Thought Cabinet: Indirect Modes of Taxation

About this game

Developer: ZA/UM · Publisher: ZA/UM · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

The Thought Cabinet renders the detective's inner life as a cabinet of diamond slots over a grotesque anatomical painting: researched thoughts fill the grid with tiny artworks, a sortable list tracks every thought found, and the detail panel splits the selected thought into PROBLEM and SOLUTION prose with its research time and bonuses. Even the footer stays in fiction - experience and skill points sit beside a CANCEL button styled like a case-file form. Frame at about 1:41 in the Date Announce and Features Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

slot-grid detail-panel research-timer

Components

Parts on screen.

List Slots

Screen inventory

• diamond thought slots
• thought list with sort controls
• problem and solution text
• research remaining timer
• bonuses from thoughts list
• experience and skill points footer

Top 3 colors

#0e0e0d 22%#4b3b33 19%#7c5f41 18%

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

Source and credit

© ZA/UM, Disco Elysium screenshot: Date Announce and Features Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ZA/UM.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame extracted from the official Date Announce and Features Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually; real game UI (thought cabinet) confirmed visible

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