Overworld RTS combat: Escape the flames

About this game

Developer: Realmforge Studios · Publisher: Kalypso Media · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The same overworld HUD under fire: the quest tracker now carries fail conditions (Thalya and the Grave Golem must not die), the top bar has collapsed to four counts, and the bottom centre shows the army as unit cards with counts (Thalya 5, Grave Golem 11, 27) instead of the tooltip the previous frame leads with. Damage numbers and health bars float over the fight itself, so the feedback lives in the world rather than in a log. The minimap and army stats persist bottom left, keeping the dungeon context visible while the player fights above ground. Frame at about 50s in the How 2 Play Trailer US (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

resource-bar quest-tracker damage-numbers health-bars unit-cards spell-icons

Components

Parts on screen.

Resource bar Quest tracker Minimap Vitals bar Card

Screen inventory

• top resource bar: 0, 0, 1, 0
• quest tracker top left: 'Escape the flames' with 'Thalya still cannot be allowed to die.' and 'The Grave Golem cannot be allowed to die.'
• damage numbers (5, 10, 50, 80, 140, 165, 175, 325) and red/green health bars over combatants
• bottom-left minimap with timer plaque '00:31' and army stats 140, 2, 0, 4.5
• unit cards bottom centre: Thalya (5), Grave Golem (11), third unit (27), all with green selection outlines
• spell icons left edge (green book, purple pentagram, dark hat) and right edge (red banner, grey diamonds)
• bottom-right wooden panel (minimap frame)

Top 3 colors

#524944 23%#262b27 21%#3f3330 18%

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

Source and credit

© Realmforge Studios / Kalypso Media, Dungeons 3 screenshot: Steam store movies for app 493900: 'Release Trailer US', 'How 2 Play Trailer US', 'Announcement Teaser' (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kalypso Media.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-05. verified 2026-11-05: frame inspected visually at full resolution; quest tracker, unit cards with counts, damage numbers, health bars, minimap and army stats all legible; dense-scan frame (dense-b/b_0026.png, t = 50s). Caveat: the '00:31' timer plaque bottom left is the trailer's own overlay, not game UI; the frame 2s later (b_0027) is a near-duplicate and was dropped.

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