Pact of Punishment: Heat conditions and bounties

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 is written as a contract: the left column numbers the deal in plain steps (choose any Conditions, fill the Heat Gauge to 4, get out using the Stygian Blade) and tracks the bounty per region, while fourteen Conditions on the right each state their price in red, Hard Labor +25%, Heightened Security +400%, beside a −/+ stepper and the Heat skull it costs. The screen argues back when you overreach: the gauge in this frame has overshot to 11 and an inline warning asks 'Heat Gauge exceeded!! Choose fewer Conditions?', and the selected condition (Underworld Customs, at MAX) explains its rule in a tooltip card, each rank requires sacrificing a Boon on leaving each region. Frame at about 1:58 in the v1.0 Gameplay Showcase (Steam), manually extracted at 118.0s: the scene-change pass caught only the combat cut that follows this screen (candidates/v0_0050.png). Caveat: the Showcase's burned-in segment headline ('Turn Up the Heat for the Ultimate Challenge') sits across the top of the frame, above the Terms and Conditions panels, and covers no UI row.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-table detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Illustration Gauge Slots Stepper Tooltip

Screen inventory

• Terms panel with three numbered steps
• Stygian Blade weapon illustration
• Heat Gauge bar overshooting to 11 with 'Heat Gauge exceeded!!' warning
• Bounties row: Weapon BLADE, Heat 4, Tartarus / Asphodel / Elysium / Styx slots
• fourteen Conditions rows with red effect values
• - / + rank steppers with Heat skull costs
• Underworld Customs tooltip card
• Begin Escape button

Top 3 colors

#382520 23%#39342d 21%#141111 20%

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 118.0s from the pipeline-downloaded v1.0 Gameplay Showcase (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (Pact of Punishment Terms, Heat Gauge, Bounties and Conditions list) confirmed visible and legible; the trailer's segment headline crosses the top edge above the panels and does not cover any condition row

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-20); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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