Solo lobby: Game Mode picker, Standard selected

About this game

Developer: World's Edge / Relic Entertainment · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

The same solo lobby on its Game Mode tab, and the cleanest mode-selection UI in the set: six modes as icon cards (Standard glowing as selected, None, Empire Wars, Nomad, Sandbox, Scenario) under a one-line Standard description, with a Back to Game Setup button instead of the tab bar. Compared with the Overview tab, this frame shows the choice itself rather than its consequences. Frame at about 0:51 in the Season 5 - Launch Trailer (Steam); spot-extracted, see review notes.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-grid icon-grid accept-cancel roster-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Card Grid

Screen inventory

• header 'Solo Battle vs A.I.'; left rows: m4k31tcount plus an A.I. row with Intermedia... difficulty, Slot Closed rows
• BACK TO GAME SETUP button at top right of the pane
• Standard mode description: 'The standard, competitive game mode with a variety of match options and win conditions.'
• mode icon grid, Standard selected and glowing: Standard, None, Empire Wars, Nomad, Sandbox, Scenario
• bottom shell bar with LVL 35 and chat input

Top 3 colors

#263042 34%#2c3442 24%#191f2b 16%

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

Source and credit

© World's Edge / Relic Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition screenshot: Steam trailers (Season 3 - Launch Trailer, Season 5 - Launch Trailer) — Xbox Game Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: spot frame extracted at 51.0s from the refetched Season 5 - Launch Trailer (clean full decode, 109.2s; the neighbouring scene-change candidate at 48.3s shows the same lobby on its Overview tab, and the 52s frame is a trailer zoom crop into the Empire Wars card, so the 51s full-panel frame is the keeper), inspected visually at full resolution; header, rows, back button, description and all six mode icons settled and legible; no trailer caption in frame

Microsoft/Xbox Game Content Usage Rules (https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/developers/rules, re-verified published 2026-11-04; last updated January 2015); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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