How to Play Try To Reach The Abyss: Start Your First Dive and Reach an Outpost

Starting your first dive in Try To Reach The Abyss takes three moves: spawn your submarine, hop in, and follow the outpost marker. Reaching that outpost safely gets you two rewards at once — safety and a free upgrade point. Here's exactly how it works and what to do once you arrive.

Quick answer

Quick answer

Spawn your submarine, hop in, and follow the numbered outpost marker.

• Step OUT of the submarine onto the platform when you arrive — that's what earns you Speed.
• Every new outpost earns 1 free upgrade point — your first upgrade costs 1 point and no Robux.
• Open the upgrade store at the outpost and spend your free point.

Your first dive, step by step

1. Spawn your submarine and hop in. This is the developer's own instruction, and it's all you need to begin — no setup or purchases required.
2. Follow the outpost marker. The marker you're told to follow is a numbered route marker along the route, labelled by outpost number (for example, OUTPOST 3). Keep it in view and pilot toward it.
3. Step OUT of your submarine at the outpost. The developer instruction says to step OUT at outposts to earn Speed; the recorded Speed award popup appeared while the player was outside the submarine on the platform.
4. Spend your upgrade point. Every new outpost you reach earns 1 free upgrade point, and your very first upgrade is free — it uses 1 upgrade point and no Robux.

Getting back in and using the outpost stores

Outposts are more than checkpoints. Two proximity prompts handle everything on the platform:

• Boarding your sub: stand near a docked submarine and a prompt appears reading E / Explorer Sub / Board (the sub name reflects your current submarine). Press E to board.
• Opening the upgrade store: stand beside the upgrade stall and the prompt reads E / Upgrade Store / Open Store.

Inside the store's UPGRADES tab, your upgrade points go toward three tracks that shape your loop:

The official HOW TO PLAY sums it up: spend upgrade points to improve your Speed gains, hull, and torpedoes. HULL and TORPEDO DAMAGE appear in later outpost stores (they were observed at Mesa Outpost 9), so early dives focus on the Speed tracks first. The numeric previews you see on the buttons — like a Speed Per Award going +20 → +40 — show your own current state, not a fixed schedule, so your values may differ.

Reading route markers and danger badges

The route gives you two pieces of at-a-glance information while diving. Route markers are numbered (OUTPOST 3, OUTPOST 19, and so on), so you always know how far along the route you are. Location badges name the region and its Danger level — for example, GLOWCAP FOREST shows Danger: Safe, while FORGOTTEN VALLEY shows Danger: High. Watch this badge as you travel: GLOWCAP FOREST shows Danger: Safe — the lowest danger example observed, so treat a Safe badge as the calm case before pushing toward the next marker; a High badge warns you to stay alert before pushing toward the next marker.

Why this loop works

Each outpost completion feeds the next dive: reach the outpost for safety and a free upgrade point, step out to earn Speed, spend the point on faster or tougher upgrades, board again with E, and push for the next numbered marker. As the developers put it: level up, explore deeper, and see how far you can get.

For what comes after your first outpost — spending points more broadly, evolving your submarine, and pushing toward deeper regions — see the progression guide, the upgrade points guide, and how to reach the abyss.