Combat: hero sheet and enemy intel side by side

About this game

Developer: Red Hook Studios · Publisher: Red Hook Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Hand-drawn & ink · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Combat's lower half is two facing data sheets. The acting hero's full stat block sits on the left (health, stress, damage range 4-9, dodge, protection, speed), and the inspected enemy is documented just as completely on the right: the Pelagic Guardian's hit points, its Eldritch type, and every resistance as an explicit percentage, Bleed 60%, Stun 25%, Move 50%, with its one skill named. Nothing about the opponent is hidden, so tactics are arithmetic rather than guesswork: you choose attacks against numbers you can read. Above the panels the fight itself stays legible as theatre, four heroes in rank order against four enemies, a segmented red health bar floating beneath each figure, and the crossed-swords skull banner still hanging over the encounter. Frame at about 0:17 in the Official Release Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 16.5s: the scene-change pass returned no frames at all for this video.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel stat-panel portrait-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner List Vitals bar Gauge Pips Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• quest tracker top-left reading 'Explore, Explore 90% of rooms.'
• torch light meter across the top
• four heroes in rank order facing four Pelagic enemies and a chest
• segmented health bars and rank pips beneath each combatant
• crossed-swords skull banner marking the battle
• hero panel: Montgomery, Vestal, HP 23 / 23, stress 64 / 200, ACC 0, CRIT 2.5%, DMG 4-9, DODGE 10, PROT 0%, SPD 4
• enemy panel: Pelagic Guardian, HP: 25 / 25, ELDRITCH type, PROT: 33%, DODGE: 0, SPD: 0
• Resistances list, Stun 25%, Blight 10%, Bleed 60%, Debuff 10%, Move 50%
• enemy skill listed: Octocestus

Top 3 colors

#000000 22%#020103 20%#0b080c 19%

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

Source and credit

© Red Hook Studios, Darkest Dungeon screenshot: Official Release Trailer and Official Early Access Launch Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Hook Studios.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 16.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Official Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (hero stat block, enemy intel panel with resistances, quest tracker, health bars) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

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