What can you do as a free member?

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and unlock all our premium features and tools to enhance your gaming experience.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save articles to your watchlist and get notified when they're updated with new information.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save your favorite games for quick access later, synced across all your devices.

Member benefits illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you'll receive instant notifications when someone replies to your posts.

Comment rating feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can make use of convenient features in the comments section, such as rating and sorting comments.

Premium archive feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can access Premium articles that are exclusively available to members.

Site Interface

Guest
Free Member
Article Watchlist
Game Bookmarks
Cross-device Sync
Light/Dark Theme Toggle
User Profiles
Direct Feedback
Comment Rating

Game Tools

Guest
Free Member
Interactive Map Access
Interactive Map Pins
Interactive Map Comments
Interactive Map Pins Cross-Device
Check List
Event Choice Checker
Deck Builder Cross-Device
Message Board Notification
Message Board Cross-Device
Build Planner
Stat Calculator
Diagnostic Tool
Weapon/Armor Wishlist

Want more information?Learn more

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The Abyss 100% Guide and All Locations

Add to Watchlist

The Abyss 100% Guide and All Locations
The Abyss is an area found in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's overworld, called The Continent. Learn more about The Abyss including the area's boss, items and how to find The Abyss in this map guide.

The Abyss Boss Locations

Simon

The Abyss Simon Boss Fight
Simon is an optional superboss, the only enemy of The Abyss and is unmissable. The player should level their characters before engaging this boss, as it is one of the hardest boss fights in-game. Defeating the boss gives an initial reward of 1,237,500 EXP and Chroma.

How to Beat Simon

Simon Second Phase

The Abyss Simon 2nd Phase.png
The battle with Simon is not over however, as after the cutscene, the boss will power-up for their second and last phase. Simon will one-shot even high-level players so pure skill and ability is required to take it down.

Should the player defeat Simon, a cutscene will play and Verso will be given the Simoso weapon.

How to Get Simoso, Stats, and Scaling

How to Find The Abyss

Finish Renoir's Drafts

The Abyss Renoir
Get to the end of Renoir's Drafts, accessible by unlocking Esquie's ability to dive. This ability is only unlocked by getting Relationship Level 6 with them.

The dive point for Renoir's Drafts will open, located to the southeast of the Visages and southwest of Sirene. Get to the Golden Tree section of Renoir's Drafts to find The Abyss.

Renoir's Drafts 100% Guide and all Locations

The Abyss Connecting Areas

Renoir's Drafts

The Abyss Golden Tree Connecting Area
The only area that connects to The Abyss is a portal from Renoir's Drafts leading near the Golden Tree Expeditionary Flag.

The player can exit The Abyss itself by using the Expeditionary Flag near the Simon boss fight.

Jump Down To The Abyss

The Abyss Drop Down
To reach Simon and fight them, the player must go to the portal. Go through the crawlspace, continue northwards then drop down to reach The Abyss proper.

The Abyss Weapon Locations

Simoso

Weapon Overview
Simoso Character: Gustave/Verso
Power: 3228
Element: Light
Vitality: A
Might: -
Agility: S
Defense: -
Luck: -

Simoso is a weapon for Verso obtained by defeating Simon.

List of All Weapons

The Abyss Fast Travel Locations

All Expedition Flags in The Abyss

The Abyss Expedition Flag Simon
Simon
Located straight ahead before approaching Simon.

This is a list of all Rest Point Flags that are used to fast travel from one point of an area to another.

All Expedition Flags

The Abyss Journal Location

Journal - Simon

Journal How to Get

Simon's Journal

Defeat Simon to access the journal.

Journals are records of past expeditions before Expedition 33, giving you a glimpse into how those missions failed and never returned to Lumière as the years went by.

All Journal Locations

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Related Guides

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 - Locations

All Locations and Areas

All Locations

Act 1
Spring Meadows Flying Waters Ancient Sanctuary
Gestral Village Esquie's Nest Stone Wave Cliffs
Act 2
Forgotten Battlefield Monoco's Station Old Lumiere
Visages Sirene The Monolith
Act 3
Lumiere
Optional Areas
The Manor Painting Workshop Gestral Beach
Abbest Cave Red Woods The Small Bourgeon
Hidden Gestral Arena Esoteric Ruins Twilight Quarry
Ancient Gestral City Lost Woods Yellow Harvest
Dark Shores The Meadows Crushing Cavern
White Tree Blades' Graveyard Stone Quarry
Coastal Cave Frozen Hearts The Carousel
Boat Graveyard Stone Wave Cliffs Cave Falling Leaves
Sinister Cave Renoir's Drafts The Crows
Dark Gestral Arena The Fountain Flying Casino
White Sands Crimson Forest Floating Cemetery
Sky Island Sacred River The Chosen Path
Endless Night Sanctuary Sunless Cliffs Sirene's Dress
The Reacher Isle of the Eyes The Canvas
The Abyss Flying Manor Endless Tower

Author

    Please participate in our site
    improvement survey
    12/2025
    Would you assist in
    improving Game8's site?
    ×
    This survey will take about 1 minute.
    Your answers will help us to improve our website.
    We are listening to our users' valuable opinions and discussing how to act on them.
    The information collected through this survey will be used for the purpose of improving our services. In addition, the information will only be disclosed a part of a statistic in a format that will not allow identification of personal information.
    Begin Survey

    All rights reserved

    Guide Index