Seraï's command menu: locks at PWR 75%, BOOST prompt

About this game

Developer: Sabotage Studio · Publisher: Sabotage Studio · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Sea of Stars runs its turn-based battles as a lock-breaking puzzle, and this one frame carries the whole system. The banner names the verb, the EFFECT box names the damage type, and the PWR readout prices the enemy's charged attack: break its locks in the turns shown on the red badges, with the elements the icons demand, or take the hit. Everything decision-shaped sits in two corners and one banner, the command menu floats beside the acting character, the party's HP/MP stack never moves, and the combo diamond waits at the edge, so the crystal diorama in the middle stays clean enough to read as a place, not a spreadsheet. Frame at 0:50.2 in the Accolades Trailer.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

overlay-menu top-bar hud-overlay charge-bars portrait-chips intent-icons

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Menu Portrait Vitals bar Gauge Pips Button prompts Badge

Screen inventory

• top command banner: a full-width dark bar reading 'Attack', with an 'EFFECT' box at its right end holding a sword icon
• the targeted enemy's lock readout pinned under the banner: 'PWR 75%' over a skull icon, a highlighted sword icon, and a red stopwatch badge '1', the turns left to break that lock
• three translucent spectral enemies mid-arena, two carrying their own red lock-timer badges (1 and 3)
• SERAÏ's command menu docked at lower right: ATTACK highlighted, SKILLS, COMBO, ITEMS (greyed, with a swirl lock glyph), SWAP, and a 'BOOST R2' prompt beneath it; a white arc ring marks the acting character
• left edge: the gold COMBO diamond gauge with its pips still unlit
• bottom-left party stack: three portrait chips with HP/MP numerals and bars, HP 79 MP 14 / HP 122 MP 2 / HP 133 MP 18

Top 3 colors

#1c2143 24%#000109 20%#131031 17%

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

Source and credit

© Sabotage Studio, Sea of Stars screenshot: Sea of Stars - Accolades Trailer + Sea of Stars - Dawn of Equinox (Steam), Sabotage Studio, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sabotage Studio.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: frame is a scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0020.png @ 50.2s) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Sea of Stars - Accolades Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution; Seraï command menu with Attack banner, EFFECT box, PWR 75% lock readout, COMBO diamond and HP/MP party stack all legible; re-verified first-hand at full resolution by the Phase-2 parent 2026-10-23.

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