Abyssal Chaos is a roguelike mode that serves as one of Love and Deepspace‘s endgame activities. Framed as an investigation-and-combat simulation in which the protagonist and her various love interests take on extracurricular commissions outside of her usual remit as a Deepspace Hunter, pursuing mystery mini-stories through a combination of choose-your-own-adventure style narrative segments, dungeon-crawling combat, mini games, and random events granting uniquely powerful items.
Featuring separate storylines for each love interest and plenty of branching choices, there’s a lot to get to grips with if you want to see everything Abyssal Chaos has to offer. Read on below for our explainer, including a comprehensive overview of the mode, list of ending walkthroughs, and tips and hints to help you complete Abyssal Chaos commissions.
What is Abyssal Chaos in Love and Deepspace?
The Abyssal Chaos mode can be found under the Battle tab from LaDS’ main home screen. At the time of writing, there are two Abyssal Chaos commissions you can choose from: Find Tobias and Final Farewell.
Choose a companion to accompany you in either Abyssal Chaos commission, and the game will generously boost your highest-rarity cards of him to Level 80 Awakened for the duration of the run, meaning that you get to experience the very best your current team has to offer.
Furthermore, each weekly refresh gives you access to two Trial characters: free-to-play versions of Myth companions whose kits can usually only be unlocked with a completed 5-Star Memory pair, thus allowing you to partner up in Abyssal Chaos with a character whose best cards you may not have collected.
Unlike your typical endgame dungeon, Abyssal Chaos is still story-heavy, with narrative sections that play out between the more typical battle scenes. Each of LaDS’ love interests gets their own bespoke route through each Abyssal Chaos commission, and thanks to the choose-your-own adventure nature of these stories, there are multiple endings to each – in fact, if you tally it all up, at the time of writing there are about 60 unique final outcomes to find in the whole of the Abyssal Chaos game mode.
Abyssal Chaos walkthroughs
A single round of Abyssal Chaos takes around an hour to play through and as such, even completionists may find themselves wanting some pointers to avoid running into dead-ends or ending up on the same route multiple times as they hunt out all those various endings.
To that end, we’re in the process of putting together walkthroughs detailing how to get each ending for each character in each deduction. Check out our in-progress list below!
Abyssal Chaos tips and hints
1. You can save and exit to pick up a run later
You don’t have to complete Abyssal Chaos in one sitting and can have ongoing versions of both commissions underway simultaneously, but you need to finish or abandon a current instance of a deduction in order to begin a new attempt at that same commission.
So, for example, it’s fine to be midway through Find Tobias with Xavier and start Final Farewell with Caleb, but you couldn’t begin Find Tobias with Sylus without completing or deleting that unfinished Xavier save first.
2. Take full advantage of Trial companions
If the weekly Trial companions reset while you’re in the middle of an deduction, you get to complete your ongoing commissions with any Trial characters you were using in a previous week as long as you were midway through a save.
So if there’s a Trial character you really want to try out but you won’t have time to finish a round of Abyssal Chaos in one sitting, it’s worth starting a run and playing at least just the opening section so you can pick up that save again later.
Playing Abyssal Chaos with a Trial companion grants extra Companion Factors to spend on unlocking Companion Genes at the end of a run – so even if you own a Myth pair already, it’s actually worth playing through Abyssal Chaos with the Trial version of the same companion when he’s available!
3. You need to play using both standard and Myth companions to see everything
Playing Abyssal Chaos with a 5-Star Myth pair – either from the cards owned on your account or using Trial companions – gives you access to the related Myth companion version of that character. This will allow you to use their unique kits in combat, as well as unlocking exclusive character skills in Abyssal Chaos, but doesn’t include any additional story content – the commission story for each character remains the same no matter which companion kit of theirs you’re using.
Playing with 4-Star and/or 3-Star Solar Memories gives you the choice of any unlocked non-Mythical kit for that character, and another set of character skills are shared by all of the character’s non-5-Star-exclusive kits.
This means that, for example, if you want to unlock every one of Zayne’s skills in Abyssal Chaos, you need to play through the mode as Master of Fate and Foreseer separately, as they each grant their own unique skills and Companion Genes as Myth companions.
However, any skills unlocked while playing through Abyssal Chaos using Zayne’s Linkon Doctor, Medic of the Arctic, and/or Dawnbreaker non-Myth kits will contribute to revealing skills and unlocking Companion Genes in his shared 4-Star/3-Star pool.
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