Royal Decrees: faction advancement node web

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Total War: PHARAOH - Royal Decrees: faction advancement node web

About this game

Developer: Creative Assembly · Publisher: Sega · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Tech / Research

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What to study

Royal Decrees replaces a tech tree's usual grid with a freeform constellation: nodes connect diagonally across the screen, each with a pictogram and a lock cost, and the four-state legend at top left teaches the whole system before any node is read. The web's looseness is the point: unlike a tech tree's strict rows, decrees read as a field of options the player wanders, with cost badges doing the gating work that rows would do elsewhere. Frame at about 3:05 in the Ramesses gameplay video (Steam). Framing note: the top resource bar is cropped by the video frame itself, not hidden by the UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

tech-tree node-icons legend-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Tree / web Tooltip

Screen inventory

  • Full-screen node web titled ROYAL DECREES with a Completed / Researching / Available / Locked legend
  • Nodes carry pictogram icons and lock badges with costs from 2 to 6
  • Open tooltip: 'Advance your faction's capabilities by issuing royal decrees'
  • Starfield and faint monument silhouettes behind the web
  • Top resource bar is cut off at the frame's top edge (video framing)

Top 3 colors

#232734 24%#272b35 19%#1f2532 17%

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

Source and credit

© Creative Assembly / Sega, Total War: PHARAOH screenshot: Ramesses gameplay video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sega.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: scene frame from the official Steam gameplay video, inspected visually at full resolution; title, four-state legend, node pictograms and costs, and the tooltip text confirmed legible

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