Challenges: Completed 1/30 over a plain list of named scenarios

About this game

Developer: Haemimont Games · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

The Challenges screen trusts names to do the work that other games give to stat blocks. Thirty scenarios are a single column of titles, Housing Bubble, Russian Concrete, The Gold Must Flow, each one a small joke or premise the player can guess at, with no difficulty rating, reward or par to argue with the guess. The only number on the screen is the player's own: 'Completed 1/30' under the header, progress stated as a count rather than a percentage or a bar. Even the panel stays out of the way, translucent over the mode's Mars-and-turbines artwork, so choosing a challenge feels like browsing a programme, not configuring a match. Frame at about 0:21 in Beyond Surviving Mars (Steam; manual extraction, the panel is composited over the planet backdrop in a held shot the scene-change pass did not isolate).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

progress-list quest-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Illustration List Speech bubble Progress bar

Screen inventory

• the header reads 'CHALLENGES' with 'Completed 1/30' directly beneath it, progress for the whole mode is one counter, with no bar, stars or per-item percentages
• eight challenges are legible as plain names in a single column: Housing Bubble, Earthbound, Founding Fathers, The Gold Must Flow, Baby Steps, City Building, Russian Concrete, The Means of Production; a ninth, 'Hello, Neighbors', fades at the panel's lower edge where the list continues
• the panel is translucent blue laid over the mode's own artwork, a Mars globe to the left, a row of wind turbines to the right, so the list floats on a picture instead of closing the screen down
• there are no difficulty, reward, score or time-limit columns: each challenge is presented as a title whose name alone implies its premise

Top 3 colors

#15111d 28%#37556f 19%#0d0b14 19%

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

Source and credit

© Haemimont Games / Paradox Interactive, Surviving Mars screenshot: Beyond Surviving Mars (Steam), Paradox Interactive, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-challenges-21.png @ ~20.7s in Beyond Surviving Mars, MD5 7bdeed0b47b2d658bbc52cfa4c1b4efb, from the verified-clean Steam HLS download (full decode exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); 'CHALLENGES', 'Completed 1/30' and the eight challenge names Housing Bubble / Earthbound / Founding Fathers / The Gold Must Flow / Baby Steps / City Building / Russian Concrete / The Means of Production all legible, with 'Hello, Neighbors' fading at the panel's bottom edge; the trailer header 'BEYOND | SAGAN' and the '24 NEW CHALLENGES' caption bar are present and disclosed

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