Turn-based combat HUD: enemy inspection tooltip, Kana's turn
Pillars of Eternity · Battle / Tactics
Art style Painterly illustration
About this game
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Battle / Tactics
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What to study
Hovering an enemy opens a full stat card without leaving the battlefield: the Eyeless Stonepiercer card lists creature type (Vessel), wound state (Barely Injured), both defenses, damage reduction, and a status line (Harbinger, 1 turn) with its whole immunity list, so the targeting decision is made from numbers, not guesswork. The rest of the turn-based HUD stays live around it: Kana's turn banner, the initiative list, the party bar and End Turn. Frame at about 1:18 in the Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam).
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
hud-overlay turn-order-panel party-bar detail-panel combat-log
Components
Parts on screen.
Card Portrait Timeline Log Action bar
Screen inventory
- Enemy inspection card top left: Eyeless Stonepiercer, Vessel, Barely Injured
- Defenses 94 and 65, Damage Reduction 18, 14 slash / fire Imm.
- Harbinger (1 turn) status line with immunities: Blinded, Charmed, Confused, Disease, Dominated, Poison, Sickened, Unconscious
- Your Turn banner: Kana, 5 Initiative
- Current Round initiative list, right edge, with Next Round preview
- party portraits with HP values bottom left
- selected-character ability bar and End Turn button
- combat log bottom right (Kana chants Mercy and Kindness Followed Where'er She Walked)
- red enemy selection rings, white movement preview around the active character
Top 3 colors
#1b191d 25%#acc3d8 23%#5f6c7d 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: frame extracted from the official Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; enemy stat card (type, wound state, defenses, damage reduction, immunities) plus turn banner, initiative list, party bar and End Turn confirmed legible
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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