Dungeon exploration HUD: Steamy Bathhouse, Bath #3

About this game

Developer: ATLUS · Publisher: SEGA · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Persona 4 Golden's exploration HUD is a television frame pretending to be a dungeon crawler's. Four facts get permanent furniture: where you are (a black minimap with the floor plan in grey and one green arrow), what this place is called (the location banner, typeset like a programme caption on a yellow slash), when it is (the 05/22 SUN Daytime chip with its weather medallion, the same calendar that runs the school year runs the dungeon), and how the party is doing (four slanted portrait chips down the right edge, health as twin green bars with the numbers withheld until battle). Even the rescue system is on the frame, not in a menu: the red SOS button sits in the corner for the whole crawl. And over everything, a scanline static wash, the dungeons exist inside a TV, so the view itself is a broadcast. Frame at 0:05.6 in the ReLaunch Trailer Jan 2023 (Unrated) (manual extraction; the scene-change pass caught this frame as v0_0003 at 5.59s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-chips location-label minimal-hud

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Document Portrait Minimap Vitals bar Clock Subtitles

Screen inventory

• a black minimap panel at bottom left: the explored floor plan drawn in grey with white door ticks and a single green arrow for the party's position and facing
• under the minimap, the location banner: 'Steamy Bathhouse, Bath #3' in white serif on a black bar riding a slanted yellow tab, the dungeon names its own floor like a TV programme caption
• top right, the calendar chip: a black pill reading '05/22 SUN' with 'Daytime' set under it in outlined type, and below it a yellow-ringed weather medallion showing a cloud
• a red SOS button pinned to the top-left corner, a white pointing hand over the letters 'Sos', the online rescue request given a permanent seat on the HUD
• the right edge carries the party as four slanted portrait chips (protagonist, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, all in profile facing left), each with twin green bars underneath and no numbers, exploration shows health as length, battle will show it as figures
• a fine TV-static scanline wash over the whole 3D view: inside the Midnight Channel, even the camera is a broadcast

Top 3 colors

#a4531f 25%#52301c 20%#ac6b38 17%

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

Source and credit

© ATLUS / SEGA, Persona 4 Golden screenshot: ReLaunch Trailer Jan 2023 (Unrated) (Steam), ATLUS / SEGA, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: frame is a manual extraction (manual-bathhouse-5_6.png @ 5.59s) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the ReLaunch Trailer (h264 1920x1080, 24,845,684 B, full decode-to-null exit 0, zero error bytes, zero NAL hits in decode-relaunch-clean.log), inspected visually at full resolution; minimap with green arrow, 'Steamy Bathhouse, Bath #3' banner, 05/22 SUN Daytime chip, weather medallion, SOS button and all four portrait chips legible; a fresh extraction at 5.59s from the canonical mp4 byte-hash-matches this file exactly (MD5 34fcabf2b5744253339406c132f45319, identical)

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