Monthly Mode: mode tabs, savegame grid scored by run

About this game

Developer: Toukana Interactive · Publisher: Toukana Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

Dorfromantik's front end treats modes as a tab strip of icons and saves as scored dioramas. The interesting choice is what the save list foregrounds: not dates or durations but the finished island and its score, because in a game with no fail state the score is the run's identity. Monthly Mode's fixed-seed premise, everyone plays the same map of the month, turns a solitary puzzle into a quiet leaderboard, and the interface states that in two sentences and six thumbnails. Screen-type note for Phase 2: the manifest has no dedicated main-menu type; settings-system is used here following the Surviving Mars main-menu precedent in the manifest. Frame at about 2:31 in the Full Release Explanation Trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v0_0005).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel tabbed-panel panel-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu Tabs List

Screen inventory

• the front end is a two-panel layout in the game's flat palette: at left the hand-drawn DORFROMANTIK logo over RESUME / YOUR GAMES / REWARDS and a row of system icons (toucan, settings gear, flower, power), at right the selected mode's panel over a blurred island backdrop
• a tab strip of seven line icons runs across the top of the right panel, graduation cap, crown, speech bubble, rabbit, flame, calendar (highlighted), sprout, one icon per mode, with no text labels until the mode is selected, so the strip is learned as iconography
• MONTHLY MODE is described in plain prose, a new configuration of custom rules and a fixed seed each month, compete with others on the map of the month, and below it the Savegames grid shows six past runs as hex-shaped island thumbnails each stamped with its final score: 940, 3560, 6150, 440, 1620, 2000, plus a + tile for a new run
• the savegame thumbnails are themselves tiny dioramas of the runs they record, so the save list doubles as a gallery of what the game produces; scores, not dates, are the headline on each tile

Top 3 colors

#b88352 23%#865939 22%#cd9157 21%

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

Source and credit

© Toukana Interactive, Dorfromantik screenshot: Steam trailers (Full Release Explanation Trailer; Full Release Teaser), Toukana Interactive, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Toukana Interactive.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-28. verified 2026-10-28: scene-change survivor candidates/v0_0005.png @ 151.39s in the Full Release Explanation Trailer, MD5 0cde1ee8c229718b6ac02a788b4b5482, from the verified-clean download (160,108,657 B, MD5 93ddaaeac9e4e5c4df97b61d9c527b0d; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-v0.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); MONTHLY MODE text, all six savegame scores and the + tile legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

not verified in this Phase-1 pass; Phase 2 to confirm before ingest (no policy claim made here)

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