World map at Phidoch Castle: node route, an undiscovered '?' tile, Union Level and War Funds

About this game

Developer: Square Enix · Publisher: Square Enix · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: HD-2D & retro 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The world map as a route between places rather than a continent to paint: Tactics Ogre: Reborn zooms to the current locality and draws it as isometric castle tiles on a curved path, the next tile still a dark ?, the map withholds geography the way the unit sheet withholds names. Around the diorama, the campaign keeps its books in the open: your Order (Hero of Golyat), Union Level 25 (the cap every unit trains against), the day count on the game's own calendar (Day 20 of Whitescale, 116 days in) and 79,370 Goth of war funds. A scrolling lore line about Phidoch's chalk walls runs across the top and off the edge, flavor delivered as a ticker, never a modal. The trailer presents the screen as a framed panel over its dark backdrop. Frame at about 1:38 in the ESRB EN Launch Trailer (Steam), a manual probe extraction (probes/p97.5.png at 97.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-nodes route-planning lore-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Map

Screen inventory

• the map itself: two isometric castle tiles, Phidoch Castle and Phidoch South Curtain Wall, joined by one curved route line over a dusk landscape, the party leader's sprite standing on the route between them, and above, a dark undiscovered tile marked only with a large ?
• top, the lore ticker: 'The chalk used in the construction of this castle's walls gives Phidoch its nickname: "The Swan." It is no…', a scrolling line of place-history that runs off the panel's right edge mid-sentence, exactly as it does in play
• on the selected tile, the location label 'Phidoch South Curtain Wall' with a feather-quill icon, and bottom left the place title in large serif capitals: PHIDOCH CASTLE
• right, the campaign ledger in small caps: ORDER Hero of Golyat, UNION LEVEL Lv. 25, CAMPAIGN 116 DAYS, Day 20 of Whitescale, WAR FUNDS 79,370 GOTH, with scroll bars on the panel's right and bottom edges showing this local view sits inside a much larger map

Top 3 colors

#565b64 22%#362f34 20%#1f1d22 17%

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

Source and credit

© Square Enix, Tactics Ogre: Reborn screenshot: Tactics Ogre: Reborn - ESRB EN Launch Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Square Enix.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: manual probe frame (probes/p97.5.png, 97.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native) and confirmed as a genuine, settled, fully legible world-map frame, both castle tiles, the ? node, the route line, the lore ticker (scrolling, cut mid-sentence at the panel edge as in play), PHIDOCH CASTLE title and the full campaign ledger are sharp

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