Treasure Chest: choose one item, Philosopher's Stone tradeoff tooltip

About this game

Developer: Chasing Carrots · Publisher: Chasing Carrots · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The game's loot decision in one frame, and the reason it earns a catalog slot beside the HUD frames: the chest pauses the run for a forced tradeoff, not a free pickup. The hovered tooltip states both sides plainly (all stats doubled, maximum HP cut by 1000), the equipment panel on the left shows exactly where the item would land in the body-slot layout, and the persistent side rails (level, pools, Agony, gold, skulls, clock) keep run context visible inside a modal. Note the second choice, a pair of gloves, is not hovered, so its name and effect are not shown and are not claimed here. No trailer burn-in, captions, or overlays are visible in this frame. Frame at about 0:20 (19.5s) in the Halls of Torment Gameplay video (Steam); targeted manual extraction, not a scene-change frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

slot-grid modal-panel side-panel detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Slots Tooltip Choices Vitals bar Resource bar Clock Menu

Screen inventory

• Treasure Chest panel: 'Choose One Item' with two green-highlighted choices
• Hovered tooltip: Philosopher's Stone, 'Boost all stats by 100%', 'Reduce Maximum HP by 1000'
• Equipment panel left: body-slot layout with helmet, ring, amulet, boots, torso, gloves; Bag row of four empty slots below
• Active modifiers top right: +50% XP; hero level 18, health 8 502 / 9 126, second pool 193 / 768
• Right rail: ability grid, Agony 0, 253 gold, 654 skulls, run clock 23:30; small chest icon above the choice panel

Top 3 colors

#242223 27%#0d0a0a 19%#181414 18%

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

Source and credit

© Chasing Carrots, Halls of Torment screenshot: Halls of Torment Gameplay (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Chasing Carrots.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: targeted frame from the official Steam video, inspected visually at full resolution; choice panel, tooltip text, equipment slots, Bag row, side-rail values, and clock confirmed legible; unhovered second item left unnamed

No published Chasing Carrots fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-03); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h.

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