Skills: three columns and a full-respec button

About this game

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

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What to study

A skill tree shrunk to three labelled columns, Kill Assist, Hologram, Utility, so a build reads as three short chains instead of a sprawling web; orange versus grey carries owned, available, and locked without a legend. The tooltip writes its effect in one sentence of plain language (a decoy that leaves ignitable oil) rather than stat math. Two trust decisions stand out: the character's full-body portrait and XP bar keep the screen about Vivian rather than about a grid, and Refund All Skills sits permanently on the bottom bar, making experimentation free and saying so up front. Frame at about 0:49 in the Gameplay Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0023.png at 48.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

skill-tree

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Portrait Pips Tooltip

Screen inventory

• three named columns organise one character's build, KILL ASSIST / HOLOGRAM / UTILITY, each a short vertical chain of square icon tiles linked by lines, read top to bottom
• state is pure colour: bought and available skills glow orange, locked or unreached tiles sit grey and desaturated, and the bottom row is padlocked behind three empty pips
• the open tooltip (COMBUSTIVE DECOY, Hologram, 1 SP COST) states the effect in one plain sentence about an ignitable oil surface, no percentages, no scaling math
• the character owns the left third: full-body comic portrait of Vivian, LV 4 with an XP figure (4,812.5 / 5,000), Skill Points: 1, and the three squad portraits along the bottom for switching without leaving the screen
• the economy of the screen is on its bottom edge: F PURCHASE SKILL / REFUND SKILL / X REFUND ALL SKILLS, respec is a first-class, always-visible action

Top 3 colors

#0a0c12 24%#06070b 20%#11131a 16%

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/v0_0023.png, 48.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled Skills frame, three columns, tooltip card and portrait sharp and legible

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