ABYSS

ABYSS

Escape employment.

An endless descent from a candlelit sanctuary into a blood-soaked office, and the Martian cube beneath it. Loot, armour, firearms and psychic powers. There is no floor.

Buy the alpha $9.99

macOS, Windows and Linux.
$19.99 when it reaches Steam.

Layer 7 · a real floor clear, played back

Trailers

With sound

Rapture Every suit of armour, and the end of the world.
Carnage A minute of one real floor clear on layer 7.

Both are full of graphic violence and flashing light.

Stratum 0 · The sanctuary

Above the abyss, a sanctuary.

Between descents you're safe here. Lydia trades gear and fits upgrades. You choose how deep the portal takes you, and whether to go in the dark: a Nightfall descent turns every light off and leaves you your gun's.

  • CharactersSeveral per save, each with their own gear and level.
  • CreationBody, face, clothing and tattoos.
The sanctuary nave by candlelight, a red carpet running to the portal.
The nave, and the portal at its end
The sanctuary court at dusk, lanterns hanging from rusted gates.
The court at dusk

Stratum I · The office

Below it, the office.

Cubicles, fluorescent light, and the people who work there, who would rather you left. Each layer is seven zones deep, and every layer further down hits harder and pays better.

  • 28firearms, from pistols to machine guns and launchers.
  • AkimboA pistol in each hand.
  • 3psychic powers: neural link, bullet time and detonate.
A manager in a red shirt caught in a shotgun blast among the cubicles.
Layer 3 · a manager, briefly
An office room drowned in a burst of blood.
Layer 3 · the same room, later
Akimbo pistols under a hypnotic spiral ceiling.
Layer 3 · the spiral room

Stratum II · The threshold

Then the office gives way.

From layer 10 the office and the cube alternate, zone by zone. The walls stop making sense.

An armoured player firing across a blood-spattered office. Machine gun fire across the cube, its defenders in blue light.
Zone by zone: the office, then the Martian cube

Stratum III · The Martian cube

The Martian cube.

From layer 20 there is only the cube, and its defenders. The Mandate suits they wear drop nowhere else.

A disc launcher firefight on the checkered floor of the cube.
Layer 22 · the disc launcher
An energy rifle cutting through smoke in the cube.
Layer 22 · an energy rifle
A figure in the blue Mandate suit, energy rifle raised, in the cube.
Layer 22 · the Mandate suit

Stratum ∞

There is no floor.

The descent goes as deep as you can survive. Dying ends it, but your gear, alloy and experience come back up with you.

The world ending in green fire, bodies thrown from its surface.
The rapture

Legend · The armoury

3 sets

Every set has eight pieces, from helmet to boots. Wear two for the first bonus, all eight for both.

  1. The Iron set, worn from helmet to boots
    Iron New 2 +8 armour All +20 vitality
  2. The Samurai set, worn from helmet to boots
    Samurai New 2 +8 m neural link range All +8 neural link tracking, +12 psyche
  3. The Trench set, worn from helmet to boots
    Trench New 2 +10% handling All +8% damage

Recent updates

Alpha 0.3.51

ABYSS is made in the open. New builds land often, sometimes several a day, and each one is yours free with the alpha. The game tells you when one is ready.

  1. Alpha 0.3.51

    • New armour: three sets, Iron, Samurai and Trench, each in eight pieces (helmet, cuirass, left and right bicep, left and right bracer, leggings and boots) made for the new bodies.
    • Your characters carry over. Your level, guns, attachments and everything else you own stay as they were; your old armour is replaced by a full Iron set at your level.
    • Armour keeps the colours it was made in: armour recolouring is gone.
    • The Mandate suit no longer drops; only the cube's defenders wear it.
    • Running with a pistol drawn, your body moves a little with your stride while the guns stay steady, and paired pistols are held about shoulder width apart.
    • The starting neural link locks onto targets across a room, about 15 m instead of 9, and every neural link reaches 6 m further.

  2. Alpha 0.3.50

    • The women's briefs no longer leave a strip of fabric down the inside of each thigh when she moves.

  3. Alpha 0.3.49

    • The women's briefs now cover all the way under, front to back, in both colours.

Every update

Repent now.

One payment. The alpha on all three systems, and every alpha update after it.

Alpha access
$9.99, once
Every alpha update
Included
macOS, Windows and Linux
All three
On Steam at launch
$19.99

Secure checkout by Stripe. Your download link appears as soon as you pay, and arrives by email. Refunds within 14 days, no questions.

What it runs on

macOS
macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon or Intel
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Linux
64-bit, Ubuntu 22.04 or newer
Graphics
OpenGL 4.1
Download
About 790 MB
Controls
Keyboard and mouse, or a controller

Windows may warn that it doesn't recognise ABYSS the first time: choose More info, then Run anyway. It's an alpha; expect rough edges, and send us what breaks.