Try To Reach The Abyss: How to Level Up and Check Your Level

Quick answer

You level up in Try To Reach The Abyss by earning Speed at outposts: step out of your submarine while you are at an outpost, and the Speed you earn pushes your level up. Your current level is shown on the level bar in the outpost UI — for example, at Glowcap Forest it reads "LEVEL 14" right next to the outpost's danger badge.

How leveling works

The game's How To Play puts it plainly: "Earn Speed at outposts and level up to move faster!" and "Level up, explore deeper, and see how far you can get!" So the loop is simple:

1. Follow the outpost marker from spawn and board your submarine.
2. When you reach an outpost, step out of the submarine to earn Speed.
3. The level bar in the outpost UI shows your current level, so you can check it whenever you are at an outpost.
4. Sail onward to the next outpost and repeat.

What leveling up gets you

Leveling is not just a number. Two things improve as your level climbs:

• Your submarine moves faster. Higher level means quicker travel between outposts and deeper exploration.
• Your submarine evolves into a new form every 5 levels, turning it into a more powerful version of itself as you progress.

This is why the game encourages you to keep pushing outward: each level directly feeds how fast you can explore.

Outposts help your progression in two ways

While you are earning Speed at an outpost, you are also safe there. And when you reach the next outpost, you are rewarded with safety and a free upgrade point. You can spend those upgrade points to improve three things:

• Speed gains (so you earn Speed faster)
• Hull
• Torpedoes

So a good rhythm is: earn Speed at an outpost, sail to the next one, collect the free upgrade point, spend it on Speed gains or defenses, and keep leveling. If you want more detail on how to spend those points, see the upgrade points guide, and for the bigger picture the overall progression guide covers how systems fit together.

New to the game?

If you have not played yet, the how-to-play guide covers spawning in and boarding your submarine, and the submarine controls page explains steering. Once you are comfortable moving, outposts are where the leveling happens — so getting to your first outpost is the real first step toward leveling up.

Related guides: outposts guide, how to get speed, hull upgrades, speed gain upgrades, and submarine evolution for what changes at each evolution milestone.

Internal links: Try To Reach The Abyss outposts guide, upgrade points guide, progression guide, how to play, submarine controls, how to get speed, hull upgrades, speed gain upgrades, submarine evolution.