Hypnos File Manager open on the HypnOS desktop, dock below

About this game

Developer: Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media · Publisher: No More Robots · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Hypnospace Outlaw's whole fiction is an operating system, and the File Manager is where that stops being a joke and becomes a system: downloads land as evidence with names, dates and a FILE SOURCE field, each row deletable with one click. The design choice to study is restraint, a plain three-column table in pink-on-plum, no thumbnails, no previews, because in 1999 a file manager was a ledger, and the game trusts the ledger to carry the detective work. The permanent status strip (date, time, hypnocash) and the seven-icon dock frame it as a workplace, not a backdrop. Frame at about 0:26 in the New Launch Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-table bottom-dock icon-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Window List Data table Clock

Screen inventory

• the HYPNOS FILE MANAGER window is a three-column table, TYPE / NAME / DATE, with type icons and pink pixel text on dark plum: Boppas_…, FallingMeat, FlyingMeat, SpaceMeat, arianhalloween, gooper-screen, capacash, every row dated 1999.11.05 between 9:05P and 9:21P and carrying its own red X delete button
• the window's footer is a single field, 'FILE SOURCE:', provenance is part of the file list itself, because an Enforcer's downloads are evidence
• above the window, the HypnOS status strip reads 1999.11.05, 9:22P and a hypnocash balance of H132; the OS clock and wallet never leave the top of the screen
• the desktop under it is a repeating beige-and-mauve geometric wallpaper with no icons on it at all, everything lives in windows or in the bottom dock
• the dock is seven chunky pictograms, treasure chest, question mark, gear, file-manager, shield, the Hypnospace planet, sticky note, with a trash bin at the far right

Top 3 colors

#4e1f49 20%#8b8aa7 20%#afaba0 18%

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

Source and credit

© Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media / No More Robots, Hypnospace Outlaw screenshot: Hypnospace Outlaw: 2020 Trailer + New Launch Trailer (Steam), No More Robots, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by No More Robots.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: scene-change survivor candidates/v1_0012.png @ 26.47s in the New Launch Trailer, MD5 54de5a4eb5a4b4663158e12f7b1e3a11, from the verified-clean retry download (43,051,185 B, MD5 70cfab9b59d8d37f0bda8b2a8f112a14; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the HYPNOS FILE MANAGER title, all seven file rows with dates, the per-row X buttons, 'FILE SOURCE:' footer, the 1999.11.05 9:22P / H132 status strip and all seven dock icons legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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