Battle: the Brute's two cards, Overwhelming Assault over Trample

About this game

Developer: Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive · Publisher: Twin Sails Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

This frame is Gloomhaven's whole design in one shot. A turn is not picked from a menu: the player commits two ability cards, and each card is two half-actions, a top and a bottom, hinged on the initiative number printed between them. The Brute's pair stays pinned at the left while the turn plays out, Overwhelming Assault (61) over Trample (72), so the decision remains on screen as its consequences land: the x2 and -1 attack-modifier results flipping over the Inox, the push the bottom half promised ('Brute pushes Inox Archer 13 away 2 hexes', in the combat log) actually moving a figure. The same numbers do double duty, the 61 that sits in the card's centre is also the gold-ringed 61 in the initiative portrait row across the top, which is how a card game becomes a turn order without a separate timeline widget. Around the edges, the scenario states its terms as checklists ('It's a Trap!', survive 10 more rounds, 0/10) and a private battle goal (Indigent) that pays the player for not looting, the board game's secret objectives, kept visible but unobtrusive. Frame at about 1:13 in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the two-card HUD is a held shot inside one long battle sequence, so the scene-change pass fired on the cuts around it, not on the settled screen).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-hand portrait-row quest-tracker

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Log Portrait Marker Vitals bar Slots

Screen inventory

• across the top, the initiative order is a row of six portraits numbered 4, 16, 16, 50, 61 and 74, the 61 portrait is ringed in gold because its owner is acting now
• left, the Brute's two chosen cards are stacked as full cards: Overwhelming Assault (top half Attack 6; centre initiative 61; bottom Move 3, PUSH 2, 'Target one adjacent enemy') over Trample (Attack 3, PIERCE 2; initiative 72; Move 4 Jump, Attack 2, 'Target all enemies moved through'), each card is two half-actions hinged on its initiative number
• the attack is resolving in the world: red x2 and purple -1 modifier results burst over the Inox, whose health bars read 5 (red) and 12 (green, segmented), with small numbered standee markers 3, 2 and 5 on the figures
• right edge, the scenario panel is a checklist, not a paragraph: 'It's a Trap!', Lose if 1 Tinkerer die; Loot 1 Ornate Chest to win; Survive 10 more rounds 0/10, plus the standing rule 'All Heroes & Summons are permanently Strengthened' and the battle goal 'Indigent: Loot no gold piles or chests tiles during the scenario'
• bottom-right, a three-line combat log narrates the resolution in plain text: 'Inox Archer 13 activates Bear Trap and takes 2 damage' and 'Brute pushes Inox Archer 13 away 2 hexes', under a Gold: 0 counter, while a spilled gold pile glitters on the forest floor
• down the far-left edge, a slim icon rail holds the active character's item slots, helm, armour and boots above, a potion flask near the bottom already shown spent

Top 3 colors

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

Source and credit

© Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive / Twin Sails Interactive, Gloomhaven screenshot: Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer (Steam), Twin Sails Interactive, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Twin Sails Interactive.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-brute-cards-73.png @ ~73s in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer, MD5 28d5c2bd6f6a4b51c6a485dde036bb04, from the pipeline download (182,718,036 B, MD5 47da8cdd73706034495e7ca45444562d; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the Overwhelming Assault and Trample card text with initiatives 61 and 72, the 4 / 16 / 16 / 50 / 61 / 74 initiative row, the 'It's a Trap!' objectives, the Indigent battle goal and the combat-log lines all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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