Options panel: Difficulty row and Turn-Based Mode toggle
Pillars of Eternity · Settings / System
Art style Painterly illustration
About this game
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Settings / System
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What to study
The Difficulty page of the options menu is where the turn-based retrofit lives as a setting, not just a mode: the Turn-Based Mode toggle sits beside Expert Mode above two columns of granular checkboxes (Area of Effect Highlighting, Combat Tooltips, Show Relative Defenses, Show Unqualified Interactions), so the player tunes how much information the tactics HUD shows. Difficulty itself is five painted icons from Story Time to Path of the Damned, with Normal selected. Caveat: the trailer's slide-in framing crops the left rail labels at the frame edge; the panel content itself is fully legible. Frame at about 2:07 in the Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam); extracted as a timed full-resolution frame because the scene-change pass caught only the blurred slide-in at 2:06.
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
side-panel option-grid checkbox-list
Components
Parts on screen.
Screen inventory
- Left rail: Menu, Game, Difficulty, Auto-Pause, Graphics, Sound, Controls (rail labels cropped at the left edge by the trailer's slide-in framing)
- Difficulty row: Story Time, Easy, Normal (selected), Hard, Path of the Damned, each with a painted icon
- Expert Mode and Turn-Based Mode toggle icons above the checkbox columns
- Checkbox columns: Area of Effect Highlighting, Maim Companions Before Death, Unrestricted Stash, No Knockout Injuries, Show Qualifiers, Show In-Game Tutorials (unchecked)
- Combat Tooltips, Detailed Quest Updates, Auto Level Companions (unchecked), Show Personality/Reputation, Show Relative Defenses, Show Unqualified Interactions
- wooden-panel menu art with iron corner brackets and close button top right
Top 3 colors
#010100 24%#262019 22%#18140f 16%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios, Pillars of Eternity screenshot: Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: timed full-resolution extraction from the official Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam), inspected visually; difficulty icons, Expert Mode and Turn-Based Mode toggles, and both checkbox columns confirmed legible (left rail labels cropped by trailer framing, noted in the study note)
Obsidian Community Guidelines for IP Usage (obsidian.net/legal/ip-use, September 2, 2022) expressly covers Pillars of Eternity for fan projects; fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h
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