Night mass battle: horde swarm, resource bar, minimap wave timer

About this game

Developer: Door 407 · Publisher: Door 407 · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The game's signature readout is scale under pressure: a horde of tens of thousands of units fills the frame, and the HUD answers with the numbers that decide whether the settlement survives it. Population sits over cap (70/60) while food runs at 144/500, so growth (17 per day) and the wave clock (01:45, wave 2 of 2) are read together, not separately. The circular minimap does double duty as the wave timer, and the build palette stays open at the bottom, so defence construction is part of the battle screen rather than a separate mode. Frame at about 0:25 in the Gameplay trailer 10.2024 (Steam). Disclosure: a small in-game 0.9.28 dev build watermark is visible in the bottom-left corner; no trailer captions appear on the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay status-row top-bar bottom-dock map-hud

Components

Parts on screen.

Minimap Resource bar Clock Toolbar

Screen inventory

• Top resource bar: population 70/60, food 144/500, wood 720, 100, 100, 20 souls, 10 gold
• Day counter 2; Population growth 17 per day, Food consumption 0 per day
• Circular minimap bottom left with wave timer 01:45 and 2/2 waves
• Bottom build palette: towers and structures grid, tool icons, speed controls
• Night mass battle: horde swarming a forest clearing, fire burning at its centre
• Left icon rail (info, units, build) and crossed-swords wave banner top right (3)

Top 3 colors

#271d26 24%#332d28 21%#3d3c2b 20%

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

Source and credit

© Door 407, Diplomacy is Not an Option screenshot: Gameplay trailer 10.2024 (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Door 407.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: scene frame from the official Steam trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; resource counts, day counter, growth and consumption lines, minimap, wave timer, wave count, and build palette confirmed legible

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