Embark: quest selection over the region map

About this game

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

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What to study

Choosing a quest is reading a map, not picking from a list: the estate's hunting grounds are one painted landmass, Ruins, Warrens, Weald and the still-locked Cove, its padlock drawn right on the region's name bar, and available expeditions hang on their regions as green medallions. The selected quest's contract is docked at the left in three short statements: its size and difficulty ('Short | Apprentice (Lvl 1)'), its goal in a single sentence ('Complete 100% of room battles'), and its pay shown as three counted icons under Rewards (3000 gold, 2 busts, 2 crests). The four portraits of the party that will attempt it sit in a tray beneath the map, the estate's heirloom wealth runs along the bottom edge, and the flow ends in one red Provision button, the last stop before supplies are bought. Frame at about 0:25 in the Official Early Access Launch Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 25.0s: the scene-change pass caught this screen only as blown-out flash frames. Caveat: the trailer fades its quest flavour paragraph in at the panel's top-left and those few lines are still translucent in this frame; the goal, rewards, regions, party and Provision button are all fully legible.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait Map Marker Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• painted region map with named areas Ruins, Warrens, Weald and Cove
• green medallion quest markers on available regions
• padlock icons on locked regions
• quest panel: 'Short | Apprentice (Lvl 1)'
• goal line 'Goals: Complete 100% of room battles.'
• Rewards row: 3000 gold, 2 busts, 2 crests
• four hero portraits forming the expedition party under the map
• heirloom counters along the bottom (68 / 91 / 46 / 10)
• Provision button in red at the bottom centre

Top 3 colors

#000000 32%#181313 17%#040203 14%

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 25.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Official Early Access Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (region map, quest panel, rewards, party portraits, Provision button) confirmed visible and legible; the trailer's fading flavour text at the panel's top-left does not cover any functional UI element

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