Upgrade a Card: deck grid with sort controls

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Art style Pixel art

Cobalt Core - Upgrade a Card: deck grid with sort controls

About this game

Developer: Rocket Rat Games · Publisher: Brace Yourself Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The deck-management screen, and the one that teaches the game's card language: cost in the corner, effect icons in the body, color coding by class, and four sort controls (Deck, Name, Cost, Rarity) that treat a roguelike deck as a collection to organize rather than a hand to play. The hovered Corrosion Beam shows the preview interaction the header promises. Where the combat frames show cards in use, this one shows the deck as a system. Frame at about 0:40 in the Launch Date Announcement Trailer (Steam). No trailer burn-in or captions visible.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-grid side-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Grid Portrait

Screen inventory

  • "Upgrade a Card" header with "(Right click a card to preview its upgrades)"
  • Card grid: Basic Block, Basic Dodge, two Basic Shots, Block Shot, Corrosion Beam (hovered, cursor visible), Shield Surge, Attack Drone, Parallel Shift, Radio Control, two EMP Slugs
  • Cost numbers and effect icons on every card; color-coded card classes
  • Sort by buttons right: Deck, Name, Cost, Rarity; CANCEL button
  • Crew rail left and ship status panel bottom left

Top 3 colors

#0a082d 29%#45466c 18%#060428 18%

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

Source and credit

© Rocket Rat Games / Brace Yourself Games, Cobalt Core screenshot: Launch Date Announcement Trailer (Steam) and Jan 2023 Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Brace Yourself Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: scene frame from the official Steam trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; header, instruction line, all twelve visible cards, sort buttons, CANCEL, and crew rail confirmed legible

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