Unlock banner: NEW CARDS! Crooked visions over Loon the Seer

About this game

Developer: Nerial · Publisher: Devolver Digital · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Reigns announces progression without ever leaving the game: the unlock banner is an overlay, not a destination. No collection screen opens, no menu interrupts the reign, the red band simply crosses the card you were about to judge and names the new set ('Crooked visions') it just added to the deck. The design trade is visible in the frame: the banner hides the middle of the card, and the game accepts that cost, because the message (your deck just grew) matters more than the card it briefly covers. It is the collection system of a game that refuses to have a collection screen. Frame at 75s in the Gameplay video (Steam; manual extraction). The card screens are presented in the trailer as a central portrait strip with dark side bars (kept full-frame, not cropped).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

alert-banner card-choice portrait-panel top-bar checklist

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Card

Screen inventory

• a full-width red banner cuts across the middle of the frame, 'NEW CARDS!' with the set name 'Crooked visions' beneath it, laid over the card screen without displacing any of it: the decision strip stays visible above and below
• the card underneath is Loon the Seer, mid-introduction: the text above reads 'With red eyes and a smirk. Here he comes again! The Devil!', the banner announces new content at the exact moment a new character thread opens
• the king's name at bottom left has changed again, to 'Edward the Seer': epithets track what the reign has encountered, so the name itself is a progress display
• the four faction icons, the year 640 and the quest checklist ('Win a duel', 'Meet the witch', 'Meet the devil') all persist behind the banner, the unlock is an interruption, not a scene change, and the game never leaves the decision context to deliver it
• the banner's flat red against the gold-and-black strip is the loudest colour in the whole set: unlocks are the one moment Reigns raises its voice

Top 3 colors

#010101 34%#bf6b60 27%#2f1f3e 23%

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

Source and credit

© Nerial / Devolver Digital, Reigns screenshot: Steam video (Gameplay), Nerial / Devolver Digital, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Devolver Digital.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-28. verified 2026-10-28: manual extraction candidates/manual-gameplay-075.png @ 75s in the Gameplay video (ffmpeg -ss 75 seek), MD5 ce9f86ab88d6514eac95221fd4e21b84, from the verified-clean download (105,439,206 B, MD5 52fab8936404d3bf19106b690f355bea; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines); inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the banner text, the set name, the Devil intro line, the faction icons and the quest checklist legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

not verified in Phase-1 prep (2026-10-28); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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