Story Branches Guide

Branching is the structural promise of Banned From Equestria: the story you get is partly the story you chose. Branches split at decisions, run their own course, and sometimes braid back into the main line carrying consequences with them.

This guide explains how branching works so you can navigate it deliberately instead of accidentally.

Branches begin at choices, usually in dialogue, occasionally in which quest or character you pursue first. The biggest splits wear their importance openly; smaller ones hide inside ordinary conversations.

Because small choices can matter, the saving habits in our replay guide apply everywhere, not just at dramatic moments.

Save Slots and Replay Guide

Major branches redirect whole story arcs and can lock or unlock endings. Minor branches change scenes, information, and relationships while the larger plot continues.

Both deserve attention: minor branches are where much of the game's character writing lives.

Branches come in several sizes:

• Major branches: redirect arcs and endings
• Minor branches: reshape scenes and information
• Character branches: grow from relationship choices
• Quest branches: depend on order and completion
• Hidden branches: triggered by items or earlier events

Not every split is forever. Many branches rejoin the main narrative after delivering their unique scenes, but they rejoin changed: relationships, knowledge, and available options carry forward.

This braiding is why the game feels responsive even when the destination looks similar.

On a serious completion run, keep simple notes: the big choices you made and the saves that precede them. A one-line log per chapter turns replay planning from archaeology into a checklist.

Your chapter-start saves become the index to that log.

First playthroughs are better blind. Choose what your character would choose, accept the branch it creates, and save the analysis for later runs.

Engineered playthroughs are satisfying mainly because an honest one came first.

Beginner Tips Guide

Endings are the final expression of your branch history. The conclusions available to you are exactly the ones your accumulated branches built toward.

When hunting a specific ending, plan backwards from it: which branches feed it, and where do they begin?

Endings Guide