The Quick Answer
Ashley gets pregnant in the Shots and Such ending, full stop. In that ending the siblings are living together as a couple under a stolen identity, and the pregnancy is presented as the inevitable product of that life — followed immediately by the two of them deciding to terminate it. No other released content contains a pregnancy: not the Episode 2 vision (which implies sex in a possible future, not a pregnancy in any present), not the other Decay endings, and not the unreleased Burial route, whose contents nobody outside the development team has seen.
If a video or wiki page told you 'Ashley gets pregnant in Episode 3' without naming the ending, it took a route-specific outcome and sold it as the plot. Episode 3 has several endings, they contradict each other by design, and events in one do not leak into the others. The endings page lists what exists; this post is about the one ending where this happens and what the scene is doing there.
What the Ending Actually Shows
Shots and Such is the Decay outcome where the siblings survive and stay together, and the game builds it as a grim parody of domestic life. They have taken a dead man's identity, they pose as a married couple in a small run-down apartment, Andrew works a dead-end job, and Ashley continues feeding souls to the demon in exchange for the wallets of the people she kills. Money is still short. The relationship runs on alcohol, arguments, control and hate-sex. It is the couple ending with every romantic element systematically replaced by rot.
Inside that life, Ashley becomes pregnant — and the ending treats it less as a twist than as an audit. The two of them look at what they are, what they came from, and what a child of theirs would be born into, and they decide to end the pregnancy. Commentators have noted the bleak irony that this is arguably the most responsible decision either sibling makes in the entire game: the one time the Graves family cycle — careless conception, a child raised as an afterthought — is recognised by the people inside it and refused. Their own parents, as the characters guide lays out, did the opposite at every step.
How Shots and Such Is Reached
Part of this ending's fame is that it is genuinely hard to reach. Community guides document an eight-step chain that begins an entire episode before the pregnancy is possible, and a single wrong choice locks the ending away for that playthrough. The chain, as documented by Steam Community guides and the endings wikis, runs like this:
- Episode 2, the hitman in the park: choose the single shot — 'shoot', not the barrage. Firing more than once ends the path.
- Episode 2, the basement: trust the trinket — Andrew stays to guard the parents alone (the 'olive branch' step).
- Episode 2, Ashley's vision: choose 'BANG BANG MF' at the end of the nightmare.
- Episode 3, the gas station: pick the 'first date nerves' excuse when the police stop you (guides flag this one as likely but less certain).
- Episode 3, the car: when Ashley asks who he is, answer 'Andrew' — Andy is dead on this route.
- Episode 3, the forest chase: do not catch Ashley.
- Episode 3, the forest's upper path: pick up the engagement ring — and later, pass the police interrogation.
- Episode 3, the finale: keep the ring so it is in the pool when Andrew draws. The ending you get depends on what he pulls.
Two honest caveats: the exact chain is community-documented rather than developer-published, and the finale involves a random draw, so even a perfect run can need a reload at the last step. The endings guide keeps the full route map, including the neighbouring outcomes — keep the ring or throw it away is the fork between this ending and one of Decay's deadest ends.
Why This Is Not the Main Timeline
New players often ask which ending is 'the real one', and the pregnancy question shows why the game refuses to answer. In Shots and Such, Ashley is alive, free, and pregnant in a stolen apartment. In other Decay endings she is dead, or Andrew is, or both of them are, or they are in custody. These cannot all be the story — and the game treats that as a feature. Each route is a complete argument about the siblings, sealed off from the others, and Episode 4, when it eventually exists, will have to choose its own starting branch rather than merging them all.
So the accurate sentence is never 'Ashley gets pregnant in Episode 3'. It is: 'in the Shots and Such ending of Episode 3's Decay route, Ashley becomes pregnant and the siblings terminate the pregnancy.' Every word of that qualifier is load-bearing. Sites that drop it are not simplifying; they are misinforming — the same failure that produces invented ending lists, which the endings count post was written to correct.
Where the Rumour Gets Blurred
Three sources feed the confusion. First, the ending's screenshots travel without their context: a still of the siblings discussing the pregnancy reads, to a non-player, like a mid-story plot point. Second, the Episode 2 vision — a prophetic glimpse of the siblings together in a possible future — gets described in summaries as if it showed a family, and 'vision of them together' mutates into 'she is pregnant' two retellings later. Third, fan art: this community draws the couple constantly, including domestic and family scenarios that have no basis in released content at all, and those images outrank the game's own in search results.
The sorting rule is the same one used across this site: released build, or it did not happen — and if it happened on one branch, it happened on that branch. The pregnancy passes that test with the narrowest possible scope. Apply the same test to any claim you meet about Burial, where nothing yet passes at all.
What the Scene Is Doing Thematically
Why would a horror game put this in its hardest ending at all? Because the Graves family is the game's true subject, and the pregnancy forces the theme into the open. Renee and her husband had Ashley carelessly, gave up on her, and built the two monsters the story follows. Shots and Such hands the siblings the same choice — repeat the cycle with a stolen name, no money, a demon on retainer and violence as a love language — and lets them be the first Graves to say no. It is the ending's single act of clarity, delivered by the two least clear-headed people in the story.
That reading also explains the decision's speed. The scene is not written as agony or as a debate about the pregnancy itself; it is written as recognition. They know what they are. For once, that knowledge protects somebody — the only somebody it ever has. If you want the couple question this ending answers, see Do Andy and Leyley end up together? — Shots and Such is the centrepiece of that post too, for exactly this reason.