducted into the Cult.

Notes Edit

Every survivor encounter is a strictly scripted event. Unless it is scripted to happen, any present Necromorph will ignore the NPCs and attack only Isaac. As noted prior, this is more noticeable in Dead Space 2 , with the asylum patients at the beginning and with the fleeing civilians seen after an explosion. No matter how long the player waits in the area, the Necromorphs will not attack the idle civilians.

Even in situations were the player can kill a Necromorph before he attacks a NPC, the NPC will die the same way. This also happens because every encounter is a very scripted event. As noted prior, this is more noticeable in Dead Space 2 with the nurses attacked by a Puker and with the civilian woman attacked by a Slasher.

On Aegis VII, Isaac can hear a rather strange chanting in the final room before the Marker pedestal. This certanly was just a hallucination. There are no survivor encounters in the Aegis VII Colony; practically anyone who wasn't killed made for the Ishimura , unknowingly bringing the lifeform onto the ship. If there were survivors on the planet, the impact from the chunk pulled would have certainly destroyed all life.

, unknowingly bringing the lifeform onto the ship. If there were survivors on the planet, the impact from the chunk pulled would have certainly destroyed all life. The explosion that destroys the Site 12 Marker and Titan Station likely killed all remaining survivors on the Sprawl. Those who survived were evacuated prior, during the outbreak under the orders of Tiedemann.

Given that evacuations were taking place around Titan Station during the outbreak, a lot of civilians probably escaped the Sprawl and revealed the existence of the Necromorphs to the public. If this is true, then most of humanity would have been aware of the Necromorphs by Dead Space 3.