Battle: Mindthief's Perverse Edge and Into the Night, loot hexes lit

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

The planning half of the same system the Brute frame shows resolving. Round 1, the Mindthief has led with an initiative of 8, fast enough to act before every monster in the 8 / 11 / 11 / 19 / 21 / 38 row, and the two chosen cards are doing quiet double work: Perverse Edge's top attacks and generates a dark element off the target's conditions, its bottom stuns at range while generating ice and light, and elements are a real currency here, because the scenario card at the right warns that 'All Elements are set to Inert at the start of every round'. The second card's bottom half never touches an enemy at all: Into the Night's Loot 1 is answered by the board, three hexes around the chest lighting up white-blue to show exactly what will be gathered. Gloomhaven's interface keeps translating card text into board geometry, ranges, loot areas and push paths are drawn where they will happen, so the player reads the room, not a manual. Frame at about 1:47 in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer (Steam; scene-change extraction, candidates/v0_0008.png).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-hand grid-overlay portrait-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Banner Portrait Vitals bar Slots Tooltip

Screen inventory

• top centre, the initiative row reads 8, 11, 11, 19, 21, 38, the Mindthief's 8 is ringed gold, and one enemy portrait carries a small shield icon beneath it
• left, the Mindthief's pair: Perverse Edge (Attack 3, 'Add +2 Attack and gain [dark element] for each negative condition on the target'; initiative 8; bottom Attack 1, Range 2, STUN, generating ice and light element icons) over Into the Night (Loot 1; initiative 14; bottom INVISIBLE, Self)
• three hexes glow white-blue in the middle of the stone floor around a treasure chest, the Loot 1 half of Into the Night is drawn on the board itself as lit hexes, not described in a tooltip
• right, the scenario card 'A Boon': Lose if the Spellweaver is exhausted; Kill all enemies in all rooms; 'All Elements are set to Inert at the start of every round'; below it the battle goal 'Sadist, Kill five or more monsters during the scenario 0/5'; Gold: 0 above both
• bottom-right corner, the turn banner is two quiet lines, 'Round 1' and 'Mindthief's Turn', while health bars float over the figures as plain numbers: 10 and 8 in green segments, 3 and 4 in red
• the far-left icon rail carries the active hero's items through the turn, here with a green flask lit among the helm, armour and boot slots

Top 3 colors

#0f1c21 23%#245265 21%#0c323c 18%

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: scene-change extraction candidates/v0_0008.png @ 106.9s in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer, MD5 6e94ce66f88e6b53b05b3221323fc16d, 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 Perverse Edge and Into the Night card text with initiatives 8 and 14, the 8 / 11 / 11 / 19 / 21 / 38 initiative row, the 'A Boon' scenario terms, the Sadist battle goal at 0/5, the lit loot hexes and the 'Round 1 / Mindthief's Turn' banner all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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