Final Boss
| Final Boss | |
|---|---|
| Type | Boss |
| Found in | The Abyss |
| Internal name | FINALBOSS
|
| First appearance | Downwell (2015) |
The final boss waits at the bottom of the Abyss, behind a column of breakable blocks — a vast buried creature of which you only ever fight the eye. It stays dormant until your first shot lands.
The fight
The boss is effectively invulnerable except when its eye opens. Enough accumulated damage makes it flinch and close up; roughly four such wounds push it into the next phase, and each phase drags the fight down through a section of the Abyss echoing one of the four areas. Throughout, it fires spreads of bullets, lashes with tentacles, and spawns pale clones of that section's enemies (internally the neon* family — neonBat, neonJelly, neonSquid and kin).
Kill it and the ending begins. Beating it for the first time unlocks Hard Mode, where it gains an extra bullet spread per attack.