Codex: the weapon catalogue as a picture grid

About this game

Developer: Signal Space Lab · Publisher: Wild Hog Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The Codex treats a weapon catalogue as a picture book: big renders, one name each, and a one-sentence description in the detail pane where most games would put a stat table. The grid still smuggles in information, human wood-and-steel guns and pale alien energy weapons read as two families at a glance, and a tiny orange eye glyph flags special entries, but it is all carried by art and icon, never by numbers. It also shows the game's whole menu architecture in one frame: five top tabs and an eight-entry category rail, the same shell the Skills and Map screens live in. Frame at about 0:37 in the 1.0 Launch Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v1_0014.png at 37.0s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid detail-panel split-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Grid Journal Map Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• the Codex is one shell for everything: a top tab bar (QUESTS / MAP / WEAPONS / SKILLS / CODEX) over a left category rail (THORNS / RIFTERS / WEAPONS / MODS / GEAR / LOCATIONS / DISCOVERIES / TUTORIALS)
• weapons are a grid of large horizontal renders, one name per card (LONGHAUL, THUMPER, DEADBOLT, STUMPER), silhouette first, no stat columns anywhere
• two visual families share the grid without a word of explanation: wood-and-steel human guns in warm tones, pale-blue alien weapons with glowing seams, provenance read purely from art direction
• small orange eye icons mark some cards (RIPTIDE, SHREDDR, ROASTER, BOOMER), a seen/unseen or secret flag carried by one glyph
• the detail pane gives the selected STUMPER a full-height render and a single sentence, 'A sawed-off shotgun ideal for close-range.', flavour instead of numbers

Top 3 colors

#13141d 21%#030407 19%#0c0e15 18%

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

Source and credit

© Signal Space Lab / Wild Hog Games, Every Day We Fight screenshot: Gameplay Trailer and 1.0 Launch Trailer videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Wild Hog Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v1_0014.png, 37.0s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled Codex frame, weapon grid, category rail and detail pane sharp and legible

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