Battle grid: inspecting a Scarab, every enemy attack declared with red arrows

About this game

Developer: Subset Games · Publisher: Subset Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The companion view to the Lightning Mech screen, and the one that proves the telegraph system is symmetric: click an enemy and the bottom-left panel swaps your pilot for the Scarab's portrait and name, while the board draws that side's intentions just as plainly. Four Vek in the lower-right quadrant are all mid-declaration, bent red arrows showing push-and-attack directions off the shield-bubbled unit and the downed mech, a straight arrow rising from a cracked emergence tile, red hand markers on the attackers, and a second striped target zone threatens the building cluster at centre-left. Perfect information cuts both ways in the design: there is no fog, no percentage-to-hit gamble on the enemy's part, only geometry the player failed to answer. The stakes are wired into the same frame: the Power Grid up top is down to two lit segments, the generator the objectives tell you to protect ('Protect the Power Generator', alongside 'Defend the Disposal Unit' and the cheerfully impossible 'Dispose of all mountains') stands outlined at the board's top centre, and the green acid pools on the right wait as both hazard and tool. Where the first screen shows a turn being planned, this one shows a turn about to hurt, and shows it early enough to prevent. Frame at about 0:49 in the Into The Breach - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0010.png at 49.23s, copied to the workdir root as battle-grid-enemy-intent-scarab.png).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar side-panel intent-icons portrait-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Grid Portrait Marker Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• the same battle frame as the Lightning Mech screen, but the inspection has flipped sides: bottom-left now shows the enemy, a large Scarab portrait filling the panel, its name on a bar above it with a green move-3 icon, because the cursor is resting on a Vek, not a mech
• four enemies crowd the board's lower-right quadrant and every one of them is declaring its attack: thick red arrows bend off the shield-bubbled unit at centre and off the fallen light mech on its striped tile, a straight red arrow rises from the cracked emergence tile at right, and red hand-shaped markers sit on two of the attackers
• two separate red-striped target zones: one under the downed mech at lower left, one sweeping up toward the cylindrical buildings at centre-left, where two more bent red arrows point down at the building cluster
• the objective being threatened stands at the board's top centre under a yellow selection outline: the Power Generator building with its green balloon-like tank, chimneys and canisters behind it
• green acid pools spread across the right side, four bright tiles that are terrain, threat and weapon at once, since anything pushed into them corrodes
• the familiar frame holds: POWER GRID with only two segments lit, GRID DEFENSE 15%, RESET TURN available (not greyed), End Turn / UNDO MOVE, the three pilot cards plus a fourth objective-unit card on the left rail, ATTACK ORDER top-right, Victory in 3 turns, and Bonus Objectives, 'Defend the Disposal Unit', 'Dispose of all mountains', 'Protect the Power Generator'; bottom-right tile card reads 'Ground Tile, No special effect.'

Top 3 colors

#131417 25%#554e4e 23%#111114 17%

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

Source and credit

© Subset Games, Into the Breach screenshot: Into The Breach - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Subset Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0010.png, 49.233833s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native) and confirmed as a genuine, settled, fully legible battle state, the Scarab name bar and move icon and its full portrait panel bottom-left, the four pilot/objective cards on the left rail, POWER GRID at two segments, GRID DEFENSE 15%, RESET TURN, Victory in 3 turns, all three Bonus Objectives lines, the yellow-outlined Power Generator, both red-striped target zones, every red direction arrow and emergence marker, and the Ground Tile card all readable; full-frame with no trailer pan crop, no typography overlay and no transition ghosting; flagged by the pipeline as similar_to v0_0001 and checked visually, it is a different battle, different biome state and the opposite inspection target (enemy, not own mech), not a duplicate frame

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