Neon Abyss 2 100% guide

Each run goes down through numbered floors, each ending in a boss. Floor 5 ends with a Manager god. After floor 5 you reach a safehouse with portals, where you choose your route for floors 6 and beyond. Every new boss is unlocked by beating the one before it, and an unlock only takes effect on your next run, never partway through the current one.

The god boss chain is:

1. God of Hackers (Trojan), then God of AI (Talos) at floor 5.
2. The Apollo portal: GOD OF EDM (Apollo) on floor 6, then Eris on floor 7, then Dark Eris, then Hyperion on floor 8.
3. The Hermes portal (opens after Hyperion): Hermes on floor 6, then Aphrodite on floor 7, then Dark Aphrodite, then Theia on floor 8.

The Zeus and Dark Zeus portals lead to Archenemy Returns bosses that no achievement needs. Skip them.

Agent unlocks are claimed, not automatic. Each agent has a task in the Bar's Task screen. When the task completes, go to the Task screen and claim it to unlock the agent. The achievement is expected to pop when the agent unlocks. Claim every finished task as soon as you are back in the Bar. The Task screen also shows your progress on every counter, so check it whenever you want to know how close you are. If a boss doesn't seem to have unlocked the next one, check the boss kill records in the Agent Profile to confirm which bosses you have actually beaten.

Your Blackdog Level is your account level. It rises from experience earned at the end of each run, win or lose. That experience comes from bosses you beat: deeper bosses are worth much more, and the total is multiplied by difficulty (about x1.25 on Normal, x1.5 on Hard and x1.8 on Abyssal compared to Easy). Experience from bosses you beat is kept even if you die later in the run, and leftover experience carries over to the next level. Levelling up also gives evolution points to spend on the Bar's evolution tree, which unlocks new faiths, rooms, and items. The tree is split into pages, and each page only opens once every node on the earlier pages is lit, so nodes on pages 3 and 4 arrive late. Do not plan around rushing one specific node.

Difficulty is set at the difficulty machine in the Bar. Easy is open from the start. Abyssal unlocks once you beat Hyperion on Hard and then claim the "Game Start" task. For the experience grind, switch to Hard once the difficulty machine offers it.

• Quick Resume floor loop (CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY, as of October 2026): On Xbox Series X|S, resuming the game through Quick Resume can make it reload the floor you just cleared over and over after the boss, and some players were sent back to the tutorial. The developer has said it is looking into it, and no fix has been confirmed. Before you leave the game, finish or exit the run and return to the main menu, then fully close the game. Do not suspend it mid-run. If you get stuck in a loop, fully close and relaunch. The game reloads from the start of that floor.
• Hyperion second phase (CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY, limited reports, October 2026): A few players report Hyperion's second phase failing to advance, which leaves the fight stuck. If it happens, fully close the game and relaunch to retry from the start of the floor. This isn't guaranteed to fix every case.
• Saves: The game saves at the start of each floor and syncs through Xbox cloud saves. There is no practical manual backup on console, and none is needed because nothing is missable.
• PC developer console: The Windows version has a developer console that can unlock every achievement directly. See Optional Windows Shortcut below.

On Windows, the Xbox app / PC Game Pass version of the game has a developer console that can unlock all 32 achievements directly, for the full 1,000 Gamerscore, in a reported five minutes or so once you are set up. Because the game uses Xbox Play Anywhere, these unlocks count on the same Xbox achievement list as the console version. Players confirmed it working in October 2026, but whether it still works depends on future patches. It is not an official feature, the developers reportedly know about it, and a future patch could remove it. It has not been confirmed to work on Xbox consoles.

1. Install and launch Neon Abyss 2 through the Xbox app on Windows.
2. Finish the opening tutorial and start an actual run.
3. Press F1 to open the console. On some keyboards, \ or ~ also works.
4. Type admin and press Enter.
5. Type PlatformAchievementUnlock 1 and press Enter. Repeat for every number from 2 through 32, one command at a time, pressing Enter after each.

Each number unlocks one achievement, so do not skip any of them. When you are done, check the game's achievement list in the Xbox app or on your profile and confirm it shows 32/32. If any are missing, rerun the commands for those numbers and give the unlocks a few minutes to sync. Using the console can stop that run's achievements from triggering normally, so don't open it during runs you are playing for real. Console players, and anyone who would rather earn the list normally, should follow the route below, which is unaffected.

Play Nik, the default agent, on Easy or Normal. The opening achievements come from simply getting deeper. Take any faith offered on the early floors to learn how the faith bar works, since faiths become important for the boss chain.

These tasks count across every run, so they will finish over the course of the boss chain without much extra effort. Glance at the Task screen between runs, and claim each one as soon as it completes.

