Construction menu: structure pieces

NAUTUS · City & Base Management

About this game

Developer: Magic Design Studios · Publisher: Arc Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The build menu is a master-detail panel: category tabs (Utility, Structure, Decoration, Debug) run across the top, a scrolling grid of piece thumbnails fills the right, and the selected piece's art, description and material cost stay pinned in a detail pane on the left.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail tabbed-panel panel-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Grid Button prompts

Screen inventory

Top 3 colors

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

Source and credit

© Magic Design Studios / Arc Games, NAUTUS screenshot: official announce trailer (YouTube), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Arc Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-18. verified 2026-10-18: frame inspected visually; construction menu UI from the official announce trailer confirmed visible

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