Cybernetics: translucent skin (Back) grants +2 DV

About this game

Developer: Freehold Games · Publisher: Kitfox Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

Cybernetics are Qud's second character-building language, and the screen teaches its grammar instantly: implants are not a shop list but a body map written as text, the same implant exists once per body slot it can occupy (dermal insulation three times, translucent skin twice), because where a thing is installed is part of what it is. The detail panel then splits its answer into the game's two registers: one sentence of dense science-fantasy prose that justifies the implant in the fiction, and one terse stat line (+2 DV, dodge value) that prices it in the system. Nothing else competes for attention, no portrait, no price column, no rarity colour, which is why a screen with seventeen rows stays readable. Frame at about 0:39 in the Out Now Trailer (Steam; manual extraction from the 1 frame / 2s filmstrip pass).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail customization-list body-diagram

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs List Slots

Screen inventory

• the implant list is organised by the body it modifies, every row names its slot in parentheses: optical bioscanner (Face), optical technoscanner (Face), dermal insulation in (Body), (Head) and (Back) variants as separate rows, night vision (Face), hyper-elastic ankle tendons (Feet), parabolic muscular subroutine (Arm), translucent skin (Body) and (Back), stabilizer arm locks (Arm), rapid release finger flexors (Hands), carbide hand bones (Hands), pentaceps (Feet), inflatable axons (Head), nocturnal apex (Head), and a checked <none> at the bottom
• the cursor row is translucent skin (Back), and the detail panel pairs its large pixel icon, a torso whose red circulatory and nervous networks show through pale skin, with the fiction sentence 'The diaphanous dermis throws the circulatory, muscular, and nervous networks into silhouetted relief.' and the entire mechanical payload in one line: '+2 DV'
• the header repeats the creation grammar of the mutations step, 'character creation :choose cybernetic implant:', so the True Kin implant choice reads as the same kind of decision as the mutant's mutation choice, one tab later in the same flow

Top 3 colors

#092422 23%#08211f 22%#081f1d 22%

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

Source and credit

© Freehold Games / Kitfox Games, Caves of Qud screenshot: Steam trailers (Out Now Trailer / Spring Molting Update Trailer), Freehold Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kitfox Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-cybernetics-39.png @ ~39s in the Out Now Trailer, MD5 d7b26afbe8890d92c4b0dd64553d328f, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (70,235,142 B, MD5 0002ff80d22592463855f2e0016a3966; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-333640-Out-Now-Trailer.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the complete 17-row implant list with body-slot tags and the translucent skin (Back) detail panel with its +2 DV line all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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