Sanitarium: Treatment Ward, Medical Ward and diseases

About this game

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

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What to study

A hero's long-term damage is treated as two different kinds of problem, and the Sanitarium's panel is split to say so: the Treatment Ward handles quirks, 'Treat Quirks and other problematic behaviors', while the Medical Ward handles diseases, 'humours, and other physical maladies', each described in one plain sentence under its heading. Treatment is physical commitment, not a purchase dialog: the hero (here Reynauld) is placed into a cell in a grid drawn as rows of barred doors, and his affliction is priced in mechanical terms right where it is treated, the Diseases panel names Creeping Cough and states its cost as '-20% DMG'. The roster rail stays docked at the right throughout, so who is healthy, who is committed and who is available is always one glance. Frame at about 0:24 in the Official Release Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 24.0s: the scene-change pass returned no frames at all for this video.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-panel side-panel stat-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid List Portrait Marker Slots

Screen inventory

• Sanitarium header with the ward keeper's portrait holding a syringe
• Treatment Ward section: 'Treat Quirks and other problematic behaviors.'
• Medical Ward section: 'Treat Diseases, humours, and other physical maladies.'
• two ward slot grids drawn as rows of cell doors
• hero Reynauld slotted into the Medical Ward with a disease marker
• Diseases panel naming Creeping Cough with its penalty '-20% DMG'
• hero roster rail down the right edge
• gold counter 6,160 and heirloom counters (10 / 10 / 10 / 24)

Top 3 colors

#000000 24%#151514 20%#0c0b0b 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 24.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Official Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (Sanitarium wards, Reynauld's slot, Diseases panel with Creeping Cough penalty, roster rail) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

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