Circuits skill tree, 'Flame Jab' MELEE ART tooltip, CP 15

About this game

Developer: Radical Fish Games · Publisher: Deck13 / WhisperGames / DANGEN Entertainment / Mayflower Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

CrossCode calls its skill tree Circuits, and the name is the design: progression is literally wired. Owned nodes are connected by glowing red cable, lit from a hub at the centre of the frame outward through diamond icons, fist, shield, heart, eye, sword, flame, while the branches not yet bought stay thin grey traces on the black ground, so the shape of a build can be read as a circuit diagram before a single label is read. Colour carries the state everywhere: red for live, grey for dormant, chained white frames for the two locked nodes at lower right. The tooltip is a model of compression, 'Flame Jab' in yellow, its class 'MELEE ART' small at the card's edge, one sentence of effect with the status it applies, 'Burn', coloured as a keyword, and the currency never leaves the screen: a flame icon and 'CP 15' sit between the LB / RB branch-switch tabs at bottom left. The header's 'Swap Branches' control is the system's promise that this wiring can be re-routed rather than regretted. Frame at about 1:11 in the CrossCode Trailer 0.7 (Steam), a manual extraction at 71.25s (the scene-change pass missed the whole 66–72s menu sequence), inspected at full resolution (1920x1080).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

skill-tree node-graph branching-paths

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Chart Tree / web Tooltip

Screen inventory

• header tabs: 'Circuits' title at left, then 'X Swap Branches', 'Y Help', 'B Back'
• a diamond-node graph on a near-black ground: the owned path at left and centre is drawn in glowing red lines through diamond icons (fist, shield, green heart, purple eye, sword and flame glyphs), while unowned branches at right stay thin and grey
• two locked nodes at lower right drawn as flame diamonds in chained white frames
• the open tooltip card: 'Flame Jab' in yellow with 'MELEE ART' at its right edge, and the description 'A blazing thrust of fire piercing through enemies in front of you. Causes Burn.', 'Burn' picked out in yellow
• bottom-left controls: 'LB' and 'RB' shoulder tabs flanking a flame icon with 'CP 15', the circuit-point balance

Top 3 colors

#141114 36%#151315 20%#141214 16%

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

Source and credit

© Radical Fish Games / Deck13 / WhisperGames / DANGEN Entertainment / Mayflower Entertainment, CrossCode screenshot: CrossCode Element Gameplay Trailer + CrossCode Trailer 0.7 (Steam), Radical Fish Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Deck13 / WhisperGames / DANGEN Entertainment / Mayflower Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: frame is a manual extraction (manual-circuits-71_25.png @ 71.25s) from the curl-shim download of the CrossCode Trailer 0.7 (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution; Circuits header, red owned path and grey unowned branches, the 'Flame Jab' / MELEE ART tooltip with 'Causes Burn.', the chained locked nodes and the CP 15 readout all confirmed visible and legible; no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the UI

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-23); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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