Before you fight Apollo, know the faith rule. Beating Apollo with a faith active reportedly lets the portal carry the run on to floor 7, while beating him with no faith sends you back to the Bar. On normal runs, take a faith from a floor pedestal and do not fill it and cash it in at the faith's temple before the Apollo fight. On the Dark Eris run below, you cash in Psychedelism at its temple on an earlier floor for the Acid Token, but you still need Psychedelism active again on floor 6 when Apollo dies. On your very first Apollo kill this doesn't matter yet, because Eris is not unlocked, but get into the habit now.

On your next run, take the Apollo portal again and beat Apollo with a faith active. The portal takes you to Eris on floor 7.

Beating Eris completes the Sudden Clarity task. Claim it on the Task screen to unlock the Psychedelism faith. Dark Eris then needs one run that meets two conditions. Do both, because the exact trigger is described two ways:

1. Take Psychedelism as your faith and keep it active through the Apollo fight on floor 6.
2. On one of floors 1 to 5, fill the Psychedelism bar, enter its temple, and catch the butterfly carrying the Acid Token. The safehouse after floor 5 has no temple, and faith bars reset each floor, so the token has to come from an earlier floor. Most of the other butterflies hurt you, so go in with spare hearts and remember which one has the token.

Final checkpoint before Apollo: the Acid Token you picked up earlier stays with you, but cashing in the bar does not cover floor 6. On floor 6, make sure Psychedelism is your active faith again, and don't cash in that floor's bar before the fight. If both are done, Dark Eris replaces Eris on floor 7.

Beating Dark Eris unlocks Hyperion. On the next run, take the Apollo portal and fight regular Eris. Pick any faith except Psychedelism, and don't pick up an Acid Token. Keep that faith active through Apollo, without cashing it in at a temple first, then beat Eris. Hyperion follows on floor 8. If his second phase stops advancing, see the Hyperion note in Status Notes.

Your Blackdog Level climbs steadily through the Apollo route. Meanwhile, three agent tasks need everything to come together in a single run. Watch for the right pieces on every run from here on, and go for whichever task the run's items support. As you level, Weaving Fate (evolution page 1) opens fate cards, and Full of Energy is useful for Ironclad Rock. The Egg Device on page 2 helps with hatching for Elise and the Hermes route. The page 3 wisp nodes (Wisp Crate and Tenebrism) come late because of page gating, so don't wait for them.

On this run, keep your Hatchmon count low. Don't go out of your way to hatch eggs, and skip the Agapeism faith and the egg rooms.

The official condition is to beat Hermes and enter the next floor while you have at least 10 Hatchmon. The count can drop when Hatchmon evolve or fuse (four fuse into a Super Hatchmon), and exactly 10 has not always been enough. Aim for 12 or more so you have a margin. Recheck your count right before the Hermes fight, and don't let anything fuse or die until you are through the portal to floor 7.

Build toward it all run:

• Play Elise if you have her.
• Take the Agapeism faith, which focuses on eggs, and visit Hatchmon temples and egg rooms on every floor.
• Use hatching items such as the Lightbulb curio, and the Egg Device from the evolution tree.
• Save coins and spend them on eggs and hatching just before Hermes.

Beating Dark Aphrodite is what unlocks Theia, which is why this route does Dark Aphrodite first. If Theia ever appears after an earlier Aphrodite kill, fight her then anyway.

On the next run, take the Hermes portal with fewer than 10 Hatchmon so you get regular Aphrodite. Eggs don't matter here; your actual Hatchmon count does. The easiest way is to start the run planning to stay low: skip Agapeism and the egg rooms, and don't hatch eggs. Right before the Hermes fight, count your Hatchmon. If you have 10 or more, don't fight Hermes yet; bring the count down first. Players report being able to reverse-hatch Hatchmon to lower the count, but the exact steps on Xbox are unconfirmed, so starting low is the reliable method. Selling eggs alone does not lower your Hatchmon count. Beat Aphrodite on floor 7, and Theia waits on floor 8.

Check the Task screen for any agent task still unclaimed. Elise, James, and Lucia are usually done by now. Cassie and Tino are the ones most likely to need focused runs.

Whatever is left now is experience. Only bosses give experience, and deeper bosses are worth far more than early ones, so full runs to floors 7 and 8 earn much more than quick resets. Once the difficulty machine offers Hard (or Abyssal), raise the difficulty as soon as you can clear runs reliably there, because the experience multiplier is applied to the whole run. The game's hidden difficulty also eases off after losses, so a few failed Hard runs are not wasted. They still pay out for every boss you beat. Do not grind early floors: a reset after floor 1 is worth almost nothing.