Love And Deepspace: Abyssal Chaos, Explained (2025)

Abyssal Chaos is a special low-resource battle stage in Love and Deepspace. Unlike other battle stages, Abyssal Chaos does not require Stamina to enter, and cannot be swept. In Abyssal Chaos, you and your companion uncover clues and make deductions about the locations of a character named Tobias.

As you search for Tobias, you will uncover secrets, enjoy surprise encounters with your companion, pass challenging puzzle stages, and earn items and codes to be spent on companion upgrades. You can play the Abyssal Chaos Deduction, Find Tobias with multiple versions of the companions, upgrading their skills each time.

What Is Abyssal Chaos?

Abyssal Chaos is a special, investigation-based battle mode that incorporates story elements and combat stages to create a fun and multi-faceted side story.

In Abyssal Chaos, you will choose a companion to take with you on your investigation into the whereabouts of a man named Tobias. Tobias is suffering from Protocore Syndrome and has run into some trouble with a rival faction of Onychinus.

Abyssal Chaos resets every two weeks and features a new trial companion each cycle. There are also two modes of Abyssal Chaos to complete: Easy Mode and Hard Mode. Completing Deductions in Hard Mode will give you more rewards than in Easy Mode.

How To Complete Abyssal Chaos Deductions

Abyssal Chaos Deductions are one of the easier combat types to complete. In Abyssal Chaos, there is no entrance fee for stages, and you can replay, restart, and cancel Deductions at any time without resource penalties.

When you start an Abyssal Chaos Deduction, you can choose between the limited-time Trial Companion or any of your regular companions. Trial Companions will earn more Companion Factors than regular companions.

After choosing a companion to bring with you as you search for Tobias, your team is automatically created for you from the highest rarity memories you own of that companion. These memories will be maxed out for the Deduction.

When you have finally entered Abyssal Chaos, you can begin completing story stages, combat challenges, Incidents, and puzzle stages. These stages are known as Cases.

Every few Case branches, you'll start a story stage that includes special choices you can make and gives you information on the overarching story of the Deduction.

The storyline of Find Tobias will change depending on which companion you choose to bring with you. Companions all have special choices, items, and story branches to explore.

Most Deduction stages will be combat stages. Combat stages work the same as any other combat stage in the main game, but here, your team is already prepared at the beginning of the Deduction and cannot be altered between Cases.

Other than stories and combat stages, there are also Incident stages and Challenge stages. Incidents are random encounters in which you can make special choices or earn special Items, upgrades, or Chaos Keys to improve your team. Some Incidents reward you with useful items, while others offer only penalties.

Challenge stages are similar to combat stages in the sense that they are three-dimensional, but they do not center around battle. In the Challenge stages, your companion is locked up, and you must challenge special puzzles to release them. Challenges can include memorization puzzles and obstacle courses.

What Are Chaos Keys Used For?

Chaos Keys are used to purchase Codes. Codes are special combat skill upgrades that improve your or your companion's combat abilities and add special buffs to battle. There are eight types of Codes: Active, Charged, Combo, Negative, Shield, Summon, Dodge, and HP. Each Code category upgrades a different combat ability.

After passing certain stages, or upon encountering a Code Purchase stage, you can use your Chaos Keys to purchase new Codes or upgrade existing ones.

As you unlock and earn Codes, you will gain collection points to be redeemed in the Codes tab of the Records menu. Hitting certain Code milestones will reward you with Diamonds.

What Do Items Do?

Items function similarly to Codes in the sense that each item provides a special combat buff or adds a combat or Case-specific ability. Each Item has a different ability associated with it and some items can only be used a certain number of times, while others are permanent buffs.

You can also collect special Items that are unique to your chosen companion. These items, once collected, can unlock special story branches in the Deduction. These stories are usually little side quests that end the Deduction early, but teach you new things about your companion, almost like a Date.

Sometimes, you need to collect specific Items during reward offers. You won't know what these items are until you reach the later stages of the Deduction. These items are used to unlock special story branches needed to complete the Abyssal Chaos Case branches for the companion you chose.

What Are Incidents?

Incidents are random encounters that will appear at certain points during the Deduction. There is no way to predict what Incident you will encounter. Incidents can either offer you a special reward or hinder your progress by removing or downgrading your Codes.

Just like with Items and Codes, Incidents also have a special Collections menu under the Records menu. After uncovering a certain number of Incidents, you can claim a Diamond reward.

Upgrading Genes

Along with Gold, Chaos Keys, and Deduction Points, you'll earn Genes as you complete Deduction stages. Genes are special currencies that can be used to upgrade companion abilities and stats.

What Are General Genes?

General Genes can be used in the General Gene tab to upgrade genes for all companions. These upgrades will roll over from Deduction to Deduction no matter what companion you choose.

Unlocking General Genes can be done in a bracket system. You can choose which Genes to upgrade in a bracket branch, but eventually, you will hit bottlenecks in the bracket.

There are 22 General Genes to unlock in total.

What Are Companion Genes?

Companion genes are genes that can be upgraded only for certain companions. These genes are not universally shared and can only be used during the specified companion's Deduction runs.

Each companion has five Companion Gene Nodes to unlock.

You can unlock Compainon Genes with Companion Factors.

You can only earn Companion Factors for the companion you are completing deductions with. You can't earn another character's Companion Factors if you are running the Deduction with a different character.

Abyssal Chaos Rewards

On top of the various currencies you earn for completing Deductions (Gold, Companion Factors, General Factors, and Deduction Points) you will also earn Diamonds and Outfits.

You can earn up to 2,000 Deduction Points per Abyssal Chaos cycle. Deduction Points can be used to complete Deduction level milestones. Each milestone has a corresponding reward. There are 120 Deduction Reward levels in all.