Abyssal Escape Survivors

Building your vessel

• Presets: start from a preset, for example a hedgehog, fox or echidna base, and change everything from there.
• Metal body types: robotic “metal mobian” bodies are available as well as fur.
• Size: scale your survivor slightly smaller or larger than default, within a small range (about 0.9× to 1.1×).
• Accessories: ears, eyes, muzzles, quills, brows, gloves, shoes, dresses, eyelashes and more. They can be recolored and moved, but only within about 50% of their default position. Tails can be resized and recolored but not moved or rotated.
• Animations: choose your idle, walk, run, jump and fall animations. Several packs were added right up to launch day, such as the Time Traveller and Adventurous Robot sets.
• Voice: pick a voice pack, which your abilities also use. For example, Arm Cannon plays your chosen attack line.

The editor is the game's most praised feature and also its most criticized one. Players love how much they can make, and find the controls confusing, especially on mobile and console. The developer has said the editor will be redesigned. Patch v1.17 already sorted it into proper categories, and there's a zoom option for detail work.

Health, downs and revives

• Survivors have 100 health. Killer M1s deal 35 since v1.24, so three hits down you from full.
• When you're downed, teammates can revive you. Picking up a Healing Box while downed revives you too.
• If every survivor is downed with no one left to revive, the round ends.
• Killers can see survivors' health, so a hurt survivor is an easy target.
• When you're the last survivor there's no special LMS mode yet: you keep your health and survive out the timer. Survivor LMS themes are being revealed, so it's coming.

Abilities

You equip two abilities. You start with Weak Punch and Healing Box and buy the rest with rings. The developer announced 13 abilities for launch on October 6. Metallic Charge was added a week later and kept for release, so we count 14. Two stuns together halve each other's duration, and running out of stamina locks your abilities for 3.5 seconds. The full list, with patch changes and builds, is on the abilities page.

How to earn rings

Rings buy abilities, killers and some skins. For example, Furnace's alternate chase theme skin costs 20 rings. One release-day reviewer reached about 1,000 rings in two hours. There are no codes for free rings yet.

Settings worth knowing

Abilities can't be bound to W, A, S, D, Left Shift or Right Alt. On console, players had trouble triggering abilities at launch, and launch-day patches (from v1.15) tried to fix controller and mobile inputs.

FAQ

Can you play as Sonic or Shadow in Abyssal Escape?

Not as official characters. Survivors are custom vessels you build yourself. Players recreate characters like Shadow, Metal Sonic and Amy with the editor, but there are no pre-made canon survivors.

How do I change or reset my survivor?

Use the editor's presets to start over. If you can't find how to switch avatars, look for the change button at the bottom left. The character creator was reorganized into categories in v1.17, which makes it easier to find things.

How much health do survivors have?

100. That's why The Deity's 50-damage ring trap takes half your health, and why three killer M1s (35 each since v1.24) down you from full.

Why can't I move my tail?

Tail accessories are locked so they can't be repositioned or rotated, as a Roblox rules precaution. You can still resize, recolor and change their material.

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