Cyclops helm HUD: power readout and the oval status gauge

About this game

Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Publisher: Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Piloting the Cyclops, the whole submarine reports through one oval gauge at the bottom left of the view: the vessel's own silhouette sits at the centre, hull health reads off the cross-marked segment on the left arm, the noise the boat is making, the thing every predator hears, reads off the waveform segment below, and segmented bars wrap the lower arc, while power is a single number at the top centre ('100%' beside a lightning bolt) and heading is a thin compass strip floating over the conning dome. Nothing else competes with the water ahead; a capital ship's worth of state is compressed into one glanceable instrument. Frame at about 1:21 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 80.5s: the scene-change pass caught this shot only as the press-quote card that follows it. Caveat: a vertical status panel at the left edge is partly out of frame in every moment of this shot the trailer shows.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

minimal-hud hud-overlay status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Compass Vitals bar Gauge

Screen inventory

• lightning-bolt power readout '100%' at top centre
• oval status gauge at bottom left with a Cyclops silhouette at its centre
• health cross segment on the gauge's left arm
• noise waveform segment on the gauge's lower arm
• segmented bars wrapping the gauge's lower arc
• compass strip showing S over the conning dome at bottom centre
• edge of a vertical status panel at the left frame edge

Top 3 colors

#1d4c6a 25%#1e577e 24%#183d50 17%

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

Source and credit

© Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Subnautica screenshot: Gameplay Trailer and Early Access Gameplay Montage (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 80.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Gameplay Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game HUD (100% power readout, oval Cyclops status gauge, compass strip) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

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