Route globe: transport pins and x2 badges over Eurasia

About this game

Developer: inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd · Publisher: inkle Ltd · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

80 Days does its route planning on the world itself. There is no map screen separate from play: the globe is the menu, cities are rings, onward journeys are pins stamped with the vehicle that runs them, and the red line of the journey so far is always in view behind the choices ahead. The 'x2' badges are the design's quiet density, a city with two departures reads differently from a city with one, and the whole race against the clock becomes a problem of reading icon density across a planet. Frame at about 0:44 in the Official trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the trailer rotates the globe continuously and its scene-change pass finds no cuts; this frame is taken as the rotation settles over Eurasia, after the trailer's 'RACE OTHER PLAYERS' caption has faded out).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

route-planning map-nodes

Components

Parts on screen.

Marker Badge

Screen inventory

• the globe is the whole screen and the whole interface: a flat-shaded Earth centred on Eurasia, with no chrome, panels or buttons anywhere, planning happens directly on the planet
• cities are small pale rings scattered across the landmasses; the ones already reached are joined by the thick red line of the journey so far, running east from a red dot at London across Asia, while pale grey lines draw the routes not yet taken
• departures are dark circular pins bearing a white vehicle pictogram, locomotive, ship, motorcar, airship, pinned over the region they serve, several carrying a small 'x2' badge beneath the icon where two departures share a city
• the pin cluster sits over Europe and the Middle East, thinning to single trains across Central Asia: the density of icons is itself the timetable, showing at a glance where the network is rich and where one missed connection strands you

Top 3 colors

#544e29 22%#84652b 19%#968450 19%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd / inkle Ltd, 80 Days screenshot: Steam trailer (Official trailer), inkle Ltd, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by inkle Ltd.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: manual extraction manual-globe-pins-44.png @ 43.5s in the Official trailer, MD5 3511678445d6d16bc05f8ed1d51712b0, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (23,493,809 B, MD5 4cc02dd1e07be18af75f5c89448eabb6; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-381780-Official-trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1280x720 native); the city rings, red completed route, pale onward routes and all transport pins with x2 badges legible; no marketing caption remains in frame (the 'RACE OTHER PLAYERS' title has fully faded); a faint ghost of the previous globe position at the frame edges is the trailer's own crossfade, disclosed here

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