Oath of the Unseen: vows and the Fear budget

About this game

Developer: Supergiant Games · Publisher: Supergiant Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Government / Policy / Laws

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What to study

Self-imposed difficulty returns as an oath: the same contract grammar as the Pact of Punishment (hades-3), a grid of Conditions each priced in a red-numbered currency, a running total judged against a budget, one clause explained in a tooltip, but the fiction and economy are new: vows like Pain, Frenzy, Debt and Hubris charge Fear (+1 to +3, total 35 in the vial), and the active Vow of Return turns slain foes into Revenants at 25% chance. The highlighted clause's keyword is defined in a corner tooltip, 'Revenant: After 5 Sec., this becomes the foe it came from, unless you collect it first', the same define-the-term-in-place habit as the Pact's condition tooltips, and the stone tablet keeps the screen an object in Melinoë's world rather than a detached menu. Frame at about 2:23 in the v1.0 Showcase (Steam), manually extracted at 143s: the scene-change pass emitted no settled frame for this screen (142s has the tooltip cut off; 143s shows the full Revenant tooltip).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Grid Gauge Tooltip Badge

Screen inventory

• OATH OF THE UNSEEN header with 'Testaments 1 / 48'
• 16-vow grid (Pain, Grit, Wards, Frenzy, Hordes, Menace, Return active, Fangs, Scars, Debt, Shadow, Forfeit, Time, Void, Hubris, Denial)
• Fear cost badge +1 / +2 / +3 per vow
• Fear total 35 at the right end of the purple Fear meter along the bottom, captioned 'Testament marked. Fear exceeds the requirement, not that you care.'
• VOW OF RETURN detail card: RANK I active, 'Most slain foes have 25% chance to become a Revenant'
• Revenant tooltip at bottom right defining the highlighted keyword: 'After 5 Sec., this becomes the foe it came from, unless you collect it first.'
• the stone-tablet screen sits in the Crossroads scene, Melinoë's green cloak at the right edge

Top 3 colors

#050408 21%#4a5449 20%#111017 17%

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

Source and credit

© Supergiant Games, Hades II screenshot: v1.0 Launch Trailer and v1.0 Showcase (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Supergiant Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 143s from the pipeline-downloaded v1.0 Showcase (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (all 16 vows, Fear costs and total, Vow of Return detail, Revenant tooltip) confirmed visible and legible; the Showcase's burned-in segment headline ('REACH FOR NEW CHALLENGES') crosses the top of the frame above the vow grid and covers no vow

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