Dungeon exploration HUD: hero panel, stress and provision inventory

Darkest Dungeon · HUD & Gameplay UI

Art style Hand-drawn & ink

Darkest Dungeon - Dungeon exploration HUD: hero panel, stress and provision inventory

About this game

Developer: Red Hook Studios · Publisher: Red Hook Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Hand-drawn & ink · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Exploration carries a permanent two-part dashboard across the bottom third. On the left the selected hero is a compact stat sheet, portrait, five numbered skills, health as a fraction (23 / 23) and stress given equal billing as a second fraction (64 / 200), the game's signature second health bar, while the right half is the party's shared inventory, where preparation is stored as counted physical stacks (7 torches, 3 shovels, 5 bandages) so supplies can be audited at a glance without opening a menu. Light itself is promoted to a HUD element: the torch meter runs the full width of the top edge, so the resource that governs the whole dungeon is never off-screen. Frame at about 0:15 in the Official Release Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 15.0s: the scene-change pass returned no frames at all for this video.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

stat-panel portrait-panel minimal-hud

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Portrait Nameplate Vitals bar Gauge Slots

Screen inventory

  • torch light meter spanning the top of the screen
  • four-hero party standing in a Cove corridor
  • hero portrait with nameplate Montgomery / Vestal
  • five numbered skill icons
  • HP fraction 23 / 23
  • stress readout 64 / 200 beside a crown icon
  • ACC 0 and CRIT 2.5% stat lines
  • weapon, armour and trinket slots
  • inventory grid of counted provision stacks (7 torches, 3 shovels, 5 bandages)
  • gold and heirloom counters along the inventory base (1,500 / 2 / 12 / 525)

Top 3 colors

#08070a 22%#040305 20%#100e12 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 15.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Official Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (hero panel, stress readout, skill icons, provision inventory and counters) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-22); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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