Boat map and speed slider

The Witness · Campaign / World Map

Art style Stylized 3D

The Witness - Boat map and speed slider

About this game

Developer: Thekla, Inc. · Publisher: Thekla, Inc. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The game's only vehicle UI, and it breaks the panel pattern completely: a hand-drawn island map where each area is marked with the red icon of its puzzle type, so the map doubles as a progress chart, beside a single vertical slider that is the boat's speed control. No buttons, no labels, no numbers, navigation is a line drawn on a map and a handle dragged on a rail. Frame at about 0:37 in the Release Date Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

in-world-panel map-panel side-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Map Slider Marker

Screen inventory

  • boat navigation station: hand-drawn island map
  • red puzzle-type icons marking areas on the map
  • white route line drawn across the map
  • vertical speed slider with a white handle at the right
  • boat bow and open water behind
  • shipwreck structure overhead

Top 3 colors

#0d0808 26%#362b24 19%#1e0906 17%

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

Source and credit

© Thekla, Inc., The Witness screenshot: Release Date Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Thekla, Inc..

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: frame extracted from the official Release Date Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game navigation UI (island map with area icons, route line, speed slider) confirmed visible

no published policy found in this pass; fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h (Phase-2 to re-check before deploy, as with prior ships)

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