Mirror of Night: permanent talent upgrades for Darkness

About this game

Developer: Supergiant Games · Publisher: Supergiant Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

Permanent progression is a single framed list you can read like a bank statement: twelve talents in fixed rows, each showing what it gives now (+30% Shadow Presence, +40% Boiling Blood) and what the next rank costs in Darkness (25, 80, 90, up to 500), with finished talents simply reading MAX and the wallet, 10,660 Darkness, sitting at the head of the panel where every price is judged against it. The selected talent explains itself in a tooltip card at the right (Boiling Blood: bonus damage to foes with a Cast in them, +10% per rank), and the whole grid lives inside a skeletal mirror flanked by skulls, so the meta-progression screen is still an object in Zagreus's bedroom rather than a detached menu. Frame at about 1:45 in the v1.0 Gameplay Showcase (Steam), manually extracted at 104.5s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame for this screen. Caveat: the Showcase's burned-in segment headline ('Grow Permanently Stronger') crosses the top of the frame above the panel; every talent row, value and cost is legible below it.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

stat-panel cost-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tooltip

Screen inventory

• MIRROR OF NIGHT header with flavour line 'Within the Infinite Dark, Everything'
• twelve talent rows with icons
• current value per talent (percent, count or MAX)
• Darkness cost per rank with gem icon
• Darkness balance 10660 at the panel head
• Boiling Blood tooltip card (+10% per rank)
• respec button costing 1 Chthonic Key
• skeletal mirror frame with purple gems
• House resource counters down the right edge

Top 3 colors

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

Source and credit

© Supergiant Games, Hades screenshot: v1.0 Launch Trailer and v1.0 Gameplay 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 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame manually extracted at 104.5s from the pipeline-downloaded v1.0 Gameplay Showcase (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (Mirror of Night talent list, Darkness costs and Boiling Blood tooltip) confirmed visible and legible; the trailer's segment headline crosses the top edge above the panel and does not cover any talent row

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