Choose a Destination: three asteroids, no numbers

About this game

Developer: Klei Entertainment · Publisher: Klei Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The game's first and most consequential decision is presented with almost no interface at all: a magenta 'CHOOSE A DESTINATION' bar and three asteroids floating on a starfield, one cratered and grey, one streaked with water, one capped with ice. There are no stat blocks, no difficulty ratings, no resource lists; the rocks' portraits are the pitch, and the player reads climate and promise straight off the drawing, Klei's cartoon house style doing the work a spreadsheet would do in another sim. The trailer frames the panel as an inset over the zoomed-out asteroid, caverns, water pools and the Printing Pod chamber with its three first duplicants, which is accidentally honest: this choice is the map, made before the map exists. Frame at about 0:28 in the Launch Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

modal-panel card-choice

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait

Screen inventory

• magenta header bar reading 'CHOOSE A DESTINATION' in white capitals across the panel's top
• three asteroid options drawn as large rock portraits on a starfield: a cratered grey rock (large, left), a smaller water-streaked rock (centre), an ice-capped rock (right, partly cropped by the panel edge)
• no stats, names or difficulty text anywhere on the panel, the choice is presented purely as planetary portraiture
• the panel inset over the zoomed-out asteroid itself: layered caverns, glowing water pools at the right and below
• the Printing Pod chamber visible mid-frame with the colony's first three duplicants standing beside it

Top 3 colors

#2f2216 25%#242018 18%#392e28 16%

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

Source and credit

© Klei Entertainment, Oxygen Not Included screenshot: Launch Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Klei Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame extracted from the official Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine destination-selection panel confirmed ('CHOOSE A DESTINATION' header, three asteroid options) composited by the trailer as an inset over the asteroid map, in play this choice is a full pre-game screen; a 4fps segment scan (~27-32.5s) shows the inset scrolling further asteroid options, so the panel is a carousel, not a static card

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