Campaign map: Baltic mission nodes, Papers Please preview

About this game

Developer: Steel Balalaika · Publisher: Slitherine Ltd. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The campaign is a map, not a menu list: the Baltic theatre is the whole screen, missions are stars on a route network, and the next mission previews as a card instead of a line in a table. Locked nodes in red against the green route make progress legible at a glance, and the SCAN/HOLD telemetry dressing sells the reconnaissance fantasy without adding a single button. Frame at 0:38 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam). BROKEN ARROW watermark bottom left is trailer branding, not game UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

world-map map-nodes map-icons detail-card top-bar location-label

Components

Parts on screen.

Map Marker Card Portrait

Screen inventory

• satellite map of the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Poland labelled in pale capitals over green terrain and dark sea
• mission nodes as green stars joined by route lines; two locked nodes marked red with padlocks, one starred objective with a flag
• top-right mission preview card: a battle thumbnail over a blue-red banner reading PAPERS PLEASE
• Back button top left; player profile top right (Edmon, Elo ???, lvl 1, Private) with bug, settings and power icons
• SCAN and HOLD telemetry tags and faint targeting brackets float over the map as a reconnaissance overlay
• BROKEN ARROW trailer watermark bottom left (trailer branding, disclose)

Top 3 colors

#09111a 20%#2a2f35 20%#0f151f 18%

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

Source and credit

© Steel Balalaika / Slitherine Ltd., Broken Arrow screenshot: Gameplay Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Slitherine Ltd..

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: scene frame from the official Steam Gameplay Trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; Baltic state labels, green star nodes, red locked nodes, PAPERS PLEASE preview card, player profile and SCAN/HOLD overlays all confirmed legible

no published Slitherine/Steel Balalaika fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-06); fair-use study/commentary use, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honored within 48h

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