Exploration: Ellie over floating isles, party column, log, quest

About this game

Developer: Tactical Adventures · Publisher: Tactical Adventures · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The exploration HUD is the battle HUD with its sleeves rolled down, and that continuity is the design. The initiative row across the top folds into a party column down the left; the wide MAIN ACTIONS bar contracts to five CHARACTER ACTIONS in identical tiles; the character card in the corner does not move at all. A player who learned combat already knows where everything is while crossing a chain of floating islands. Two things change their meaning instead: the round dial becomes a clock ('10:35:51 AM' over the location name 'The Ego'), and the log stops being a dice record and becomes the game's memory, kills, then recorded conversations with names like TOO EASY and MIND-BOGGLING, each kept one click away. Frame at about 0:55 in the 1.0 Launch Trailer (Steam; scene-change extraction).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

action-bar notification-feed portrait-panel quest-tracker

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Log Portrait Vitals bar Clock Action bar Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• outside combat the party becomes a vertical portrait column on the left edge, four faces with HP readouts 44/64, 92/92, 51/51 and 73/73, replacing the top initiative row the battle screen uses
• bottom-left, the selected character card persists from combat: Ellie, 'lvl 10 Cleric (Oblivion)', HP '73 OF 73 HP', AC 16, an INVENTORY button, and her weapon sets (crossbow, bow, torch) as small switchable tiles above it
• the action bar shrinks to five CHARACTER ACTIONS, ATTACK (crossbow badged '4'), CAST SPELL, USE POWER, CAUTIOUS, USE ITEM, the exploration verb set is a subset of the battle bar, in the same place and the same tile language
• top-right, the log mixes systems without distinction: 'Green Dragon sustains damage', 'Green Dragon is now Dead', then four 'Conversation Recorded' entries, TOO EASY, THE MAZE, FIND A WAY OUT, MIND-BOGGLING, each with a 'Click to read' link
• right edge, the quest tracker states one objective only, 'GEM QUEST: THE MIND OF THE MASTER / Find Another Fragment of the Gem', above the circular dial, which out of battle reads as a clock, '10:35:51 AM', PAUSE, and the location name 'The Ego'
• the party stands on separate floating tiled islands over a violet void, the game's signature vertical exploration space, and the HUD makes no concession to it: same bar, same cards, floating with the world

Top 3 colors

#353d53 24%#d9d4f2 18%#b7bbdd 15%

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

Source and credit

© Tactical Adventures, Solasta: Crown of the Magister screenshot: 1.0 Launch Trailer + Dungeon Maker Trailer (Steam), Tactical Adventures, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Tactical Adventures.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: scene extraction candidates/v0_0021.png @ ~55.4s in the 1.0 Launch Trailer, MD5 a3cebc701b1a61f628940b3ad5044d45, from the HLS download (58,212,294 B, MD5 46caecbf589c8f8eb6b2367486f2d517; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the left party column (44/64, 92/92, 51/51, 73/73), Ellie's HP 73 / AC 16 card, the five CHARACTER ACTIONS tiles, the 'Green Dragon is now Dead' and Conversation Recorded log lines, the GEM QUEST tracker and the 10:35:51 AM dial all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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