Forsaken Altar: three Stormforged cornerstones, paid in flame and blood

About this game

Developer: Eremite Games · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The Forsaken Altar is where the game's perk draft shows its teeth. Three Stormforged cornerstones are offered as cards, Survivor Bonding (+25% villager speed, 3 Global Resolve), No Quality Control (+2 wood production, but after each storm all stored wood is removed and replaced with 150 Insects), Firekeeper's Prayer (glade events worked 30% faster, sacrifices burning 30% longer), each a genuine bargain with a stated downside, and each priced the same way: 48 flame and 2 villagers. The left column is the wallet, and it is laid out like a form: first the resources, three stock icons (1011 / 808 / 808, the first ticked) totalled as 1011 flame; then, under a tick-box headed PAY WITH BLOOD, the species portraits with their headcounts (1, 5, 1), tick two of them and the total at the foot becomes the 2 villagers every card demands. The interface never euphemises the transaction: the cost line, the tick-boxes and the PICK buttons are one continuous ledger, so the player chooses not only which blessing to buy but which of their people pays for it. Frame at about 1:06 in the 1.0 Release Date Trailer video (Steam), manually extracted at 65.5s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame inside the altar segment (its nearest candidates are the trader panel at 56.7s and the hex map at 82.6s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-choice event-choice risk-reward

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Illustration Portrait

Screen inventory

• FORSAKEN ALTAR header beside a painted portrait, over a band of red flame, the altar's offers are drawn as three framed perk icons (an open hand, a sprouting branch, a green wing) in knotwork frames
• three Stormforged cornerstone cards, each with its full rules text: SURVIVOR BONDING ('The people in your settlement have survived many hardships, bringing them closer together (+25% villager speed, 3 Global Resolve)'), NO QUALITY CONTROL ('Gain +2 to wood production. After each storm, all stored wood is removed, and you get 150 Insects in return'), FIREKEEPER'S PRAYER ('Glade event work speed increased by 30%. Resources you sacrifice in the Ancient Hearth burn for 30% longer')
• every card prices itself identically at its foot: 48 flame + 2 villagers, over a red PICK button, the currency of this screen is people
• the payment column at left: three resource icons counted 1011 / 808 / 808 with the first ticked, totalling '1011' flame beneath
• below it, PAY WITH BLOOD ticked on: three species portraits with their counts (1, 5, 1), the first and third ticked, totalling 2 villagers, the two villagers the cards cost are chosen here, by species

Top 3 colors

#000107 22%#0f0c0e 21%#251b19 16%

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

Source and credit

© Eremite Games / Hooded Horse, Against the Storm screenshot: Launch Trailer and 1.0 Release Date Trailer videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: frame manually extracted at 65.5s from the pipeline-downloaded 1.0 Release Date Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game Forsaken Altar screen confirmed settled and legible (all three cornerstone names and full rules texts, the 48 flame + 2 villager price on each card, the resource totals and the Pay with Blood species counts all readable; a probe at 64.0s shows the same screen with only one villager ticked (total 1), the trailer is mid-decision, and 65.5s is the settled state with two ticked and all three PICK buttons active; the cursor rests on the Firekeeper's Prayer PICK); the red flame band is the screen's own styling; no trailer typography overlays the frame

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