Summoning: a Breach!, the countdown ring at 4.7 seconds

About this game

Developer: Weather Factory · Publisher: Weather Factory · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

A verb in Cultist Simulator is a timer you have already paid for, and this frame is the paying made visible. The panel holds still for its sixty seconds: the prose ('The things from outside the world have many weapons: knives and riddles, fire and despair. I have weapons of my own.') does not change, the button has collapsed to 'Running...', and the only live elements are the countdown ring, 4.7s left, drawn as a draining arc, and the aspect ledger along the foot, which restates the whole working as totals: 26, 6, 12, 12, 2. Suspense here is not a cutscene; it is watching a number you assembled decide what arrives. The spent ingredient cards pinned at the panel's edge are the receipt, the game never lets a cost leave the screen before its consequence lands. Frame at about 0:32 in BRING THE DAWN (Steam; manual extraction from the held running panel).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

modal-panel status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Data table Progress bar

Screen inventory

• the running verb panel's only animation is a thin ring at top-right with a black lozenge reading '4.7s', the summoning's remaining time is a number and an arc, nothing else moves
• the panel's foot is a full aspect ledger: icon-and-total pairs reading 26, 6, 12, 12 and 2 across a dozen principle icons (pentacle, Grail cup, hammer, knife, key, question mark, lantern and more), everything the working contains, summed
• the button that said Start now reads 'Running...' and is greyed, a verb in progress refuses further input and says so in the button's own label
• five small card icons sit spent along the panel's lower right (an eye, a red silhouette, the Frangiclave key, a Grail seal, a rite card), the consumed ingredients remain visible as a receipt while the timer runs
• above the panel, the table's unspent resources wait untouched: Passion (2), Reason (3), 'Temptation: Enlightenment' and 'Scholar: Sanskrit'

Top 3 colors

#0a161d 30%#173335 24%#204041 21%

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

Source and credit

© Weather Factory, Cultist Simulator screenshot: PENETRATE THE HOUSE and BRING THE DAWN (Steam), Weather Factory, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Weather Factory.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-dawn-breach-32.png @ ~32s in BRING THE DAWN, MD5 7a4650759f427acb1b0d501a7404f5bc, from steam-718670-BRING-THE-DAWN.mp4 (88.52s, 1920x1080, 61,817,619 B, MD5 37def90f5fa2c77a07c8e13c980f2729; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the title 'Summoning: a Breach!', the '4.7s' countdown lozenge and ring arc, the aspect totals row (26 / 6 / 12 / 12 / 2), the spent card icons and the 'Running...' button all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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