Planning: the loop, card hand, equipment grid and necromancer stats

About this game

Developer: Four Quarters · Publisher: Devolver Digital · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

Loop Hero's central screen is a map you author and then watch: in Planning the expedition freezes, the loop hangs in the void, and the player's whole job is placement, which card, on which tile, next to what. The layout makes that division of labour visible: the map takes the centre, the deck sits large and legible at bottom left because choosing is the verb here, and the hero is pushed to a single right-hand column of grids and stats because, in this phase, he is a build to be tuned rather than a character to be steered. That the necromancer is identified only by MAX SKELETONS and SUMMON QUALITY in the stat list is the game's economy in miniature: classes are stat vocabularies, not portraits. Frame at about 0:23 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v0_0002).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar side-panel card-hand stat-panel map-nodes

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Illustration Grid List Marker Vitals bar Resource bar Slots

Screen inventory

• the top bar names the phase, not the place: PLANNING in the centre beside a wide eye icon, flanked by day-cycle bars and an hourglass speed control at left and resource counts at right, with ROUND / ENEMY LEVEL 7 above the settings gear, the game is paused and the bar says so
• the loop itself is a closed cobbled path floating in black void, already built out with placed tiles, a cemetery, wooden buildings, glowing creatures and yellow-ringed markers on the road, while the unbuilt world shows only as grey patches at the edges: mountains at top left, a rocky field at top right, a maze-like thicket at bottom left, all waiting for cards
• the hand sits bottom left as five large named cards, RUINS, SPIDER COCOON, CEMETERY, OBLIVION, RUINS, each a full illustration with its name on a plate, duplicates included, so in Planning the cards are big enough to read and choose between
• the right column is the hero in two grids and a list: an equipment grid (several slots still empty grey), health bars reading 657 / 706 and 67 / 540, a loot inventory grid whose items carry level numbers in their corners, and a red STATS panel that is unmistakably a necromancer's, DAMAGE 4-6, MAX HP +426, MAGIC HP 156, MAX SKELETONS 4, SUMMON QUALITY 52%, SKELETON LEVEL +7.27, the class is stated by its stat list, never by a class label

Top 3 colors

#0a0805 21%#130e0b 19%#4e3d34 19%

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

Source and credit

© Four Quarters / Devolver Digital, Loop Hero screenshot: Steam trailer (Gameplay Trailer), Four Quarters, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Devolver Digital.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: scene-change survivor candidates/v0_0002.png @ 22.53s in the Gameplay Trailer, MD5 0fbe0c23cf4b7452c9cb5765b8baf48a, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (37,439,428 B, MD5 3d8a53de20fee3c3d725375a14c82206; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1282730-Gameplay-Trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the PLANNING banner, all five named cards, both right-hand grids and the full STATS list legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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